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Down to Earth

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After watching the movie, as I normally do, I stayed for the closing titles and was gladly surprised that Peter Gabriel was the artist behind the song. A movie so powerful and touching at the same time was perfectly suited for such a powerful and touching song.

A wonderful song which elevates and honors the concept of closing credits. The visuals provide a beautiful narrative as well. Stay in your seat until the film is complete.

After hearing this song by Peter Gabriel called "Down to Earth" from the Wall-E soundtrack I just had to write in that it is, in two words:

Simply.

Beautiful.

Having not had the benefit of seeing the movie I listened to this single based on the ratings here on Amazon. Let me just say that context is everything and maybe the movie helps. While this is a good B+ effort from PG. Personally I wouldn't include it in one of his top 10. Compare this to Eddie Vedder's Hard Sun from the Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild. Regardless of seeing Into the Wild, the EV song has an impact.

Bottomline. If you're a PG fan, download the single. It's worth .89, but I wouldn't buy the entire OST.

More than being an excellent piece for the closing credits section of a movie, and also an excellent song in terms of musical qualities, I was impressed by the content and the conscious raising about the fact that we are "messing up our homeland" as Peter Gabriel says.

I recently watched " The 11th Hour", and I am more convinced that we are bound to extinction unless we do something radical to achieve a healthy balance that allow the humankind to stay around in harmony with the rest of the environment (note that I imply that WE are part of the environment) not for 50 or 100 years, but in the long run.

In the recent years we have had a big debate on the global warming of the earth. I as engineer can't believe all the misleading statements made by Al Gore in his book/movie, and even though I recognize that we are messing up out planet big time, there are other more pressing matters in terms of humankind survival than fighting climate change (BTW, the climate has been changing for hundreds of million years and is mostly related to the sun activity and its effect on earth. These other matters are better addressed in "The 11th Hour" and document the state of affairs in our homeland

Going Back to Wall-E. The movie (that is a mix of Blade Runner. Brave New World, 2001 a Space Odyssey and Toy Story) is a good story of what might happen when we finally almost destroy life on earth (a cockroach as a pet is a good symbolic element). Unfortunately, I think that we won't be able to "Set Sail for the Sky" any time soon.

Down to Earth really captures the spirit of this conscious raising movement so we do something to tackle the most formidable challenge that the humankind (and a good part of the rest of life on earth) face.

Enjoy.... enrique

Played at the end during the credits, is a fresh sounding song from Peter Gabriel about coming back to Earth to live.

As the background for Wall-E's unique and well-done credits, the song fits perfectly, and seems to get the message of the movie, even though it works the environmental aspect of it too much. Working outside of the confines of the movie, and the movie doesn't hold up so well. The chorus is still the stunner it was in the movie, but the verses lag off horribly, and leave you a bit drowsy. Add in an annoying choir in the background, and stretching the song way past its welcome, and you have a song that only works strictly in the movie. Maybe I'm not a fan of Peter Gabriel, or besides its excellent chorus, I found the song to be a drag; totally unlike the movie it's found in, unless it's in the actual movie.

Real Score: 3.5