Movies WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (Dragonlord's Review)

[Fork]

trailer looked really good. there were some things i didn't like much about the first two movies, but there was also a lot of great stuff and i'. really looking forward to this.

big fan of the planet of the apes series.

 

[Ikuza]

That's a great trailer. I'm pumped.

 

[iThrillhouse]

first one was eh
second one was a crazy good improvement
this looks seriously impressive

 

[Marfa]

Golly, just a day after watching the trailer I got this news: https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S48/11/24A68/index.xml?section=science

TL;DR: Macaques have the necessary anatomy to produce sounds that humans can understand if they could speak a language we understood, but they actually can't due to their brain circuitry. After studying the range of sounds the Macaques could make, the researchers managed to create a model that shows how a macaque would sound... if he spoke in English. The article includes a couple of audio examples and it's creepy as fuck how they sound.

Like, nightmarish creepy.

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

I like it. And Woody Harrelson, I just pictured him making his Natural Born Killers speech to RDJ, "The wolf don't know why he's a wolf, the deer don't know why he's a deer, God just made it that way!"

First thing I thought of too when it showed him shaving his head.

 

[Hidden_Hand]

This looks on another level!

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: December 23, 2016

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Brings Back Original Series Character

A girl stands facing a gorilla as the massive creature reaches out to her. In the real world, the scene is ripe for the evening news. In War for the Planet of the Apes (out July 14), it’s a rare moment of serenity.

The third film of the reboot series picks up two years after the conclusion of 2014’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, when the hyper-intelligent Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his simian tribe face an uncertain future with what remains of the military heading straight for them. Now years into the conflict, Caesar is a changed ape, battle-hardened and at risk of losing all sympathy for mankind. In a last-ditch effort to save his people, Caesar undertakes a desperate mission to find and kill the leader of the human forces, the fearsome and Kurtz-esque Colonel (Woody Harrelson).

It’s during this journey that Caesar and his companions happens upon a young, mute girl named Nova (Amiah Miller), the character seen in the exclusive concept art above with the gorilla Luca. “The battle is not just between the humans and the apes, but in Caesar’s soul,” says director Matt Reeves. “The girl is his pull back to his empathy and — for lack of a better word — his human side.”

Fans of the original 1968 film have no doubt already clocked the girl’s name as a nod to a significant series character. Linda Harrison starred as Nova alongside Charlton Heston in both Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes, but EW can confirm that the Nova of War for the Planet of the Apes is indeed the same character as the one Harrison played.

While the continuity between the reboot series and the original films has been unclear up to the point, the appearance of Nova is the most overt connection yet. Some minor ties have been previously established, though most as Easter eggs for fans. For instance, Rise of the Planet of the Apes features news casts referring to a lost spaceship called Icarus, which was also the name of the vessel carrying Taylor (Heston) in the Planet of the Apes.

War for the Planet of the Apes Brings Back Original Series Character - EW Exclusive

 

[ufcfan4]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was damn good. Caesar and Koba were probably two of the better conceived hero/villain characters I could think of in a recent summer blockbuster.

It will be hard to pull off something quite as solid as that, but given that both the Franco movie and particularly the sequel were good, I have positive expectations for this one.

 

[CrimsonFan]

I love all the originals, especially the first 3.

The new ones have been good, apart from that other remake thhey did before Rise and Dawn with Mark Walberg

 

[minute bull]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was damn good.

I just rewatched it and it's truly phenomenal. There was more than a few times when I said to myself, "That really looks like an ape doing that."

If this third film improves upon the second like the second did from the first? It will be mind-blowing, and the below trailer is every indication that it will be.

 

[ufcfan4]

I just rewatched it and it's truly phenomenal. There was more than a few times when I said to myself, "That really looks like an ape doing that."

If this third film improves upon the second like the second did from the first? It will be mind-blowing, and this recent trailer is every indication that it will be.

I stand by my belief that Caesar and Koba were a better hero and villain with more depth than the vast majority of human characters in big blockbusters from 2014 and onward. So well rendered and acted.

 

[minute bull]

HUMAN WORK!!

I've been thinking about good dialogue, ever since somebody made a thread on which franchise has the better dialogue: STAR TREK or STAR WARS. Seems like good dialogue IS about what's being said but it's so much more about Position within the narrative. Not just context of story, but also rhythm of cadence and speech.

I love Koba, and I love Toby Kebbell's cameo power. He's a great gun-for-hire. Like a good-looking Vincent D'Onofrio.

Loved the first, 2nd was meh.

Incredible. I'm extremely the opposite.

This one looks awesome!

I agree with this part tho.

 

[Steve-French]

I've always liked the Planet of the Apes Movies. The latest series is definitely doing the originals justice.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Update: March 30, 2017

2nd Trailer for Matt Reeve's WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Liked it better when the apes were the bad guys

 

[TrippleOG]

Epic imo

 

[iThrillhouse]

Only trilogy that gets progressively WAY better...

this looks phenomenal...the cgi on the apes is fucking incredible

 

[iThrillhouse]

It’s during this journey that Caesar and his companions happens upon a young, mute girl named Nova (Amiah Miller), the character seen in the exclusive concept art above with the gorilla Luca. “The battle is not just between the humans and the apes, but in Caesar’s soul,” says director Matt Reeves. “The girl is his pull back to his empathy and — for lack of a better word — his human side.”

I just read this form your post

and im calling it now

Spoiler

guranteed Caesar reluctantly grows attached to the little girl and she dies trying to protect him or another ape, it is there that Caesar loses all sympathy for mankind/humanity

 

[minute bull]

Only trilogy that gets progressively WAY better...

this looks phenomenal...the cgi on the apes is fucking incredible

TOY STORY and WOLVERINE run in this pack, but yeah APES is shaping up to be alpha.

 

[chickenluver]

Golly, just a day after watching the trailer I got this news: https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S48/11/24A68/index.xml?section=science

TL;DR: Macaques have the necessary anatomy to produce sounds that humans can understand if they could speak a language we understood, but they actually can't due to their brain circuitry. After studying the range of sounds the Macaques could make, the researchers managed to create a model that shows how a macaque would sound... if he spoke in English. The article includes a couple of audio examples and it's creepy as fuck how they sound.

Like, nightmarish creepy.

Will you merry me?

https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S48/11/24A68/monkey.mp3