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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (twelve 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 (six 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