HELLO THERE

[schmerica]

I have not been on lj since sometime Monday afternoon, but I felt a need to come on right now as soon as we got back to speshope's apartment just to inform you all just how completely I disliked WALL-E. (For the first half of the movie I actually hated it, so that was actually quite a move up in the last half, to be hair.) SO MANY OF MY OWN BIZARRE PERSONAL SQUICKS ALL HIT AT ONCE! What are the odds?

Susie just put on High School Musical 2. I'm doubtful we will be drunk enough to enjoy it as much as we did High School Musical 1, but it's still possible! Maybe I will even get drunk enough to send ill-advised drunken text messages to people. We can only hope.

Comments

[speshope.livejournal.com]

I want to clarify that HSMII was your choice of movie.

I chose the much more cool Step Up 2: THE STREETS.

[cislocative.livejournal.com]

but the all important question- does Step Up 2: The Streets feature one Channing Tatum, the sole reason I paid 11.75 to see the first Step Up in a theater?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I just looked this up on imdb, and the answer is actully yes! He was totally in it for like five minutes. He had a dance off with the main girl.

[speshope.livejournal.com]

Yes! Briefly at the beginning.

[tommydied.livejournal.com]

Wall-E squicked me soooo much (the overwhelming political message! that is not what I paid for!)

But, you know. I liked Wall-E and Eva, so whatever.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

The political message didn't bug me so much, I was just busy being ARGH for the reasons in the comment below.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

“SO MANY OF MY OWN BIZARRE PERSONAL SQUICKS ALL HIT AT ONCE!”

Details, details!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

My number one squick of all time is easiest to explain by the phrase "infinite loneliness." Usually this is in the context of people all alone in space forever (which comes up more often than you would think, strangely) but it turns out being the only being left on an entire planet ALSO hits that. Especially when that being has a job that will never be finished in a million years.

Secondly, it turns out I like anthropomorphized inanimate objects when they are either extremely human-like or not that human-like at all. All the robots in this movie, but especially Wall-e and Eve, were in this really weird place in between those categories for me, so I spent the entire movie like "CREEPY! CREEPY! YOU ARE CREEEEEEEEEPY WHY ARE YOU CREEPY YOU CREEPY MACHINES."

Finally, I really didn't like the Wall-e and Eve relationship. He only knew her for like five minutes on Earth, okay! First he stalked her, and then he went on dates with her while she wasn't alive and forced her unconscious body to hold his hand and stuff. And then he kept on making trouble for her at her place of employment. In conclusion, Creepy Stalker.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

1. ...He had his cockroach buddy? No, okay, I see your point — when he replaced his worn-out treads, my brother and I turned to each other in horror and mouthed, He just stole shoes off a dead guy. So, yeah, grim.

2. Interesting. Sounds like the Uncanny Valley lies in a different place on your mental map than most other people’s.

3. Normally I have very sensitive stalker!radar — “Every Breath You Take” by the Police = CREEPIEST SONG EVER — but for the most part Wall•E didn’t set mine off, with the exception of the handholding (and I was willing to bear it for the comedy pay-off). I think it helped that in a physical sense he was clearly outclassed by EVE, with her ability to fly and ridiculously powerful ray gun. (What the hell kind of plants were they expecting her to find?)

[happy-coconut.livejournal.com]

HAHA. I LOVE YOUR CRAZY SO MUCH