@dustin91: I can forgive a plant in space. I mean, Nemo led us to believe every toilet flushes straight into the ocean.

RacecarBoobTat

So now my 3 year old will be saying Eeeeva and Wall-eeee instead of "Smile and wave boys, smile and wave."

The DVD version is bought and in the car but not the 3 disc DVD with all the extras. It was twice the price of the single.

inajeep

I love that WALL*E, a cloying movie with a trite anti-consumption message, is being hustled in a variety of ways.

That's why I'm pullin' a Palin and sayin' "Thanks but no thanks."

OMG! Ponies!

@bosskev: I would have paid to see this move in IMAX. In fact, the woman and I were discussing seeing Robots on IMAX next month.

Lite

My 3 Disc BD arrives today from Amazon! Daughter gonna be thrilled about this! Im just have to get ready to watch this 4x a day over holiday week lol

Bizdady

I was skeptical of Wall-e being another typical Disney/Pixar kids movie but I liked Toy Story so I figured I've give this a shot. I mean a child-like little worker-bot with big puppy-dog eyes and an even bigger sense of curiosity? If you don't watch this movie and feel sad for the little guy more than once, you probably don't have a heart or you may have misplaced it somewhere.

Now is it worth buying a BR player for? Probably not. ;)

fsusmithc2

@dustin91: I've decided to forgive so many things when it comes to bad movie physics. The very fact that there's sound in space makes everything else a rather moot point for me, but at least WALL-E does it with a great deal more panache, than say, Star Wars.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

@Lite: Neither have I, Lite. Not because I don't want to, I do. I mean--holy crap!--I'm a frakkin' filmmaker, fergawdzsake, it's part of my career to watch films.

It's just that, over the last couple of years, I've found that I'm almost always going to buy the DVD anyway, with Blu-ray now as the preferred format (on a PS3). So why should I effectively "double-dip" by paying both a theater ticket price (with arm-and-a-leg concession prices) plus a BD/DVD purchase price? With few exceptions, such as an iMax and/or 3D release, nowadays I just skip theatrical releases and wait a few months for the BD release.

Yeah, it means I end up a little out of sync with the pop cultural curve. Big deal. I end up saving money and I get to watch movies in my own (pretty decent HD with 10' screen and 7.1 sound) home theater without the annoyance of crying babies or yakky teens.

bosskev

@UltimateIdiot: Nah, too much money on stuff I'm not that crazy about. I'd have to get a new TV as well.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: Nope, the dvd version do have some of the stuff but not as much as the Blu-ray. The Blu-ray has the virtual tour thing and a bit more.
If you have a Blu-ray player, you should really get the blu-ray, since the blu-ray 3 disc special edition is at most $5 more than the regular DVD wall-e and $2 more than the special edition DVD wall-e.

UltimateIdiot

I loved this movie to no end, but wish they had not done only two things: 1) Use Fred Willard, or any "live" actors for that matter. 2) Let the plant get taken into space. Great moments in that segment, but that little stem would have been frozen solid in seconds.

I can suspend a ton of belief, but those just stood out too much. Still, I watched the movie two more times on an airplane last month and damn near broke down in tears. Truly an instant classic.

dustin91

I love my Blu, but not as much as my Eeeevah-colored iPhone.

ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT

I haven't seen it yet. *cry*

Lite

Is there a standard DVD set with all of this stuff? Me no want BD.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

Among my daughter's first words: Wall-E! So I guess I'm already a buyer -- of the DVD version, not BD.

Andyr2120

@sneaky: No, you can only get the HD digital version if you choose to pirate the movie. If you pay for it like the movie studios want, then you have to deal with lower quality.

I know...ironic, isn't it?

hexydes

@dustin91: Agreed on using live actors. It ruined the immersion for me... Funny, isn't it usually inappropriate CGI moments in live-action movies that people have 'immersion' complaints about?

It just seemed like a very un-Pixar-like artistic decision to make. But the other 99.9% of the film holds up so well that it's just nitpicking. If I take the Blu-ray plunge this year, this title will be the reason.

pixelate

Wall-E owns, and so does blu-ray.

Sussudio

@mj_and_hj:
[disney.go.com]

You can chose the format. Windows media compatable devices or iTunes compatable (don't know the actual format but the fact that there is one that will work with windows compatable players and one that will work with iPods should cover most bases).

tande04

@dustin91: Technically speaking, space is a vacuum. And since it it is a vacuum, it has no matter in which to transfer heat. Space is neither hot or cold, it's just kinda there.

BloggyMcBlogBlog

@OMG! Ponies!: I loved the little disposible watches they gave out during the movie's opening. You get the feeling that the marketing department hadn't seen the movie yet.

tande04

@mj_and_hj: It works for the iPod, so likely MPEG-4/H.264.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

Really? Is no one going to mention the blue alien with the cumshot on his ass?

coldpizza

@RacecarBoobTat: And that fishes talk...

