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Temperate forest will never support apes

posted 9 years ago by shwen
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in the settings of suburb San Fransisco, there are too many apes, what do they eat? how they survive in an environment deprived of food source like in tropical jungle?

[–] g_jed 9 years ago

Did you see the movie? They hunted and ate flesh.

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[–] Oddark123 8 years ago

"Plot hole" as a term is more a lazy shorthand. Some people get uptight when fiction doesn't do everything as currently believed accurate. On the internet these people are more than likely to be able to speak without ridicule.

People like that see this and go "apes in those forests never going to happen" and go to an IMDb board to complain.

The vast majority who know better look at the same scene and just move on with their life.

Communities left for being too closeminded: Gamefaqs, Home Theater Forum, Toonzone

[–] debster859 9 years ago

Thats why they were hunting the deer at the begining no fruit or edible vegation to sustain them so had to adapt to survive.

[–] creatorof2002 8 years ago

Our species learned to survive in many environments that we were not really evolved for by using our advanced brains and technology. Hell, we even have managed to survive for a time in space and on other worlds (the moon and soon Mars).

Well the apes have human level intelligence in this story so they can adapt in ways that real life apes never would be able to. The issues they had with surviving in what is not their natural habitat were addressed in FIRESTORM the prequel novel. At first it WAS a struggle for them.

[–] spookyrat1 8 years ago

OP, you're forgetting these apes have genetically enhanced intelligence, enabling them to build a civilization of their own.🐭

[–] AceTheMovieCritic 7 years ago

I think the OP just doesn't know how to pay attention to things clearly showed to them. Saw that hunting scene in the beginning and couldn't pay attention to anything else but "hey, those apes couldn't live in that forest. There's no fruit in those trees--what are they eating?" Completely missing what was going on infront of them.

I feel like this happened to a lot of the audience...maybe the subtitles threw them off. "What? Reading? I thought this was a movie, not a book!"