I only saw Wall-E a couple days ago and I basically liked it, but it also suffered from me taking it way too seriously. Like when the space station tilted, since there was artificial gravity it shouldn't have mattered at all! And stuff like that.

Anyway, maybe it's because I'd watched Annie Hall the day before, but I was bothered by the romance. I kept trying to figure out what it would be like if the genders were switched. Lately I've been thinking that the way to solve the problematic aspects of this romance-novel trope is to make the guy endearingly awkward and the lady on top of things, showing him how things are done. In that way, Wall-E kinda felt like it could be a Neil Gaiman novel.

tl;dr version: YOU ARE SO RIGHT. From what I know about Twilight. Actually from what I know about Twilight, Wall-E's romance was more believable, to the extent that it's a kids movie about robots.

Oh, see, I'd thought that the artificial gravity was malfunctioning and that's why they all slid. Or something. But I haven't re-watched it since I saw it in theaters and I can't get it on DVD because I TRIED the other day while I was shopping with my brother, and he explained that there is AN INVISIBLE FORCE FIELD BETWEEN ME AND ALL WALL-E DVDS, which probably means he got it for me for Christmas. Anyway, I really REALLY really love Wall-E. I thought it was the best movie of the year (SO FAR).

And I've never seen Annie Hall! *fails at movie-watching*

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND downloading the Twilight movie and skimming it, while laughing madly at the insanity and CAMERA SWIRLS OF DOOM. I did that yesterday while I was sick and it was SO FUNNY.

*snort*

Yeah, and she is trying to keep Wall-E out of trouble the whole movie, so it kind of works. HOWEVER: Wall-E is actually incredibly fucking endearing, which instantly makes him tremendously different from Bella. ;)

Ahahahha, SO TRUE. Wall-E is also a much, much better quality story. I wish I could have a Wall-E as a pet. It would be SO CUTE. And also clean up my trash. WIN/WIN, I'm thinking.

Just in case it got lost on your f-list, I wanted to contact you personally to invite you to return for Round 2 of sg1_lims. Sign-ups close on Tuesday, 9 December. We'd love to have you back!

Sign-up thread (http://community.livejournal.com/sg1_lims/41177.html) || Challenge #1 (http://community.livejournal.com/sg1_lims/42226.html) || Caps for Challenges 1-5 (http://community.livejournal.com/sg1_lims/40564.html) || Holiday Schedule (http://community.livejournal.com/sg1_lims/41690.html)

I hope that we'll see you there! :)