Posted on 08/05/2011 9:45:20 AM PDT by EveningStar
They're not just talking apes -- they're metaphors. Of science run amok, an underclass shrugging off its chains, and how humans treat beings that are lower on the evolutionary scale.
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Has Hollywood had an original idea, since 1969?
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This one looks pretty good. Better than the Marky Mark one.
Reality television.
/gag.
Wasn't "Candid Camera", reality television?
Good call!
The ending scene, where Heston and his wild woman are on horseback SLOWLY riding away from the armed gorillas is hilarious - nothing to keep them from shooting him in the back yet he just slowly saunters away....
The movie is receiving good reviews from both fans and critics.
Going to see this today with my sweetie. I always look forward to seeing one stupid special effects blockbuster every summer (last year it was Pirhana 3-D).
Usually I have to go alone, because nobody I know wants to see these kinds of movies with me. But lucky me, I finally found a girl who is as eager to see this one as I am.
Looks great. Can’t wait.
Yeah, but they're all computer animated in this movie soooo, it's ok/sarc.
Monkey see, monkey do.
“...and how humans treat beings that are lower on the evolutionary scale.”
Food?
Why 1969? Remakes are other sources are the foundation Hollywood was built on from day 1. They started of by filming plays, and then filmed them again with a different cast.
And not only plays. I read some time ago that that movie and TV productions routinely recycle plots from silent and early-talkie films since modern audiences are unfamiliar with them, and most of them are in the public domain.
It’s a constant. Plays are really how it started, because that was convenient thing, already had the actors and sets and stuff. Of course many of the plays were based on books. Some of the greatest movies in Hollywood history are copies of copies of copies. The classic Charlton Heston version of Ben Hur was the 3rd time it had been made into a movie, based on a play that had been done many times, all of which root from a novel, and of course an animated version was made a few years ago.
Plots are recycled throughout the entertainment world. There’s no way not to. There’s really only so many plots in the world, you can tweak them and twist them, but anything anybody is writing has probably been written before, whether they know it or not. Or, to steal a line from South Park, “Simpsons did it”.
No, Congress and government did that long ago.
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