Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Trailer)

August 5th, James Franco will direct drug-testing on a bunch of apes that will gain radically increased brain function...and the apes will rise up from their oppression and medical incarceration and wreck havoc on humanity. You will believe a gorilla can (almost) fly. Apparently.

Wow.



This certainly looks more promising than the other remake that just didn't quite really work. It came close, but the last 5 minutes couldn't save it. Really, if it had begun where it ended, it would have been an amazing movie. But instead we got a forced story that had to hit all the plot-points lifted from a casual viewing of the original movie, just in case the audience were all a pack of dirty apes in chains watching a movie like the chain-gang in Where Brother Art Thou. But hey, that's so much monkey-poo under the bridge.

This new movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes looks like fun. Of course that's what a trailer is supposed to do, so the movie itself might not meet the expectations put forth by the trailer, but hey, this one looks like it's worth taking a gamble on...besides watching WETA do the effects for a gorilla taking out a helicopter sounds like it'll be either amazingly impressive or ridiculous beyond belief...and either way, it'll be a great popcorn moment.

Red Riding Hood

Hammer is back and they're doing Fairy Tales just the way that only Hammer could do things--and it looks amazing--despite the fact that it's directed by the same director that did that pile of filmographical scheiss  er um movie, Twilight, gak, barf, vomit, which really wasn't my cup of tea.  Gary Oldman looks good as a werewolf hunter, and the sets look incredible...who knows, someone besides Oldman might even be able to actually act in this thing.  A guy can hope. 

With any luck, maybe they'll remake The Reptile.  That was a fairly original movie, with an interesting monster that wasn't straight off the shelf.  It'd be cool to see what they could do with it now...but then again, they did come up with a weird slot game promotion based on the 1971 vampire movie Twins of Evil, part of the notorious Karnstein Trilogy (Which some people think ought to be a quadrology including Vampire Circus, or even a quintology if you add-in Captain Kronos) which was based in turn upon J. Sheriden Le Fanu's Classic Carmilla..so I don't know what to think...but I'll probably have to see this movie.