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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

i thought we were headed for act 3 and then the credits started

*Spoilers*

I was satisfied, like amateurist said, by the 12 Monkeys-esque tag in the first few minutes of the credits. The whole apocalypse thing was so subtlety done, loved it.

Also the scene with the apes holding and using makeshift spear-like weapons made from metal bars was \m/

Oh and the insertion of the Icarus flight was awesome, with the newspaper breifly being zoomed in on with the words "Lost in Space"?

wait there was a twist?

*spoilers*

Not really...the apocalypse thing that was only hinted at earlier is expanded upon, and they show the infecte pilot dropping blood on the floor, a shot of the Flight Status board, and a map showing where the epidemic spread.

But that wasn't really a twist cos we already knew it was gonna happen

anyone else think that was an oblique reference to spread of AIDS virus? not to mention chimp origins...

yea I muttered that to myself in the theatre....

for those who have no idea what i'm talking about

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian_Immunodeficiency_Virus

"Unlike HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections in humans, SIV infections in their natural hosts appear in many cases to be non-pathogenic."

also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaëtan_Dugas

lol yea when I was yammering with someone about this last night I referred to the pilot as "Patient Zero". good observation!

so i guess the next film (if there is one) will be a war b/t apes and humans with the disease playing a major role in weakening human civilization?

at this point it doesn't make much sense to skip ahead to the story told in the original film since the element of surprise is lost.

this whole sci-fi conceit has so much potential, even the first film (which is a mixed bag IMO) makes me regret all the missed opportunities. esp. with what we now understand about evolution, primate cognition, etc.

Perrin:

Some reviewers compare the new Apes film to Spartacus, both of which feature slave revolts. Apes is more radical because it's contemporary. It targets Big Pharma, animal abuse and human arrogance, inviting viewers to cheer on their own destruction. This is particularly refreshing given the endless alien invasion movies where humans always fight for survival. In Apes, we're the violent aliens. Our occupation starts to crumble as greed and cruelty consume us. We have it coming.

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2011/08/chaotic-masters.html

but the apes aren't slaves!

the whole attack on corporate greed is pretty much standard issue for big studio films! tom shone's book blockbuster gets into this.