Rise of the Planet of the Apes

[alanp]

Major Spoilers!!!

I felt like the movie kicked off in a good direction but was getting lost as it went on.  Everyone with the exception of Will, Charles and Caroline became a heel and to our group of movie goers, we really didn't a clear outcome to root for, even though we know what it is setting up.  Can we really root for that?  I felt disappointed they didn't have apes jumping out of unexpected places in classic horror movie fashion.  And there wasn't that shocker ending some of the other movies had.  I probably will not watch this one again.

(I don't want to be critical of movies, I want them to make better movies

On a side note, the trailer they showed for Paranormal Activity 3 looks promising.

[Vartok]

A little quiz to see how well you know your Planet of the Apes franchise.  Each POTA has had a subtext theme built into the plots here is a quiz to see if you can align the subtext with the name of the movie.  Unfortunately I can't really provide a prize to the first winner (unless you want a Vartok segment emailed, LOL).

Here are the movies in order:

1968 Planet of the Apes
1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes
2001 Planet of the Apes
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Put the letters in order

a. women's rights
b. race relations
c. animal rights
d. can't we all just get along?
e. anti-war, anti-nuclear weapons
f. equal rights
g. human rights

First to do so will be declared most likely to replace Charlton Heston to claim "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape."

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[Rico]

Seems like some overlap in some of those themes showing up in multiple Apes movies.

[WillEagle]

I went to see this yesterday with the wife, mom, my brother Carl, and his son Zach with his girlfriend. Of course my 17 year old nephew and his girlfriend didn't want to sit with us adults. I thought it was a great movie. I rate it a strong 9. I thought the story though maybe not exciting at the beginning kept you interested and of course it just got better and better as it went along. The CGI was awesome and Ceasar was fantastic. I also really liked James Franco's character, Will. And it had been a long time since I saw John Lithgow in a movie. I always thought he was a really good actor. [spoiler]The fight scenes on the bridge was really good and I liked the part where Ceasar was directing the "battle" plan. I was also sad to see the ape (Buck??) get killed on the bridge. I guess I was rootin' for the apes. And of course when Ceasar spoke that was really cool. [/spoiler]

[M-5]

I'm heading out to see it shortly. :)

[M-5]

That was a great movie! :metallica:

[Bryancd]

Finally had a chance to see this on Saturday. It was good but not what I expected.

[spoiler]From the previews I though the first half of the film would focus more in the lab and the development of Ceasar and experimenting with other apes, where the tension would sort of build into a climax where the apes in the lab get organized and rebel against their human handlers. Instead I was surprised by the whole story taking place over many years and a lot of it at the home with the Dad. And then the whole middle part at that odd ape zoo they sent Ceasar to. I felt like the other apes already seemed too intelligent even prior to Ceasar gassing them. And then after the  big zoo escape, there were suddenly hundreds of them! WTF? Where did all the apes come from and how were they so organized and smart? The movie really pushed us to except a bit too much and ended up failing, IMO. I very much enjoyed the little nods to the original films, the missing astronaut and plague which dovetail great into the original film. All in all, it was fun, the CGI was hit or miss but Andy Skerkis was great as Ceasar.  [/spoiler]

[Rico]

Definitely seems I liked it more than you Bryan.  I really fell for the relationship between Caesar, Will and his father.  To answer one question...

[spoiler]Many of the extra apes come after they swing by the zoo and gather more.  Although there still seemed like a lot more than there should be.[/spoiler]

[Bryancd]

Definitely seems I liked it more than you Bryan.  I really fell for the relationship between Caesar, Will and his father.  To answer one question...

[spoiler]Many of the extra apes come after they swing by the zoo and gather more.  Although there still seemed like a lot more than there should be.[/spoiler]

I did enjoy that aspect of the story, it was touching but it was just very different from what I expected and changed the pacing a lot. I still think I would have preferred the movie I had in my head then the one I saw. And yeah, the end numbers of apes just didn't make sense nor the organization.

[Rico]

You must have seen some different previews or not the ones I saw.  In some of the previews they show Caesar as a baby with Will's dad, and then older, etc.  It looked to me as he was growing up he was learning and getting smarter.  The movie was pretty much what I had expected.

[Bryancd]

I suppose. At the end of the day it just wasn't as good as I had hoped. I felt the same way about Captain America. Maybe I should go see Cowboys and Aliens after all...

[Rico]

If you like Westerns, definitely go see "Cowboys & Aliens."  I really liked "Captain America" a lot - but I'm also a big comic book fan (and western fan too).

[WillEagle]

Captain America was my favorite of the Summer and Rise of the Planet of the Apes is probably 3rd or 4th. I also really enjoyed Thor and Super 8.
And I did notice that there were an awful lot of Apes for one building and a zoo. Must be a big Zoo in San Francisco. To be honest I never really thought about all the apes till you started talking about it on here. Great movie that will be a Blu-ray buy. And since the wife said she wanted it on blu-ray first, I can pick out another one from my list!

[Jobydrone]

Finally got a chance to see this one and really enjoyed it.  I guess no sequel, prequel, or remake could ever do justice to the classic original film, but I think they did a really good job with this one.  The last 30 minutes were just absolutely epic and the digital effects were simply mind blowing.  I hope they don't try to make this into a new franchise though...I think they had a hard enough time coming up with an ending to this one that would satisfy audiences.  I agree with whoever said earlier in this post how hard it would be to end this film in a satisfying way knowing what is bound to come in the near future.

[Jobydrone]