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muscles like this! posted:I've been rewatching the new Planet of the Apes movies in anticipation for Kingdom and man that first movie is a real snoozefest until Caesar shows up. Watching them in a row it is kind of wild how far they've come because the first one was still pretty janky with the apes but by the third they've gotten it down pat. Lol I'm the exact opposite. The first one is the only one I really liked with an emotional arc and characters and a plot that grabbed at me, a child being treated as a pet in a world they don't belong in. And the rest of the movies are pretty depressing count downs to Ceaser killing the bad guy of the week. Not my kind of thing.
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May 8, 2024 12:42
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only if he's playing a regular rear end dude though Kino Loy > Snoke
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May 8, 2024 13:20
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I loved War honestly because both how low key it was and for how well it worked in the Alpha Omegas from the old movies and how it continued to tackle different themes from every previous movie while still doing that. Thise three flicks in general, for being a reboot, prequel, thematic continuation at the same time? Good poo poo
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May 8, 2024 13:23
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May 8, 2024 13:27
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Is the upcoming Apes movie a continuation from the last three, or some new thing?
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May 8, 2024 13:37
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The smaller scale of War works for me because Woody and the rest of the antagonists really do feel like the last pathetic gasp of humanity fading into the background as the apes ascend into dominance.
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Only Kindness posted:Is the upcoming Apes movie a continuation from the last three, or some new thing? a continuation. one of the trailers has mentioned humans losing the ability to speak, which came up as a plot point in War
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May 8, 2024 13:41
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I liked Rise, except for the climax where the amoral and ruthless CEO decides he personally needs to gun down all the apes from a helicopter. To me that felt like a proper case of “we need the villain to be in this fight despite his very unconvincing motivation.” I’m not entirely sure the villain human actually is more or less villainous than the protagonist human, in the end? They’re both complicit in wiping out humanity and creating intelligent apes. It’s just that the villain is more of a dick about it
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May 8, 2024 13:50
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I think a problem with Rise is that to get to Caesar as a character it has to keep jumping forward in time which just leads to an awkward structure to the story. Dawn spends a lot of time with the human characters who aren't evil but it is hard to be sympathetic when they are the cause of all the problems between the groups. To me War is the strongest because it dials in to just follow the ape characters that they've spent two movies developing. So it is hard not to get choked up when Rocket, Maurice and Luca show up to go with Caesar on his journey. Also Bad Ape is a fun character who could have been just super annoying but somehow his antics remain charming.
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May 8, 2024 13:54
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It’s funny because all the apes are played by somewhat recognizable actors but you’d never be able to guess who they are and then Bad Ape shows up and you immediately think, “Oh hey that’s Steve Zahn.”
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May 8, 2024 13:59
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Same happened with Paul Giamatti in the Burton film.
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vegetables posted:I liked Rise, except for the climax where the amoral and ruthless CEO decides he personally needs to gun down all the apes from a helicopter. To me that felt like a proper case of “we need the villain to be in this fight despite his very unconvincing motivation.” He's so underdeveloped that it is hard to care about him as a "villain." Argus Zant posted:a continuation. one of the trailers has mentioned humans losing the ability to speak, which came up as a plot point in War One thing I noticed from the trailer is that the titular "Kingdom" is still using Caesar's symbol (a stylized representation of his bedroom window) hundreds of years later.
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May 8, 2024 14:00
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New Zahler incoming. Shooting starts in the fall. https://variety.com/2024/film/global/vince-vaughn-adrien-brody-bookie-and-the-bruiser-s-craig-zahler-1235995631/
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May 8, 2024 16:27
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Someone finally remembered The Bible is public domain and thus we can get a Jesus horror film with Nic Cage...quote:Nicolas Cage, FKA twigs, Noah Jupe and Souheila Yacoub are set to star in Egyptian-American director Lotfy Nathan’s The Carpenter’s Son exploring the rarely told story of the childhood of Jesus with a horror take. https://deadline.com/2024/05/nicolas-cage-fka-twigs-noah-jupe-holy-family-lotfy-nathan-the-carpenters-son-1235905229/
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May 9, 2024 07:39
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I wonder how litreal it's going to be. Is Jesus is going to go and kill two kids cos one spilt some water and another bumped into him. Kid Jesus was a dick and adult Jesus killed a fig tree because he was too much of an idiot to know when fig season was. That poor fig tree. 
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May 9, 2024 08:27
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He’s going to turn Pepsi into Coke. And beat the alltime Battletoads speed run record.
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May 9, 2024 08:35
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Isn't there a bunch of Deleted Scenes-gospels about Young Jeezy expelling demons and striking people dead for reasons ranging from debatable to petty? Seems ripe for adaptation.
