Rise of the Planet of the Apes [** SPOILERS FROM POST 185 ONWARD **]

Galvasean

I've heard nothing but good word of mouth about this. Actually starting to look forward to it.

Johner

Watched it tonight not expecting much but thought it was brilliant.

Essien

I thought this was excellent

The scene where they escaped from the zoo type thingy was brilliant. I could watch it again and again

This was a rare occasion where a movie not only lives up to its promise, but delivers far more imo. Definitely worth the watch.

zenno

very impressed myself with this movie, it was well worth the watch plus I would recommend it to anyone very enjoyable. cgi is amazing and the story works well.

arch_stanton

I saw this over the weekend and it's the best thing I've seen all year. The CGI was for the most part excellent. It's amazing how quickly we've moved from one CGI character like Gollum or Kong to dozens of apes interacting onscreen at the same time and Caesar really is a character, giving the best performance of the film.

LJD10

arch_stanton wrote: »

I saw this over the weekend and it's the best thing I've seen all year. The CGI was for the most part excellent. It's amazing how quickly we've moved from one CGI character like Gollum or Kong to dozens of monkeys interacting onscreen at the same time and Caesar really is a character, giving the best performance of the film.

Yay have tickets booked for Thursday night. Im looking forward to it now.

blodvyn

I was VERY VERY VERY sceptical after watching the trailers

ACTION PACKED FAST PACED

Thankfully, it was nothing like the trailer, it was more of a drama, a coming of age, the rise of Ceaser more so than the apes.

I thought it was brilliant,

the premise all along was that the apes became super intelligent and took over the world, while thats right to an extent, it's actually a virus that seems to wipe out the human population with apes having a superior immune system they thrive and obviously become dominant.

I thought the scene in which he spoke was amazing, gave me chills.

This is what star trek did in 2009, a movie that everyone was sceptical about but that delivered so much.

PhiloCypher

If Serkis and Weta don't win awards for this it will be criminal .

footie_fanatic

this looks great cant wait to check it out

abouttobebanned

Serkis was superb. Film was superb.

PhiloCypher

I'm a grown man but when

Caesar asked Will was he a pet after crossing paths with the family with the alsation and becoming acutely aware of the collar around his neck it kinda broke my heart

, thats when I knew Serkis and weta had nailed it .

adox

sae it last night and really enjoyed. As said previously, its more a drama than an action film, as the trailers seem to suggest.

Its predictable enough but starngely charming and intruging.

Oh and its a good length too at slightly over an hour and a half.

KilOit

Trailers for this movie make it look absolute rubbish.
Luckly the movie kicks ass, loved the story and the cast were great,
they aced Ceaser's character, moment you meet him you completely forget he's cgi.

tommyboy2222

Enjoyed this but thought they showed too much in the trailer.

Cantona's Collars

Excellent movie,the cgi is very believable to the point where you forget it's actually cgi.
The bit where the handler say's

"Get your hands off me you damn dirty ape"

was a great homage to the original Planet Of The Apes.

Don't forget to stay for the end credits folks.

Gives a reason for the fall of man and the rise of the apes.

WASP0

Solid, entertaining movie with excellent CGI of Ceaser and the other apes and great special effects, the story is good too and you won't notice the 2 hrs go by, well worth checking out. 7/10

Sad Professor

I wasn’t expecting much, but I have to say this was pretty damn solid entertainment. Tightly scripted and at a little over 100 minutes long it doesn’t overstay its welcome. It does a good job of setting up the inevitable sequel. I won’t be running out to buy the DVD, nor do I suspect I’ll ever want to watch it again, but it was very enjoyable. Definitely worth checking out.

WatchWolf

Best part of the movie was

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

.

Sad Professor

There seems to be some Oscar buzz for Serkis, which obviously isn't going to happen. However, he's probably going to get a special achievement Oscar at some stage.

WatchWolf

He totally deserves some kind of recognition from the Academy. This guy never ceases to amaze me (King Kong, LOTR, etc, etc)

Mickeroo

I thought it was by far the best big budget film of the year by far. The character of Caesar is brilliant and Serkis does an amazing job, it's basically a biopic following his rise and it's really very compelling. The CG is probably some of the best ever. The human characters are the weak links but thankfully they're little more than supporting characters to the brilliant apes. Having said that the scenes of

Caesar growing up with Franco and his Father are great

it's just a shame their characters weren't better although I did really like John Lithgow

but it should have hurt more when he passed away, and Franco should have told Caesar he was dead

. What few flaws there are with this are very minor, its a solid film which I'll probably go see again. Nice to see a proper Science-Fiction film too.

BlitzKrieg

adored it!


Wonderful pacing. I really felt

the golden gate bridge set piece was one that was built up perfectly using sfx and pacing to build tension and excitement. Rather then just vomiting sfx onto the screen for an hour like some other blockbusters

I will say the reveal of

the downfall of man

is not a huge leap away from the prior films and those who earlier complained that the notion of apes taking over the world was stupid clearly didnt pay attention during the original films

The nukes did in the original movies and as I predicted these were swapped other for a virus in the modern retelling.

