Caesar is home. Whaaaaaa ?

I understand that they’re trying to show us the beginning of the end, so to speak…In fact, if one stays around and watches the ENTIRE movie, there’s even a bit foreshadowing the fall of the human race.  Believe me, I get that.

What I didn’t like is that they spent more than 3/4 of the movie building up to NOTHING.

Yes, yes, I know they’re leaving the door open for the next movie, in which the authorities will try to capture / control the damned dirty apes, out in the redwood forest and the damned dirty apes will revolt and kick everyone in the nuts and then we’ll have the beginning of the apeocracy and then in the NEXT movie, the apes will be coming fully into power and will be enslaving and eliminating the human race and then in the movie after that the apes will be running the whole show and small bands of human resistance will be waging a guerilla (pun intended) war against the damned dirty apes and so on, so forth, ad nauseum.

Again, my point is that they wasted a TON of time building up to absolutely nothing.  They could have either cut a half an hour of crap out of the middle of the movie OR made the movie a half an hour longer and added in 30 more minutes of the apes buttsecksing humans and simultaneously paving the way for the war to come and making us hate the apes, as our mortal enemies instead of going so far out of their way to build sympathy which makes me somewhat fearful that they’re going to continue on along that path and make people out to be the bad guys.

I firmly stand by my position that they really shat the bed with this film and could have followed a slightly different path toward what would have been a far superior production.

Don’t know if you’re being ignorant or not, but if you have seen the originals with Heston you would know that it was all about the first chimp to basically say ‘no, fuck you i’m doing things my way’ which by the sound of things is what this film is aiming at showing the viewer.

They’ve not inverted the script in anyway as chimps were not always the enemy, they become mans best friend then turned on them as they were treated like shit or at least thats how its told in the older films.

The film itself may be crap but slapping it down because you’re made to feel sorry for chimps being abused is a bit….ridiculous. :)

It’s like they took the whole idea and flipped it around…as if they’d never heard of the original movies.

SPOILARZ BELOW!!
So the entire time I was watching it I was just getting more and more angry and more and more bored because I was also waiting for something to happen.  The first hour and 15 – 20 minutes was little more than setting up an emotional attachment to this chimp and then having Draco Malfoy abuse it for a while, then the chimp putting on his “I’m not gonna take it anymore” suit and dosing the other monkeys, then the monkeys FINALLY escaping from captivity.  After that it was 20 minutes of them running amok but not really doing much but jumping on cars and screaming “eek ook” a bunch of times, breaking some stuff and then running off in to the woods.  

The only reason I even gave it a 5 was because the effects weren’t completely terrible but the more I think about that movie the more irritated I get because it was just a huge pile of crap.

See? Now I’m all wound up and I need to go punch something.  THANKS, KEL!