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Sounds cool! FIRST! by wire-fu	Dec 15th, 2000 05:11:25 PM
This movie sounds awesome.
immm first by chinosantos	Dec 15th, 2000 05:12:35 PM
im first just wanted to say that
We;ve Got An Emergency Here! Time To Call In "The Cobra"! by Buzz Maverik	Dec 15th, 2000 05:12:39 PM
Script trouble, Ape-Producers? I can fix it for you. I'll rewrite on the set. I'll need one million dollars, a custom made Purdy shotgun (you'd better get cracking on that since they're made to fit the shooter's body specifications and it sounds like you need me bad) and a new Chevy Suburban packed with Cuban cigars. Call my agent Rueben Kinkaid at the Orange Agency.
Yeah, I Can't Wait... by Buzz Maverik	Dec 15th, 2000 05:14:35 PM
...after I save this movie, I'll be driving around in that Suburban, smoking a Cohiba, blasting mail boxes with my Purdy. I might even see the movie.
Cornielious by JackLint	Dec 15th, 2000 05:18:26 PM
Did that rumor of Paul Ruebens playing Cornielious(sp?) end up being true? About the makeup, it is a bit disapointing I guess but at the same time Im glad its not totally crazy. And im sure it will allow a lot more facial expression than the previous one.
disappointing make-up? by Devils Halo	Dec 15th, 2000 05:28:40 PM
well, if these aren't 'principle apes' with dialog and are there just to be in the background, i wouldn't expect stellar make up. think of all the background who's in whoville that probably got away with a little more than a strap-on nose. (i was surprised at the amount of digital who's tho). i'd hold off judgement on how the star apes look before comparing them to background apes. i've only seen one ape so far and it was really dark... for all i know it could have been bigfoot.
simpson's planet of the apes by talkinghead	Dec 15th, 2000 05:31:45 PM
if this movies is as good as the planet of the apes musical that was on the simpsons..then damn this might be good
SEX!!! by TheBratPrince	Dec 15th, 2000 05:39:24 PM
Has anyone heard more about the human/ape sex scene? Sounds like something for a really cool web site, credit cards required.
The Tim Burton Clothesline by dr.cornelius	Dec 15th, 2000 06:36:26 PM
I have told many people that I see most Tim Burton films as something like a clothesline: a few interesting items strung together. "I'm Hurtin' Burton" has a phenomenal sense of style, but the dialogue is seldom as memorable as the visual impact.
Problems: by X-Girls	Dec 15th, 2000 06:36:30 PM
script, cast, and a remotely good reason for remaking.
If nothing else... by Black Jesus	Dec 15th, 2000 06:53:18 PM
If nothing else this movie is sure to be visually interesting, as are all Burton movies. I think it'll be cool, i can forgive a mediocre script (as long as it's not complete shit) especially if the movie has a lot of cool weird shit like a lot of his movies do. We'll see.
Re:Disappointing ape makeups by Horus	Dec 15th, 2000 06:58:45 PM
I think the comments about the ape make-up being disappointing, were more to do with the design aspects than the actuall finish of them.Theyre just realistic chimps etc rather than stylised or turned into fantasy apes.I mentioned Greystoke in an earlier post, so that aspect was interesting.I thought the apes in Greystoke were quite a way, to being fantasy characters, in terms of their faces at least{they were sort of hyper real looking }and wondered how a Planet of The Apes remake would look , with that kind of approach.From the description of the set, it sounds as though , the modern day, human city... but built by apes , has been replaced with a more primative look, like the original film.Good.A lot of the original films appeal, comes from the surreal look of the ape society,.{The mueseum area , looks almost like something from the Dark Crystal.}My real worry from this article , was the mention of the script , being weak.Tim Burton and weak scripts seem to go hand in hand!This sounds like its going to be yet another visually great Burton film,lacking in the story dept.
Yeah, right by Michael Cheritto	Dec 15th, 2000 08:14:57 PM
Marky Mark? Come on, though he was good in B.N. but alas, will he show some color? Or the taste of it?
Hey Chinosantos by Mr_Intimidation	Dec 15th, 2000 08:56:49 PM
No you're not. How does it feel to be a big fat moron in front of all your fellow geeks? HAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH.
Not Planet of the Apes, but a question by Pseudonym	Dec 15th, 2000 11:45:55 PM
I got no place to post this little thing, so I'll do it here. I'm looking at the AICN homepage plastered with two advertisements for Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. As pissed off and ranting as Harry has been about how he feels it was outright evil to cut this movie like WB did, does this officially qualify him as a sell-out? Read this while you can, this may be deleted.
