14
Jul
Here’s the story:
Some say Pixar is pushing the message that overweight people are draining the resources of the planet and perpetuating the myth that obese are lazy and gluttonous.
There’s only one problem I have here, it’s all based on wrong information. Whoever these people are protesting, they obviously haven’t seen the movie. If they had, they’d know that this is what destroyed Earth:
And due to the thin man detroying the Earth, over many generations, man no longer had a need to walk, and therefore devolved into muscleless blobs.
This is soooo typical to me of so much outrage in the world. Complete ignorance. I also dealt with a post from somewhere else that claimed bailing private corporate monsters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was yet another example of US government fascism. Fascism? Let’s look closer:
..a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
OK, someone want to explain to me how raising the credit line of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constitutes an example of fascism? It’s not even a lender in the purest sense. It just purchases mortgages from local banks so they can allow other people to get mortgages. It doesn’t “regiment” commerce, it expands it for the private sector. The word “fascism” has absolutely no bearing at all in debating whether the government expanding their line of credit has merit or not. None. And, obese people being offended with Wall-E is eqaully ignorant as well.
I just wish people would do an iota of research before being outraged.
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patrick on 07.15.2008
Wall-E totally looks like the robot from “Short Circuit”… minus the cheesy 80′s style of course
Moonage on 07.15.2008
They did add the trash compactor. On those video screens in the movie I fully expected to see a scene from Short Circuit. That would have been perfect.