a thread for RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES w/cgi apes, yalies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Z_D9Grh18

theres a thread for the green lantern so

saw the preview for this before x-men, thought it looked kinda dope honestly

although i suspect the actual movie will spend way too much time on james francos curious george fantasy or w/e

also wonder if one the shots in nyc is lifted from krippendorf's tribe...

http://www.filmposter.net/uploads/tx_dam/posters/large/7244.jpg

Love it when humanity gets its comeuppance.

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

1.) I like how more triumphant the Rising of the Apes is in this trailer

2.) After this and Deep Blue Sea, humans should give up on trying to cure alzheimers imo

why did they have to cgi the apes? why?

So they don't have to worry about explaining why apes look normal in 1973 but then by 1991 they mostly walk upright and are human size.

I made my dad take me to one of those Go Ape! marathons. (We did not stay for all 10 hours.)

I would go see a movie filled with CGI yalies

cgi is like autotune to me & takes me out of the moment here & there but fuck absolutely anybody who thinks I will not see the living fuck out of a movie called Rise of the Planet of the Apes

T/S: cgi apes vs. cgi zombies

I'm seeing this, with bells on, but on the commercial I saw the apes had that infuriating "this digital object weighs about 5 ounces" cgi syndrome. If Troll Hunter, on its budget, could make its cgi trolls look and feel like they weighed a ton, surely the best cgi money can buy could make these apes look like they exist in gravity-space.

otm, dinosaurs in Tree of Life were also tragically under-gravitised.

x-post - OTM I saw the trailer yesterday and those apes were flying through the air as if they weighed as much as . . . as . . . something really light! I'd probably watch it for LOLs because I was sort of cracking up throughout the trailer.

But the CGI apes are creepy and it has Lithgow too so maybe not.

i am kind of "done" with james franco but the idea of him playing a scientist is so great that i think i will see this

Saw an interview with the main actress from this on The Daily Show last night. I guess in the scenes where they're interacting with the main chimp, it was actually Andy Serkis on set in one of those all-grey motion capture suits. I'd watch an entire non-animated film where they're just talking to a guy in a ridiculous suit, tbh

feel like y'all aren't treating a film where the planet of the apes rises with the respect its due

I guess it's not that close a remake of Conquest of TPOTA, but I assume Lithgow is a Severn Darden-style villain.

no, apparently he's an Alxheimer's sufferer.

i really hope Franco is the Ricardo Montalban character.

I am relieved that Jon Stewart has gone back to interviewing ingenues who act opposite CGI apes, instead of 'important' people.

I'm just happy that the monkey from Jumanji has finally found a comeback role.

i love that this is called rise OF the planet OF the apes

It was originally gonna be called Caesar

then Rise of the Apes, which sounds like a Jane Goodall doc

Rise Re: Planet Re: Apes

It's fun to imagine the physical reaction of the exec who saw that title on the screenplay.

"We can't call it 'Caesar', people will think it's about salad!"

Rise of the Moon

The Dark Knight Rises the Planet of the Apes

zaius premed

literal lol

rising apes

honestly they should just call it Ape Escape

ape fear

still hype for this tho

Yeah me too.

progressive shd call their tea party the Rising Apes

Early critical murmurings are that this is solid.

Somewhere between 2 and 4 on the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale then

i think this looks sick as hell

Yeah, this is actually the most entertaining trash I've seen all summer. And the apes aren't 5 ounces at all.

If smart is sexy, Caesar is the sex symbol of the year.

OK, enough pull quotes.

Jeff Wells loves it, so ...?

I mean, it really is complete garbage. But it's fun. Cross-reference Kael's review of Earthquake.

Or her review of anything.

I like the poster w/ the Golden Gate Bridge in flames (shades of the abandoned ending of The Birds), but the apes with their fists raised in the foreground look like they're at Coachella.

lol

also never heard of 'Draco Malfoy', another role that coulda been filled at the Pasadena Playhouse.

when did they reveal it was the future?

xpost In the fleeting mention of the first manned mission to Mars.

lol, not OUR future.

our PAST future

finally saw this, it was great. are they doing a sequel though? I don't think they need to; they'd either have to redo the first movie for the third time (lame) or do something entirely different. also the apes are already totally sympathetic so it would be difficult to move them into antagonist territory. I'd be happy with this film as a one-off.

yes, Fox is just going to let the Apes brand lie dormat after this film made $XXX million, thou innocent.

haha. true. in fact I just looked it up and they have already planned multiple sequels. sounds like it will diverge significantly from the previous films which is good.

Director Rupert Wyatt:

"There's so much we could do … The ideas I've had are all sorts of things, ranging from 'Full Metal Jacket' with apes … you could start this story again eight years from where we left off, the next generation of apes, those that have come from our protagonists, perhaps going in to a conflict with humans and showing real fear, in the same way as going into war for young soldiers in this day and age, telling their story. Or how apes are taking over cities, and being moved into human environments and having to interact with them and deal with things that are part of our culture and understand and evolve through them. Spies that are in the employ of the apes, working against humans and humans maybe existing underground, because that's a way they can avoid the virus, coming up above ground wearing gas masks, and maybe that's what dehumanizes them."

ranging from 'Full Metal Jacket' with apes

"...hello, Cheetah."

suggests some of the grunts may have the decency to give the DI a reacharound.