Memo to Producer Richard Zanuck: by Bari Umenema	Dec 16th, 2000 12:35:01 AM
Dear Dick: Can I call you Dick? Thank you. 1) Fantastic production design with no expense spared is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING in big epic movies. You've satisfied that requirement so all's good on that front. 2) Saving money on makeup f/x is a very smart way of reducing the total cost of the budget. You've done that here, good. 3) Using hacks like Konner & Rosenthal is also an excellent way of saving money on writing fees, excellent work. 4) Contorting your own face into your typical rictus-like deaths'head mask of irritation is a wonderful way of motivating the extras to hit their marks each and every time so as not to cause the overall production to fall behind schedule. Done. 5) Where is your lovely wife Lili Fini Zanuck? 6) DO NOT DISTURB TIM WHEN HE IS TRYING TO LINE UP A SHOT!! 7) This is not Jaws in the Jungle of the Future so please Dick do not expect Tim to give you the suspense and excitement that Steven did. 8) Tourists are NOT to be allowed to sneak onto the set and post pictures on the internet. 9) Bill Mechanic is no longer your boss on this picture as he has left 20th Century Fox. 10) Rupert Murdoch is only going to be happy if this thing makes at least $200 Million domestic. Anything less than that and, well, you know: You'll never eat lunch on this lot again! Now get back to work or I'll send Charlton Heston over there to yell 'DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO MY CLASSIC MASTERPIECE!!!' 11) What will he find out there? 12) His Destiny...
The Akiva Goldsman award goes to... by Rico Patrone	Dec 16th, 2000 02:14:09 AM
Konner & Rosenthal. How these guys have escaped a "Wild Wild West" on their resumes is a damn shame and it's time we did something about it. They've continually supplied lame stories and awful dialogue on jobs that became "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Mercury Rising" and "Superman IV" but that huge bomb has somehow alluded them. Hopefully, persistance will pay off. They couldn't even get the requisite disrespect after "Mighty Joe Young", but that didn't deter the team responsible for "The Legend of Billy Jean". They went after a second ape movie and by God, if I have any say, by summer, Akiva Goldsman will start writing movies for people with high school diplomas while Konner & Rosenthal ascend to true craptitude.
About-face. by RobinP	Dec 16th, 2000 02:52:14 AM
This is normally the part of the talkback where I get up on my soapbox and start complaining about the Apes remake. BUT NOT THIS TIME !!! See, I spent some time a couple of weekends ago watching several Burton movies, I saw "Nightmare before Xmas" "Sleepy Hollow" and "Edward Scissorhands" all in a row, curtesy of my trusty VHS. "Sleepy Hollow" was the only one I was seeing for the first time, but that mini-marathon showed me just gow good a director Burton is, how quirky his directorial vision is....and how, if anyone has to remake "Apes" with its bizarre concept.....it should be Burton. There, I've recanted, and I feel better.
"Damn you all to hell!" by Kyle.Reese	Dec 16th, 2000 02:58:20 AM
How can they top such a brilliant ending like the original had?
The curse of Konner/Rosenthal continues by Rico Patrone	Dec 16th, 2000 07:44:51 AM
Dogstar, sorry, I guess I missed the genius that was "The Legend of Billy Jean". I am a Tim Burton fan though and hope Konner & Rosenthal don't send his career into the Bermuda Triangle like they did poor old Matthew Robbins'. He was never heard from again post-Helen Slater. These guys also killed off the "Romancing the Stone" franchise and Superman for a nightcap. Just the guys I'd hire to write my summer blockbuster.
You, mean a teamster doesn't like the script? Oh NO!!!! by lisa	Dec 16th, 2000 07:48:17 AM
When people say that there are script problems, they're not comparing it to the razor sharp script of the original are they? Because, after seeing the original, there's no place to go but up!!!!
You damned dirty apes! by scudd	Dec 16th, 2000 07:57:24 AM
I dont really have anything to say, I just love that line.
First again!!! by JQuintana	Dec 16th, 2000 08:12:55 AM
This the second time I've been first in one day! I was also first in reply to Harry's report from the set of TLOTR. Oh, what a feeling! I'm stuck in a dead end job at 27, I've never had a girlfriend and I'm 35,000 dollars in the hole due to gambling debts but being first twice in one day has made it all better! I'm back in business baby!
