• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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        That movie has so many quotable lines.

        “It’s a madhouse! A madhouse!”

        “You did it. You finally did it. You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!”

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          Beware the beast ‘man’, for he is the devils pawn. Alone among gods creatures, he kills for sport, or lust, or greed. Yea he will murder his brother to possess his brothers land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home, and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair for he is the harbinger of death.

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        Thank you! I still rematch the reboots from time to time, I loved this series. It makes me extremely excited to see this newest one. Like where’s the reboot where a modern day citizen jumps through a wormhole and accidentally lands on a “planet of apes”?!?

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          I love all of the Apes movies with the exception of the Burton fiasco.

          The new one isn’t quite as good as Rise or War, but it’s definitely fun.

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      I’ve seen the Charlton Heston one, and the 2001 Mark Wahlberg one. The original was obviously better. I hadn’t seen any of the current cycle until I saw Kingdom last weekend. It was fine.

      I listened to a recap of the previous 3 films and it didn’t matter. Kingdom takes place “many generations” after the third movie so all the other characters are dead. Kingdom’s story works fine as a standalone film. It’s not amazing, but there’s nothing particularly awful about it. Now I’ll probably see the next couple, but they’re not high on my list.

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        They’re solid generic blockbuster action-ish movies. They’re not amazing, but they’re fun enough that I think they’re worth a watch if you can’t decide what to watch one night.

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          I find the movies conceptually interesting because there aren’t many movies in which humans are just explicitly the bad guys, or in terms of the most recent one just a supporting entity that exists on the periphery of the story. Avatar kinda does that, too, but the Avatar movies are also puddle deep genre fiction and the “of the Apes” movies are at least structurally and narratively competent.

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      I genuinely had no idea there were more than the original lol

      Well, I guess that’s testament to how well they’ve done.

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    Earlier I noticed a plothole in the prequels.

    The original films had space age technology, in both the 1968 version and the 2001 reboot, but in the prequels the world ended in like 2010-ish. So basically, they’re not prequels. Also, the 2001 version sort of implies maybe the Apes aboard the Oberon may have started the Ape Uprising.

    EDIT: And the original trilogy actually shows the ape uprising caused by timetravelling apes after the 2nd move uh… made continued living on the planet somewhat problematic for the apes.

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      They are not prequels, they are very loose adaptations of the book. Basically very expensive fan fiction.

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      The first two films of the original series with Charlton Heston (and James Franciscus in the second one) are films I dearly love and have seen many times. The rest, meh.

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      The twist of the first movie relies entirely on Hollywood writers’ reputation for stupidity.

      How can apes evolve on another planet? They can’t! Ah well, let’s go enjoy some B-movie trash anyway.

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    Tbh I’m here for it. The reboot trilogy is legitimately fantastic and beautifully realised films

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    I’m not sure if this is an obscure reference, but…

    🎵 Iiiiiiffff yooooouuuuuu 🎵

    *Want to take a picture of the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches on the britches of the boys who put the powder on the dawn of the sequel of the prequel of the reboot of the planet of the kingdom of the war of the dawn of the rise of the battle for the conquest of the escape from the planet of the apes… *

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    So does it turn out in the end that we were the apes all along? Or is it not that kind if a movie?