The original this moment packs a powerful dramatic wallop because theĪpes have never heard a human speak. Original: “Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”. Gets it all wrong again when it reverses Heston’s famous line from the Right from the start, this scene lacks the menaceĪnd tension of the first film’s stalk and hunt scene. Moments later he is caught up in a chase and hunt with humans the quarry andĪpes the hunters. Pulled into the singularity of a black hole by an electrical storm, and catapulted some 2000 years into the future, crash landing on an earth-like planet.
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Orders (since when does a strong US movie hero take orders?) and gets Leo Davidson’s (Mark Wahlberg) favorite chimpanzee is sent out
(they can become violent, as one female scientist ominously foreshadows).Ĭapt.
On a space station, where scientists are using genetically modifiedĬhimpanzees as lab mice/test pilots to do dangerous space exploration See the film, then I have done my good deed of the day. But if this stops a few people from going to The following review will be littered with spoilers that give away Interesting additions (the way the apes attack on all fours), but thisįilm gets everything wrong, dramatically speaking. Everything that made the firstįilm so great is corrupted or emasculated here. Thisįilm is not only plain bad, but dumb bad. Me) have had our (relatively modest) intelligence so offended. It has been a while since I (and the two people that saw the film with Some of the ways (a complete account would just take too much time). The point being, please Hollywood, stop makingĭumb movies. In effect, this will come across as more of an editorial Of the Apes, if only to reaffirm the above and as a form of criticalĬatharsis.
But I am making an exception with the latest remake of Planet Need the publicity, and bad reviews rarely stop the momentum of a box-office Why we avoid writing on market-driven films (if anything, they don’t Has always been to approach Hollywood with extreme caution. It is something I learned fromĪndré Bazin, the greatest film critic/writer ever. Planet of the Apes, or, “Damn” those Screenwriters Burton's Messīy Donato Totaro Volume 5, Issue 4 / September 2001 9 minutes (2035 words)
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