Sunday, July 6, 2008

"Official" Movie Books/Posters/Etc. That Get Facts Wrong

WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THE WALL-E MOVIE!
(This is one of the last times I'm doing this, because if you haven't already seen the movie, that's your problem) So I bought some of the WALL-E merchandise recently. I know, it's ironic that I'm buying merchandise from this movie, considering the plot. Oh well.

Anyways, one of
the pieces of merchandise I bought is The Intergalactic Guide to WALL-E.



On the most part, it's good. I have a small beef with it though, namely that it doesn't go very deep into the robots that aren't shown constantly throughout the movie (i.e. it doesn't go into and talk about the Umbrella Bot)--it simply follows the movie and gives slightly "in-depth" comments on the movie, which means it's saying nothing more than what I already saw in theaters.
I do really like the drawing inside the cover though--it's of all the little parts of WALL-E, and how they fit together. If you want that picture, BUY THE BOOK. lol

Anyways, that's just my beef with the book. One thing incompetent about it is this:


Maybe it's because I saw the movie several times, but I know for a fact this isn't the scene where WALL-E sees EVE being taken away--it's the scene just at the beginning of WALL-E going back to work the day after his and her "first date" together.

Now that's just small time incompetency. This next one is sure to blow your mind:


WALL-E DID NOT ACTIVATE THE SELF-DESTRUCTION SEQUENCE! GO-4 DID WHEN HE PLACED THE PLANT INIDE THE POD, SO HE COULD DESTROY THE PLANT!
GOOD GOD PEOPLE ARE STUPID!

Finally, we have one more that will probably dumb your socks off:

Yes, it was the holding hands, but it was also the small spark robot kiss that jolted WALL-E's memories. It could have been both, imo, but I know that the hand holding is nothing without the spark.

I'm appauled, really. These people should know the movie BETTER than I do, not LESS than I do! It's like they watched it once, not ever having anything to do with making the movie beforehand, and then just sit down to write a book about it, having only seen it ONCE. The people making the book should have been the SAME PEOPLE who made the story in the first place (or at least should have payed more close attention to it while watching it)! Good lord.

This, being an official book for WALL-E, was the last place I ever thought of looking for an incorrect WALL-E plot in it.

Overall Gross Incompetence Rating:

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