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Buy and sell Books, Music, Movies, Games & More! An eBay company. Click here. www.Half.com Burton needed to do more than to create the awesome outward appearance of his ape world, he needed to give it some history, and to give his characters some depth. Everything that was said or shown was simply there to move the characters to the next action sequence. Things just happened. When it was time to fight, the once docile humans had become suddenly savvy in the art of making weapons, and quite proficient horse-riders. How? Who knows. Nothing seemed to matter other than the understanding that apes hate humans. This hatred appeared to be so fiery that the apes lived their daily lives in a militant fervor. Why? Why would a society that has no war, or has no visibly dangerous enemy be so militant? What are they fighting for, or against? Why do they live their daily lives dressed in armor, in fear of attack? The USA is the strongest world power with many enemies, yet we don't stroll the streets in military garb. Certainly the apes can't be fearful of the passive humans, who are so docile that they can't figure their way out of a tied knot (literally!). There's another mind-boggler - why are these humans, who are perfectly capable of speech and communication, unable to do simple things, like, say - untie a knot!!? What Burton and his writers did instead of creating their own ape world with their own fleshed out characters was to lazily rely on the previous Ape film history. This is a huge faux pas because this new Ape film is supposed to be a "reimagining" of the original. If this was a sequel to the original Ape saga, then it would be fine to rely on the original history. But, Burton has stated clearly that this movie stands on it's own, and is not a remake or a sequel. It turns out that this new Ape movie has not a leg of it's own to stand upon. To understand this movie you would need to have seen the original saga. To understand why Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) would even dare think to side with humans, you'd have to first understand her Ape movie predecessors, Zira and Cornelius, who through scientific and archeological discoveries had come to question the humans role in their world; or you'd have to understand how Caesar (in CONQUEST OF… and BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES) questions if apes have the right to dominate humans. To find some reason why General Thade simply loathes the humans you'd have to have been party to Taylor and Dr. Zaius' evolutionary conversations in the original; or have witnessed Gen. Ursus' rage over the scavenging humans who ruin the land (BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES); or have felt Gen. Aldo's disdain for the lowly humans who have come to be ape's equal (BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES). To fathom Daena's (Estella Warren) puzzling romantic grasping and smooching of Leo, you'd have to have known about Nova's tender relationship with Taylor. And without the original movie the disappointing use of the familiar Ape movie lines "Get your stinking (hands) off me…" or "Damn them…" would mean absolutely nothing. Why not make up their own memorable dialogue? If Burton was so determined to make his own original Ape movie, then he should have thought more carefully about creating it on his own world. Without the original PLANET OF THE APE saga, this new Ape movie is nothing. The only character in the new Ape movie that seems to have been created outside the original film is Limbo (Paul Giamatti). But hold your applause, Limbo is equivalent to what Jar Jar Binks is to THE PHANTOM MENACE - an annoyance. Why is it that an ape in a far off world, in a distant galaxy, so removed form our own, is speaking like he's on TRL, having a rap session with MTV's Carson Daly? What is it with writer's egos that they think it's cool to reuse haggard puns and visual gags, and make everyone in every movie sound hip and cool, no matter what? That's just plain lazy writing. And for the love of Pete! - can we please stop using that tired joke of "Why can't we all just get along." It's been used by thousands of stand-up comics across the globe, and has been the punchline in just about every TV sitcom and movie since Rodney King made the heartfelt and sincere plea. It's like it's required by the Writer's Guild of America to plug that line into every script. <-previous page 1 2 3 4 next page->
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