Wait a minute all of these things we're talking about are cartoons. There is no basis for reality at all. Pretty sure that rabbits don't wear duck costumes during rabbit season either.

That would be funny though...

tande04

Blu-ray is going to be extinct anyway. -just saying.

Mona

Every time a commercial came on for this movie the past week my 2 year old little girl would scream, WALL-E. She hasn't even seen it. She keeps asking to go to walmart to get it. Guess where I am stopping on the way home from work.

Anyone know how the digital copy works? What format for the PC is it?

mj_and_hj

Is the digital copy HD? I imagine it isn't but that would be a lot better if it was

sneaky

@UltimateIdiot: I got the non-BD 3 DVD set yesterday (yey Amazon Prime!) and AFAICT, the only thing the regular set is missing from the BD set is the 'fly through'.

I'm with Kaiser - my mid 1940s projection TV doesn't have an HDMI port... :-(

Toshie

One of my first thoughts when seeing this movie was, "Wow, in the future, all of humanity will be like the Baron Harkonnen. Only, you know, not evil. And with good skin."

bloatboy

I'll admit it, I bought a PS3 in anticipation of the Bluray version of this movie and LBP...

I'm happy that I won't get let down, easily Wall-E is one of the sleeper hits of the year.

mykie

@coldpizza: Wow thank you! Finally a relevant post that isn't some love profession for a mediocre movie! Do people really like the movie only because Wall E is cute?

Anyway, maybe the concept art was from wall e's tracks, like he rolled over his ass or something?

Optimus-Prime

Great, thank you for the spoilers!! >: (

Dennis Raver

@OMG! Ponies!: if you keep pullin your palin, you'll grow hair on your palms and go blind.

iameleveneight

@tande04: no, but they SHOULD DAMMIT.

iameleveneight

I'm picking up the Blu-Ray of this today. Thanks for the details on the extras.

chillywilly

@RacecarBoobTat: You mean they don't?!

maxentropy

@Mona: Agreed. Did anyone see that Blu-ray player on Woot yesterday? It was available all day, before eventually being retired for the next day's item. People are just not interested in Blu-ray. The future is convenience (see: Hulu, Netflix "Watch Now", Xbox 360, Vudu, iTunes, etc), not quality. The only way HD would have caught on is if HD-DVD won, and players were available for $99 and movies for $15. By "winning" the format war, Sony basically doomed HD physical media to an early death.

hexydes

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine:
Great, I want to be able to watch this on my PSP for the long rides. Entertain the little one.

mj_and_hj

Does anyone know if the Disney Digital File for Windows Media plays on the Xbox 360?

If it does than it's too bad I can't get a version that will play on the 360 and my iPhone without torrenting it...

Ben Longo

@pixelate: I think thats kinda part of the point.

Its like when they did it in Happy Feet. Its supposed to stop you and make you say, wait a minute, maybe this isn't just applicable to some CGI world.

tande04

@fsusmithc2: I watched Toy Story on a new 46" 1080p Sony LCD, with a Sony $99 upscaling DVD player and the old TS 1&2 box set. It looked amazing. Maybe not the vibrant color of BR, which I don't have, but crystal clear besides. And maybe they'll color movies differently now in anticipation of BR and HD reproduction. But I do not regret not having BR for Pixar movies. I'd check Wall*E which I'll pry receive today, but it's for my son for the holidays...

dustin91

@hexydes:

kind of ironic, Sony finally gets a format that wins in a format war (unlike minidisk, betamax, etc.) and demand for the technology is negligible.

Blu-ray's are great, but for most people they aren't worth the price to upgrade, especially when there are many other (albeit lower quality) options.

Ibelieveinsandwitches

@Mathray: Duly noted on the plant in space guys, though I was always under the belief that it was pretty damn cold, as in why spacewalking 'nauts need a suit. Nevertheless, it pales in comparison to using that unfunny hack Willard. I get the use of live action to show the progression of humans from what we know to the blobs on the screen, but still... the humans in The Incredibles and Ratatouille were fine. Fortunately, the rest of the movie friggin' rocks. And I love how so many characters are voiced by Pixar folk.

dustin91

@OMG! Ponies!:
When are you returning your wardrobe?

scarbrtj

Who in the business world shows more love for their customers than Pixar does?

Nobody.

scarbrtj

@Lite:

I saw this in Mexico while on my honeymoon. It was in spanish which I dont speak, so that made it pretty interesting. Well, I know enough spanish to tell what was going on. My wife speaks spanish, so she was able to tell me what I couldnt get.

jdbaile3

@dustin91: Spot on the comment about Fred Willard, almost ruined the movie for me- I hate him that much.

Mathray

@BloggyMcBlogBlog:

Space is hella cold because of an absence of heat. Since there is little matter to transfer heat, it would be cold. It can't just be neither. Same as dark is absence of light, cold is absence of heat.

pine1045

@bloatboy: Dune references of that degree might be missed by the average commenter.

