Rise of The Planet of Apes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQHqNxyEaws

I'm actually looking forward to it. I'll just have to dropkick my brain out the window.

I'm not sure if I want to see this or not. I hope it's not like what I remember Tim Burton's remake being like.

This is basically a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes though, isn't it?

Looks to be, but sans the convoluted time paradox of the original!

I'm actually really looking forward to this. Considering that Conquest was (in my opinion), the only good Pot A sequel, and they're essentially stripping out the silliness... yeah, I'm pumped.

Is it just me or has the film's motion capture gotten worse between the teaser and the final trailer?

I would have accepted the movie premise more if the apes had been shown using firearms in the trailer and they had a better way to explain the sudden intelligence. How many canisters of the smart gas did they actually make? I don't see how "Ceaser" could build an entire army with only some pre-production pharmaceuticals.

Can't remember the last time I watched a movie trailer without muttering NO NO NO GOD NO under my breath.

Dear Hollywood,

please stop. :(

I miss the ape suits and makeup.

At least the smart gas makes more sense than a time paradox.

No firearms is telling me that they're just going to portray the apes as brute savages. Which is bad.

edited 7th Jun '11 11:17:55 PM by SorrowsNeptune

People in the theater were chuckling at the trailer. But once the title card came up, the room roared with laughter.

This is getting too silly.

Yeah, that's the exact problem, how could the handful of apes still left in the world pose an actual threat to us? MAYBE they could have a pretty good rampage in a city where the opposition is under armed (apartment dwellers with no guns and street police with handguns), but it couldn't last any longer than the battle shown in the trailer.

-Brain has been drop-kicked and shot-

Saw the trailer. I actually think it looks cool.

I liked the original (Conquest) idea of the apes sort of bootstrapping themselves; genetic engineering = evil is such a lame plot crutch nowadays.

What is it with people making the cure for Alzheimer's evil? Monster sharks, monster monkeys...remember the good old days when people didn't like science because of the world destroying bombs?

It's fucking Planet of the Apes. This isn't hard sci-fi, it's silly fun sci-fi. Yes, there are huge gaping logical holes all through this but it's Planet of the Apes so... just roll with it.

Any movie in which apes beat a modern army with sticks is asking you not to suspend your disbelief, but to whack it several times with a baseball bat.

Yea, because it's not been shown throughout history that a primitive force can't overcome a more advanced military.

...............

You're actually saying that a small number of mutated apes could overthrow the collective armies of the modern world?

Please let that be a double Sarcasm Mode.

Well the US couldn't seem to win in Vietnam even though by all rights we had an infinitely superior army and the tech to match.

edited 20th Jun '11 9:51:50 AM by Kostya

This is Planet of the Apes, how seriously are you going to want to take this?

We didn't lose either, in that we weren't conquered by Vietnam. In this case we're assuming that the Vietcong-equivalent didn't just push out America but then went on the conquer the entire world. Slightly more implausible.

Well if the leak is anything to go by, the Apes only win because a virus begins ravaging the Humans. But this is unconfirmed right now.

A stupid virus?

Moronitus. Highly contagious.

edited 22nd Jun '11 7:28:12 AM by Bur

It sometimes manifests itself as Colonitis, also called "anal clinching".