Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
So I saw this film the other day... I thought it was pretty good, in fact I positively loved it. But after watching it something like an itch developed at the back of my brain. I couldn't put my finger on what it was but there was something bugging me. So a couple of days later I watched it again, still a good film maybe not that good on repeat viewing but in the final act I realised what it was that bugged me.
It's the apes that didn't get treated with the drugs. We see the scene were the apes, treated to what I'm referring to as super monkey deodorant, free the apes from the zoo. But these apes aren't super apes, they haven't been blasted in the face with magic aerosol, so how the hell do they suddenly become smart in the battle on the bridge? And where do they fit in the super ape colony at the end of the film?
Also Gorillas. I don't have anything against gorillas but there is only one super smart one and he dies on the bridge. Now this is supposed to be setting things up for the original "Planet of the Apes" and in that there were gorillas. So how did that happen? Did he take some time out of their mad dash for the trees to go have some freaky business time with one of the dumb gorillas they freed from the zoo?
Then the whole standing upright thing at the end... WHAT THE FUCK... Apes are capable of standing upright for short periods of time, but their whole skeletal structure makes it impractical and painful. Yet for most of the movie this is how Caesar walks around and at the end all the other apes follow suit... And don't get me going about how Caesar talks. Great apes can't talk, firstly they lack the specialised vocal cords necessary for complex verbal communication, also recent genetic studies have shown that the gene required for verbal communication in the brain produces the wrong proteins in apes. Now you could argue that Caesar is a genetic mutation created by the monkey super juice, but even so to mutate in two very specific ways (three if you include the intelligence, four if you include the upright walking) is a bit more than credulity will allow for.
However having scratched those itches the film is a good film and yes I did enjoy it...
It's the apes that didn't get treated with the drugs. We see the scene were the apes, treated to what I'm referring to as super monkey deodorant, free the apes from the zoo. But these apes aren't super apes, they haven't been blasted in the face with magic aerosol, so how the hell do they suddenly become smart in the battle on the bridge? And where do they fit in the super ape colony at the end of the film?
Also Gorillas. I don't have anything against gorillas but there is only one super smart one and he dies on the bridge. Now this is supposed to be setting things up for the original "Planet of the Apes" and in that there were gorillas. So how did that happen? Did he take some time out of their mad dash for the trees to go have some freaky business time with one of the dumb gorillas they freed from the zoo?
Then the whole standing upright thing at the end... WHAT THE FUCK... Apes are capable of standing upright for short periods of time, but their whole skeletal structure makes it impractical and painful. Yet for most of the movie this is how Caesar walks around and at the end all the other apes follow suit... And don't get me going about how Caesar talks. Great apes can't talk, firstly they lack the specialised vocal cords necessary for complex verbal communication, also recent genetic studies have shown that the gene required for verbal communication in the brain produces the wrong proteins in apes. Now you could argue that Caesar is a genetic mutation created by the monkey super juice, but even so to mutate in two very specific ways (three if you include the intelligence, four if you include the upright walking) is a bit more than credulity will allow for.
However having scratched those itches the film is a good film and yes I did enjoy it...