LoganSix

How in FUCK HELL is Wall-e your favorite movie of 2008? Are you saying you like Wall-e MORE than the Dark Knight or you just didn't see the Dark knight yet (!!!!!)?

daftrok

@mykie: Can you please define "one of the sleeper hits"? The film made about 62.5 million in it's first three days, I don't see how a "sleeper" hit could do that, and has any Pixar movie been a sleeper with the amount of press and ad money that gets put behind their films?

On to the article, I was very impressed with the film and can't wait to get the bluray version after work tonight. Looking forward to see how they made some of those cool sounds.

DarthTader

@Optimus-Prime: Funny how you say Mediocre movie when the only thing that saved Transformers was Meagan Fox.

ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT

@Toshie: Yeah, I just use my monitor, got a DVI-HDMI cable. It's hard to go back to DVD after experience HD.

UltimateIdiot

So I am def. getting this movie to watch after my surgery. This movie is great and has a good message: Humans are lazy asses and trashing this planet. Now off to watch basketball all day.

ultimpsycho

@LoganSix: If they can do "shai hulud" on Chuck, then he can ref the Baron on giz without too much fear that someone wouldn't get it.

But hey, if someone doesn't get it they have instant access to google from right where they are.

jiffy

@coldpizza:
Thank you man, thank you. I thought I'd have to be the one to say it.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: I won't flame you, but you should read up on heat transfer, specifically radiant heat transfer. BTW, the space shuttle cargo doors are lined with radiators to release excess generated heat into space. I can't stand when people say things like "technically speaking", and then say something so wrong. And space is VERY low pressure, but not a vacuum.

thesmatt

@dustin91: As far as I can recall from seeing it in the movie theater, Fred "The Hack" Willard is live action, no? The "humans" in Rat and Incredibles (still my favorite Pixar movie) were animated. The live action shots of Willard were startlingly bad.

Mathray

@pine1045: It's not cold. Remember energy can only go from areas of higer energy to lower energy (second law of thermodynamics). Since there is very little matter in space, it would take an incredibly long time for all of your body heat heat to transfer to that matter. People only think space is cold because they see things like ice in space. Ice is formed in space not because the water is cold, but because of the reduced pressure due to the vacuum. Here is a chart showing melting point versus pressure for water:

For more information here is the wikipedia entry:
[en.wikipedia.org]

BloggyMcBlogBlog

@daftrok: I loved Dark Knight, and it is one of my top 3 movies of 2008. It was a fantastic film, but my favorite of 2008? Nope. I'm leaning towards Wall-e as my favorite as well. But 2008 isn't done, and there were some great movies I haven't seen yet...

DownfieldComa

@ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT: I'd like to point out that my beautiful O2 Cocoon phone is pretty much Eeevah in phone form.

Fuck all y'alls iPhones. Mine gets me all the love in my city.

[www.geekalerts.com]

Pope John Peeps II

@Andyr2120: The sleeping beauty BD came with a digital copy AND a regular DVD version... I was hoping that this one would too since it's also disney.

badweasel

@Mathray: Yes, he was live action. My point was that they could have used a CGI human instead of him, because they successfully had them in the other movies. And they acted better than he can.

dustin91

@Andyr2120: Im so pissed off. I got the 1 disk version! no digital Copy for me. :(
damn me trying to save money...

chizelord

@bloatboy: Don't forget the heart plugs. And the cat.

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@dustin91: Astronauts use the suits to stop their blood from boiling. Just as a pressure cooker lets water get hotter before boiling, having little to no pressure lowers it's boiling point.

The WORST thing is the Zippo. As a Zippo collector, I can't keep one in my pocket for two weeks, let alone 700 years, w/o it running dry.

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

@daftrok: I loved Dark Knight, it was epic, but I also thought that despite being two completely contrasting movies, Wall-e was equally as epic in its emotion, scope and scale. It was just fantastic. It was also my first bluray movie purchase ever (getting DK too) and I am now in love with HD movies again (HDDVD kinda let me down with the whole dieing thing)

Scazza

@Mona: Well of course it's going to be at some point, just like VHS, but i doubt its gonna be a one hit wonder, its shelf life should be on par with DVD

New BD movies aren't that expensive compare to DVD, just the players are expensive, and since now the economy is in the shitter, lots of people will be turned away from getting BD players this christmas. But eventually BD player will be cheap enough to be affordable. HD streaming is always going to be limited to the tech savy and most people are still used to physical media.

diehippiedie

@Andyr2120: I thought it was a great movie until my kids started shouting "Wallllllll-eeeeeeeeeeeeee" at the top of their lungs for weeks after. As a result, I am not certain I can risk having the movie in the house.

Monty

All in favor of Wall*E being best picture of the year....click your mice.

three60guy

Wall-E is my favourite movie of 2008... it even tops Dark Knight IMO... but DK is one helluva good movie.

As for the extras, I wish they included a cast feature, I wanna see more of the people doin the voices, since there weren't many human voices in the movie, it wouldn't have cost too much to include.

Gawd