Oh god, not Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Please no.
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Oh god, not Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Please no.
Caporegime
Wow never heard of that one before. I didn't really watch or remember much in the originals.
Soldato
Someone was smoking some good 60s gear when they thought up Beneath the Planet of the Apes, I re-watched the originals fairly recently, the first one is still great but the sequel...
It's been quite a few years since I watched it so maybe I'm being kind. After liking the first film my recollection was that the sequel had some good elements to it, but the plot seemed a bit disjointed and ultimately pointless, as though the writers weren't really sure where they were taking the story. Wasn't there a rumour that Charlton Heston was supposed to be the star again, but ended up only being in it for 5 minutes due to money issues/creative differences?
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Soldato
There were a hodge podge of ideas overall - the budget got decimated which I think caused a lot of the issues. I just couldn't get over the weird mutant humans worshipping the atomic bomb haha.
That was my problem as well. Although in hindsight it probably gave birth to the idea of The Children of Atom in Fallout 4.
Which was also a bit meh thinking about it.
Not seen any of the original movies, but I did watch the recent trilogy. I really enjoyed them and think they're one of the rare exceptional trilogies in modern film, but the heart of those was Caesar and Andy Serkis, so colour me worried about these.
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Big fan of the films but I am also sick of a million trailers for every damn film thats come out lately so I'll wait for this to hit streaming or to buy on iTunes. At this rate they might as well flat out just reveal the plot.
Did they just avoid making a movie showing how apes somehow managed to overcome the various militaries of the world? I remember one of these movies showing the start of that fight but iirc by the next movie it was over and they had already won. 0_o
It's probably most died from the disease or they'll do a small flashback
It's been a while since I've seen the modern trilogy, but I'm sure humans were falling prey to a disease of some kind that made them dumb. This gave the chimps opportunity to grow and take over essentially.
I guess they are trying to tie it back to the originals where humans had reverted back to being Neanderthal-like. I can't remember if that was ever explained as to why that had happened though.
Soldato
Correct. The disease you mention was the Simian Flu, which was heavily covered in the first film (Rise?). It was engineered to be a cure for Alzheimers.
And on top of that from the trailers the apes speak much more in the new film. Adds to the whole Humans devolve from the virus and Apes evolve from the virus story.
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That is standalone and has no relation to these movies.