Movie Talk: The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

[JBird]

Originally Posted by Crash Ichimonji

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.

Even though it'll more than likely be addressed in the sequel, like you say, I was kind of disappointed that nothing more came about the virus in Rise of the Apes. In lesser hands, it would have definitely appeared to have been a wasted plot point.

And I will occasionally watch the first Transformers movie...with Rifftrax. Rifftrax makes anything better and/or tolerable.

[DalekSec]

Originally Posted by JBird

Even though it'll more than likely be addressed in the sequel, like you say, I was kind of disappointed that nothing more came about the virus in Rise of the Apes. In lesser hands, it would have definitely appeared to have been a wasted plot point.

And I will occasionally watch the first Transformers movie...with Rifftrax. Rifftrax makes anything better and/or tolerable.

Oh Lord...OK...point and laugh..POINT and laugh at the Dalek...

I loved all of the Transformer movies.

I'll go hide now...

[DalekSec]

OOO it is never fair, trying to compare a series of books to any movies or television shows that are made from them. Just look at what became of Hunger Games (loved the books, liked the movie). They left out so much that if you did not read the book(s), you wound up kind of lost.

I will confess that my main gripe with Rise was that the Planet of the Apes franchise was a snapshot of a moment in time. The story line was far fetched, to say the least. Decidedly overacted. But, fun as all Hell, all the same.

One factor was, IMHO, how the franchise ceased to take itself too seriously after the 2nd movie, Beneath the Planet of the Apes. After all, Dr. Milo repairs a state of the art space ship (Taylor's) with what amounts to coconuts and twine AND devises how to launch it, with passengers, just before the Earth is blown up by a properly pissed Col. Taylor... I just... lol. And yet, I love the 5 classic movies, the T.V. series and all! *facepalm*

For me, Rise simply lost the whimsy of the originals.