Planet Of The Apes movie series - Classic or Dud

cgi apes look like crap

when that one jumps off the railing at the helicopter it's like oh noes attack of the panda

It also looks like a prequel to "Congo"

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.

Assuming they're playing this for laughs.

wait are we supposed to root for the ape-team or be terrified of them

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.

visually it was pretty cool! if only the script had been worth a damn.

Isn't that every Burton movie?

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

Robert Wyatt directed this new Apes? Oh, wait...

Where are the orangutans?

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

I guess those classses resemble the US demographics and segregation mid-20th-century

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.

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

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/