It would have been Tim Burton level bad if that was the ending. Plus it would completely undermine Cesar's 3 movie long journey.This is a bad review.
That ending would have been laughably bad.
It would have been Tim Burton level bad if that was the ending. Plus it would completely undermine Cesar's 3 movie long journey.This is a bad review.
That ending would have been laughably bad.
This may be my top movie of the year so far. Only thing that was annoying the fuck out of me was some idiot who brought their 1 year old into the theater who constantly cried out loud. On top of that the women just kept making remarks during the movie (WOW HE'S A FUNNY MONKEY) like just shut up.
I feel like Dawn is slightly stronger as a film, but goddamn how can you not love the ambition of this film?
With this one, the humans are clearly background characters and it's 100% the Apes story.
I feel like War is superior because of the movie's laser focus on Ceasar. Compare that with Dawn, which spent half the runtime with Jason Clarke and Keri Russel for no fucking reason whatsoever. Dawn is great don't get me wrong, but War is a fucking masterpiece.
It wasn't any kind of official 'military' though, it was more like an extremist faction led by a crazy leader. That much was made clear by the conversation the Colonel and Caesar have, the need to build the wall and well the entire last act where it's mostly human vs human.
Nope. I feel like it ties into the whole "Alpha and Omega" thing they've got going on, as well as the Colonel sacrificing his son to save humanity (his own fucking words).Am I in the wrong that I got strong passion of the christ vibes during the whole prison scene
Hey at least you didn't get some dude laughing throughout Luca's death scene. That took people out. In a bad way.I enjoyed the movie despite the two dickheads behind me making monkey noises throughout all three movies.
The Caesar Apes trilogy is the book of Exodus with liberties taken along the way.
Caesar is comparable to Moses and this is his journey to deliver his people to a safe land which prospers into what we see in the first Planet of the Apes.
This trilogy gives us the context for the apes and why they treat humans the way they do, and it adds more to the original film's powerful message.
Bummed to see a lot of people didn't really enjoy the movie.
I double featured this with The Big Sick and both movies can't escape my mind. They were both fantastic in such drastically different ways.
A lot?...
Theres a few here but I'm talking about in my circles as well. A buddy of mine who I saw the first two movies with said he absolutely hated it, while he loved Dawn and Rise.
This one particular friend is very extreme, I'll admit. I don't agree with him, in any case.Your buddies have bad taste. "Absolutely hate" should be an immediate red flag lmao.
This one particular friend is very extreme, I'll admit. I don't agree with him, in any case.
I found this slow and dirge-like
joyless and humorless
idk Im just over the war stuff I guess
also why does every blockbuster have to be 2.5 hours these days
One thought I have been having.
Is Nova the Nova? and is Cornelius supposed to be the Cornelius and do we now get a movie that parallels the original? It'd be hard as humans never got to that level of advancement that we know of.
No. Just clever homages. I just learned recently that James Franco's character from the first film, Rodman, was an homage to Rod Serling, who had screenwritten the original Planet of the Apes.
It was okay,
-I felt the movie just didn't have that much to say compared to the amazing first two films. This one has a promising start but once they hit the camp it slows to a crisp. It just drags and drags.
-Woody Harrelson was okay more screen time could of been used. Plus his motivation to wanting to kill ceasar at the start to capturing him to help build for his act is silly.
-An actual war between the apes and humans I felt would have had a bigger impact instead of humans vs humans with apes in the middle.
-Nova was a bit of a wasted character, not enough depth for her considering all the other main human characters has decent arcs.
-The guards suck at patrolling and the cliche evil henchman is the only one to notice the apes are gone. Also weren't the soldiers going to use the apes to fight the incoming military? So why didn't anyone notice that first.
-Ceasar and his gang of apes were all great expect bad ape. He had a few funny moments but got tiresome after awhile. No, no, no, no
-Underwhelming finale with the armies
-The ending moment was great, amazing way to finish it.
Overall 6/10
A sudden turn that's set up over the course of the whole movie.This was the bleakest summer blockbuster I've seen in some time. Really was impressed with it overall. Biggest complaint was that the army attacking the Colonel's group kinda felt tacked on and unneeded in regards to pretty much everything, but oh well. Also didn't like Donkey's sudden turn but whatever. Great trilogy overall. Serkis was astounding.
This was the bleakest summer blockbuster I've seen in some time.
A sudden turn that's set up over the course of the whole movie.
There was a lot of small stuff I didn't like in the movie now that I've slept on it.
Stuff like Luca (if I'm remembering his name correctly) giving Nova the flower only for him to die a couple of scenes later did not sit well with me. It didn't connect with me emotionally are all because the initial scene didn't even get time to gestate before Luca went off and died a few minutes later.
Cause this is an appropriate movie for a 1 year old. These kinds of parents are so annoying.This may be my top movie of the year so far. Only thing that was annoying the fuck out of me was some idiot who brought their 1 year old into the theater who constantly cried out loud. On top of that the women just kept making remarks during the movie (WOW HE'S A FUNNY MONKEY) like just shut up.
Yeah, I said the same thing coming out. She didn't cry, or seem to care about her dad getting blown away with a shotgun - but an ape she just met dies and she's in tears?
Pretty weak movie, with a great Andy Serkis performance.
Way too many convenient situations and resolutions, typical plot tropes, and just silly situations that I rolled my eyes at.
Weak performance by Woody, not that he had much to work with.
Yeah, I said the same thing coming out. She didn't cry, or seem to care about her dad getting blown away with a shotgun - but an ape she just met dies and she's in tears?
The scene gives a few things away. We see lots of preserved pickled foods (which implies they've been there a while) and it seems like she hasn't been able to talk for some time either, so I think the father was keeping her at a distance and it was less a father/daughter at that point, but one where he just didn't want her killed or to be killed himself for having an infected daughter.