Watching WALL-E for the nth time, and this keeps bothering me.
The "Axiom" and everything in it is so futuristic, lots of artificial and anti-gravity and probe robots with ridiculously overpowered cannons that don't even need finger joints, can enter warp or hyperspeed or whatever that was.
Everything in Earth at the time they leave is so low tech it seems barely 21th century, except for WALL-E robots that grab tiny amounts of garbage and compress it into cubes, apparently one every few hours or so, barely faster than a Roomba. Nothing about it is advanced at all (except maybe its AI, and a maybe too-efficient solar charger), it could be built out of components in most hardware stores today.
Sure, some would say that it's been generations since humanity left, but actually the Axiom(s) were built to leave Earth, so they're at least as old as Earth-tech at the time of the big cleaning project. And no human in the ships seems to have done any kind of productive work since they left, so research and development seems VERY iffy, specially on that scale. Specially inventing a hyperdrive mid-travel.
So, you have something that looks out of Star Trek (Axiom, EVE) and something that seems out of... well, here. Don't even see any kind of ruined futuristic cars in the streets or anything. It all just seems incredibly stupid.