"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!!" by Tender Branson	Dec 16th, 2000 10:06:20 AM
Wrong talk back, sure but it's my favorite line ever uttered by Charlton Heston. (With the exception of some fine memorables from the making of "The Omega Man" but they will get me banned for being racist.) Who cares about this stupid movie? It's a fucking relic of an era where everyone decided that the only kind of sci-fi flick that could ever get released had to have some heavy kind of depressing ass moral. Fuck "Planet of the Apes". It makes about as much sense to remake this as it does "The Green Berets" shot for shot. This is an all time bad idea. It can't go anywhere good. Repeat, "Planet of the Apes" will suck monkey cock the like of which "Battlefield Earth" hasn't done yet. Has anyone else noticed that someone is desperately trying the resurgence that sci-fi has been having since "Stargate" directly into the ground? It seems like what was true remains true. Big Budget sci-fi is doomed to suck butthole, while smaller films like "Pitch Black" continue to get it right. Why is that? Well, aside from the fact that major Hollywood productions are all funnelled through a Masonic Conspiracy Machine to milk out all originality, to keep us happy with our consumer lives and therefore not revolting and taking the country by storm. It keeps us weak willed through a series of microwave-pulse hypnotic suggestion to make us demand stricter gun control laws so that when we realize that we are a police state and that we voted to be a police state we will no longer have any guns and the New World Order will be in full effect and the first step is sap our imagination and free will through pandering and lowest common denominator film and TV. THey want us to expect a lot less so they can take a lot more. There are GREAT, INSPIRING, RICH AND THOUGHTFUL MASTERPIECES OF FILM LOCKED AWAY IN HIDDEN BUNKERS THAT ONLY THE TRUE RULERS OF THE EARTH CAN SEE!!! They know that if we were ever to see these great, modern films we would realize how badly our hopes and visions of the future have been simpled up and dampened down. Mediocre film and TV have conditioned us to not expect too much out of life. It's the first step out of many steps to turn us all into communal slaves whose only wish is to watch reruns of "Friends" and "Spin City" and repeated viewings of "Forrest Gump" and anything with that perky Meg Ryan. Don't you see PEOPLE!!??? It'll keep going until we finally remake everything and then when that happens IT'LL ALL BLOW UP!!!!! YOU MANICS ARE GOING TO BLOW IT ALL UP!!!! YOU'LL FINALLY DO IT!!!!! YOU'RE GOING TO REDUCE ME TO EATING SAND ON THE BEACH WHILST BEING WATCHED DUMBLY BY SOME SCANTLY CLAD CAVE WOMAN IN A LAND O' LAKES GIRL OUTFIT......hmmmmm. Nevermind, carry on.
Oh yeah, don't diss "The Legend of Billie Jean" or I'll.... by Tender Branson	Dec 16th, 2000 10:09:01 AM
.....KICK YOUR ASS! "The Legend of Billie Jean" taught me that "Sure, you're poor white trash, but you too, if your brother shoots someone and you shoplift and steal cars can make a difference and get a free motor scooter too!" I wouldn't even be on college without that movie!!!
THE VISITOR is used... by Wee Willie	Dec 16th, 2000 10:45:01 AM
...to keep rubberneckers away from the set. It's the same reason Lucas shot Return of The Jedi as Blue Harvest some years back. Are you people all retarded or something?
Tender Branson is the greatest genius since Dennis Miller. by Wee Willie	Dec 16th, 2000 10:48:26 AM
And I mean that as a compliment. Your post entitled Soylent Green is people is a work of brilliance. You rock dude. Keep stickin' it to the man!!! (No, I'm not being sarcastic, Imean this with all of my cigarette-addled heart).
Ape School. Lesson One: Public Mastrabation. by Buzz Maverik	Dec 16th, 2000 12:07:05 PM
"Alright, time to lose your inhibitions here, people! Not you on the left, you're uninhibited enough. You ever seen an ape in a zoo spankin' his human, which is what we call drummin' the ol' Dubya here on Ape Planet Alpha Flight Base Zone? Do they give a shit if everybody's watching? Hell no, all they care about is that their monkey shines! That's it! Yer getting it! I'll just step back behind the protective pexi-glass! Damn, boy, you are a Hooker's Dream Man!"
Al Prop's return! by 0007	Dec 16th, 2000 01:03:25 PM
I hope Al Prop makes his cameo appearance since he has cultivated such a grand following of fans in the Talkback area in the last few weeks...
Peter Elliott by Spelunker Gregg	Dec 16th, 2000 03:54:56 PM
Peter Elliott is the Ape Choreographer who worked on King Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Congo, Gorillas In The Mist, and Greystoke. Ironically, the Primatologist in Congo was named Peter Elliott. Weird, no?
Bigfoot by Spelunker Gregg	Dec 16th, 2000 04:07:45 PM
Okay...this is off-topic, kinda'. What ever happened to that "Abominable" movie that was rumored many, many moons ago? Y'know...the one about VanDamme as a Park Ranger fighting a Bigfoot that's menacing a remote Pacific Northwest Town (aren't all towns in the Pacific Northwest remote?)? Yeah, yeah, yeah...it sounds corny and retarded, but just the idea of seeing Bigfoot square off with VanDamme is so ludicrous it actually sounds neat-o! Get Stan Winston to do the creature and I'm there!
Not Peter Elliot, John Alexander by Wren	Dec 16th, 2000 10:37:30 PM
I just wanted to make a quick correction. Peter Elliot has zero involvement with POTA and had even less to do with Mighty Joe Young. John Alexander is working on Planet of the Apes and is the greatest Animal/creature performer that has ever worked in the business. He has played Mighty Joe Young, Digit (Gorilla's in the Mist), Mikey (space alien in Men in Black), and White Eyes (Greystoke). These are naming only a few of the many creatures and characters on this man's distinguished resume.

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