I was in the minority opinion on the first teaser for The Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I thought the effects were phenomenal, but the story and performances seemed uninspiring.
Now comes a full length trailer from Yahoo! Movies, and my opinion isn’t 100% reversed (this is a franchise I don’t think I’ll ever love), I’m a lot more intrigued. Here, Caesar emerges as a character — a sweet, trusting little chimp who is abused into revolution. You can’t help but sympathize with him. Burn the world, Caesar!
However, it’s still the stuff around Caesar that looks like a major problem. Franco seems half-asleep, and Freida Pinto seems utterly lost, as if she’s reading lines off a cue card. If there’s to be any drama to this story at all, we’ve got to believe in the human-ape dynamic as much as we do the CG apes. If they’re cardboard cutouts, where’s the horror (or pleasure) in seeing them knocked down?
But at least it finally looks like a film I’d like to see, although I’m disappointed there seem to be no orangutans. I can’t believe my favorite gingers are going to be left out of the revolution!
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One thing that was great about the first Planet of the Apes, was that after it ended, it left you wondering how the apes took over. Seeing it, just makes you roll your eyes. Speaking of eye rolling, Franco as a scientist?
horrible tagline (Evolution..).
And Christ, don’t fictional characters watch films? Deep Blue Sea. Cure for Altzheimers. Look how well that turned out ;p (although it would be mint if he was watching it then turned to his missus and said ‘nah – sudden firghtening intelligence won’t happen’)
She’s right, though. Franco looks disinterested, Pinto is just there for a pretty face. The film itself will tell, obviously, but the apes look way more interesting as characters (on the outside as well as the inside) than the humans.
Yeah, individual taste is a terrible thing.
I guess they’re going to explain how humanity devolved into cave men in the sequel to the prequel. This will be great though if there’s a Battlefield Earth moment where an ape climbs into a Harrier jump jet and figures out how to fly it after monkeying with the controls for a couple seconds (sorry for the pun).
I hope there’s a group of Bonobo hippies advocating peace.
Seriously this trailer is just stupid. The monkeys look faker than hell, the reasoning behind everything is just plain stupid, and it just screams generic on every level.
James Franco as a neurologist. Makes about as much sense as Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist. FAIL
Seriously, what is the purpose of your post? To inform others who might be interested (i wasn’t, but now might be) that you disapprove of hollywood’s futile attempt to entertain you? Or that those same people are fools for being interested? Unsupported statements do not a reasonable argument make.
This trailer is full of admirable attempts at photo-realism on a budget and contains just enough info to get me from baby chimp to chimp guevera. What part is ‘just plain stupid’ exactly? I agree with Elizabeth about the humans, but Troy Maclure could play the human and I wouldn’t care. Generic? Unless u like cars, every fast/furious movie is generic to me. Personal taste i guess. But i’ve never seen anything like what is in this trailer (and none of the original films either), and it pumped me up actually. So please, explain, with examples, ideally. What are the levels exactly, each of which ‘screams generic’?
More crap. An ad for any movie that points out the special effects means all involved have already given up. More overt racism and good looking people trying to come off as world-class scientists. I saw this movie over the weekend but instead of racism it was a redundant sexual tolerance message beating me over the head for the fourth time. And gay mutants.
-=!!!SPECIALEFFECTS!!!=-
I CAN NOT WAIT TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME
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