Just saw preview for the Planet of the Apes.

[bp1701a]

I just sawthe preview for the Rise of the Planet of the Apes,,, looks mostly CGI,, I just dont know, I hope tim Burton has nothing to do with this movie, he destroyed the last one.

[livnxxxl]

I did not see it myself although my gf told me about it earlier today. I to hope that this movie is way better than the last. It would not take too much effort to out do the last one.

What I am mainly interested in above all from this latest movie release is a new toy line. I hope that there is some cool stuff made from the movie.

[HardyGirl]

I'm not a big CGI fan, so I dunno what I'm gonna think about this one. Nothing beats the classics.

[MicromanZone]

The preview trailer shows this film to suffer from the same exact issue all of these “re-imaginings” and modern reboots suffer from: They are so damned filled with “gravitas” and seriousness there is 100% no fun. The original “Planet of the Apes” is a fairly deep film but also had some humor to it that added to the plot and didn’t detract from the film. Watching something like this makes me not care at all.

[txteach]

I think the rise of the apes can't really be fun. Not too sure on how they are going to re-imagine the whole apes story though.

[toysrus]

The real sad thing is if this new POTA flick fails to deliver then the entire POTA is dead for another 10 yrs. I have been saying this over & over, but they should have used the same old school look with a touch up of todays art, but picked up where Batttle of the Planet of the apes left off.

[bp1701a]

There is no reason to reboot a classic, continue from where lastmovie left off, like Star Trek, Use a new ship and new crew, why try to reboot and totally change it, continue Star wars but after ROTJ, same for Batman,,, there are so many things you can do if just CONTINUE the series..

[MicromanZone]

I think the rise of the apes can't really be fun. Not too sure on how they are going to re-imagine the whole apes story though.

You can have fun moments in the middle of horror. In the original Planets of the Apes, before the hunting Apes take that group hunting photo, the bodies of dozens of dead humans are around and even included in the picture. When the photographer says “Smile!” that is an incredibly dark and hilarious moment.

There are also similar moments in The Empire Strikes Back: Yoda is a goofy little imp when he first meets Luke, but then terrifies him when Luke claims not to be afraid: “You will be. You will be.”

Spielberg really knew how to do that as well. Remember when the shark first makes it’s appearance in Jaws? “ You're gonna need a bigger boat.”

[Mikey]

I just seen it too

The CGI is horrible

It's like mid 90's video game quality

[jwyblejr]

From the preview I saw on History tonight,it looks like Caesar is some kind of science experiment, not the son of two talking apes from the future.

[toysrus]

The more I think about it, its going to be a bomb! Is there even a Time travel connection to this movie?

So much could be done with the POTA but they want to go all hollywood.

Sucks for the hard core fans

[Cmonster]

The preview trailer shows this film to suffer from the same exact issue all of these “re-imaginings” and modern reboots suffer from: They are so damned filled with “gravitas” and seriousness there is 100% no fun. The original “Planet of the Apes” is a fairly deep film but also had some humor to it that added to the plot and didn’t detract from the film. Watching something like this makes me not care at all.

Right on the button. Very well said, sir.

SC

[alex]

I saw the trailer for this, when watching transformers, to me POTA is ape civilisations, the apocaliptic future, time travel, just a world beyond our reality. I personally only thought the first POTA movies were good because of this. At the end of the day this new one, is just a film, about a science experiment, which creates intelligent apes, which go a bit mental, without the whole ape culture, ok a setup for the next one hopefully.

[Mikey]

They're never going to make a good POTA's movie until they get a REAL fan of the classic movies to make it.

For one thing, a real fan would not want to re-imagine it.

A real fan would just make a new classic movie

Re-imagined classic movies are for people with no talent.

They take an old idea and just tinker with it ... That's not talent

Someday the masses will realize this and re-imagining will be passé for a while.

[Cmonster]

Someday the masses will realize this and re-imagining will be passé for a while.

Great post, Mikey. I agree wholeheartedly... The last sentence however true, will take a while. It probably will not happen in our lifetime. Sequels and remakes, reboots and reimaginings are just too easy for the studios. Less effort for them, less money spent on development and as long as our culture is content to flock like sheep to anything they crap out, nothing will change.

Just look at the box office numbers for "Transformers 3"... Think they wont do 4 or 5 or 6 or 7??? Unfortunately good business does not always equal good product... or good art.

SC