Genius Apes Swarm the Streets in Trailer for Planet of the Apes Prequel

[ReiverCorrupter]

This movie premise is pinky and the brain, played completely straight, with the conclusion already decided.

But seriously. How much of a **** do the humans have to not give to be defeated by an army of apes.

"For all of our Tanks and Machine guns, we were defeated by our own hubris, the very science we treasure."

"But, Mr. President, we still have those tanks and machine guns, and planes. We have cruise missiles that can explode chimps from space."

"DEFEATED BY OUR OWN HUBRIS. HUMANS WERE NEVER MEANT TO PLAY GOD."

Seriously. The only way I could see it going down is if the smartest ape somehow gets into the White House and sets off a nuclear war, which allows the apes to rise from the ashes. That still seems impossible though, does making him super intelligent somehow give him psychic access to the launch codes?

Well, either that or we grant them equal rights because of their intelligence and they slowly take power over the course of several centuries, but that A) seems boring for a movie, and B) paints civil rights in a negative light so will never get produced in Hollywood.

 

[Shraggler]

David Hewlett is in it. That's the only reason I'll see it. Or try to see it. Or rent... I mean "stream" it through netflix. Should I be bored one day next fall and incredibly inebriated.

How the heck do a bunch of intelligent test apes bring an end to humanity. Estimating they used 3,000 to 6,000 apes in their experiments the us army still outnumbers them by a bunch.

I mean in the original I kind of assumed that humanity did themselves in and with space to fill, the apes evolved into intelligent beings in our place.

Fairly sure that's pretty much how it happened. At least in the book.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

One day, apes will rule the Earth, and humans will be nothing but livestock. That's according to seminal 1968 sci-fi movie, Planet of the Apes, which starred Charlton Heston as a astronaut who finds himself trapped in a simian dystopia after being stranded in the future by near-light speed space travel.

Come on, man. You're supposed to put up a spoiler warning.

You're joking, right?

 

[HellspawnCandy]

It just seems too hard to swallow(be it scientifically proven or not) there's no way in hell apes disrupt America so bad, free all the apes in zoos and create such a large population that would eventually enslave the human race. Not to mention them not being able to use planes or helicopters(I guess yet) it would be like duck hunter except on a helicopter with a rifle shooting at tons of apes. This trailer is driving me bananas.

 

[Saris Kai]

I'm really sick of the trend of science == bad in Hollywood movies.

 

[WorldCritic]

NO NO NO NO NO NO! When will people learn to stop making Planet of the Apes movies? COme on guys you were doing so well! It's been ten years since the last abomination why'd you have to do decided to make what is potentially another one?

Ok, ok, to be fair the cast looks ok so maybe they can make it somewhat good.

 

[triggrhappy94]

Oh yeah, I read about this in Entertainment Weekly. This is the only movie that's coming out soon that I'm interested in seeing

EDIT: (Posted before watching the trailer)
Didn't look bad, other then it seemed like Splice or Alien, but with monkeys. Its one thing to see a big black xenomorph run along the roof top in the background, but its not the same threat with monkeys.

 

[MarsProbe]

Am I the only one who thinks of Curious George for the last 5 seconds of that video!?

Possibly not, though I was myself thinking, "this ape is clearly going to do something that highlights the fact that it has become more intelligent, like speak or launch a privately funded space program".

Way to round out the trailer in a suitably dramatic fashion, people.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I have a real problem with their marketing of the old movies...

Dude, you've just given away the MAIN SPOILER ENDING on the cover! You planks.

That's like complaining about having the chestbuster scene spoiled in Alien, or knowing before hand that Arnie is actually the good guy in Terminator 2. Some movies spoilers have become part of popculture and there's no way in hell to avoid them so we might as well embrace them.

OT: This could be interesting if they would actually show the rise of the apes from the apes' perspective. Fat change of that happing though. And why does it have to be science which created the apes? I always figured it was "simple" evolution that made the apes top dog.

 

[Lost In The Void]

I have a real problem with their marketing of the old movies...

Dude, you've just given away the MAIN SPOILER ENDING on the cover! You planks.

That's like complaining about having the chestbuster scene spoiled in Alien, or knowing before hand that Arnie is actually the good guy in Terminator 2. Some movies spoilers have become part of popculture and there's no way in hell to avoid them so we might as well embrace them.

OT: This could be interesting if they would actually show the rise of the apes from the apes' perspective. Fat change of that happing though. And why does it have to be science which created the apes? I always figured it was "simple" evolution that made the apes top dog.

I think its less that its spoiled present day and more that the original poster art spoiled it at the beginning

 

[Something Amyss]

More "SCIENCE IS BAD" BS, a definate miss on this noe

We need more movies about dystopian futures where modern science was overthrown and the idiots badmouthing it are wiped out by disease and famine....

 

[Casual Shinji]

That's like complaining about having the chestbuster scene spoiled in Alien, or knowing before hand that Arnie is actually the good guy in Terminator 2. Some movies spoilers have become part of popculture and there's no way in hell to avoid them so we might as well embrace them.

OT: This could be interesting if they would actually show the rise of the apes from the apes' perspective. Fat change of that happing though. And why does it have to be science which created the apes? I always figured it was "simple" evolution that made the apes top dog.

I think its less that its spoiled present day and more that the original poster art spoiled it at the beginning

Yeah, I guess you're right. But the thing is, I already knew about the spoiler even before I saw the movie or the poster, because is such an epic revelation that it gets satirized and referenced everywhere. Simply watching a random episode of The Simpsons can already spoil Darth Vader's big secret.

These days it's like every person is born already knowing these spoilers.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

motion-capture legend Andy Serkis as the ape Caesar.

Andy Serkis is such a good actor! It upsets me that he is so type caste as a motion capture guy when he succeeds as an actor on his own standards. But I guess he needs to stop accepting those roles hahah.

OT: You know a movie is going to be terrible when they promote a special effects company in their trailer.

 

[googleback]

motion-capture legend Andy Serkis as the ape Caesar.

Andy Serkis is such a good actor! It upsets me that he is so type caste as a motion capture guy when he succeeds as an actor on his own standards. But I guess he needs to stop accepting those roles hahah.

OT: You know a movie is going to be terrible when they promote a special effects company in their trailer.

well He IS very good at it, there's a lot of money in productions that have that kind of tech behind them. I love the idea of him being typecast as a gorilla after King Kong though! that's hilarious!

 

[millertime059]

Here is why I hate the idea of a modern PotA remake. The original, for all it's shortcomings. is a brilliant film. It was the best parts of what Science Fiction is, a sharp social commentary using abstraction to get people thinking about things. Depending on how you want to parse it the first 3 movies had scathing things to say about the cold war nationalism and/ or the race/ class wars of the 60's. It was beautiful in it's subtlety and message. the problem is modern Hollywood does not get subtlety or context. This looks like 'HERP DERP SCIENCE IS EVALLLLL!!!1!'

 

[theonlyblaze2]

No Charlton Heston=No Apes
That is the law.

EDIT: Also, didn't the reason for the smart apes have something to do with a plague that killed all the cats and dogs?