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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Dec 9, 2016 9:16:08 GMT -5
So, the next Planet of the Apes movie looks a lot like the last one. The incredible special effects blurring the line between animal and man with the apes continues to be the most remarkable thing about these movies, but otherwise it seems to be progressing its arc rather naturally.
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Post by pairesta on Dec 9, 2016 10:42:31 GMT -5
I can't believe how much I love this series so far. I don't give a shit about the 60s and 70s movies, either.
It may be my current favorite existing franchise.
Every new movie I'm scared that that sad-eyed orangutan is gonna buy it.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Dec 9, 2016 10:55:02 GMT -5
pairesta Well as a fan of the original movie I'm pretty sure he won't. Someone will have to shift to orangutan supremacy.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 11:35:39 GMT -5
Does it have apes going back in time to the 60s to become celebrity sensations? No? Won't be the best one.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 9, 2016 12:55:24 GMT -5
James Franco won't be in this one, right? Because the fact that he used the first film in the current Planet of the Apes series to fund his tremendously shitty adaptations of Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels has given me an antipathy towards these films that not even Serkis is able to overcome.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 13:02:19 GMT -5
James Franco won't be in this one, right? Because the fact that he used the first film in the current Planet of the Apes series to fund his tremendously shitty adaptations of Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy novels has given me an antipathy towards these films that not even Serkis is able to overcome. He wasn't in the second one. They're still good movies. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Dec 9, 2016 13:11:58 GMT -5
I’m surprised this series, as a whole, doesn’t garner more enthusiasm. In addition to being very good on tech/storytelling in its own right I think it’s also true to the Rod Serling-esque fifties-sixties liberalism and approach to storytelling (intelligent without being highbrow). I’ve said this before but the new Apes films are in a sense what I wanted to new Trek films to be.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Dec 9, 2016 13:58:34 GMT -5
Roy Batty's Pet Dove I don't think a single human character has been in more than one film (and the performers who play the apes also have a degree of turnover - Judy Greer is taking over as Cornelia, Caesar's mate, for this film.) Jean-Luc Lemur Of all the revivals and reboots we've had over this decade Planet of the Apes is the only one that felt like it had a really fresh take on it, one that used modern technology to tell a story basically impossible even when Tim Burton made his reboot. The liminal quality of the Apes continues to astound me - the way they map the body language of the actual animals so exactly and then slip in more human behaviour (Koba in Dawn pretending to be a harmless goofy chimp right up until he grabs a gun.) I'm not sure where the lack of enthusiasm comes from - I'd say it is because the IP is quite old, but Mad Max: Fury Road had the same issue and became quite beloved online. Possibly the absence of a particularly lovable character - the humans are interchangeable and Caesar's arc is the only one they seem fully invested in on the ape side.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 14:02:48 GMT -5
You know what would make this a more beloved series? Time traveling apes who become celebrity sensations.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Dec 9, 2016 15:18:42 GMT -5
Roy Batty's Pet Dove I don't think a single human character has been in more than one film (and the performers who play the apes also have a degree of turnover - Judy Greer is taking over as Cornelia, Caesar's mate, for this film.) Greer played her in the previous movie as well, but most or all of her scenes were cut. |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Dec 9, 2016 15:56:07 GMT -5
At 1:48, did any one else hear Ron Howard say, "Hey, that's the name of the show."?
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Mar 30, 2017 16:52:34 GMT -5
New trailer. Looking pretty good.
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