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They got a lot of shit for it at the time, too. Every time I see everyone in a train or line looking down at their phones, I also can't help but think of Wall-

They got a lot of shit for it at the time, too. Every time I see everyone in a train or line looking down at their phones, I also can't help but think of Wall-e.

roc 17y ago
> "They got a lot of shit for it at the time, too." A good deal of it very well-deserved. For a movie exposing the blind-alley of rampant consumerism, it was being sold via a dizzying array of Cheap Plastic Crap, much of it bundled with the very junk food the movie skewered.
- derefr 17y ago
  Isn't that for the best, though? If you want to communicate a moral message, you should target it so the people most in need of it will consume it as part of their daily routine, instead of having to go out of their way to find it.
  - roc 17y ago
    Do as I say, not as I do? Is that still a popular way to communicate moral messages? Even coming from Disney in the first place the message came across as the old argument of a priest-of-past-sins being preferable to a priest-of-purity.
    - pohl 17y ago
      What, exactly, are you implying is the "as I do" part here? Are you saying that the employees that make up Pixar are, on the whole, frequent and regular customers of the fast food industry? I would expect that living in/near the bay area would give them good odds of being in a different demographic.
      - roc 17y ago
        I was running with derefr's suggestion that it was intentional targeting. Intentionally try to send a message to a demographic by placing Wall-E in their natural path would be a decision made by the corporation well above the level of Pixar's animators. That body would almost certainly be the same one that green-lit the avalanche of Cheap Plastic Crap. So, even if they believed Pixar's message, and were intentionally trying to preach to those at-risk, they were saying "you should learn from Wall-E" (do as I say) while simultaneously saying "also, buy this plastic crap" (not as I do).
- far33d 17y ago
  I believe that the Pixar happy meal deal w/ McDonalds was over by the time Wall-E was released.
- run4yourlives 17y ago
  Nonsense, this was just Pixar's way of helping kids learn the proper definition of irony.
froo 17y ago
http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer.html http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer.html (For those that can't work out, Buy N Large is the corporation from WALL-E... this is a parody done by pixar)

They got a lot of shit for it at the time, too. Every time I see everyone in a train or line looking down at their phones, I also can't help but think of Wall-e.

roc 17y ago

> "They got a lot of shit for it at the time, too." A good deal of it very well-deserved. For a movie exposing the blind-alley of rampant consumerism, it was being sold via a dizzying array of Cheap Plastic Crap, much of it bundled with the very junk food the movie skewered.

derefr 17y ago
Isn't that for the best, though? If you want to communicate a moral message, you should target it so the people most in need of it will consume it as part of their daily routine, instead of having to go out of their way to find it.
- roc 17y ago
  Do as I say, not as I do? Is that still a popular way to communicate moral messages? Even coming from Disney in the first place the message came across as the old argument of a priest-of-past-sins being preferable to a priest-of-purity.
  - pohl 17y ago
    What, exactly, are you implying is the "as I do" part here? Are you saying that the employees that make up Pixar are, on the whole, frequent and regular customers of the fast food industry? I would expect that living in/near the bay area would give them good odds of being in a different demographic.
    - roc 17y ago
      I was running with derefr's suggestion that it was intentional targeting. Intentionally try to send a message to a demographic by placing Wall-E in their natural path would be a decision made by the corporation well above the level of Pixar's animators. That body would almost certainly be the same one that green-lit the avalanche of Cheap Plastic Crap. So, even if they believed Pixar's message, and were intentionally trying to preach to those at-risk, they were saying "you should learn from Wall-E" (do as I say) while simultaneously saying "also, buy this plastic crap" (not as I do).
far33d 17y ago
I believe that the Pixar happy meal deal w/ McDonalds was over by the time Wall-E was released.
run4yourlives 17y ago
Nonsense, this was just Pixar's way of helping kids learn the proper definition of irony.

froo 17y ago

http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer.html http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer.html (For those that can't work out, Buy N Large is the corporation from WALL-E... this is a parody done by pixar)