If you were on the fence about watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this SDCC trailer should probably put over the edge. Why? Because it is nothing but apes kicking ass, running around, and freaking the fuck out. It's unbelievably awesome. Look, I know it makes no sense -- how Caesar gets his hands on clearly thousands of monkey minions, or how they don't get torn apart by machine guns within 10 minutes of uprising -- but I don't care because it is entertaining as all hell. Seriously, I'm kind of concerned at how enraptured I am with this monkey-on-human violence, because I want this to be the entire damn movie. (Via First Showing)
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I just realized that this movie is actually a zombie apocalypse movie, but with monkeys (just to piss off Necromancer_1983) instead of zombies. It's actually a nice way to make a fast zombie movie without pissing off the zombie purists.
I'm looking forward to this for the sole fact that I know the humans must, in the end, lose. I just want to see them kill all humans
Alan Johnson would have made a better baddy black guy. "In intelligent life, Caesar, you learn that every ape has their price. I judge yours to be 350 pounds...of bananas"
I can honestly say I have no desire whatsoever to see this movie, I saw the preview I know what happens, I have seen the old movies. Plus even if drugs made the apes super smart, it would be next to impossible for them to overthrow mankind, there are what 6.93 billion people on earth, one thing I found on the internet said there maybe 350,000 apes worldwide, sorry but we have the number advantage and it is huge, plus we have guns and tanks and stuff like that. All this movie is going to tell us is that how humans are so bad and arrogant and this is what will happen because we are so evil. Yeah I know, heard it from many movies many times before.
There are some things I could say like:
I hope nothing happens to that horse.
Some crack about San Francisco being a bit too pussified to fight the apes.
Or maybe I'll go with some dumb comment about how Malfoy couldn't handle a bunch of apes.
Eh, I'm drained...
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I had to watch this with the sound off since I'm at work and it TERRIFIED me. I'm scared to death of apes, monkeys, the whole lot of them and to see this was just...gah. The scene on the treetops did me in even worse without sound than it did when I watched the trailer before Harry Potter.
"Why would you watch this if you're afraid of our monkey/ape brethern?" You ask.
Well this stems from me watching the trailer during the Deathly Hollows Part 2 premiere with a friend who is a wildlife biology major whose area of study is the great apes. She calmed me down and told me why this couldn't happen. Now I am without her guidance and without the sound, though who's to say if the sound wouldn't make it a million times worse.
Anyway, I will see this movie as it will be good to feel genuine fear from a movie again. I'm so jaded that straight horror films have lost their potency and this is sure to press my buttons. I of course will be watching with my soon-to-be official biologist friend, trying not to bolt from my seat because...damn...those apes freak me the fuck out.
I don't care what any of you say. I want to buy this movie a dozen roses, make it dinner, put on some Barry White and make sweet love to it
Where is this stockpile of apes in SF? I don't think there are that many apes in all the zoos (or testing facilities) in this country. Monkeys? Sure, but Apes? Now there is a movie I'd watch, Rise of the Planet of the Monkeys!
I don't get peoples gripe about the CGI in this.
If an ape was to have ALL the mannerisms of a human I think its fairly spot on.I wasn't looking forward to this, but these trailers make it look pretty darn cool.
That's what you get for not hailing to the chimp.
And am I the only one who expects this whole situation to be diffused by someone yelling 'JUMANJI!!'
While seeing the preview in the theater, (and spending a full 30 seconds going "Wtf? Draco Malfoy?! BRAIN MALFUNCTION.) I spent the entire time LAUGHING because it looked so ridiculous. Just melodramatic and overacted and distractingly noticeable CGI... The phrase "serious business" was created for camp like this.Sorry PotA fans...
Agreed on the CGI. Sometimes they don't use the final version for the trailers, maybe that's the case here.
I also wonder if part of the problem is that real apes are already in the "uncanny valley", making it doubly-hard to get right.
Agreed about the whole "they'd last about twenty seconds before getting machine gunned" thing.
