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Originally Posted by JBird
I liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes (hate the long title, though)  |
Agreed. I found it more satisfying despite the ninja-CGI apes being just too unreal (er, more unreal than other aspects of the film anyways). I'm looking forward to the eventual sequel that is supposedly about Caesar's tribe of liberated primates being hunted by the government (and the spread of the human-killing, ape intelligence-boosting virus).
Transformers was another movie I wish never happened because of being stuffed to high-hell with love-stories and human-drama like some soap-opera turducken. Never saw 'Revenge of the Fallen' nor 'Dark of the Moon' , so can't say anything about them. But to paraphrase VGCats, it was basically "Dawson's Creek" with guest cameos by the Transformers.
But I'll tell you what, not ALL reboots/remakes/movie-adaptations are pure-shit; just the majority. 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' aside, I also think that Syfy's (or Sci-Fi as it was known as then) TV movie-series of 'Dune' was better than the 80s version (keep in mind I never read the books). The 80s version (be it the abridged or full-length version) just seemed too...I dunno...'forced'? Like they were trying WAY too hard to make the movie seem futuristic (possibly from ingesting too many drugs at once while writing and storyboarding). Baron Vladamir Harkonnen was just a floating, festering, morbidly-obese scumbag and not the devious plotter and shrewd villian he was supposed to be. Making all inhabitants of Geidi Prime all look like characters from a 'Heavy Metal' magazine illustration didn't help in making the Harkonnens look like anything BUT filthy inbreeds (and I could have done without having Sting in that plastic speedo....*shivers*). And weirding modules? The fuck? Nice concept, but it looked like a steam-punked polaroid strapped to one's wrist. Though the phrase 'My name is a killing word' is still a badass line.
Back to what I was saying, the Sci-Fi 'Dune' at least made more sense in costuming and aesthetics. Sand-dwelling people wouldn't be wearing skin-tight muscle-suits. There's a reason why folks in the Sandbox here wear the robes and such. Plus the Sci-Fi version at least made the effort to tell stuff blatantly omitted in the 80s movie. Like how Lady Jessica was actually the baron's daughter, how Chani and Paul had a son that was murdered by the Harkonnens, and even the fact that there was more emphasis played on the politics of the Dune universe.