Rise of the Planet of the Apes

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obikaii

156 posts

160 months

Thursday 18th August 2011
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during the film they also show the mars mission taking off,then later a newspaper headline saying the ship has been lost in space,which will be how the second film starts,with the lost ship returning to earth but thinking its another planet populated by intelligent apes,"damn you all to hell" etc.

Tiggsy

10,261 posts

253 months

Thursday 18th August 2011
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obikaii said:
during the film they also show the mars mission taking off,then later a newspaper headline saying the ship has been lost in space,which will be how the second film starts,with the lost ship returning to earth but thinking its another planet populated by intelligent apes,"damn you all to hell" etc.
I thinks thats just an Easter Egg for old school fans (like the model statue of liberty) rather than a huge plot device!

ChiChoAndy

73,668 posts

256 months

Thursday 18th August 2011
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Well, it leaves it open for a sequel, where the ship comes back, a la the original Planet of the Apes.

Tiggsy

10,261 posts

253 months

Friday 19th August 2011
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ChiChoAndy said:
Well, it leaves it open for a sequel, where the ship comes back, a la the original Planet of the Apes.
I think that's to big a leap in time - I can forsee a Terminator style plot with last few humans V increasingly smart apes!

cazzer

8,883 posts

249 months

Friday 19th August 2011
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A genuine question.
We keep getting told that apes are on the brink of extinction yada yada yada.

So how many apes are there on this planted compared with 6 billion humans with guns?

ChiChoAndy

73,668 posts

256 months

Friday 19th August 2011
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I don't think number will matter. Most of it will be gorilla warfare.

adam85

1,264 posts

192 months

Friday 19th August 2011
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I thoroughly enjoyed it, and thought the CGI was great - although the cinema did laugh out loud the moment when (the above spoiler) happened for the first time,
which presumably wasn't intended hehe

Tiggsy

10,261 posts

253 months

Friday 19th August 2011
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cazzer said:
A genuine question.
We keep getting told that apes are on the brink of extinction yada yada yada.

So how many apes are there on this planted compared with 6 billion humans with guns?
I suspect the people saying apes are in danger are not the same as those saying apes will take over the world. You'll probably find one are conservationist and the other film makers!

AndyT77

1,755 posts

163 months

Friday 19th August 2011
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Tiggsy said:
I suspect the people saying apes are in danger are not the same as those saying apes will take over the world. You'll probably find one are conservationist and the other film makers!
biglaugh

smash

2,062 posts

229 months

Friday 19th August 2011
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Nevin said:
No, you're not the only one. I thought it was pretty dreadful too. It felt like half a film, and not the good half either.
+1 Read a five star review that said essentially cgi was now at that crossover point with reality. Hmm...some of the CGi I couldn't tell at all, stunning - however I thought a big chunk was pretty obvious. Not a great script - James Franco's character's reactions to certain situations were dumb founding to me. Nothing to really get your teeth into - a popcorn movie

Although they're entirely different films it wasn't a patch on Super 8 (for me anyway).

4sure

2,438 posts

212 months

Friday 19th August 2011
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4 outa 10 from me,dire CGI you could see the painted in scenes especially on several indoor shots.

Shame because i really wanted to like it, it never really got anywhere and all ended up on the now standard bridge shootout like the incredibles did and many more recent films have involving a helicopter and some shooting...Boring zzzzzzz.

Marf

22,907 posts

242 months

Sunday 21st August 2011
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Loved it, top notch film.

Guvernator

13,167 posts

166 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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ChiChoAndy said:
I don't think number will matter. Most of it will be gorilla warfare.
Have one of these rofl

Also thought the film was pretty good. Ceaser was by far the best actor in it though.

PaulFontaine

629 posts

155 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Tiggsy said:
cazzer said:
A genuine question.
We keep getting told that apes are on the brink of extinction yada yada yada.

So how many apes are there on this planted compared with 6 billion humans with guns?
I suspect the people saying apes are in danger are not the same as those saying apes will take over the world. You'll probably find one are conservationist and the other film makers!
They explain that the monkeys are immune to the disease. It is the disease that kills the humans off not the monkeys

ChiChoAndy

73,668 posts

256 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Or it makes humans stupid, and more primitive?

Tiggsy

10,261 posts

253 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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ChiChoAndy said:
Or it makes humans stupid, and more primitive?
ITV Saturday night telly?

ChiChoAndy

73,668 posts

256 months

Monday 22nd August 2011
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Tiggsy said:
ITV Saturday night telly?
No, not that stupid. As far as I am aware, the humans still watched ITV on a Saturday in the original planet of the apes, but those scenes were cut, as folks found it far too unbelievable.

AV12

5,305 posts

209 months

Friday 26th August 2011
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^^^ rofl

Halb

53,012 posts

184 months

Saturday 27th August 2011
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Watched nit, thought it was ace, much better than I would have hoped. I saw the credits bit, stayed till the very end...just in case...biggrin

The spaceship bit is good, makes it all nice and connected for film fans.

The greats apes (with one exception) are all in decline. Sad to see, our closest cousins getting treated like that. Made me want the end of the dumb great ape in the film all the morebiggrin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Apes_Survival_P...

Stedman

7,227 posts

193 months

Sunday 28th August 2011
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Was rubbish. All the actors kept monkeying around.