Is there any point in continuing?
Sunday, November 25th, 2007I decided to pass the time by watching Planet of the Apes (the Marky Mark remake), but about an hour in I was interrupted by a phonecall. Now I can’t bring myself to continue watching. Does it get better later? Marky Mark is nice to watch, so I may still try to carry on for his sake. I find myself being irritated by Helena Bonham Carter’s character, though I can’t explain why. When I saw Kris Kristofferson with his unkempt locks I immediately thought of him as Whistler in Blade… (wasn’t he a country singer back in the day? Kris, not Whistler - though that’d be a cool name for a country singer…).
I should probably go to bed. Or eat some porridge (AKA oatmeal). I’ve been feeling very unsettled today. I woke up early (10:30am) then went back to bed for a few hours at 2pm, then I went to Croydon. Then I came home.
More thoughts in the morning.
1:06 am on 25-Nov-07
No, give up.
It’s a bad movie, with a worse ending.
2:24 am on 25-Nov-07
Thanks Splotchy. I had some problems with my net connection and thought that this post hadn’t been published. So I became disheartened and decided to go back to the movie… and it was bad, though I enjoyed the documentary at the end about the makeup and direction, etc. Saturday nights are made for dodgy blockbusters, so I’m not too mad (I knew it had bad reviews).
6:44 am on 25-Nov-07
Yes, the remake is pretty uneven, (Danny Elfman’s score is pretty good) The ending still hasnt been explained yet.
3:40 pm on 25-Nov-07
It never did get any better, you’re right. The Helena Bonham Carter thing was a matter I think of having a relatively attractive ape to make us feel all creepy.
4:57 pm on 25-Nov-07
I’m still wondering what happened to Daena’s (Estella Warren) babyfather?
I cringed when he kissed HBC, then snogged the blonde.
And the ending was apparently supposed to allow the possibility of a sequel. It’s like Donnie Darko all over again, where countless theories have been proposed about alternate/parallel universes, time-travel and how Thade might have somehow either a) travelled to earth before humans were the dominate species and taken over, or b) single-handedly overthrown modern-day humans and recreated our society for the super-apes, or c) escaped the ship and took over the planet again and using the technology which Mark provided started a new civilization in his own image…
7:29 pm on 25-Nov-07
Let me put it like this…
http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/p/planet-of-the-apes2.shtml