Any reason? It is one of the better animated features, even with the Disney ending. The dialogue without dialogue is quite well done.

Cheers,
Marc

I wouldn't say you missed much. Not that I found it bad, just... 'meh'. And I usually like animated movies.

Actually, I had heard some good things about the movie, but it was the literary connection that provoked the remark. Who would have thought it?

My curiosity is aroused. I may have to rent this.

I'd recommend Wall-E - it's possibly my favourite Pixar pic.

I just read in The Ten-Cent Plague that the very first issue of Mad magazine had a story based on "The Machine Stops," called "Blobs".

yeah, no new ideas, please. Let's debate what the past lecturers said upon the subject :rofl:

the author was truly prophetic :2thumbsup

the constant hum of the Machine? perhaps your favorite incoming message tune. all so differently equal

yeah, I saw the similarities in the differences: the weak are fat instead of thin but equally unmuscular; they are all busy "lecturers" with no time for the real world around them; their audience of isolated fellows is perhaps just to their side or miles away, the cubicles are always moving with their owners on it; mankind abandoned the poluted surface of Earth; guy drops to the ground and expects drones to raise him again; etc

obviously Wall-e also draws from 2001 and Woody Allen (ever got the resemblance?)