THIS RISE OF THE APES POSTER CROSSES THE SILLY-LINE

That's the first trailer that's actually sold me on this flick working.

As for the poster, thanks to you Renn, I look at that poster, and hear nothing but Public Enemy. And I havent stopped laughing. Somebody needs to get to work on that mock trailer post-fucking-haste.

Poster is really awful. Looks like something you would have seen at Blockbuster in 1996 as a knock off, DTV movie.

The trailer is good, but too good - basically gives the entire movie away. Wish I hadn't watched it, as I'm guessing it reveals all the major beats for the film.

That's not a movie poster, that's a Taiwanese knock-off lunchbox. Clearly, Fox's X-Men: First Class poster designers had not been let go.

That poster is AWESOME!  Let's not pretend that this movie was ever going to be any sober treatise on social maladies or race relations, okay?   It's about apes to take over the planet, so let's not try to build it up as anything other than a potential goofball kick.  

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Originally Posted by Justin Clark 

As for the poster, thanks to you Renn, I look at that poster, and hear nothing but Public Enemy.

It Takes a Nation of Gorillions.

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Originally Posted by MichaelM 

The trailer is good, but too good - basically gives the entire movie away. Wish I hadn't watched it, as I'm guessing it reveals all the major beats for the film.

Same here.  Sometimes I think it'd be nice if, once in a while, they tried one like Hitchcock...have the director walk around the set blabbing as actors (in character) pass through while inserting brief glimpses of the movie; kinda break the fourth wall.

Then I remember that ridiculous TOYS trailer with Robin Williams!

Shithouse poster, great trailer. I agree with Michael to some extent that it maybe gives too much away, but I'll take it.

The Statue Of Liberty thing's just the teensiest bit too on-the-nose, but I can completely live with that kind of reference.  And the Lithgow/Caesar thread looks like it'll be the core emotional pulse of the story.

But damn, they seem to dumping one trailer after another each with more and more footage.  The only real question, I guess, that's rattling around in my head is whether they'll be any speaking from Caesar, and if so whether or not they can keep from spilling those beans before the release.

It'd be nice if they downplayed it to point of him maaayyyybe saying "No!" and BLAM cut to black!

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Originally Posted by Mattioli 

It Takes a Nation of Gorillions.

 

Sequel:   Fear of an Ape Planet.

The poster just makes me think of this...

Franco's delivery of "we call it...the cure to alzheimer's" is so awkward it just ruins the rest of the trailer for me.

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Franco's delivery of "we call it...the cure to alzheimer's" is so awkward it just ruins the rest of the trailer for me.

I don't think it's his delivery that makes that bit sound so dodgy, it really sounds to me like that bit of dialogue is cut together from separate lines of dialogue.

Like what they did with the recent Star Trek trailer but less smooth.

Half the trailer's lines seem edited together. We call it ... The Cure ... to Alzheimer's ... reaction shot. It also seems to be about a different movie than the previous ones.

I know a previous version of the trailer just had Franco call it... THE CURE! 

If you watch the Star Trek trailer and listen to the conversation in the bar when Kirk meets Pike and then listen to it in the film there are sentences created for the trailer that the characters never say in the film. A single sentence they say in the trailer can be cut together from several sentences they deliver in the film, because a trailer editor is trying to have it be as punchy as possible to make a 150 second trailer pop rather than a two hour film flow.

Judging dialogue from trailers often isn't worth much because of these types of tricks, not to mention the fact that scenes, shots and lines which appear in trailers sometimes don't appear in the finished film anyway.

It kind of reminds me of the 1970s King Kong, which is not a good thing

One thing I am loving is it appears WETA (and perhaps Andy Serkis as well) have put in a number of nods to Roddy McDowell's performances in the APES films...from just the look of Caesar's face to a couple of facial expressions/movements I've seen in the trailers.

I'm still officially skeptical; this is Fox, after all, and it's a prequel/pseudo-reboot no one was clamoring for. But I think WETA's work will be pretty good, regardless.

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I'm still officially skeptical; this is Fox, after all, and it's a prequel/pseudo-reboot no one was clamoring for. But I think WETA's work will be pretty good, regardless.

Its also a second movie from an untested director. Rupert Wyatt has only thus far made the admittedly good The Escapist but this just smacks of someone Fox could boss around.

I remain cynical, hopeful but cynical...

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The poster just makes me think of this...

 

I was just about to google this image to post it and now I don't have to. Well-played, RD.
 

That poster is so utterly helplessly wrong I don't even know where to start. Irony in 2011.