Oh yeah, saw PotA aka blink or you'll miss Kris Kristoferson. I bet Blotus's favorite movie actor is Kris Kristoferson. Anyway, I enjoyed watching PotA....Now on to my random critique of the movie previews...

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Why is Hollywood trying to push Freddie Prinze Jr as a star? Why, I ask you, why?! This guy fucking sucks...

Hmmm, I have very little motivation to see "The Others" when it comes out in theaters in a few weeks because it seemed like they showed 30 minutes of it in the freakin' trailer. Oh who am I kidding? I'm a sucker for ghost stories.


Johnny Depp is hanging in there. Don't give up Johnny! I still believe you in you!

Did I mention Kris Kristoferson is in the planet of the apes?

My fave ape was Michael Clark Duncan. It's his voice. I find myself walking around saying his lines.

I'm looking forward to Jet Li's new pic, The One. Hopefully they'll realize that plot is secondary to this guy's martial arts skills and let him fly. The bullet scene which they ripped off of The Matrix realy got me.

Err...that's it for now...</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Bah more Matrix ripping.....bah.....I just hope the Matrix has some awesome flight fights.</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Seeing as how I don't know who Kris Kristoferson is, I'm gonna have to say he's no favorite of mine.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Oh please, don't try to deny it. Everybody knows about your crush on Kris Kristoferson...</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Oh yeah, some definite Matrix ripoffs...but it's Jet Li, so I'm way more forgiving than I'd usually be... ;)</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>POTA was quite possibly the worst movie I've seen since Scream and Armageddon. This movie isn't worth a banana peel to the original 1967 film.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Worst since way back in Armageddon and Scream days? Surely you've seen worse since then? What didn't you like about it? Yeah, there was plenty wrong with it (parts of plot, anti-climatic battle, etc), but the look of the film put it over the top, IMO....</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>The sad thing is, even with all this negative criticism, I'm still going to see it because it's Tim Burton and Danny Elfman. Maybe I'll sneak in another FF showing while I'm at it...</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Can't they write a Jet Li movie -WITH- a plot? Jesus...it's not that fucking hard!</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>It's an entertaining movie. Go in just expecting that, and you'll probably enjoy it.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>The question isn't if they can, but why?</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>I have to agree. Jackie Chan in Rush Hour just made his popularity jump 10 fold. And then there's the plotful of movie, Crouching Tiger. But that's not a kung fu flick, so sez the director.</div>

[kali o.]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It was pretty damn stupid....not Tomb Raider stupid mind you...but pretty bad.

Almost made me wish I saw "American Sweethearts" instead....

The One with Jet Li does look pretty sweet though....I'll be seeing that.

KO-</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>Why make the FF movie with a plot when you can spend $125 million on eyecandy?</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I thought it had a decent plot. Not spectacular, but about what I'd expect from Square.</div>

[Caddy Punk]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Verdana; text-align: left; '>I thought Tim Burton put all the things he liked from the old PotA movies into this. Well... I like just about anything from Tim Burton.

I guess I went in expecting a remake... but I liked this new one :).</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>Really? Every Final Fantasy story eclipsed it by far (and these are games). Don't even get into Xenogears.</div>

[Manshoon]

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>That's what happens when you try to compress a 40-hour game into 90 minutes.</div>

[S.Cody2]

<div style='font: 14pt Plakatbau; text-align: left; '>But they didn't do that. They just expected to coast along on the 'Wow factor' while shoveling out drivel the whole goddamn length.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bingo! Now you're getting the idea! :)</div>

[Blotus]

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>It was pretty okay. Plot holes and potential undeveloped sub-plots all over the place, but overall it was decent. Better than most of the PotA sequels, but doesn't touch the original. "It's a madhouse! A Maaadhouuuusse!"</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Like I said, I didn't think it was spectacular, but I thought it was pretty good.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>What made the story drivel?</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>story line was fine! I liked it, and I saw the movie 2x</div>

[Tortolia]

<div style='font: 9pt arial; text-align: left; '>I rather enjoyed it. Then again, I don't expect much from my summer Hollywood blockbusters. Keeps me entertained that way.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>It was the whole "averageness" of it. I've seen really good movies with really good SFX before, so why not this one?</div>

