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'of worth to say to the world and whether or not they should be'
― iatee, Friday, 6 February 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i've always wondered if the nuclear-bomb cult of mutants and their hymns in beneath the planet of the apes was at least partly the inspiration for the holy hand grenade sketch from monty python and the holy grail
― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 08:45 (fourteen years ago) link
The "Planet of The Apes" series is reportedly getting an origin story with James Franco .
According to Variety, the actor has signed on to star in a prequel to the series.
A mag source said James had a great meeting with director Rupert Wyatt over the weekend about the movie, that will be set in the present day and chronicle how genetic engineering gave the animals intelligence. The actor will reportedly play an important scientist in the midst of the war between man and ape.
The effects team WETA Digital, who wowed moviegoers with their work on "Avatar," will reportedly use photo-realistic apes and not actors in costumes for the movie.
The "Apes" prequel is slated to start filming in July and will hit theaters on June 24, 2011.
― velko, Friday, 21 May 2010 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Didn't know about this til Franco interview in NYT (in which he rolled his eyes over it, bet the producers loved that).
Plot basically seems to sort of redo the 4th film in the original series, w/ Andy Serkis Gollumizing Roddy McDowall's Caesar:
http://www.filmjunk.com/2010/06/30/andy-serkis-to-play-caesar-in-rise-of-the-apes/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
'Return' is just bizarre in the way it carries on straight after the first and mirrors it in many ways - but its pretty confusing in that no-one bothers to explain WHY the Forbidden Zone has a wall of fire and stupid lightning bolts, or why the apes see the mirage of burning apes when they cross the threshold - the worst part is the underground humans singing choir during their bomb-worshipping sermon...needlessly drawn out, implausible and it sounds awful!
rong on so many levels
do you get befuddled by jump cuts too
they were over here, now they're over there! WHAT IS HAPPPENING
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I still haven't seen the R-rated cut of conquest for the planet of the apes that they released last year
need to rectify
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The score/soundtrack for the original movie is so perfect that I think it elevates the material.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
great score, esp that whole opening desert trek and the hunt sequence.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
morbz your love for planet of the apes is very humanizing, what other secrets are you keeping
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
dogs and children love me
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
aw <3
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Against my best instincts i think i kinda want to see thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MtqRd9tKLw&feature=player_embedded
― Number None, Thursday, 14 April 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Look at the bright side: even if it's terrible it's going to automatically be better than the Burton Apes abortion.
― das reboot (latebloomer), Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^ cannot be overstated
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep seeing people on Twitter bitching about the title, but I feel like it pretty much feels like the long and awkward titles of some of the 70s sequels. Its not like Dark of the Moon or something really lame.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Haven't seen more than a few minutes of the Burton version, but it was enough
― Number None, Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Burton not tHAT bad
otoh, i don't even wanna watch this trailer
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
burton version is incredibly bad and retains almost none of the stuff that was appealing about the original (aside from some great makeup effects)
that teaser was actually better than i expected
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Friday, 15 April 2011 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
james franco is gonna make one hell of a scientist
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Friday, 15 April 2011 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope this is just like "Deep Blue Sea" only with apes.
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Friday, 15 April 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Although apes AND sharks would move this quickly into "Best Picture frontrunner" territory now that I think about it.
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Friday, 15 April 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I kept thinking of "Monkey Shines" (which was s'ok).
What are the odds that this movie ends with a shot of an ape perched on the Statue of Liberty? Because, you know ... get it!?!?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
cgi apes look like crap
when that one jumps off the railing at the helicopter it's like oh noes attack of the panda
― if u see l ron this weekend be sure & tell him THETAN THETAN THETAN (Edward III), Friday, 15 April 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It also looks like a prequel to "Congo"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, now I want to see it more than ever:
It plays out like an escape movie, says director Rupert Wyatt, as Caesar the chimp leads his fellow imprisoned apes to escape the research facility where they're imprisoned. Caesar enlists the aid of Maurice, an orangutan who knows sign language, and a big bruiser of a chimp named Rocket. It's an "A-Team of apes," says Wyatt.
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Friday, 15 April 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Assuming they're playing this for laughs.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
wait are we supposed to root for the ape-team or be terrified of them
― i can tina turner (elmo argonaut), Friday, 15 April 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw the Burton POTA in the theater with friends when it came out and actually had a blast watching it. I've paid good money to see movies that were far more dreadful and dull.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
visually it was pretty cool! if only the script had been worth a damn.
― das reboot (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 April 2011 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't that every Burton movie?
― Number None, Saturday, 16 April 2011 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Burton's always been hit or miss but I don't think at that point he had made anything as joyless and uninspired as Planet
― das reboot (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 April 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Robert Wyatt directed this new Apes? Oh, wait...
― Winky Dinky Dawgz (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 16 April 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Where are the orangutans?
