Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

I'll read all these after I see the movie. Thanks for using the spoiler tag. Much appreciated! Will see it Saturday.

 

Spoiler

It's Earth!

 

Saw it on Sunday and absolutely loved it.

I'm a big fan from back in the 70's.
Love the original 5, the TV series (anyone remember the fake made for TV movies from these?) and yes, the 2001 remake.

Not quite so thrilled with the animated series but still happy to own it (uh, two versions of it actually....).

Have tons of the original Marvel comics and I think most of the paperbacks.

...and the new one gets my 2 simian thumbs up!

 

Caught it last night and loved it...

Very well done... Didn't realize Franco wasn't in this one but they did fine w/o him....

 

I'm going to see Dawn this week. I really liked Rise, so I'm hoping the sequel will be just as good. I enjoyed Matt Reeves' previous films (Cloverfield and Let Me In).

 

Saw it today with 3 friends.... we all thought it was excellent!!

 

Just watched it. Excellent indeed.

 

I enjoyed it but didn't feel it was quite as good as the previous film. The visuals are stunning though. I don't remember any hydroelectric dams near SF or Marin and I live 40 minutes away from both but maybe I've just never seen it...the nearest I know of is the Hetch Hetchy which is hurs away and near Muir Woods where Caesar and his followers live.

 

Eventually you end with Apes the look like from Tim Burtons
Planet Of The Apes. Which was the best of his movie
was special effects by Rick Baker.

 

Yes, the filmmakers did take some artistic license with their California geography, didn't they. But it was kinda cool to see some of the visual references....the Mt. Tamalpais sign, for example. And I liked the song they used when the power came back on at the gas station.

Spoiler

The Weight

 

Does anyone else think that Gary Oldman looked like David Bowie? I thought he did.

Our family saw the movie last night and really liked it. We saw it in 3D but picked that showing based on the time. None of us thought the 3D added anything. I don't recommend paying extra for it.

The plot is good and there were characters I cared to root for and some I cared to I root against. I think most people who like this concept will like this movie. As previously stated, the CGI is very good.

 

I actually like this better than Rise

 

A few spoilers in this short interview clip with WETA supervisor Joe Letteri.

 

That should have been not near major woods.

 

Saw it again today in 3D - some shots are vastly improved in this format however it's offset by some annoying side effects that I didn't like in other scenes that are not present in 2D (any high speed action, any shot where the focus is on a character in the background with someone in the foreground didn't look right at all).

 

Saw it yesterday with my daughter-we both enjoyed it a lot.

 

The area is called Muir Woods. And no there is no dam nearby.

 

Yes, I know. I live about 40 minutes from there. It was my lovely ipad doing an unexpected spell check correction.

SF gets most of their power from Hech Hetchy which is, what, about three or four hours away.

 

Yup. I lived in San Francisco for 50 years up until six months ago. I love Muir Woods and Mount Tam. Spent so much time in that area. Happy the apes have it now.

 

It's a pity they didn't really shoot there beyond the beauty shots.

 

I dint think Muir Woods needs a film crew of several hundred trampling through. They did shoot slit of exteriors in San Francisco though.

 

Yeah you're probably right about that. Most of the film was shot in New Orleans and British Columbia like a lot of Fox big budget films lately. Most of the shooting for SF was for background plates as I recall.

 

I remember seeing the sets for the entrance to the human headquarters in New Orleans, so I was on the lookout for those. Lots of CG around that, of course, but the CG was VERY convincing. From the first moment when the apes appeared, I was impressed. It's a real state of the art movie concerning the depiction of CG characters with nuanced, recognizable personalities. Far more than Avatar, for my money.

 

I like Franco, great in Homefront and that rasta hair druggie thing he was in.

 

Definitely "Yawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' for me. I was wishing I'd brought a pillow after the first 15 minutes. I liked 'The Lion King' the first time I saw it.