{"id":24600,"date":"2025-04-11T20:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T00:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=24600"},"modified":"2025-06-07T17:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:26:28","slug":"wall-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/wall-e\/","title":{"rendered":"WALL-E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Try blue &#8212; it&#8217;s the new red!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WALL-E<\/strong>, released in 2008<\/p>\n<p>WALL-E compacts garbage and puts it into neat piles. When one of his parts is broken he takes one from a machine that&#8217;s no longer functional. He and his friend, a cockroach, seem to be the only beings left on Earth &#8212; everyone else has gone into space. When he finds a plant that&#8217;s alive it sets in motion a series of events that results in him meeting the love of his love and going into space.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favourite favourites. It&#8217;s stunning from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>I like how WALL-E throws away the diamond ring and keeps the box.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, romantic, and has a nice message.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, and Sigourney Weaver. Directed by Andrew Stanton (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/a-bugs-life\/\"><strong>A Bug\u2019s Life<\/strong><\/a>). In addition to Thomas Newman&#8217;s beautiful score, Peter Gabriel&#8217;s song &#8220;Down to Earth&#8221; is delightful.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 4th or 5th time I&#8217;ve seen it. My previous review is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/late-november-reviews\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Try blue &#8212; it&#8217;s the new red!&#8221; WALL-E, released in 2008 WALL-E compacts garbage and puts it into neat piles. When one of his parts is broken he takes one from a machine that&#8217;s no longer functional. He and his friend, a cockroach, seem to be the only beings left on Earth &#8212; everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,6,5,8],"class_list":["post-24600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24600"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24975,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24600\/revisions\/24975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}