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
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
There is a steamroom scene w/ Dr Zaius and the gorilla general in Beneath, the first sequel to the original.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
I disagree! I think "pointless military adventures are bad" worked just fine as a throughline. Hell, the residents of Skull Island were basically commies.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
meanwhile this movie literally has "Ape-Ocalypse Now" scrawled on a wall
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
In any 2017 movie about voyaging to a distant secret island to capture a giant ape, Vietnam allegories are totally superfluous.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
I'll take that over 100 minutes in Ape Auschwitz.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
"There is a steamroom scene w/ Dr Zaius and the gorilla general in Beneath, the first sequel to the original."
yes. sadly the conservatism of the time made them edit out the mutual ape massage scene that was in there.
― akm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
"meanwhile this movie literally has "Ape-Ocalypse Now" scrawled on a wall"
that was so good. obv the references are over the top and over done but it is a movie with sentient monkeys
― akm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
how subtle do you want it to be
I would watch a "The Doors" movie with apes.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
love me two times babypnce cuz i'm an ape
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
about Jimbo, the ape king.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
The Doors movie could only have been improved by more ape
― akm, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
I don't need subtle, I just found that the wink-nod stuff and the extreme grimness made for a really odd and kind of offputting tonal mismatch
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
honestly I would watch just about anything remade with the humans replaced w/ photorealistic apes. instant improvement
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link