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I love films although I never seem to get to see all the films I’d like to.
I watched this film the other night. I didn’t know much about it, nor about the actual events back in 1968, but it was a fantastic film with some great performances and a superb story.
I love films that are unexpectedly wonderful, and this is certainly one of those. I loved it.
So I’ve finished watching all the films now. I really enjoyed seeing them all in sequence, that was really good, they make a lot of sense when you take them like that.
My favourite is still ‘Conquest’, and for the most part I’d forgotten ‘Battle’. When it started it came back to me again. It did seem a little half hearted though as an ending to the series of films which was a little bit of a shame.
But I still have the documentary DVD to watch and I might do that over the weekend.
Obviously planet of the apes films! I’m just finishing off conquest, which is my favourite of them all, and it is great to watch them again all in sequence. It really brings the films to life and shows you just what a great concept they were.
Overall I’ve been really impressed with these films. I think they’ve stood the test of time and they still work well together. Of course you couldn’t make films like that now. They are slow, ponderous and thoughtful that I’m not sure they’d work cold for a modern audience. I think that was also shown by the terrible remake that came out.
I’m enjoying these immensely and looking forward to watching the lot and the documentary DVD at the end as well.
I bought the Planet of the Apes box set of films. They are amazing!
As I’m watching this right now I thought I’d share some thoughts on the reasons why it didn’t work as a 21st Century franchise. The original series was brilliant. There’s no doubt about that, and actually the 2004 version had a lot of good points. It had a good cast (Lady Penelope and Parker were brilliant in fact), some great special effects and the story wasn’t too bad either.
But where they went wrong in my opinion, is in trying to move away from the central thrust of the story. They tried to make the children an integral part of the story instead of it just being about disasters and awesome machines. I think that if they’d stuck to the formula it would have had a much better chance.
It’s a shame really as I think it would have made a good franchise really, but it wasn’t to be.
I just watched ‘Informant’, a film with Matt Damon by Steven Soderbergh, who’s work I normally like, but I felt like this film really missed the mark. It has some good moments and Damon’s performance was good, but it didn’t hang together as a story for me.
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