a thread for RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES w/cgi apes, yalies

PETA are annoying imo

“Apes are the heroes of this film, and humans are the villains—and Rupert said he couldn't imagine a worse way of undercutting that message than by using real apes in the movie's production.”

peta do their cause a real disservice IMO

see this would be a great movie if instead of cgi they inserted random footage of chimps wearing dresses and jumping about on tea party tables.

cgi in this movie is terrible, check out this still from the chase scene

http://www.skooldays.com/images/sa1068.jpg

So realistic!

matt leblanc makes a cameo

http://www.ifc.com/news/04122010_MattLeBlancEd.jpg

hope this song is used in the soundtrack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXmLsdajYow

as does schwimmer!

http://images.wikia.com/friends/images/f/f7/Marcelandross.jpg

http://content6.flixster.com/question/66/54/60/6654604_std.jpg

<3 <3 Clyde <3 <3

Buster Keaton in the 1921 original

http://filmsnobbery.com/files/2011/07/Playhouse.jpg

hope this is the opening credits song tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhs4OCFhXo

http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/3/9/9/7/9/1/nicholas-cage-42308144915.png

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oh yeah! Thanks!!!

PETA are fools. "Is your dad a fisherman? Ask him why he enjoys murdering fish!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVQRoF0W84o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxqIITtTtU&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7IhijXYUQ&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-0vbvy2ip4&feature=related

Is this in 3-D? Because I will only see movies in 3-D?

If you mean the Apes are 3 dimensional characters than YES.

i haven't seen it btw

This is the 1st time I've ever seen that Lancelot Link video. Fucking amazing. Really, did potheads own the world in the early 70s?

"Lancelot Link" was brilliant. That being said so was "Mysteries Of Lisbon". I would see a Raul Ruiz film with CGI apes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2lSZPTa3ho

Man that baboon is a real asshole!

I mean, I know everyone loves a puppy but you can't just go around stealing them and dragging them off by the tail and then smelling their butts and sitting on them!! It's just not done.

ಠ_ಠ

LOLZ.

Freida Pinto on the Daily Show said she'd still never watched Planet of the Apes o_O and is now the 2nd name on the poster

that the trailer leads with FROM THE EFFECTS COMPANY OF is reason enough to skip this.

did potheads own the world in the early 70s?

why do u think i hate them so?

Kind of amazing that this would come out while Project Nim is still in theatres.

Effects companies are the new Old Hollywood producers xxp

Freida Pinto on the Daily Show said she'd still never watched Planet of the Apes o_O and is now the 2nd name on the poster

― I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Friday, August 5, 2011 12:52 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

that's sort of weird, it would take her all of 2 hrs to fix this.

this trailer was pretty effective.

this is actually getting pretty good reviews

yeah, i'm planning on seeing it. i dunno if it's the trailer or just the concept, but basically i am down w/ any half-decent movie about apes taking over the world.

I hear C-Hest has a posthumous cameo

hyped for this. distraction.

this is a really good movie

What I said!

you said it was fun garbage... oh, why split hairs.

Liked this a lot. Animal Factory meets Spartacus. A+ noble savage scenario.

ehhhh i'd give it a B

some really bad performances in this, by the real people (not john lithgow)

loved this. especially the ending credits.

dude that played the next door neighbor dad is one of the worst actors ever.

also the Draco Malfoy actor dude's childish playground taunting of the apes was really weird...it was as if like the existence of apes actually offended him.

i liked this a lot. two big problems: (1) frieda pinto's character has nothing at all to do and is entirely extraneous to the plot, more so than even your standard blockbuster love interest; (2) as the narrative arc involving caesar and his ape brethren develops, the arc involving james franco's character stops developing... by the end his motivations are hardly dramatized, more assumed and sort of fuzzy for that.

so many of this big-budget movies lose a lot of force at the climax, i think.

that said, again, i liked this a lot. in particular, *****SPOILERS*****

i really liked the false ending. i thought that they had shirked the whole apocalypse stuff, and the way they brought it back as most folks were already headed toward the theater doors was quite funny -- a lot of folks actually laughed appreciatively.

Conquest of the PotA has an entirely postdubbed 'reassuring' ending.

that's probably the best of the sequels, too.

pinto's character isn't entirely extraneous - her presence is somewhat important to caesar's development, showing how happy franco is with her and emphasizing caesar's loneliness, giving him less of a reason to return home.

i didnt think any of the actors were really bad, aside maybe from pinto who had nothing to work with - i found it instructive that even brian cox was boring, which is hard to do. it's not a movie about people so it worked fine for me, but maybe it would've been better if the human characters were more textured. at the same time there's nothing to, i guess, distract you from the emotion of caesar's character arc, which is pretty powerful

i liked that after a certain point it basically became papillon with apes. the visual storytelling in those scenes was great. i ended up thinking of king kong a few times, weta's other soulful-ape-gazing-longingly-into-someone's-eyes movie. this is a much better movie, and the tech has really improved since then. i thought the 'twist' about 2/3 of the way in was deftly handled, and i actually yelled out 'oh shit!' during that scene

this was ok, thought ending unsatisfying