And yes the

NOOO!

is like the Anti-Lucas. Its a complete reversal on the other imfamous cry from another film.

gazzer

Saw this last night and loved it. My favourite movie of the year so far. For some reason (even though I have seen all of the other Planet of the Apes movies) I wasnt expecting

the "Noooooo" scene

but it was fantastic. Gave me goosebumps. The Golden Gate set piece was amazing.

LJD10

gazzer wrote: »

Saw this last night and loved it. My favourite movie of the year so far. For some reason (even though I have seen all of the other Planet of the Apes movies) I wasnt expecting

the "Noooooo" scene

but it was fantastic. Gave me goosebumps. The Golden Gate set piece was amazing.

My fav all year too. Thought it was excellent.

BlitzKrieg

Can I add there's clearly not a love being expressed for the character of Maurice on here.

Sasquatch76

Really enjoyed it overall. One scene did make me cringe a little, and sadly it was the

"Nooo!!" scene. I actually thought it was ruined by Felton's "Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape". It just seemed very out of context and lessened the impact of Caesar's first word, just imo of course. What struck me is that that particular nod to the '68 original felt very shoe-horned in, completely forced. Yet the movie is littered with better, and far more subtle references to the original series, which I enjoyed far more eg Caesar constructing a model statue of Liberty, his first word being the "forbidden word", the orang-utan surely being named after Maurice Evans who played Dr Zaius.

Anyway, one of only a handful of minor gripes (the others have already been mentioned by and large) in what was otherwise an excellent popcorn flick. And once again, must be said, kudos to Serkis and WETA. Brilliant work.

Mickeroo

Mickeroo wrote: »

The human characters are the weak links but thankfully they're little more than supporting characters to the brilliant apes.

This is something that really struck me when watching this. There are large periods where Franco isn't on screen and Caesar becomes the main character which really gives you an in-depth depiction of Caesar without a human trying to steal the spotlight. All of the main apes he meets in the sanctuary get very anthropomorphic qualities and despite the fact they don't speak at all become legitimate supporting characters.

I did think the ending was a bit ambiguous.

Caesar being home, while a bit of a fairytale ending kind of ignores the fact that the humans are obviously not going to let them stay there while there is any order in the world and while I assume there will be sequels surely the humans when the virus comes out would quarantine it and get working on a cure, or develop some sort of immunity to it. I'm reading a lot into it I know...

Anyway great movie, well worth the money spent on it.

Mickeroo

Liam O wrote: »

This is something that really struck me when watching this. There are large periods where Franco isn't on screen and Caesar becomes the main character which really gives you an in-depth depiction of Caesar without a human trying to steal the spotlight. All of the main apes he meets in the sanctuary get very anthropomorphic qualities and despite the fact they don't speak at all become legitimate supporting characters.

They were all brilliant, it was a stroke of genius and one I'm surprised the studio allowed to happen. Maurice, the Guerilla and Kabo were great characters in their own right.

Liam O wrote: »

I did think the ending was a bit ambiguous.

Caesar being home, while a bit of a fairytale ending kind of ignores the fact that the humans are obviously not going to let them stay there while there is any order in the world and while I assume there will be sequels surely the humans when the virus comes out would quarantine it and get working on a cure, or develop some sort of immunity to it. I'm reading a lot into it I know...

I think it will be a case of

the apes will try to start their civilisation in the forest, Franco et al will try and convince the public to leave them alone since they're so intelligent and that but others will want to destroy them, the virus will be a world wide epidemic before anyone realises whats going on, most of the human population will be wiped out, the apes will be left alone as the humans have bigger problems now, a few humans will survive but will be outnumbered by the thriving ape population. I can also see Caesar having to deal with a possible mutiny or maybe general brutishness from Kabo.

Sequels could be very interesting indeed I think. Let's hope they don't mess them up!

Handsome Bob

Very impressive.

Can anyone tell me if Kabo was in the original films? Just going by his general demeanour and apparent bloodlust he reminded me of Roth's character in Burton's film.

About Serkis, it is a crying shame that he doesn't get acknowledged for these performances. What's ironic is that the man is actually a fantastic actor portraying "real" characters as well, he was brilliant in Longford.

Re: the humans,

the virus is a very clever little way of explaining how they're wiped out. Caeser will definitely want to do something to help his human friends, which should lead to some good scenes with Kabo. I think it's important that the dialogue among the apes is kept to a minimum though, as it worked very well in this film. I loved Serkis' delivery of "Caeser is home."

PhiloCypher

Mickeroo wrote: »

They were all brilliant, it was a stroke of genius and one I'm surprised the studio allowed to happen. Maurice, the Guerilla and Kabo were great characters in their own right.



I think it will be a case of

the apes will try to start their civilisation in the forest, Franco et al will try and convince the public to leave them alone since they're so intelligent and that but others will want to destroy them, the virus will be a world wide epidemic before anyone realises whats going on, most of the human population will be wiped out, the apes will be left alone as the humans have bigger problems now, a few humans will survive but will be outnumbered by the thriving ape population. I can also see Caesar having to deal with a possible mutiny or maybe general brutishness from Kabo.

Sequels could be very interesting indeed I think. Let's hope they don't mess them up!

One should also bear in mind

that as the virus spreads around the world it will infect both ape and human alike where they intersect whether it be from zookeeper to ape or poacher to ape in the jungle, dramatically culling human population in the areas and giving the newly smart apes time to both breath & breed while humanity goes through its death throes

.