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My suspension of disbelief only goes so far

posted 9 years ago by rodrigo_andrade1
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OK, let's forget for a moment that this is the THIRD movie in the last 5 years with the exact same plot (evil leader wants his non-human race to thrive at the expense of humans, only to be defeated by one of his own kind -- the other two movies are Transformers ROTF and Man of Steel).

I almost stopped watching this when the guy was explaining how to operate a dam to a *beep* APE!! Thanks goodness I didn't, because there was more to come.

The apes learn English, math and ASL in one fell swoop. I know HUMANS who couldn't learn all 3 (given English is a foreign language) at once.

Then, there's my favorite part of the movie. An army of apes on horseback wielding TWO machine guns each!!! That was tragicomic. How can they balance on a horseback without a saddle and nothing to hold onto wielding TWO machine guns?? And I suppose they learned how to operate the safety lock, change out magazines, and deal with the insane recoil from spraying bullets (even army soldiers try to avoid it), right??

Please don't get me wrong, I love popcorn movies with car chases, big explosions, etc. but this was ridiculous. I really enjoyed the 2011 release, but this was terrible.

[–] iCode_v2 9 years ago

Try watching the first movie and actually paying attention to the second one before making an angry huffy puffy list.
You'll look less silly.

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[–] Ro-bust 9 years ago

ACtually fourth XMen.

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[–] tb-sch 9 years ago

How can they balance on a horseback without a saddle and nothing to hold onto wielding TWO machine guns??

It has this "just like humans, but stronger" vibe. It is a bit sad, that the movie did not come up with a more "evolutionary" concept of the apes being able to use their advantages by doing things different from humans. Just shooting better is pretty much the solution every B-movie would come up with. They could have used a different riding gear, something unlike a human saddle which would have allowed them to ride with ape-ish abilities. The could have used the guns for a few shots and then start to use them as clubs when the mags are empty. But unfortunatly the writers don't take their reality serious, they simply wonder, what would look cool and then go for the easiest way to solve the problem.
It does not break the movie for me, but it seems like a missed opportunity.

[–] tony-sobon 9 years ago

^^^^^ this is what i meant about bad writting/storyline.

And the CGI/look of the movie is nothing great for the times. With all the super hero and Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movies this movie did nothing great , even video game cut senses look pretty good these days.

Avatar's storyline was just borrowed from other movies , but when it came out it was sorta ground breaking visally at least.

my rating for this movie was 6.5

Side note: About the humans having guns outside the colony so they do not turn on each other doesn't makes sense when it would have still been really easy for a group to take over the weapons since they only had 2 stupid humans guarding the guns.

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[–] tony-sobon 9 years ago

This has already been explained a few times here:
Those two drunk bozos were not guarding the weapons. They were testing them at the firing range. The weapons depot was guarded by more than just a couple of stupid humans, as seen later in the film when the apes overran the place.

Either way ,leaving your weapons outside the colony is silly.

Having a scenario where like 10 people are guarding hundreds of people just didn't make sense in the world they lived in. The humans that were left after the plague were fighting each other for years , you would think the people would be more battle harden and have more of a military mentality.

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[–] Kuato_and_George 9 years ago

You rated Thor: The Dark World a 10/10, but the moments you mentioned are what did you in with this movie? You're for real?

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[–] gnadfly 9 years ago

I stopped watching the movie too when ALL of the family had to go see Caesar and the father told everyone to stay in the car with the same idiot who shot the first monkey is in the front seat playing with his gun.

God Almighty could they line up more movie cliches in the first 15 minutes?

Wait, I did stay for when Caesar shows up to the front gate and nobody asks him "what are you claiming for your territory?" But they need a dam because nobody has figured out how to use generators or solar panels. BTW, Nuclear Power plants do not run out of nuclear power in 10 years.

*** Head Explodes ****

[–] ManFromSanFernando 9 years ago

I thought the film really did a good job at selling it's absurd premise, I disagree