What was so bad about this, again?

The most underrated movie of 2001.

I saw it in the theater and I have not seen it since then. I'm watching it again right now. I remember being bored with it, but I was 17 at the time so maybe my taste has changed. So far, there's nothing bad about it, the makeup effects are phenomenal. I also was never one that hated the ending, I was just indifferent with it.

Dragonzord! Mastodon! Pterodactyl! Triceratops! Saber Toothed Tiger! Tyrannosaurus!

Great makeup effects....great sets....okay plot....a couple of good characters in Ari and Thade, but the rest was terrible.
The script was a juvenile mess and Wahlberg was flat and lifeless. He and Burton both have admitted this was not a good movie.
Some of it is simply groan inducing.

Yeah I have to agree with you. This is one of the few films Tim has done that hasn't completely been done in CGI. The apes look very realistic & the music is cool. I remember really enjoying it back then.

People tend get annoyed over the ending, which I hear is closer to the book. But it never really bothered me.

-Who is it?
-It's Grandpa. And it sounds like he's gotten into the horseradish again.

lol I thought your title meant something like "Everybody start naming something that was bad about this and let's see how many years we can keep the thread going."

The ape makeup is phenomenal, I will give it that. It also moves quickly enough from set piece to set piece, but that's pretty much it. It is a passable summer action movie, but it has virtually none of the satirical edge of any of the original movies. There are a couple of throwaway lines referring to the topsy-turvy nature of things ("apes in cages, imagine that"), and then on to the next plot point.

That's my issue with it; It's only a Planet of the Apes movie in the most superficial way possible. Every other PotA movie (Rise and Dawn included) is about something more than just ape masks. Even the twist at the end of this one serves no purpose other than having a twist at the end. It is closer to the ending of the novel, but it lacks all of the context contained in the novel.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with having a movie that's just an action or adventure movie. Not every movie has to have something to say, but when that is the standard established by the franchise, then that is what I expect to get when I pay for my ticket.


What does God need with a starship?

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