― wk, Saturday, 16 April 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching the original again, was struck by how much of a quisling Cornelius is, for a heretic! Nearly shits himself whenever Dr Zaius is around. If they ever closely remake it they'll probably cast Jesse Eisenberg.
also,
orangutans = WASPS (administer the place, sittin pretty)
chimpanzees = Jews (scientists, liberals, just had an employment "quota" abolished)
gorillas = warriors + menials, exploited classes of color
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess those classses resemble the US demographics and segregation mid-20th-century
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the original movie series. After the first one, the best is Escape from the Planet of the Apes, followed probably by Conquest, Beneath, then Battle. Battle for the Planet of the Apes is pretty bad but I do love the very ending with the statue.
As a child I loved the tv series too.
The Tim Burton remake was irredeemably terrible.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone seen this?
The title of this film translates to something like “the bumbling ones on the plateau of the apes”; indeed the film is but one of many in the 30+ title O TRAPALHAOES saga, which can be taken to mean “pranks”, “shenanigans” or “pratfalls” – in essence, anything that isn’t helping. Starring legendary Brazilian comedians Dedé Santana, Mussum and Didi Mocó, O TRAPALHAO NO PLANALTO DOS MACACOS’ is a surprisingly earnest (and indefatigably goofy) recreation of the original PLANET, wherein a band of idiot heroes end up “liberating” a simian populace that hates them – save for one comely philosopher-queen chimpanzee...
http://www.spectacletheater.com/missing-links/#otrap
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 June 2017 16:07 (seven years ago) link
The first film premiered in New York 50 years ago today.
Rod Serling's original draft, which featured the Pierre Boulle book's modern ape civilization (and no doubt even more Cold War liberal speechifying), is being adapted for a graphic novel.
http://www.slashfilm.com/rod-serling-planet-of-the-apes-script-graphic-novel/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
the 70s series is a treat.
the newest one is good but taking 300+ years after Caesar's death makes me question the plausibility of a lot of what the humans do.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 May 2024 23:43 (four months ago) link
i keep reading these long articles about how amazing the trilogy is before the new one. and also the new one. who knew? the cgi ape faces just looked so dumb in ads and trailers to me i figured they were like nu-kong or any other new okay-to-bad reboot. now i have to watch them? i was always a fan of those originals. even the really bad last one from 1973 or whenever. like, they are calling them classic epic sci-fi! i didn't get the memo. they are on disney+ except for the new one. maybe i will try them.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2024 00:04 (four months ago) link
I found them enjoyable but find the 70s ones deserved more love.
watching Conquest of the Planet of the Apes rn. amazing that in 18 short years they've enslaved apes and are still paranoid of one singular talking ape toppling them all. some real John Connor shit here
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 May 2024 00:31 (four months ago) link
was quite a bit prescient about how labor would be devalued by capitalism in the 21st century though
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 May 2024 00:36 (four months ago) link
Hated all three of the recent movies. The CGI apes looked terrible at all times, and even worse than that, the first one had James Franco in it. I still love the first two and the fourth from the original series, though. The second one, when the mutants peel their faces off, was a primal childhood terror moment for me.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 17 May 2024 01:02 (four months ago) link
Caesar from 70s movies > Caesar of new trilogy
Nu-Caesar is a watered down revolutionary meant to appease to centrist audiences, 70s Caesar basically a Fred Hampton style revolutionary
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 May 2024 01:22 (four months ago) link
why are people stanning so hard in, like, WaPo and NYT for the new ones?? they are think-pieces even! are they in cahoots with big ape?
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2024 02:39 (four months ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/05/10/kingdom-planet-apes-greatest-franchise/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/movies/planet-of-the-apes-appeal.html?searchResultPosition=1
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2024 02:45 (four months ago) link
I remember loving the Planet of the Apes TV show marathons that WGN ran over a few evenings when I was a kid. They did some with the old Flash Gordon serials too.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 17 May 2024 02:47 (four months ago) link
i must have seen those original films dozens of times over the years when i was a kid. they played them a lot. i never got tired of them.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 May 2024 02:49 (four months ago) link
I didn't know this until tonight, because I have an old DVD set of the first five movies from 2006, but in 2008 they put out a Blu-Ray of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes that includes the original ending where Caesar lets the other apes murder the humans. I'm gonna buy one on eBay.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Friday, 17 May 2024 03:01 (four months ago) link
The CGI apes looked terrible at all times
Really? I think this still looks brilliant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB4XrhYLQ4A
― nate woolls, Friday, 17 May 2024 03:29 (four months ago) link
Maybe I'm a much meaner person now.
― trishyb, Monday, 19 August 2024 15:27 (one month ago) link
I bought the Blu-Ray of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes that I mentioned upthread and the ape revolution ending is fucking amazing. Apes piling up pyramids of dead cops in the street! Zero conciliation from Caesar! It's fantastic. Highly recommended.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Monday, 19 August 2024 17:46 (one month ago) link
i liked the first three remakes but have no desire to watch the newest one for some reason even though it stares at me from hulu every day. maybe i've had enough. that remake trilogy though, really surprised by how entertaining they were. i think i just assumed they would be lame.
― scott seward, Monday, 19 August 2024 17:53 (one month ago) link
I thought it was a cool idea that the bad apes were worshipers of Caesar
― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Monday, 19 August 2024 18:02 (one month ago) link
yeah the allegory there was...quite blunt
― if this site were a food it would have NO nutritional value!!!!!!! (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 August 2024 18:11 (one month ago) link