Comments on: Friday movie roundup - June 27 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/06/27/friday-movie-roundup-june-27/ Eric D. Snider's blog. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:10:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dave Dorr http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/06/27/friday-movie-roundup-june-27/#comment-146175 Dave Dorr Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:45:02 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/?p=866#comment-146175 @richie - (not that I could answer for Eric) My guess is that WALL-E is much more anthropomorphic than the cars in Cars. That is, it is easier to empathize with some aspect of the characters appearance, actions, or situation. @richie - (not that I could answer for Eric)
My guess is that WALL-E is much more anthropomorphic than the cars in Cars. That is, it is easier to empathize with some aspect of the characters appearance, actions, or situation.

]]> By: Richie http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/06/27/friday-movie-roundup-june-27/#comment-146008 Richie Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:44:39 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/?p=866#comment-146008 Hey Eric, just wondering why you felt better about WALL-E than Cars. Here's a quote from your Cars review: "So what's the problem? It's hard to feel affection for the characters. They're machines. Pixar films have often attributed human qualities to non-human things -- fish, monsters, bugs, toys -- but at least they were biological creatures (or, in the case of "Toy Story," playthings in the shape of biological creatures). Cars are just cars. Even with eyes on their windshields and front grilles that look like mouths, and despite having personalities and ambitions and quirks, they're still just machines." So what did WALL-E do better to allow you to feel affection for the talking machines? Is it the fact that they're not real-life machines, or something else? Hey Eric, just wondering why you felt better about WALL-E than Cars. Here’s a quote from your Cars review:

“So what’s the problem? It’s hard to feel affection for the characters. They’re machines. Pixar films have often attributed human qualities to non-human things — fish, monsters, bugs, toys — but at least they were biological creatures (or, in the case of “Toy Story,” playthings in the shape of biological creatures). Cars are just cars. Even with eyes on their windshields and front grilles that look like mouths, and despite having personalities and ambitions and quirks, they’re still just machines.”

So what did WALL-E do better to allow you to feel affection for the talking machines? Is it the fact that they’re not real-life machines, or something else?

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