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I love the contrast of straight and serious the film plays its core premise vs the pun-tastic score:quote:Level Plaguing Field Michael Giacchino you have brightened my day. Necrothatcher fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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MG knows how to make a track listing. My favorite title of that list is "Monkey See, Monkey Coup." Other good score track titles. quote:1. Star Trek quote:1. "Give Her My Budapest" 1:57
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adamantium|wang posted:Saw the film last night, loved it. Noticed something about the finale, and was wondering if any one else did too or I was just imagining it. In the final scene we have the sun rising and shining light down on the assembled throng of apes. To me this was not only the titular "Dawn" but the deification of Caesar. Agreed, if Caesar was given super powers too, I'd say that this would've been the superior Superman movie. e: 
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I lost track of how often I had to remind myself the apes were CGI. Geez. I can't wait for the next one.
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So should I see this in 3D or not 3D?
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Really enjoyed this Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith episode with Matt Reeves. A great followup to the previous episode I posted with the writer.
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MisterBibs posted:Somewhat related, I just discovered that the guy who wrote the original PoTA novel wrote a sequel to the first movie. It's called Planet Of The Men. Haha, this is delightfully hosed up. I can picture every scene perfectly as a movie with all it's 60s glory and heavy-handed social commentary. Poor Zaius. 
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FINALLY got to see this. Pretty good, though Rise had a unique energy this doesn't quite match. (It may not help that the lead human here is to James Franco what Franciscus in Beneath was to Charlton Heston- not as good but similar enough to be distracting.) The human drama in general drags a little, but the ape drama is great fun. And they really have ratcheted up the effects work. In Rise the apes were detailed and articulate but always stood out as CGI, here there were a lot of shots where I only knew they were CG because they would have to be. (Maybe there was some animatronic stuff too, I dunno.)
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Saw this a couple days ago, enjoyed it a lot. I think Rise is still the better movie. I didn't really like Koba going villain so suddenly, even if he had to right motivation. It would've been better if his fall down was more gradually. The difference in battle styles between Caesar in Rise and Koba in Dawn were pretty great. In Rise you have the apes working as a large team, looking out for each other and slowly progressing. With Koba at the helm you have a crazy frontal attack made out of pure anger, without sympathy to either side. I think Caesar's lack of communication towards Koba also made Koba jump to his role as villain. I don't think Caesar ever explained why he allowed the humans so much freedom, even after they had betrayed him two times. I also thought the scene of Koba and Blue-Eyes after Caesar died and they were alone on the stage was beautiful. Apes on horses will always be impressive really.
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Just saw Rise for the first time, in preparation for seeing this one tomorrow. Bloody fantastic. Can't believe I put off seeing it this long. People complained about Franco's performance but I really don't see that at all, he did a fine job of playing that particular character. I can't believe a big blockbuster movie exists that actively sides with the apes against all of humanity. It's probably one of my new favourite films.
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Hbomberguy posted:Just saw Rise for the first time, in preparation for seeing this one tomorrow. You're really going to like Dawn then.
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I did! I love the family themes this one's got going. Reminds me of the new Godzilla where 'family' is simultaneously a respectable thing to be fighting to protect and that whole problem, because families are small and divided against each other. Loved the ending conversation between Malcolm and Caesar. It's the sort of ending talk that could have felt totally forced if the film leading up to it had been at all wrong, but it wasn't and it worked great. The only thing that I think needed more fleshing out was the contact with the army base, something that sets up what might be happening in the next film the way the previous film did with this one - although this one had such a perfect ending that it's probably better that they didn't. It really does remind me of the Phantom menace, a variation where they stayed on Naboo because one of the gungans went 'hang on a second!' and loving shot Quigon and started a war with the humans. Okay that's a little too much of a change to count as a variation but the presentation of subtle social conflicts juxtaposed with more 'obvious' threats certainly felt very similar. Not sure which film of the two I liked more, both have very good moments but this one probably wins out.
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Hbomberguy posted:It really does remind me of the Phantom menace you wash your mouth out
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