On August 5, 2011 the Rise of the Planet of the Apes will begin. Looks like we need to add another apocalypse to the list that we humans have to worry about and start preparing for hyper-intelligent monkeys, gorillas, and chimps (Oh my!) Will Rodman (James Franco) will reap what he has sown when his genetic engineering experiments to enhance ape intelligence goes a little too well. These smart apes gang up, escape from the lab, and start doing stuff… ape stuff. Will man kind overcome these super intelligent apes? Find out August 5.
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Ummmm ok. Is this supposed to be a prequel?? because that’s what it looks like. We should see a sequel to Walbergs film that shows him trying to escape this alternate reality earth and trying to fix the timeline.
I would prefer it if this film completely ignored the existence of the horrible, horrible Tim Burton Planet of the Apes. For some reason, I love me some apes movies, and using a prequel instead of a time traveling ‘we created our own species’ thing is a little less sloppy than my beloved but admittedly troubled OG Planet of the Apes movies.
I’ll even forgive the Deep Blue Sea problem (“We made the sharks brain bigger, as a side effect, it got smarter…” Is that really a ‘side effect’? Isn’t that “An expected result”? Also, why are you doing this in the shark’s environment? You know how you’d solve this problem at an aquarium? Walk the other direction.) problem of its plot. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is kind of the best one, so I got high hopes here.
Ummmm ok. Is this supposed to be a prequel?? because that’s what it looks like. We should see a sequel to Walbergs film that shows him trying to escape this alternate reality earth and trying to fix the timeline.
Hmmmm – I see potential here….
Or as I like to call it “Project X 2: Virgil’s Day Out”
Haha, OnyxSparrow! Love the reference!
I’m afraid to say it, but the trailer actually looks good. Although, I’m not the biggest James Franco fan, so we’ll see.
I would prefer it if this film completely ignored the existence of the horrible, horrible Tim Burton Planet of the Apes. For some reason, I love me some apes movies, and using a prequel instead of a time traveling ‘we created our own species’ thing is a little less sloppy than my beloved but admittedly troubled OG Planet of the Apes movies.
I’ll even forgive the Deep Blue Sea problem (“We made the sharks brain bigger, as a side effect, it got smarter…” Is that really a ‘side effect’? Isn’t that “An expected result”? Also, why are you doing this in the shark’s environment? You know how you’d solve this problem at an aquarium? Walk the other direction.) problem of its plot. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is kind of the best one, so I got high hopes here.
I was hoping the main chimp would be named Milo.
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