I literally laughed out loud when I caught the trailer. The CGI looked terrible (doesn't it all?), James Franco looked stoned, and there are already a couple of "prequels" within the original Planet of the Apes franchise. There is really no reason for this to exist. There are plenty of people out there with new and interesting ideas... maybe Hollywood should hire some of them instead of retreading the same stuff over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?
If you're interested in the story and for some reason just can't bring yourself to watch the original film (which is great)... then go read the book. Skip the crap that's in the theaters today.
I think the lesson here is don't judge a book by its cover. Everyone is saying it's a great movie, yet you keep insisting on dissing something you've only seen two minutes of.
yeah seriously, I've seen ALL of the planet of the apes movies, so its not like im ignorant of the others. I think the CG looks great. The only places where I see CG that looks wrong is the apes that have less hair. A couple of them are older, and older apes lose hair just like we do, and they look off. The orangutan character looks amazing.
Its not perfect, but if you ever seen the original then you'll know they have rubber glued to their face and none of them can talk right and thats way more off-putting than this is. There is a thing called suspension of disbelief, but you know you have to suspend disbelief to enjoy any movie, and if you spend too much time picking things apart than you're fucked on every movie. None of its real its all fake. Imagine some new person to our culture watches their second movie and it has the same actors as the first movie and a totally different plot and just can't get over that
Tom Cruise was an airline pilot in top gun and now he's a Vampire living before the American Revolution. Do you know how many movies we watch that have the same person in it? Why does Dick Miller get killed in every movie he's in? How can he get attacked by Gremlins if the Termanator killed him? I thought robots killed him in chopping mall...this is terrible!