Brunch of the Planet of the Apes
― Number None, Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
Return Of The Planet Of The Apes: Apes Webinar
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
Redistricting of the Planet of the Apes: Tenderloin
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:25 (six years ago) link
although I'm concerned this will be more like just the last 30 mins of the last one. too much shooting and not enough cool ape stuff
No doubt I have a post saying this upthread, but the last film I made it until maybe up to the last 10 or 15 minutes or so, looked at my watch, then just decided I was so sick of watching monkeys shooting machine guns that I just left.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
Planet of the Apes: SoPA
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 July 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
the new one mostly features apes using arrows and shit
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
Planet Of The Apes Lite
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
they could do a faithful mid-budget version of the original novel now, w/ a high-tech CG Ape City, but of course it is a talky satire and hence of zero interest to Fox.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link
I was so sick of watching monkeys shooting machine guns
does not compute
― bitumen: the animated series (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link
yeah cannot comprehend
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:55 (six years ago) link
I recognize that on paper it makes no sense. But perhaps the monkey CGI is so good that I stopped thinking of them as humanoid monkeys and more just people firing machine guns like any other action movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
still not following u
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 16 July 2017 20:26 (six years ago) link
this was great, good ending to this part of the story. if they go on it would be interesting to see what they do, but they don't need to, as this kind of sets things up for the original film.
a few questions: 1) I assume that guy wasn't the girl's father because she shows no emotion at seeing him dead, as compared to the tears she sheds over the dead monkey about 20 minutes later 2) the virus robbing people of speech: she seems fine despite having no speech, so my guess is that it only affected the ability to talk, it didn't do anything else. but how long do we think she was like this? 3) it's never really clear how bad the rest of the world is. they seem to be travelling across Utah to Colorado at the end and don't encounter any people, so by this point, is most of humanity wiped out?
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
it's never really clear how bad the rest of the world is. they seem to be travelling across Utah to Colorado at the end and don't encounter any people, so by this point, is most of humanity wiped out?
honestly despite the annoying opening crawl there was a lot about the world and even just the spatial logic of the movie that was completely lost to me
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 17 July 2017 13:23 (six years ago) link
^^ this. i'm like are they headed to tahoe?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 17 July 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
i assumed this took place between northern california and washington (it looks like Muir Woods again at the beginning and looked like Muir Beach where they found the girl) but they seemed to move very far north pretty quickly, I guess monkeys have faster velocity than I thought.
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
There's a reason for the saying "fast as a monkey."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 July 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
oh also the special effects in this movie are probably the best and most realistic I've ever seen.
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
I've heard that from a few people, but I also thought that about the first and second movies, so I'm not sure what could make the effects better. An even more believable talking monkey running around with a machine gun?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 July 2017 21:40 (six years ago) link
you will absolutely believe these monkeys are real and you will care deeply.
but everything else is pretty amazing too. There is a very large environmental event that happens at the end of the movie which is breathtaking.
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 21:44 (six years ago) link
well of course the one w/ Woody Harrelson wd have an environmental event
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 July 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
it's not quite like that. I just didn't want to spoil what it was by being explicit.
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
Do the monkeys throw their poop?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:22 (six years ago) link
Yes
― nate woolls, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
Sold!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
haha yes they do, one of the best scenes
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
monkeys = feces flinging
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:38 (six years ago) link
i assumed this took place between northern california and washington
I wasn't so much talking about the real-world geography as much as where events took place in relation to one another
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 17 July 2017 22:40 (six years ago) link
trajectory appears to be from marin to sierras to camp at the california/nevada border
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 17 July 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
then what was the desert?
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:48 (six years ago) link
why can't these monkeys provide a map
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
how does cornelius get all the way to new york
lol akm i stopped at the camp for a reason
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 17 July 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
"and then they crossed Nevada by foot and set up in Salt Lake City"
when are all the monkeys going to start wearing clothes
― akm, Monday, 17 July 2017 23:03 (six years ago) link
these things keep me up at night
Ask Chewbacca.
Monkeys seem to do OK in climates both cool and tropical, so unless modesty is a concern they probably don't have to worry too much about cover. I bet given a choice they'd get a trim in the summer, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 11:49 (six years ago) link
How is food production going in this post-monkey apocalypse? What is the North American monkey diet? Yes, we have no bananas.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
btw Cornelius would get violent if you called chimps "monkeys"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 11:53 (six years ago) link
(bcz they are not)
"Monkeys seem to do OK in climates both cool and tropical, so unless modesty is a concern they probably don't have to worry too much about cover."
yeah I know but Cornelieus and Dr. Zaius wore full on tunics.
― akm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:31 (six years ago) link
Affectations, most likely, but I think they mostly wore them to hide the zippers, tbh.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:34 (six years ago) link
apes wore clothes in the Boulle book
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
yeah it's the humans who wore no clothes to make clearer the distinction/inversion : civilized/animals (but also lol@"mostly wore them to hide the zippers, tbh.")this latest movie seems pretty good with WH going full Brando/apocalypse now, apparently.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:58 (six years ago) link
and I guess it allowed to throw more gratuitous nudity too !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
ape nudity
― akm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
the more I think about the new movie, the less I like it
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
So having just seen the trailers, this seems like another one, like "King Kong," jammed full with Vietnam-referencing imagery. Or at least Vietnam movie references. Or maybe just First Blood references.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
honestly Skull Island handled the Vietnam angle better
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
And yet in Skull Island it was afaict totally pointless.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:29 (six years ago) link