tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post9019622873066225416..comments2024-03-27T11:04:31.390-04:00Comments on From the Sorcerer's Skull: Apes on the RiseTreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-32313367146126143352011-08-08T12:55:57.347-04:002011-08-08T12:55:57.347-04:00@SFGray - You're right. It was kind of Baker&...@SFGray - You're right. It was kind of Baker's swansong.<br /><br />@Whisk - I admire Franco for sometimes having a reaching that exceeds his grasp. I thought he was pretty good as Ginsberg in <i>Howl</i>.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-14453227339515246952011-08-08T06:25:05.283-04:002011-08-08T06:25:05.283-04:00Thanks for the review, better than the Burton one ...Thanks for the review, better than the Burton one but that wouldn't have been too difficult.The Angry Lurkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01227314379603418332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-51120334624613698652011-08-08T06:20:35.052-04:002011-08-08T06:20:35.052-04:00I like that John Lithgow is in the movie. Franco ...I like that John Lithgow is in the movie. Franco ... eh. I dunno.The Happy Whiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13438469476168485775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-74726170649988743242011-08-07T15:14:12.635-04:002011-08-07T15:14:12.635-04:00Totally looking forward to this film (hopefully th...Totally looking forward to this film (hopefully this afternoon). I was likewise left drastically unenthused by Burton's PotA remake, but i'm glad it was made for one reason. Rick Baker deserved the chance to design the makeup for the franchise one time before CGI finally rendered his art all but obsolete.sfgrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636825144354149017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-9942283081998929712011-08-07T13:17:31.914-04:002011-08-07T13:17:31.914-04:00I know what you mean (though my hopes are not high...I know what you mean (though my hopes are not high for Conan, particularly). Your tolerances and mine may be different, but I'm a pretty big fan of the originals, too and I dug this one--for whatever that's worth.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-14284041433304183832011-08-07T13:11:16.827-04:002011-08-07T13:11:16.827-04:00This is one of those movies that will be very diff...This is one of those movies that will be very difficult for me to see because I was such a fan of the original series. The Burton movie pissed me off more than anything. So I am gun shy about seeing it. Maybe I should just wait for Conan. That's a remake I can get behind.Gothridge Manorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11371740532802642972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-7512770342751554832011-08-07T12:25:57.631-04:002011-08-07T12:25:57.631-04:00iNews - You're welcome. :)
@Doug - I would ag...iNews - You're welcome. :)<br /><br />@Doug - I would agree it turns out sort of that way--at least in basics--though I don't think from interviews with the director that that was the specific intention.<br /><br />It's missing, of course, a lot of important aspects of that film: the "apes as pets/slaves," the successful ape revolution, and the nuclear war aspect, and sets it in the modern day other than a somewhat fascistic future (I believe the 1990s in the original film). Also, being the child of the future apes gives Caesar a "destiny" of sorts which is absent here as well.Treyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04647628467658839351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-43822181237757896442011-08-07T12:09:20.409-04:002011-08-07T12:09:20.409-04:00I thought it was essentially a re=conceptualizatio...I thought it was essentially a re=conceptualization of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the last of the original series. In the original series, earth is destroyed at the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, but Zira and Cornelius escape to their past in Escape from the Planet of the Apes and have a son, Caesar, who leads the ape revolution in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. In this, we still have Caesar, abused apes rebelling, and the rise of intelligent apes leading to the fall of man, but without the time-travel child-of-apes-from-the-future aspect. And maybe without some sense of mirroring race riots in L.A. that were more contemporaneous with the original film.Doug Easterlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07861680803540365438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-87851171337852996392011-08-07T11:53:41.960-04:002011-08-07T11:53:41.960-04:00Very interesting review, thank you!Very interesting review, thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8302487761596456689.post-76616941364488721582011-08-07T11:32:24.915-04:002011-08-07T11:32:24.915-04:00Great review. I will have to check that out.Great review. I will have to check that out.christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09650456794111980661noreply@blogger.com