They did lay out the foundations to do a modern remake of the original movie by having the whole background information about the rocket to Mars being lost.

Tim Burton did that! Like less than a decade ago.

the entire kubrick oeuvre should be redone with apes

man this movie was so dope. occupy banana street!

occupy banana street!

― latebloomer, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:32 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lmao plz let this be in the thread title to the sequel

Watched this last night. Ludicrous fun!

NOOO

Haha, I watched this last night too, courtesy of Redbox! It was a lot better than I was expecting it to be.

this was hilarious. i didn't know about the post-credits ending though, so we stopped after the harry & the hendersons one.

anyone remember what the deal is with the pittsburgh steelers-esque symbol that caesar draws on his cell wall?

It was a window wasn't it?

ohhhh of course. i am dumb.

Watched this the other day. It was cheesy as hell and the CG was really bad but I enjoyed the second half and all the APE REVENGE.

the CGI was about as good as it gets nowadays WTH

I guess, it still looked really fake.

i thought the orangutan looked incredible

the CGI was about as good as it gets nowadays WTH

― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, February 20, 2012 3:14 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I guess, it still looked really fake.

― #1 Inspector Spacetime Fanboy (Viceroy), Monday, February 20, 2012 3:15 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, yeah.

when caesar befriended buck the gorilla (arguably the most sympathetic character in the movie) and it was revealed that he just wanted to play, my girlfriend leaned over and whispered "MY NAME'S BUCK, AND I LIKE TO PLAY".

the cg seemed a little unconvincing in the opening scene, but after that i was on board. cosign on the orangutan.

and not like it matters at all in this movie, but what were they even trying to say happened with the initial test chimp & her baby (caesar)? franco & his assistant were acting like they had no idea that she was pregnant or had a baby.

Yeah that was kinda WTF... they run dozens of blood serum tests weekly on their animals and signs of pregnancy doesn't show up on the lab panels?

the only cgi that really irked me in this was when they did those telltale sweeping impossible epic camera moves that f/x movies can't seem to resist.

otherwise the movie's well-made enough to where the effects aren't distracting even when they're not 100%. they're actually used in service of telling a story.

i watched this movie last night and realized at the end that i had no idea what anyone's name was outside of Caesar and Steve Franklin

kinda loved this

everything on the bridge is so great

yeah. the CGI was fantastic throughout.

this is how to make great goofy films imo

really surprised at how much i enjoyed this, glad i hadn't looked at this thread before seeing it

saw this on a plane a while back and then on HBO tonight. the CGI and some of the face acting bugs me on occasion but who gives a shit forever, the apes fucking rise, movie delivers the damn goods, would rise again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9-3Fj3ZdI

the apes fucking rise, movie delivers the damn goods, would rise again

― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, May 31, 2013 10:46 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark

otm

Apes better dawn in this movie or me and aero are gonna have words.

LOL that sentient smart killer apes would don warpaint, as if being sentient smart killer apes wouldn't be enough to strike fear into the hearts of people.

maybe they just think it looks cool?

don't apes have to dawn before they rise?

Can't have dawn w/o a sunrise so I think the order checks out

Let Me In was ok so hopefully Reeves doesn't fuck it up, because Rise was unexpectedly awesome.

This thread always has me scratching my head over what 'yalies' means.

james franco attended yale university

Patrick Doyle soundtrack for Rise of... continues to delight me. Giacchino is doing Dawn of... and I kinda hope he goes for some of his primitivist chamber ensemble tricks a la the shit he did for Lost.

finally saw this after hearing so many good things about Dawn -- honestly I think I had avoided this when it first came out bc I still had bad feelings over being Burtoned

cool as shit -- that gorilla dude jumping off the bridge into the helicopter and going full Terminator OMG yes

so now I'm psyched for the sequel

didn't want to clog up the other thread with my bullshit so that's why I put this here :)

totally cool as shit. I hope I get to see Dawn in the theater but there's every chance ($, time, wife's tinnitus) I will have to wait for streaminz.

Have been listening to tons of ape OSTs the last few days (Doyle, Elfman, Giacchino, Goldsmith and Rosenman the elephants in the room, saving em for when I'm in a better mood).

just saw this too cause the sequel reminded me that i wanted to see it

good! except for the last act being the jump into total ridiculous rushed fan service garbage and the ending too (i was hoping to see franco's face get ripped off way to half-ass it) i am cool with movies that blame our impending apocalypse on big pharma and james franco

tom felton's american accent was horrible and his "paws" line was so forced and shitty

have no desire to see dawn of the rise of the eve of the conquest of the planet of the apes

also loved the reveal that caesar is a big daniel bryan fan