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we are FINALLY getting an actual PLANET of the Apes!
Will Snyderites ever stop lying about WHY Superman Returns failed?
rank the Mad Max films!
Mel Gibson as Old Max
It COULD have good...
"Gal was great, its not her fault the film flopped"
Even Nerdrotic has turned against him now...
Star Trek's "second golden age"
"Fans" touting how "good" this show is have SUDDENLY gone AWOL...
My ONLY complaint..
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Don't give away spoilers! I'm seeing it this weekend!
To do that, they'd first have to make a Mad Max 4 with Mel Gibson. It's like how Charlie Sheen was discussing making a "Major League 3" as his comeback but they already made a Major League 3 without his character, and hired Scott Bakula instead.
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The Furious Furiosa films don't belong to the series in my mind, and never will.
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NAILED IT!
>> Taylor (Charlton Heston) and Zira (Cornelius’ wife) had an affair and the person that steps out of the spacecraft is their son! <<
I believe someone actually pitched that in one of the early 70s movies. The "half human/half ape offspring" twist was vetoed by the studio because it implied bestiality had taken place.
I think they'll surprise us and truly throw something unique out there that makes all of us in the audience go "HOLY ----, I did NOT see that coming!"
It's one of the best known attributes of the franchise. I'm still mad that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) didn't have any kind of crazy "twist" at the end.
2011 was great, the fact there's billions of humans on earth but only a couple hundred thousand apes in the world would make it impossible for even super intelligent talking Apes to "take over" UNLESS about 99% of the human population was SUDDENLY wiped out... which is exactly what happened DURING the end credits :-)
The darkest "twist" was Charleston Heston detonating the H-bomb and blowing up the entire planet at the end of "Beneath" though.
And the "clever" one that was indeed "unique" but made ZERO sense was Marky Mark rushing to Washington DC at the end of the POTA remake, only to discover the Lincoln Memorial is a giant Chimpanzee statue.
The original POTA movies from '68 onward were depressing too. Having a dark, bleak ending is one of the hallmarks of the series. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) NOT having a bleak, dark ending was a definite weak point for me.
I do, they are setting it CENTURIES later, so we are FINALLY getting an ACTUAL "Planet of the Apes".
If they announced this was a direct sequel to "War" and just picked up a few years later in yet another localized community where modern day humans fight intelligent talking Apes, I'd be like "meh, no thanks".
But THIS looks great!
The original POTA franchise had a great fourth entry, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Kilborn IS The Daily Show.
Stewart HIJACKED an apolitical parody of nightly news programs, and turned it into a Democrat Party infomercial! (after flat out lying in 1999 and saying he wouldn't touch the format because "it would be like drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa")
Trevor Noah tried to salvage it, but it was too little, too late.
>> I would take Dial of Destiny over Temple of Doom (and howling Kate Capshaw) EVERY time! <<
Only if you're talking about the first 25 mins. of Dial of Destiny. I would watch THAT over Temple of Doom, as its near pitch perfect except World War II era Indy having a weirdly distracting gravelly old man voice.
But the REST of Dial of Destiny? Meh. Give me Short Round and howling Kate any time!
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