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What was with the eagles in this movie?
rank the Planet of the Apes films!
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"
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The film itself was definitely 10X better than what I expected to get from the title and premise. I assumed they were going to dumb down the franchise into some idiotic summer action movie where Apes drive tanks, throw grenades, etc., and overthrow the White House while Woody Harrelson does his usual goofball shtick and mugs the screen every time he's on camera playing an army general. Something like this and this:
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Boy, did I get it wrong!
I thought Dawn was the weakest of the reboot films. It had some good scenes, good acting, and got where it needed to go storywise, but it played it safe and was boring and predictable. This one was more interesting, particularly the fact they FINALLY created a fully realized global ape society.
>> There was no twist. <<
>> Apparently the mind blowing twist is ... there is no twist. <<
I just saw the film in theaters a few hours ago, and there IS indeed a twist at the end. It's at very last scene, and there is no post-credits "reveal", but a twist at the end of movie like the original 1968 movie.
I won't say what it is, but it was a little different as most POTA twist endings are very bleak and depressing. This one wasn't.
Planet of the Apes (1968) had an now iconic twist at the end. If you don't know how it ends by now, I presume you must be living under a rock, or maybe living with the bomb worshiping mutants at the end of the second movie.
Beneath (1970) had a "well, that was super depressing" twist ending.
Escape (1971) had a "well, that's a downer" twist ending.
Conquest (1972) had an anti-climatic twist ending, because the original ending was deemed too militant.
Rise (2011) had a brilliant mid-credits twist ending that solved the problem of how the heck apes take over the world when humans outnumber then 200 to 1. War (2014) had a subtle twist ending that revealed something very interesting about Maurice.
Planet of the Apes (2001 remake) had a "WTF just happened?" twist ending that made no sense, and the general consensus is that was NOT a good thing.
The only two POTA movies with NO twist at the end were Battle (1973) and Dawn (2014), which IMO was a letdown both times (though Dawn was still an overall good movie, while Battle sucked throughout)
I agree, I avoided seeing the film for a year because of the title. It sounded like a dumbed down remake of Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Humans being extinct would go against the whole point of the franchise.
It seems like the plan is for them to end up back where the original 1968 story "happened" by the end of the second trilogy in the reboot series... in other words, the sixth film would essentially be a remake of Planet of the Apes.
If I were them, I'd go back to the original book for inspiration there... they don't want to just make a soulless "modern" copy of the 1968 film, or a POTA "alternate universe" reimagining, like the 2001 movie. They could keep faithful to the original plot of the book, while still making it set in the universe of the reboot movies.
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.
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