I thought planet of the apes with Mark Wahlberg sucked, sucked big time. Maybe the only good thing about it was the little twist in the end with the whole Lincoln Memorial (And the fact that it was over). I naturally thought the next movie would be picked up where the first left off, but that apparently wasn’t the case.
Moviesonline.Ca has the story:
Quite some time ago we told you that FOX was working on a prequel story to Planet of the Apes. The project was to be directed by Scott Frank who is best known to me for his work writing the screenplay for Minority Report. The film will tell the story of how the apes came to power and is currently titled… CEASER.
The unfortunate news at this point is that CHUD is reporting the project is very much dead. It seems that FOX felt the story that was turned in for the film was just to dark although you gotta ask what is fluffy and full of bunny rabbits about the end of mankind? Scott Frank has left the project now and it seems we will not be seeing a prequel story anytime soon.
Loved the make-up effects that were old school, Tim Roth was Awesome!, Wahlberg was shit awefull through-out that flick…and tim burton as true as he could have been didn’t deliver what was promissed…
the idea I read about way back about the prequel was pretty awesome idea, be it a bit racy..
sucks though, I could have enjoyed another one.
I loved the Burton Apes take. The ending was not as bad as everyone makes out. I just took it to mean that, not only had he gone forward in time, he had also swapped to a parallel universe. So there was no escape on his ‘return’!
As for this prequel; surely it had already been done with ‘Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)’?
Synopsis: “In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity”.
The last film of the originals brought it all in a neat circle & I am not particularly interested in a remake.
Yes, That movie pretty much sucked.
I always wanted a sequel, but a prequel made sense to unscrew the mess at the end of the Burton film. Not that would really help; Leo is in the future, getting busted, thrown in a Prison Of Apes where he gets ape raped.
Thank goodness :-) In the end, we all knew how it came to be anyway. Just check out the classics series of Planet Of The Apes.
Bummer i was really existed to see how the apes came to power.
A big Dark planet of the apes would kick ass though, I dunno why it was a bad thing the guy turned in a dark script, especially these days, post dark knight I thought hollywood was looking for dark.
because FOX can’t stand in the dark
The twist at the end made NO sense. Seriously, if someone can explain what the hell that meant I would love to hear it.
Wahlberg goes back in time and lands in Washington, D.C. in the same period that he left, only to find Ape-raham Lincoln—a giant monument to his ape nemesis-from-the-future, General Thade
Long explanation:
Okay. Pericles, the chimp arrives in pod. Leo takes Pod back in time to Earth. Don’t alarm yourself to the idea that the future timeline is all for naught in doing so; that’s unimportant right now. What IS important is that in leaving, Leo created an alternate timeline/paradox, as Thade had x amount of time to plan his revenge. At some point, he repaired, or had those loyal to him repair, the pod under the water (the one Leo crashed in) or used the technology to boost the Apes technology. Then Thade goes back in time with a small army, and overthrows a young US Government…and decides to stay in the past. Earth soon becomes a new Planet Of The Apes. Humans have not been on Earth for some time, (none of the Earth Apes called Leo “stinking human” they did not know what he was. It could be assumed that, somewhere in space, a team of Ape scentists are using humans as expendable test pilots, and one test pilot will go in a cloud, an ape will follow, apes will follow ape, and land on the Planet Of Humans. Meanwhile, Leo is totally fucked.
Now, the short nutshell version:
We all got fucked.
Actually… Wahlberg goes in to the future when flying back through the storm. If you remember, Thade is still alive at the end of the movie hiding… And he now knows the truth, he gathers support to over throw the humans after Leo leaves and when Leo goes through the storm he travels in time this time to the future. Hence why the writing on the wall behind ape lincoln pays tribute to Thade.
I thought the one with walburg was watchable, the guys that played all the apes did exceptionally well. the part that chapped my ass about the whole film was they could have done without the last minute of the film or 30 seconds of the film. if they just showed walburg look up at the ape lincoln and cut out right there it would have been much more of a WTF moment, even though it was obvious something like that was going to happen. But to take it a step further and have all of the ape cops run in that was insulting, if they could have just left it with ape lincoln…..
Ya I think you are right. The whole reporters thing, Fire Truck etc.. was kind of well, stupid. The effect would have been better had the cut right when you said.
I remember watching it in the theatre and my last thought as the credits rolled was Fuck I wish they would have left that last 30 seconds off, thats something that has stuck with me all these years, at one point I was going to re-edit myself a copy of the movie just to remove that 30 seconds so I could enjoy the film.
I agree that Burton should have stopped exactly on that point. I actually loved the film, although production design, action and updated makeup/visual effects still didn’t make up for the fact that the 70’s films had a social commentary behind them.
I actually enjoyed it. Not a great film, but better then the rep it gets, IMO. If they made another one, I’d watch it but if they don’t, I’m fine with that as well.
Twist at the end??? You’re kidding right. I think the whole cinema saw it coming half way through and almost the whole auditorium laughed when they saw it.
I have no idea why anyone would want to make any apes film. They were okay at best.
THANK GOD.
Totally.
I’m with Brock. That movie pretty much sucked.