Okay, I just saw this. OMG, the movie is absolutely incredible. I can't talk too much about it without spoiling it, but let's say that just about every minute of this movie is used to effect. No filler, and the character development in this movie is far and away it's strongest element. When you factor in the ape characters and the ape community, you forget that this is CGI. You think you are seeing talking apes, riding horseback, shooting guns, showing love to other apes, etc. Your mind just registers "ape". These apes are not the glib, refined talking apes we have seen in previous PotA movies, these apes communicate in a decidedly un-human fashion.
Oh wow, I would pay to see this again in 3D. Easily Best Picture material here folks. This is one of the best written, best acted, most integrated movies (with regard to CGI and action and cinematography) that I have seen in more than 10 years. The next one should be even more spectacular. These movies are not about CGI and pew pew. These are thinking movies, which happen to have some of the most convincing special effects ever seen on film to date.
INCREDIBLE. No other word quite says it.
Oh wow, I would pay to see this again in 3D. Easily Best Picture material here folks. This is one of the best written, best acted, most integrated movies (with regard to CGI and action and cinematography) that I have seen in more than 10 years. The next one should be even more spectacular. These movies are not about CGI and pew pew. These are thinking movies, which happen to have some of the most convincing special effects ever seen on film to date.
INCREDIBLE. No other word quite says it.
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. Seriously though, this one is worth actual money. Even 3D money. Its really that good. Far beyond the abilities of hacks like Abrams, Michael bay and even Ronald Moore or Joss Whedon. If Cecil B DeMille were still alive, he would have been very impressed. To me, this story is even more compelling than Lord of the Rings or The Matrix. And considering where they started the story, it could yield at least 6 movies (2 down, 4 to go!). There is the unresolved story of the lost astronauts on the way to Mars, the global human population is almost gone, but they have not used the nukes so there is that story, and Caesar's son has taken up the charge of Caesar's cause. He also now has a little brother.
