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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
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Re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
Wow. Fox had balls to allow what was allowed. I congratulate Reeves in successfully attempting what he did here. Whereas Paramount is scared of letting the title characters lead the film this one had Caesar as the lead pretty much. Had amazing levels of drama from the Apes. This film could have EASILY fallen off the tracks it was on were it not for Reeves.
Just wow. Serkis was amazing. Give him an Oscar for this. The gears you could see going in Caesar's head. All the Apes were solid. The humans are solid too but the Ape work is extraordinary. I know we would not get it but I'd love to see the film before they layered over the ape actors. Their acting is that good.
This film has a power structure drama we've seen before but it totally makes it a viable reality for this world.
Again I'm so glad that the Apes were the leads for this and the humans were a cultural reaction for the apes' drama. Just amazing work with the Apes. I was also pleased by Blue Eyes' role in this. He had a lot of conflict that we've seen before in other Films but this one had so much power to it.
My favorite film of the year. Great action, great acting, great everything.
Again this film treks through material we've all seen before but unlike many it has a soul to bring forth the emotion instead of letting the audience create the emotion for the characters.
I hope the BD is packed with features on how they did those apes. Huge leap in the evolution of the craft. Serkis is amazing.
Just wow. Serkis was amazing. Give him an Oscar for this. The gears you could see going in Caesar's head. All the Apes were solid. The humans are solid too but the Ape work is extraordinary. I know we would not get it but I'd love to see the film before they layered over the ape actors. Their acting is that good.
This film has a power structure drama we've seen before but it totally makes it a viable reality for this world.
Again I'm so glad that the Apes were the leads for this and the humans were a cultural reaction for the apes' drama. Just amazing work with the Apes. I was also pleased by Blue Eyes' role in this. He had a lot of conflict that we've seen before in other Films but this one had so much power to it.
My favorite film of the year. Great action, great acting, great everything.
Again this film treks through material we've all seen before but unlike many it has a soul to bring forth the emotion instead of letting the audience create the emotion for the characters.
I hope the BD is packed with features on how they did those apes. Huge leap in the evolution of the craft. Serkis is amazing.
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Re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
Wow. Fox had balls to allow what was allowed. I congratulate Reeves in successfully attempting what he did here. Whereas Paramount is scared of letting the title characters lead the film this one had Caesar as the lead pretty much. Had amazing levels of drama from the Apes. This film could have EASILY fallen off the tracks it was on were it not for Reeves.
Just wow. Serkis was amazing. Give him an Oscar for this. The gears you could see going in Caesar's head. All the Apes were solid. The humans are solid too but the Ape work is extraordinary. I know we would not get it but I'd love to see the film before they layered over the ape actors. Their acting is that good.
This film has a power structure drama we've seen before but it totally makes it a viable reality for this world.
Again I'm so glad that the Apes were the leads for this and the humans were a cultural reaction for the apes' drama. Just amazing work with the Apes. I was also pleased by Blue Eyes' role in this. He had a lot of conflict that we've seen before in other Films but this one had so much power to it.
My favorite film of the year. Great action, great acting, great everything.
Again this film treks through material we've all seen before but unlike many it has a soul to bring forth the emotion instead of letting the audience create the emotion for the characters.
I hope the BD is packed with features on how they did those apes. Huge leap in the evolution of the craft. Serkis is amazing.
Just wow. Serkis was amazing. Give him an Oscar for this. The gears you could see going in Caesar's head. All the Apes were solid. The humans are solid too but the Ape work is extraordinary. I know we would not get it but I'd love to see the film before they layered over the ape actors. Their acting is that good.
This film has a power structure drama we've seen before but it totally makes it a viable reality for this world.
Again I'm so glad that the Apes were the leads for this and the humans were a cultural reaction for the apes' drama. Just amazing work with the Apes. I was also pleased by Blue Eyes' role in this. He had a lot of conflict that we've seen before in other Films but this one had so much power to it.
My favorite film of the year. Great action, great acting, great everything.
Again this film treks through material we've all seen before but unlike many it has a soul to bring forth the emotion instead of letting the audience create the emotion for the characters.
I hope the BD is packed with features on how they did those apes. Huge leap in the evolution of the craft. Serkis is amazing.
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Re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
i was also surprised with how much Reeves got away with. pretty gory and grim for PG-13...
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really? that gory? i thought it was pretty tame for a PG-13 movie.
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Where it was no blood and they were off screen? The most violent bit was the first Caesar tussle with Koba. If Koba got any more beaten in the face it may have gone R.
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Re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
Matt Reeves filmed the movie using 3D cameras. It's not a post conversion cash grab. It does it's job well without being distracting and doesn't take you out of the movie.
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Re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
I really liked this a lot though. Very solid and I liked the fact that the apes got most of the attention. Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a good start to the reboot of this series but it was quite a bit more centric on the human characters. Serkis was great as Caesar despsite just being the voice of the character and really not a ton of lines. That was something else I liked and felt was pretty cool that Matt Reeves got away with was the fact that instead of having the apes be fully able to speak that the characters spoke through signs and a lot of the dialogue was through subtitles. Koba was a good antagonist too, I felt bad for poor Ash. The humans we got weren't bad but I was glad they weren't a huge focus. Jason Clarke was good as the lead though and Gary Oldman was great (as he almost always is) as the human antagonist.
Overall a very solid film and I'd say see it if you're on the fence. I expected I'd like it but it was a lot better than I thought it would be. I'd give it a solid 4.5/5.
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Re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
Yeah. I liked the communication of the Ape. I am MUCH more fascinated in seeing this ape culture than the original series'. This culture has a lot of gears going as an evolution and it is fascinating.
Maybe it was the way you worded it but Serkis was the actor for Caesar. Acting for everything. I could tell it was him. His movement of physical gesture and especially his eyes, you can see the acting. I do wonder how much of the Koba vs. Caesar fight was from the actors.
Maybe it was the way you worded it but Serkis was the actor for Caesar. Acting for everything. I could tell it was him. His movement of physical gesture and especially his eyes, you can see the acting. I do wonder how much of the Koba vs. Caesar fight was from the actors.
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Yeah, I actually sort of forgot that motion capture was used. I just thought it was really good CGI.
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Pretty great film. By far the best movie this summer so far. 4.5/5 due to the film containing one really stupid character (I understand why he had to be stupid, but it was still kind of annoying) and one that didn't have much to do (Kerri Russell's character).
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Re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
In retrospect, the only part I did find "dumb" was towards the end when they just happen to stumble onto James Franco's old pad and find the camera with Caesar as a baby. Yeah, it was fan service but it felt shoehorned in. Other than that it was cool.
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Re: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Reeves, 2014) — The Reviews Thread
They didn't exactly "stumble" there. Caesar led them there. There was a line of dialogue that confirms it/he pointed to the house, something like that (unless I'm crazy and making this up).