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Doesn't the Icarus mission unleash the pandemic?Corek posted:Don't forget that Matt Reeves, director of Cloverfield and Let Me In, is directing this movie. Definitely made me sit up and pay attention.
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At least watch the first.
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Soulwrangler posted:In the original novel isn't the ape planet fully advanced? Driving cars, broadcast media, etc. Sounds like a possible third film might be the closest to the original source material yet considering humanity has died out due to disease and not nuclear annihilation-- leaving behind their infrastructure. Boulle's novel is less a sci-fi setting and more like philosophical literature. From what I remember, it's just modern day with apes and humans transposed, like War With The Newts or something.
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Hand of the King posted:Maybe this was answered in the first movie, but how can humans not win this war with their technology? Besides "it's a movie" as the answer, was there something more fitting provided? What are you referring to? The war in the trailer?
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May 8, 2014 17:53
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Hand of the King posted:poo poo. I am way confused. I thought there was just one virus (just that made the apes intelligent). I'm guessing there are two? One that enhanced the apes and another that kills humanity? That is precisely what happens at the end of Rise. They point it out in the trailer, too.
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May 8, 2014 21:36
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Yeah, I guess I'm being disingenuous as it actually happened in the credits. But this trailer says it in no uncertain terms.
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May 8, 2014 22:56
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The first one is a really fine movie if only for Zaius.
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May 21, 2014 20:12
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I remember being kind of taken aback that Zaius sort of has a legitimate beef against Taylor, even if none of it is his fault.
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May 21, 2014 21:09
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And the "hero" apes are awfully condescending to Taylor. Rod Serling was a bright guy.
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May 21, 2014 21:20
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It wasn't Lincoln, it was clearly General Thade.
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Jul 8, 2014 15:56
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Szmitten posted:Has anyone seen the poster that looks like a painting with the ape riding the horse in the water with the gun raised? It's a really cool poster and looks 70's as gently caress. Yeah, it's the theatrical poster, from what I've seen at the ol' multiplex. bobkatt013 posted:Didn't the DVD also come with an insert that tried to explain it? Yeah, and it's got a featurette of Tim Burton being pissy about it, too.
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Jul 8, 2014 17:29
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Anae posted:TV spots piqued my interest, anyone able to quickly answer whether I should bother watching the 2001 Apes beforehand as well as Rise, or only the latter? Don't watch the 2001 POTA under any circumstances.
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Jul 9, 2014 21:57
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bobkatt013 posted:I watched the original and its loving incredible. Are any of the sequels worth a watch? Kind of, but the only movie that's close to as good as the original is Rise. The sequels are good fun.
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Jul 9, 2014 22:18
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My dad's favorite two sci-fi movies from the past few years are Prometheus and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and this has brought us closer as father and son.
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Jul 9, 2014 23:53
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He likes every sci-fi movie, I should have hedged.
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Jul 10, 2014 00:45
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Are we so cynical that this is what passes for "great filmmaking" now? Any blockbuster that gets the slightest rise of emotion out of us? This film is really getting way overrated. There isn't a moment in it that you won't predict and the whole thing is very by-the-numbers. There are a few scenes which are above average but it's mostly bland and forced. Many of the scenes are TV-movie level. Isn't that the opposite of cynical? Or just the inappropriate word. I would say that predicting what will happen next in films and TV shows is far more jaded.
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Jul 11, 2014 21:26
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It's a joke that suffers in the telling.
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Jul 14, 2014 15:26
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I'm automatically skeptical of any claims made in that because it's from Cartoon Brew.
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Jul 14, 2014 19:11
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I don't mind any of that because this is a two hour movie about ape pantomime.
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Jul 14, 2014 20:03
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Kodi Smit-McPhee is totally buyable as a sensitive young lad. Since Man of Steel I've been noticing how much poo poo would be improved with no dialogue. I almost wish there was more pantomime in the human scenes, since it's done so well with the ape stuff.
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Jul 14, 2014 20:15
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See, I never thought he was supposed to be like six years old. Like the chimp with the gorgeous blue eyes, I thought he was just meant to be frail and untested. They lay it on a little thick by introducing him as sensitive and artistic.
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Jul 14, 2014 20:25
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Even Blue-Eyes had buddies.
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Jul 14, 2014 20:30
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I almost feel like they were queering the character a bit, as if to remind you that youth subcultures still exist, or something.
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Jul 15, 2014 00:10
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How do you go from not having an inkling whatsoever what to expect about a movie called Dawn of the Planet of the Apes to posting in its dedicated thread on the SomethingAwful forum?
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Jul 15, 2014 04:44
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I can't really add anything to that except that you edited your post to mention that you're an idiot, and you pounded a few.
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Jul 15, 2014 05:05
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I just can't ever buy the premise that someone is normal and cool when they paid money to post on a message board to style on nerds.
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Jul 15, 2014 05:12
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Things happen in movies that don't happen in real life? Pass me some of that good poo poo brah.
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Jul 15, 2014 05:42
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DeimosRising posted:All else aside, regarding outgroups as animals is hardly a novel idea when they are human, let alone when they aren't. Even better, Caesar himself says as much at the end, but the shift is sympathetic. This kind of outgrouping is inevitable when someone goes beyond the pale.
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Jul 15, 2014 15:09
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Lord Krangdar posted:I said I saw more thematic parallels to Deep Space 9, but now I see more where you're coming from with the TPM comparisons. Koba has a parallel human character, whose prejudice was borne out of past traumatic experiences. You could be right about the second thing, but it's much more about that pretext.
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What I don't get is how exactly it isn't funny that Caesar has to collect himself and be upright and dignified because he couldn't help chimping out.
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