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davidspackage posted:Isn't there a bunch of Deleted Scenes-gospels about Young Jeezy expelling demons and striking people dead for reasons ranging from debatable to petty? Seems ripe for adaptation. Yeah, it's in the Infancy Gospel of Thomas which they say the movies going to be based off. It's pretty wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infancy_Gospel_of_Thomas#Content
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May 9, 2024 09:56
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It should be a martial arts adventure series, leading to the invention of Judo.
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May 9, 2024 10:31
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ynohtna posted:It should be a martial arts adventure series, leading to the invention of Judo. Need to have him trying to learn how to do a flying kick and failing, throughout the movie then a scene at the end where he gets trapped in a cave when a big bolder falls in front of it, so he flying kicks it out of the way.
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May 9, 2024 10:35
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someone should do a movie about jesus retiring to japan
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Chemtrailologist posted:New Zahler incoming. Shooting starts in the fall.
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He's the only right-wing filmmaker that is capable of using subtext and that has something interesting to say. I hope he makes more movies.
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Chemtrailologist posted:He's the only right-wing filmmaker that is capable of using subtext and that has something interesting to say. I hope he makes more movies.
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Chemtrailologist posted:He's the only right-wing filmmaker that is capable of using subtext and that has something interesting to say. I hope he makes more movies. yeah do please enlighten the class by what he has to say
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May 9, 2024 13:28
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Riefenstahl had some use of subtext IIRC. Anyway, didn't really know any of that about Zahler, that's a shame. I thought Cell Block 99 was fun. Sucks to suck.
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I do remember goons being absolutely obsessed with Bone Tomahawk, watching it and being like holy poo poo this is racist as gently caress, and he's pretty much only gotten worse since then.
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oh it's the dragged across concrete guy who's like "wow, our movie is so racist you'll be shocked!" like yeah ok i'll simply not watch it
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Chemtrailologist posted:New Zahler incoming. Shooting starts in the fall. I'm assuming Brody will be doing his minstrel schtick from SNL.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I'm not sure I've ever seen him say anything interesting, mostly it's just grotesque racist bullshit. Also, again, he's basically a loving nazi. I'm guessing there's a difference in our identities that makes you more tolerant of his shtick, which, fair enough. For me his films are just one big stinky turd. I was gonna say what subtext is there in his films aside from racism is actually cool and right. And jesus Bone Tomahawk was very racist and can't believe people actually defended that poo poo
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B-Rock452 posted:I was gonna say what subtext is there in his films aside from racism is actually cool and right. And jesus Bone Tomahawk was very racist and can't believe people actually defended that poo poo It was a cool western with amazing gore. I feel like on it's own you could argue maybe he was just a stupid head. But his work since lol. He's a garbage man
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This really feels like an LotR videogame or something. I do respect Serkis tho (APES TOGETHER STRONG) and I don't think I'll find it as obnoxious as 85% of the choices in the Hobbit trilogy. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-movie-2026-release-warner-bros-1235997102/ "Warner Bros. to Release New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie ‘The Hunt for Gollum’ in 2026, Peter Jackson to Produce and Andy Serkis to Direct" I guess Jonas Tolkien the 4th or whatever has some gambling debts.
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A Saw movie that’s just orcs torturing gollum for 3 hours
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I like Serkiss, I’ll give it a chance. Definitely has a chance to be fourth best Jackson-produced LOTR movie.Regular Wario posted:someone should do a movie about jesus retiring to japan There’s a whole fringe Japanese Christian belief that Jesus escaped the Romans and went to Japan to become a garlic farmer.
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I'd be down with Scorsese just focusing on Japanese Christianity for the rest of his career and adapting more and more Shusaku Endo (I believe he is actually doing that next). Silence is still my favorite of his from this century, even with a goofy accent or two in there.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:This really feels like an LotR videogame or something. I do respect Serkis tho (APES TOGETHER STRONG) and I don't think I'll find it as obnoxious as 85% of the choices in the Hobbit trilogy. I was briefly interested in the Gollum game until it turned out Andy wasn't attached. The hobbit trilogy pretty badly killed my interest in LotR adaptations and I'm not a fan of the whole "let's write some Rings prequel fanfic and produce it" but yeah, maybe Andy can still do something interesting with the character.
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ynohtna posted:It should be a martial arts adventure series, leading to the invention of Judo. How about an americna adaptation of Makai Tensho.
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https://twitter.com/HollywoodHandle/status/1788573565677101395 Apple seems very bad at budgeting movies.
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