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

this was AWESOME once the focus shifted to the apes

on another note, I did find it a little weird that a neighbor that was so OTT temperamental and high strung as the neighbor would have the patience to be a pilot.

― Neanderthal, Sunday, August 7, 2011 6:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

to be fair, he did live next to a house with a live chimp

chekov's aggro pilot

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, August 7, 2011 7:49 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

^lol

i get this image of him like getting angry at his stewardess while flying his plane and deliberately sending it into freefall to get back at her....

also lols to HOOS

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

― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, August 7, 2011 1:36 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

please refer to him as The Griddler

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ga%C3%ABtan_Dugas&oldid=420463332

wait there was a twist?

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, August 7, 2011 12:09 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

i was referring to

SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

caesar talking

awesome scene imo

hell yea. I cheered in my seat.

though that was after me guffawing at Draco Malfoy boy saying Heston's line...

SPOILERS Y'ALL

you mean the 1st time he spoke or the time he gets all cozy in james franco's ear and is like 'naw, dude, i'm home'?

i guess they _had_ to show him talking, right, to set up talking monkeys in future installments.

but, chimp physiognomy doesn't allow for forming the kinds of sounds humans form, no? it would take 100,000s of years of evolution if not much more for that to happen.

bro are you for real questioning the science behind a film called RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

HA

the first time he spoke, to draco malfoy

"What movie climbed to the top of the box office this weekend? That and sports coming up after this break."

I dug this - it actually felt too short. And yes, plaussibility be damned, the "NO!" moment was the best thing I've seen in a multiplex in some time. It's been a long time since I heard a multiplex audience go that quiet.

People laughed in my viewing, though about twenty percent of the crowd had cell phones out during the entire thing. Douches.

the "NO!" moment was the best thing I've seen in a multiplex in some time

yeah this really was stunning

this was AWESOME once the focus shifted to the apes

― thick-necked and hateful (latebloomer), Sunday, August 7, 2011 8:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

what even happened to whats her name, she straight up disappeared

and yes the effects are stunning; all movies w/ even vaguely humanoid CGI creatures should go with motion-capture. always. I'm not sure how much credit should go to Serkis or to the animators, but, wow.

Caesar's facial expression after he grabbed dude's friend in the cell was just...lethal.

yahhh so good

i wanna see this again

http://www.facebook.com/pages/RIP-Buck-From-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes/157763104300170

wish they had made this in IMAX 3-d

Didn't really like this...besides one of those revelatory "oh look what they can do with CGI now" moments (now less revelatory than they used to be) there wasn't much that wasn't familiar from half a dozen fear-of-technology don't-play-god humans-are-the-real-animals blockbusters.

Followed up RotPotA by watching Project Nim, which was thematically similar but far more entertaining.

see, i liked that they wisely played down the scientific hubris angle in favor of making it a more personal story

i do need to see project nim

Armond loves it

http://nypress.com/blogs/article-22712-rebirth-of-the-b-movie.html

http://seeker401.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/four-horsemen-apocalypse.jpg

'i was on the fence about seeing this, but now armond white has praised it, i think i'll buy a ticket' - second-weekend filmgoers everywhere

armond's just setting up a heel turn down the line

just me

xp

"The now overrated Rise of the Planet of the Apes"

haha yes

the trailer for this makes it look a lot dumber/campier than it actually is

I love that it was able to play the story straight without getting too self-important, and Caesar was awesome, they were able to pull off so much only having his facial expressions to work with, which isn't really easy for CGI

These actors’ symbiosis gives substance to the film’s satirical proposition on evolution—the naturalness of Rodman's multiculti romance with veterinarian Frieda Pinto as well as with Caesar; the dangerous similarity of Rodman's hubris and his boss David Oyelowo’s greed. (“You make history, I make money!”)

oh my god

yeah that's pure Armondbot

you'd be better off trying to parse the gibberish that comes out of the adults on the peanuts TV specials than reading armond white

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

http://thehairpin.com/2011/08/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-a-response

• Caesar just reached into a fridge to grab a can of deadly virus, the dude behind us shouted “FOUR LOKO!” and I laughed my head off.

ahaha

And yes, plaussibility be damned, the "NO!" moment was the best thing I've seen in a multiplex in some time. It's been a long time since I heard a multiplex audience go that quiet.

Same thing happened here, there was a pretty obvious callback to the original movie that got people laughing and cheering a bit, so yeah it was pretty stunning how dead silent everything got after that. I figured they were kind of owed something ridiculous and powerful like that since they managed to play everything so straight until that point.

this was great. been so long since i've seen a really great summer/blockbuster type of movie i forgot how fun they can be.

and yeah the NO moment was pretty awesome--i found myself actually kind of moved by the revolutionary angle of the plot. and the gorilla's death (shades of King Kong) was actually really moving as well.

The final battle was especially well done, to the point you were truly actively afraid for the life of every single ape (at least I was). and I liked that they were trying to get OUT of the city and into the wilderness, and that this was the geography of the battle.

Yeah, my wife kept saying that, "wait, that was all they wanted? Why not just call the movie A Bunch of Apes?"

Well, they weren't exactly planning with long-term goals in mind

Based on the title and trailer, I thought "destroy all humans" might be one such goal

I think that unless the movie was 3 hrs long (which i would have been on board for) it would have had too much on its plate to show the entire uprising or war or whatever is supposed to come next. it's also a question of tone and how much dark irony the audience is on board for--when it gets past the point of liberation and on to the active destruction or self-destruction of human civilization. though im guessing any sort of sequel will frame it as the humans stupidly and needlessly provoking their own destruction.

another thing i really liked about this movie was how much non-verbal storytelling there was.

What is the political metaphor for this movie? Seriously -- did you feel any while you were watching? I still haven't had time to see it btw.

i though it pretty much avoided any easy allegorical or metaphorical meanings other than the pretty classic one of a revolution. the leader of the ape revolution is named after Shakespeare's (not history's) Caesar, so perhaps there is something to go on there. but i really loved that the movie played it pretty straight.

I don't know if it had a political metaphor -- most of what it had were a bunch of references to the original movie -- such as little Caesar playing with a statue of liberty toy.

Maybe some commentary on big pharma here and there. The 'boss' of the firm is your typical "I'm not interested whatsoever unless we can get the board's approval and therefore make lots of money" whereas Franco's character just wants to cure his Dad (I guess). I thought they'd do a lot of "some things, only God were meant to change" type dialogue but IIRC there's only really one line like that.

xp - plus the newspaper with the "mars mission lost in space" reference, I thought that was very clever