Avatar at least had the semi-plausible explanation of the natives having carbon fibre bones. Congo was a dozen humans forced to defend a camp against hundreds of apes. But to think that apes lining up on a bridge and attacking gun-wielding humans wouldn't lead to anything less than a British Colonialism-style massacre is just stretching the bounds of Stormtrooper aiming a bit too far.
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I'll only see this if it includes mass killings of monkeys. I hate monkeys, apes, whatever you want to call them.
You are lucky Smashy is not around. Opening yourself up with a straight line like that is dangerous.:P
I don't think this will help my increasing fear and distrust of chimps and other apes, but as long as they don't eat peoples fingers, face, and genitals as part of their attack method, it shouldn't make it worse.
I was really excited to see this... And then they showed pretty much the entire story, in order, in the previous cinematic trailer, so now i can;'t be bothered, as I know exactly how everything goes down. Stupid trailer
well if you combine this with the other full trailer then i think you have the full movie right there... oh yea to ruin the ending... the apes win.
WHAT?!
In a movie called "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the APES WIN?!
Jesus freaking christ way to spoil it jerk.
*in best Heston voice* They screwed it up. They screwed it. Damn you Hollywood. Damn you to Hell. *falls to sand on knees"
For everyone wondering how humans wouldn't be able to kill these apes immediately, in one of the trailers they released they said that the drug was making them smarter than humans. If they do their job correctly with this film there could be a much bigger plan being masterminded by these apes, the whole bridge scene may just be a diversion for something much bigger. We'll have to wait and see.
Trailers are supposed to leave me wanting more, not give me a tour of all the exciting parts and major plot points.
yeah, could give a crap about this movie still. Those damn apes will never rise up, and franco will never not be enough of a dumbass to help them.
Yeah I still can't get over how superior primate strength and stone-age weaponry is somehow enough to topple civilization.
If America's mastered ANYTHING, it's the ability to kill things/blow things up. The ape uprising at best would be an inconvenient weekend.
Apes are BRUTAL. They're a hell of a lot stronger than we are, and are way better at the "going insane and ignoring everything around me to rip the arms off the guy that pissed me off" thing. I don't have any problem believing an small group of apes could rip apart a few guys with machine guns.
The place where we'd have leverage is fighting at a distance. Forget the machine guns at 100 feet, where are the snipers popping their skulls off from a few hundred yards away?
In response to the idea that the military can stop anyone, I was going to point out Vietnam. (I mean it's one thing bombing the c**p out of someone else's country, but on home soil you are kinda limited.) Now you've just pointed out apes' superior strength I'm imagining them actually using Vietkong style guerrilla tactics.
Then again, in the trailer they aren't being at all subtle. They are just rioting really.
Oh how quickly we forget the brave men lost to the dread natives of Endor. If anything, this movie is an homage to that wretched loss of Imperial life.
I've always chalked up the monkeys not being instantly torn apart by gunfire to police holding fire in situations where they're not 100% sure an area is clear of innocent humans.
Not if it was planned at the right time. Economic strife, plague hits, war on multiple fronts, natural catastrophe...then boom armed apes.
probably more like a very entertaining weekend for everybody not in SF/the west coast. I would buy cable just for the news that week
I think Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes set the precedent. Mark Walberg kissed the ape over the ridiculously hot and scantily clad human woman.
I dunno, looks to me like Caesar is pulling Franco in for a betrayal/stabby kind of hug in that forest scene. But then again, maybe that's an act of mercy before the apes all get the 'face eating' stage.
They are going to ruin it if they keep showing clips. That black guy in the helicopter at the end seemed to be one of the main characters in the earlier previews (James Franco's boss?) Well now I know the helicopter he will get in at some point will crash and another ape will push it off the bridge. Awesome! Sometimes the internet is a bit too fast. No more clips for me until I see it.
@Garocks - I have to agree. There are plenty of movies that I may occasionally say...I want to see this and then the trailer comes on that shows TOO MUCH and it automatically gets put into the wait for free rental DVD/Blu Ray status.
For example, it looks like the new Final Destination trailer shows all of the novelty deaths, and since there's no other reason to watch those films...
