8.24.2011

Going to the pictures;
























Director: Rupert Wyatt
Starring: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, John Lithgow.
Super-intelligent apes declare war on earth's human masters in this thrilling return to the classic franchise!
 During experiments to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, a genetically-enhanced chimpanzee uses its greater intelligence to lead other apes to freedom.

Yeovil Cinema: 18:45pm.


  • Continuity: On the Golden Gate bridge, the police cars and officers are waiting by the end of the road, weapons drawn. One officer at the end with a handgun has it drawn, then the next shot has it holstered, then the next shot has it drawn again.
  • Revealing mistakes: When a grown Caesar jumps into the back seat of Will Rodman's SUV after visiting the Redwoods, the vehicle remains stable and doesn't shake despite Caesar's weight, Caesar must have been added to the scene using computer animation.
  • Revealing mistakes: After the Golden Gate fight scene, all the police cars are shut up, smashed and on fire. Will gets in one that was right in the middle of the mayhem, yet it is unscratched.
  • Continuity: The bus on the Golden Gate Bridge is shown in various different angles.
  • Continuity: After the roof of the bus is riddled with bullet-holes the action cuts to a side on view of the apes advancing. In this shot the bus is unscathed.
  • Errors in geography: The movie places Muir Woods in the Marin Headlands, just to the north of the Golden Gate Bridge. In reality, they are about 5 miles to the NW of that location and the bridge is not visible because of the hills and trees in between. Additionally, the Marin Headlands are mostly wind swept grass and scrub brush and have very few trees, let alone redwood forests.
Information form IMDB.com.


SPOILERS ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN PINK.


I enjoyed the movie, I thought the chimps signing was good to eventually enable Caesar to talk, and they way that the men (or women for that matter) in the CG department kept the human's eyes. Did Andy Serkis play every single ape? He's come a long way since Gollum! Everything about the movie was amazing, even when they pan to a part that a man is watching TV. The film playing on the TV was the old planet of the apes! I'm trying to write about the movie without giving away anything though. and it's hard!
I'll leave it at it's an emotional film, the struggle of John Lithgow's character being the father and having Alzheimer's shows such a struggle and then when Caesar is put into a chimp enclosure makes the storyline more powerful. Yet the plot and the whole point of the story doesn't happen till i'd say an hour in. Parts from the original and other films are featured, like the water being shot at Ceaser but I think the film should have gone on longer. When the DVD comes out I'd expect a director's cut to put some minds at ease. Also I'm glad that Tom Felton died. Anything he plays I just can't stand at all.

LINKS:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes clip; Don't get too close.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes clip; The Bridge

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes - Caesar Talking Scene

lol In the talking scene Caesar's just like : Shit just got real.


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