Well. I'll just continue to share my own. (spoiler alert)

End scene from Wall-E: http://www.youtube....atch?v=3HIwzZMqufg (www.youtube.com)

We've spent the entire movie getting to know Wall-E. He's supposedly the last of the robots still trying to clean up on Earth. He works hard during the day, and goes home to an empty work truck at night and repeatedly watches Hello Dolly. We've seen him escape certain death multiple times, get launched into space, save the day, and fall in love.

However, at this point it's the end of his hero's arc. In trying to get the plant to the holographic scanner, he was shocked by the evil autopilot, thrown down a garbage shoot, compacted into a trash ball, and then further crushed irreparably in trying to stop the scanner from turning off before Eve could insert the plant. As the Axiom ship warps into Earth orbit and lands, Wall-E is shown to be dead.

As the Axiom lands, Eve frantically departs the ship, carrying Wall-E back to his truck. She quickly replaces his broken parts, piece by piece, and shoots a hole in the ceiling to shine light on his solar panels. The audience waits a moment, and sees and hears the hopeful sound of the battery charging and Wall-E's systems booting up.

There are two brilliant parts about the rest of the scene. The first is what the artists did to Wall-E's eyes after being rebuilt. They are "blank," or at least, blank compared to what his eyes were previously. They stare out, lifeless. Which, to me, is an amazing artistic feat: to show a robot that is full of life, and to show the same robot that is devoid of life.

Eve tries to repeatedly call Wall-E's name, trying to get him to snap out of it. At one point, he starts to crush his prized possessions into small trash-cubes. He doesn't try to talk. He doesn't even recognize Eve. It is a fate worse than death. Eve tries to play the tape recorder that previously held Wall-E's favorite clips from Hello Dolly. It is static silence.

Eve starts to realize what has happened. She starts to yell at him, yell his name at him, to shake him out of whatever happened, to no avail. Finally, she tries to hold his hand one more time.

The second brilliant part is one I just noticed in watching it a few nights ago. It is quiet, and subtle, but as Eve is leaning in close to Wall-E, she hums a few notes from "It Only Takes a Moment," ones I'm pretty sure are from when they sing "And that is all..."

You can watch the rest yourself. It's a happy ending. But they take you on a severe emotional rollercoaster in a short 1 or 2 minutes, almost without saying a word.

Everyone knows Pixar films are amazing. However, Wall-E, I think, is by far the best one they've had in recent years. Yeah, you can say it's a little preachy at times with its anti-consumerism message, but not nearly as much as, say, Avatar. You can say, "Oh Josh, you just like it because it has robots." That might be the case, but I think great filmmaking starts with the ability to tell an emotional story without having to try to beat it into your audience, and to have characters that people can and want to care about. That they did this with robots only heightens their achievement.