Planet Of The Apes movie series - Classic or Dud

The Tim Burton film is the worst film I have ever seen.

I don't even remember very much about the film...but ^^^^ this.

It was among the few times in my life when the movie is so bad that you actually come out of the experience semi-angry. I have not seen a new Tim Burton movie since, and possibly never will.

c'mon, filmmakers fuck up. He did well turning Sweeney Todd into a horror musical.

yeah but there's a difference between an artistic stumble and a piece of art that's *so* actively bad that you immediately have to really wonder whether or not that person has anything of worth say to the world and whether or not should be making things to begin with...and I remember the remake being one of those.

err:

'of worth to say to the world and whether or not they should be'

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

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.

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/

'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

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

The score/soundtrack for the original movie is so perfect that I think it elevates the material.

great score, esp that whole opening desert trek and the hunt sequence.

morbz your love for planet of the apes is very humanizing, what other secrets are you keeping

dogs and children love me

aw <3

Against my best instincts i think i kinda want to see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MtqRd9tKLw&feature=player_embedded

Look at the bright side: even if it's terrible it's going to automatically be better than the Burton Apes abortion.

^^^^ cannot be overstated

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.

Haven't seen more than a few minutes of the Burton version, but it was enough

Burton not tHAT bad

otoh, i don't even wanna watch this trailer

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

james franco is gonna make one hell of a scientist

I hope this is just like "Deep Blue Sea" only with apes.

Although apes AND sharks would move this quickly into "Best Picture frontrunner" territory now that I think about it.

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!?!?

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/