Rise of the Planet of the Apes SPOILERS

I saw it today too. It's a really awesome movie, the best one I've seen this year, and the best thing that has happened to POTA since the first one in 1968.
 
I truly hope they make this a trilogy. What a great movie. Best one to date, it completely blew away Cap and Cowboys and Aliens.
 
I'm so glad all those months of, "the CGI in the trailer looks dodgy, so no way I'm going to enjoy this," talk is gone. I really love this movie and am glad others are too.
 
wuher da brewer said:
I'm so glad all those months of, "the CGI in the trailer looks dodgy, so no way I'm going to enjoy this," talk is gone. I really love this movie and am glad others are too.
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To be honest...I was not the least impressed with the trailer, the publicity stills, or the CGI I had seen going into this. I had no intention of seeing it eigther. Once I heard some possitive buzz about the story, and how easy it was to get into Ceaser's story I decided I would give it a go.

While watching...I did not get distrated by the CGI at all and found it easy to believe what I was seeing was a real creature. Only the scenes with an multiple apes seemed a little blurred at times. Still, what a fantastic movie. One of the best that I have seen in a very long time.

I am happy that I was so wrong about everthing going into this film.
 
I saw this the day before official release and it was outstanding!!!!! Movie companies make sequels if the first movie pays off so my suggestion to everyone who has seen it TELL OTHERS TO GO SEE IT and then go see it again!

To the best of my knowledge there is only one company who has the license to make replicas from the apes films and they aren't a huge company so we will see if they put anything out.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is the first of 3 planned films.
The second film will be the war between the humans and apes and the apes taking over, the 3rd film will be like the original POTA film when Astronauts return to earth only to find out apes rule.
 
MooCriket said:
To be honest...I was not the least impressed with the trailer, the publicity stills, or the CGI I had seen going into this. I had no intention of seeing it eigther. Once I heard some possitive buzz about the story, and how easy it was to get into Ceaser's story I decided I would give it a go.

While watching...I did not get distrated by the CGI at all and found it easy to believe what I was seeing was a real creature. Only the scenes with an multiple apes seemed a little blurred at times. Still, what a fantastic movie. One of the best that I have seen in a very long time.

I am happy that I was so wrong about everthing going into this film.
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i couldnt have said it better myself...
 
Rylo.....

I think you already know I made the canisters for the movie. An article is being done on me and may be published tomorrow. There's going to be some really cool stuff in it. I'll keep you posted. I can't help you with CAD, drawings, or dimensions.... but you should be able to get a rough idea of how I made them. I used 4 axis to machine them but you should be able to get close using 3 axis.

Kenney
 
Just saw it last night...great movie! Not a dull moment throughout! And, better yet, it was my lady friend's movie choice!
 
I finally saw it today and really enjoyed it, but with all of the comments in this thread about how good the CGI looked I'm starting to wonder if I saw the same film everyone else did. Don't get me wrong, the CGI was very well done and, given the nature of the story, they couldn't have done it any other way, but I never once believed I was looking at real apes. However, I thought the performances by the actors playing the various apes were so strong that it was easy for me to overlook the fact that they were CGI renderings and accept them as the characters they portrayed. To be honest, given the number of apes WETA Digital had to create for this film I would have been surprised if they had looked real.

With that out of the way, no other complaints. Strong performances throughout (especially Andy Serkis, who will probably be remembered some day as the best actor you didn't see on screen), good pacing that kept the story moving along, nice nods to the original films, and plausible (in my opinion) storytelling and plot points. I'm looking forward to seeing the sequels.
 
The big gorilla should have been called Aldo, Ursus or Urko and the cage handler should have been Julius.

But terrific movie. Great re-start if they can pull it off.
 
Went and watched this with the wife last night and we agree it was a fantastic fim. Like bub said, it had it all, even for those OG fans from the original Heston film has hints, easter eggs and clues to what happened, what will happen and why the franchise was great to begin with. I highly recommend this to go see. Having seen Caesar from days old to king of the apes is one hell of a story.
 
This is my favorite movie of the summer and I already saw it twice. OK, would it have been over the top to show on the TV Heston in the final scene of the original POTA when he sees the Statue of Liberty? I don't think so.
 
With a production budget of $93 million dollars, and a total gross of $77.4 million worldwide before it's full week of release, I'd say that the POTA franchise's future is secure.

And the good news? Earth wasn't wiped out by bombs, so hopefully that won't result in an underground cult of backwards thinking idiots who worship a nuclear bomb that will somehow destroy the entire Earth.
 
JiminSTLouis said:
OK, would it have been over the top to show on the TV Heston in the final scene of the original POTA when he sees the Statue of Liberty? I don't think so.
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Yes, that would've been completely ridiculous. As it was, there were a few too many references to the original film.

I liked the movie. Best in the franchise since the original. I'd give it an 8.25 out of 10. The CGI was very impressive much of the time, but appeared transparent other times. Organic beings created with CGI still have a ways to go. The Orangutan was the most realistic CGI ape in the film.

James Franco's acting hasn't impressed me since Freaks and Geeks. He plays a great high school stoner, but unfortunately, he was terribly miscast as a brainy scientist in this film. It was the least convincing scientist performance since Kelly McGillis in Top Gun. And yet, there's something unoffensive about Franco, so it didn't ruin the movie for me.

I love primates (including wookiees...lol) so I really enjoyed watching Caesar's (and the other apes's) face and body language for one hour and fifty minutes. But as good as the CGI work was for much of the film, I think the practical makeup on General Thade (in Burton's abortion) still ranks as the best-looking ape in the entire catalog of Ape films.

A sign for me loving a film, is if I want to see it again (in the theater). Not sure I want to see this film again until it hits cable. But I did enjoy it.

The Wook

ps~Minor quibble that bothers a primatology nut like me...chimps can't throw spears. Their wrists are fused for knuckle-walking and only bend forward, not backwards.
 
The Wook said:
It was the least convincing scientist performance since Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.
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I think you're forgetting Denise Richards in The World is Not Enough and Elisabeth Shue in both The Saint and Hollow Man. And that's just scratching the surface. :lol
 
I just thought of something. They could work the statue of liberty into the next one as who has to say there was a nuclear war, after 2000+ years it is very probably that the statue would be buried (mostly it would have rotted away but for movie reality we say it hasn't) so it could very well look like that but if they do the astronaut storyline they'd have no clue what happened and probably would guess nuclear war.
 
I liked upthread where the crazy man said the Statue got into her own ship and followed Taylor's trajectory and ended up some three hundred and twenty light years from Earth. On an unnamed planet in orbit around a star in the constellation of Orion.
 
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