Kinda sad he had to make that video. Point is the most Captain Obvious thing ever.
Good examples, though.
TL; DR for anyone who doesn't wanna watch a 20 minute video: Plenty of good World War 1 games exist, and you can do interesting things with any setting/scenario in a video game because they aren't constrained by reality.
What's the issue with the final act? The humans escaping their corporate overlords was going to happen, because duh, and it's handled with about as much grace as animated films are ever going to have when they get as scathing as Wall-E gets about American consumer culture, and the stuff with Eve and Wall-E is exceptionally well done. To boot it happens to be one of the more experimental screenplays in an animated film, shit it is the most experimental screenplay. Anything else Pixar and Disney do is by the book.
The second half is more frantic and predictable, but it was the smart choice to go that route. Building an entire movie out of the first half, and just Wall-E and Eve would have been a bit much, and the Movie generally earns some of its second half tense moments, and its payoff.
I think the worst thing you can throw at it is that it's forgettable. People remember the beginning. They remember the second act. The third act just isn't memorable. It doesn't stick. It's not what people think of when they think of the movie, and when you can say that about your climax that's kinda damning.
It's an amazing screenplay, as you said. I just think if you asked a lot of people to describe the third act of that film, most wouldn't remember it. It's the weakest section and it works because the Wall-E/EVA thing still works. That doesn't make it bad. It's just the weakest compared to the rest of the film. To be fair, a lot of Pixar films have that issue. Third acts are hard, especially in kid's movies.
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