Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
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The new "shocking twist ending" to the remake of Planet of the Apes didn't do anything for me....
I thought it was pretty cool. The actual twist, that is. The final, sequel-set-up twist was kind of weird and we couldn't make a lot of sense out of it.
Normally, P-C is me on movie-think but Planet of the Gapes remake? Oy. By the time we got to the monument, I was nearly blind from beating my forhead against the seat in front of me.
As soon as Marky Mark (who I really liked in the Italian Job) steps out of the lake immediately following the crash and his shirt is a) dry, b) already shredded and dirty like he's been in the jungle for a year, I knew we were in trouble.
Except for the cool we-went-to-ape-school-to-get-it-right choreography, there was NOTHING interesting or surprising about the remake.
And that cameo involving the evils of handguns by MR.NRA nearly made my head explode.
So, an endorsement, or an anti-unendorsement?
That's a definite endorsement. It's a good movie on its own terms, and works much better than I expected as a remake.
I was raving about Meryl Streep earlier, but Liev Schreiber is also excellent. Both he and Denzel give very layered performances.
And that cameo involving the evils of handguns by MR.NRA nearly made my head explode.
Yeah, that was the funniest part. Or the most cognitive dissonancing part.
I remember being really tired when I saw that movie (it was the summer I was cleaning hotel rooms, so I was ALWAYS exhausted), but I do remember hating the movie with the fire of a hundred suns. I think that was the summer of monumental movie disappointment.
I do remember hating the movie with the fire of a hundred suns.
This. Exactly.
See, that summer we watched all five original Planet of the Apes movies in preparation, which was fun in its own right. What I really liked about the remake was the rubber band time travel such that Marky Mark ended up being responsible for the existence of the planet. I thought that idea was way cool, cause I love funky time travel shit.
The original Manchurian Candidate is in the queue. Oh, and tonight I'm finally seeing Jaws.
I'm trying to think of my favorite bendy-time flick and all that is coming to mind is Time Bandits but that doesn't really apply.
I should have, but I didn't hate Timeline.
Shows a marked lack of imagination that my brain can't seem to find a bendy-time story in the database that does not include the word time.
More thinking necessary, but more work needing done. Priorities!
Shows a marked lack of imagination that my brain can't seem to find a bendy-time story in the database that does not include the word time.
12 Monkeys, dude.
Five Words (Or rather, 4 words and a number):
Back. To. The. Future. 2.
Runs away.