[Lox]

<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Freddie Prinze Jr could possibly be worth anything if he'd stop trying to be the teenage girl sex symbol by acting in the exact same chick flick over and over and over. It's sad when there other guys his age who are 100x cooler than he is.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Actually, I heard that Morgan and Wong did the script, so I expect it to be interesting at the very least. These guys wrote some of the best eps of X-files and Millenium ever. In fact, after they left Millenium, the show sucked big time...I can guarauntee it'll be better than KotD (scriptwise)...</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I hear ya...</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Yup, doesn't match up to the original, but it's aight...BOWWWW YOUR HEADS!</div>

[Manshoon]

<div style='font: 14pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Well yeah, I'm just saying the games have an unfair advantage when it comes to story, so there's not much point in comparing them with the movie.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Average is not drivel. Average is average; drivel is below average.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>SPOILER!


Mark Wahlberg goes home and sees his home planet full of apes.

I suppose the apes on its own planet was able to have rocket technology and launch a colony ship into the time warp zone and ended up going to Earth at a much earlier time than Mark, and thus rule the planet?

Planet of the Apes in Twighlight Zone is a better title.</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Disreguarding the fact that the Apes advanced <i>exactly</i> as we did (complete with their own U.S. and Space Program), how the hell did Thade become Lincoln?</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>to rationalize it. The only way for the ending to make sense involves very large assumptions bordering on the absurd.

It was cool to watch, though. But that's about all it was intended for.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Where'd the horses from from? It was basically a non-hostile planet(ie no other animals) and the space ship had only apes.....not horses!</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>I thought it was okay until the last 30 minutes or so. I kept thinking, if this was released back when Square was in it's FFIV mentality everybody on Earth killed by the Phantoms would have come back to life at the end.</div>

[Chockboard]

<div style='font: 10pt arial; text-align: left; '>It's really not, it's more a story about restrained desires. Bad-ass kung fu chicks are just a bonus. A really cool bonus.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>I agree somewhat that the action is not its selling point. The story alone was well worth it.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>This movie was not made for thinking.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>It's so bad I'd consider it as a parody of the original.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt Verdana, Tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>That's a bit harsh. I thought it was entertaining, and that's all I asked for.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '><i>"Mark Wahlberg goes home and sees his home planet full of apes.

I suppose the apes on its own planet was able to have rocket technology and launch a colony ship into the time warp zone and ended up going to Earth at a much earlier time than Mark, and thus rule the planet? "</i>

I wondered about that too.
I think one possibility is that General Thade found out a way to get the ship working (remember, he was imprisoned there) and thus, found a way to get to Earth, and teach the apes how to do stuff.

Another possibility is that Marky Mark went to an alternate dimension where apes took over naturaly.

Burton kinda left the ending...well, open-ended.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '><i>"Where'd the horses from from? It was basically a non-hostile planet(ie no other animals) and the space ship had only apes.....not horses! "</i>

C'mon! If they can have talking apes throwing humans in nets, we can forgive them for having a couple horses. ;) And what does the precense of horses have anything to do with the planet being hostile?</div>

[Imakeholesinu]

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>We all may be cooler than him, but he's bangin buffy...</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Buffy is a bitch. My friend back in L.A. served her a few times at Coffee Bean and said she wouldn't look or speak to him or anyone else in the store. I wouldn't sleep with her. And yes, I am serious about that.</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>At least the ending made me feel that way. I guess Burton wanted to recreate the "Damn you all to hell!" feeling.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>And when MM was able to make it back to our solar system, he appeared right next to Saturn, where all this story began. And in like 2 minutes, he made it to Earth! In the beginning of the movie, he was complaining about being so far away from Earth for two long years....then why the HELL DIDN'T HE JUST COMMUTE! =8^D</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>What did you expect from the battle? That the Ape army would crap in their hands and fling it at the humans?</div>

[Torgo]

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>You're probably right, I guess they just wanted an ending that came way out of left field. I asked because if there was any rational explanation for those events, I sure as hell wanted to know it.</div>