Maybe I should have been smarter, maybe I should have been wiser. However, when I went to see this, I was hoping, maybe even expecting, something intelligent that represented science fiction. However, this was not science fiction, and did not have an ounce of intelligence in its overly-long body. The movie is crap. It is dreck.
First, I was not expecting the original. The original had a very '60s or hippy mindset about how humans destroyed the earth, and nature took over. That wouldn't go over now. So, I asked myself, what could they do to the movie to make it more modern. It seemed to me that they tried by making it be a metaphor for class wars, or political racism. But that was soon abandoned. Eventually it became the usual. A watered-down post-apocalyptic-like road movie (or escape, whatever).
I was too busy searching for some sign of intelligence to tell you how the acting was (it could have been good, it could have been horrible). Visually it was stunning if you have to resort to that. And the score was wonderful (thanks Danny Elfman). But for the rest of the movie, skip it. I was so frustrated that before the ending came up, my Gatorade bottle was a crumpled mess.
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The end of the movie was just pure hilarity. Maybe I wouldn't have found it so funny if I hadn't called it before it actually occurred. Right as Wahlberg got into the pod, I asked my friend, "Wouldn't it be funny if Earth was taken over by apes?" Lo and behold, it happened. And with police cars and everything, it kind of reminded me of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"'s ending. The Jefferson monument was a hark back to those cool cartoons where they would blow up Mt. Rushmore and it would turn into the villains face. Maybe I shouldn't be so judgemental, but that was the only redeeming part of the whole movie (and for all the wrong reasons).
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2/10
First, I was not expecting the original. The original had a very '60s or hippy mindset about how humans destroyed the earth, and nature took over. That wouldn't go over now. So, I asked myself, what could they do to the movie to make it more modern. It seemed to me that they tried by making it be a metaphor for class wars, or political racism. But that was soon abandoned. Eventually it became the usual. A watered-down post-apocalyptic-like road movie (or escape, whatever).
I was too busy searching for some sign of intelligence to tell you how the acting was (it could have been good, it could have been horrible). Visually it was stunning if you have to resort to that. And the score was wonderful (thanks Danny Elfman). But for the rest of the movie, skip it. I was so frustrated that before the ending came up, my Gatorade bottle was a crumpled mess.
SPOILERS****SPOILERS****SPOILERS*****SPOILERS****SPOILERS*****SPOILERS
The end of the movie was just pure hilarity. Maybe I wouldn't have found it so funny if I hadn't called it before it actually occurred. Right as Wahlberg got into the pod, I asked my friend, "Wouldn't it be funny if Earth was taken over by apes?" Lo and behold, it happened. And with police cars and everything, it kind of reminded me of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"'s ending. The Jefferson monument was a hark back to those cool cartoons where they would blow up Mt. Rushmore and it would turn into the villains face. Maybe I shouldn't be so judgemental, but that was the only redeeming part of the whole movie (and for all the wrong reasons).
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2/10