Timing

Three weeks and two days after the opening of Rise of the Planet of The Apes, the N.Y. Times runs a piece by Annie Eisenberg that states once again how 2011 performance-capture technology has made it very, very hard to tell that the apes in Rupert Wyatt‘s film aren’t real? That‘s what they’re bringing to the table as Labor Day approaches? Why didn’t the Times wait until October? Don’t half-ass being late to the table — go all out.

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7 thoughts on “Timing”

  1. I’m disappointed ROTPOTA hasn’t become a mega-hit. It opened very well and has had slightly better legs than standard blockbuster fare but I was hoping it would really catch on with the public like Inception did (not saying its quite that good) . I haven’t heard anyone say they didn’t like it but a lot of my friends have still not seen it.

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  3. A little different BoulderKid. Inception had twice the budget and star power that ROTPOTA has, and was definitely the kind of movie that you were told over and over was a masterpiece before anyone saw it. ROTPOTA was a film that was not heavily promoted and you may have forgotten about, but then I’ll be damned the critics love it.

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  4. ROTPOTA is merely a satisfying B movie. There is no must-see factor to this flick whatsoever. It’s an lightly entertaining 100 minutes at the cinema and it is quickly forgotten the next day.

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  5. @RFignlia.

    I wouldn’t say its forgettable. It may be a “b-movie” in that is a genre picture, but I think it engages some substantive themes in a way that most of these films don’t. Caesar’s humanity and the process by which he rejects his domestication stuck with me, and the scene when he first speaks is one of the better “oh shit, this is a powerful moment in a film that really doesn’t seem like it should have powerful moments” moments in recent memory.

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  6. I finally caught it on Friday. It never had a “must-see” buzz about it, even though it’s one of the better movies of the summer. Does Rupert Wyatt have his next directing gig lined up? I would someone would want to snatch him up quickly. And Andy Serkis was phenomenal.

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