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Dawn of the planet of the apes review....

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I did see a lot of symbolism in between the apes and black people.

Caesar was supposed to be an Uncle Tom house nigga while Koba was supposed to be a field nigga.



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But Planet of the Apes wasn't the first time the lives of black people in America have been piggybacked to make a movie.

The XMEN did it also.


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koba was outta control when he killed that ape that was like "ceaser wouldn't do that" i was like :smh::smh::crymeariver::crymeariver:
 
Loved this movie. Can they just go ahead and create a special new category for Andy Serkis, because he's killing it right about now.

BTW, the actor who played Koba (Tobey Kebbell) is playing Dr. Doom in the Fantastic Four reboot.
 
I saw no correlation between black folk and the apes in this movie. Sheesh! Just enjoy the flick. Do you see yourself as an ape? Caesar was nowhere close to an Uncle Tom. He may have been naive but he was showing the patience of a leader and a reflection of his early interaction with humans.
 
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Box Office: 'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' Grosses $73M Weekend
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes debuted with a terrific $73 million. That includes $4.1m in Thursday previews and a $27.7m opening Friday. The 20th Century Fox (a division of 21st Century Fox , Inc.) sequel, which cost $170m to produce, opened well above the $54.8m debut weekend scored by Rise of the Planet of the Apes in August 2011. While some of the bump can be attributed to the sequel going 3D (Rise was straight 2D), this is still a case of a sequel breaking out. Rise of the Planet of the Apes had a strong 2.8x weekend multiplier, while the sequel had a surprisingly robust 2.63x, including a drop of just 5% on Saturday. Heck, if you knock off the Thursday previews, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes made more on Saturday (about $26m) than it did during normal Friday business hours ($23.6m). This is why weekend multipliers matter.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which features Andy Serkis and Gary Oldman in a saga taking place ten years after humanity has been mostly wiped out, jumped 33% from the opening weekend of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which would put it above Iron Man 2 (25%) and Thor: The Dark World (32%). The 2D-to-3D explains some of the bounce (Iron Man 3 jumped 35% from the opening weekend of Iron Man 2), but thus far this is somewhat capitalizing on the positive buzz and slow-build success of Rise of the Planet of the Apes three years ago. That film earned $176m domestic and $481m worldwide, the second-biggest August release ever. Barring a complete collapse (unlikely with the strong weekend multiplier and relatively light July slate), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which played 36% 3D and 8% PLF, should cross $200m domestic.

It opened with $31.1 million in 26 markets overseas this weekend for a $104m worldwide debut. Overseas is an open question, but Fox’s unmatched overseas muscle means that I cannot imagine the film not crossing $500m worldwide. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (and The Help) basically closed out the summer 2011 box office season, resulting in a strong 3.25 weekend-to-final multiplier. A similar run, however unlikely, would give the sequel $240 million domestic. It will have to face an uncommonly strong August this time around (Guardians of the Galaxy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sin City 2, Expendables 3). Nonetheless, the comparatively leggy opening weekend, strong reviews, and strong buzz points to a healthy theatrical run.

The Apes franchise has always been a popular one, be it the original five-film series starting in 1968 to Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes remake back in 2001. Yes, said Mark Wahlberg adventure (which basically invented the reboot) was pretty bad, but it scored the second-biggest opening weekend of all-time back then with $69m (it would be about $106m today with 3D and inflation). The series has always been a useful vessel for political/social commentary (this one offers a potent and timely lesson in the seductive power of firearms), even if said topicality is now status quo for most big-scale blockbusters. The film played 47% Caucasian, 23% African-American, 16% Hispanic, and 14% Asian. It played 58% male and 45% over-25 years old. The franchise remains a popular way for audiences to spend two hours thinking about how horrible humanity is.

In limited release news, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood debuted on five screens this weekend. The obscenely well-reviewed “shot over twelve years chronicling a single child growing up” drama earned $358,000 over the weekend, for a robust $71,000 per-screen average. The IFC film will allegedly expand next weekend. The good news is that the film had the second-best limited debut of the year, behind The Grand Budapest Hotel. The “bad” news is that this debut tells you little about how the film will play over the course of its run. It’s a 2.45 hour narrative experiment with no major box office draws. It could top out at $6m or it could catch on by selling to the kinds of families it (relatively speaking) represents. Either way, the fact that it got made (especially considering how it was made) is the only victory that matters here.

The rest is holdover news. Tammy earned another $12.9 million as the Melissa McCarthy comedy dropped just 40% from last weekend. The $20m New Line/Warner Bros. (a division of Time Warner, Inc.) comedy, written off as a flop, has now earned $57.354m domestically. If it can survive Sex Tape next weekend, it has a real shot at $80m-$85m. Paramount’s Transformers: Age of Extinction earned $16.5m (-55%) over its third weekend, bringing its cume to $209m. The Mark Wahlberg film should end its domestic run with $240m, about on par with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Like that (horrible horrible) fourth sequel, the film’s domestic franchise fatigue (the other Transformers films earned $319m, $408m, and $352m respectively) is being compensated for overseas, as the Michael Bay sequel has earned $752m worldwide and still has a shot at that magic $1 billion mark.

DreamWorks Animation's DWA How To Train Your Dragon 2 earned another $5.87 million on its fifth weekend (-37%), bringing what is still the summer’s best “big” movie up to $152m. It’s finally showing something resembling legs just before Walt Disney’s Planes: Fire and Rescue comes to extinguish it next weekend. On the plus side, it has earned $350m worldwide as of today. Sony's 22 Jump Street earned $6.7m on its fifth weekend for a new $171.9m domestic cume, just passing the $169m gross of Bridesmaids. It probably won’t cross $200m domestic, but it will triple its $57m opening weekend and is already one of the biggest R-rated comedies ever. It has also earned $250m worldwide.

Relativity’s Earth To Echo earned $5.5m on its second weekend (-36%). The kid-centric sci-fi adventure has now earned $24.59m domestic. Jersey Boys has now topped $41m, making it the second-biggest grossing film (behind the $90m Mystic River) that Clint Eastwood has directed without starring in. Deliver Us From Evil earned $4.7m (-50%), which isn’t a bad drop for a horror title. The supernatural police procedural brought its domestic cume to $25m, with its utter devastation coming next weekend at the hands of The Purge: Anarchy.

Of note, Dinesh D’souza’s America dropped just 11% in its second weekend, bringing in $2.4m and bringing its cume to $8.267m. It’s not going to challenge Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119m), but getting over/under D’souza’s 2016: Obama’s America ($33m) isn’t out of the question. Walt Disney’s Maleficent earned around $4m (-34%) on weekend six. The Angelina Jolie fantasy has a new domestic cume of $221m. At this rate, it will catch up to X-Men: Days of Future Past ($229m) domestically. With $668m worldwide and going strong, it may-well end up one of the summer’s top global grossers (possibly passing the $733m-and-counting cume for X-Men: Days of Future Past) and one of the most cost-to-gross profitable films of the would-be tent poles (it has earned 3.71x its $180m budget).

The Mark Ruffalo/Keira Knightley musical romance Begin Again expanded to 932 theaters this weekend and earned $2.9m over the frame, with a new domestic cume of $5.2m. Think Like A Man Too earned $2.5m (-49%) over the weekend for a new domestic cume of $61.9m for the $24m comedy sequel. Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow earned another $1.865m, bringing its domestic cume to $94.5m. It has earned $256m overseas for a $350m worldwide cume. Universal’s Neighbors has crossed $251m worldwide on an $18m budget. Oh, and The Fault in Our Stars has earned $119m domestic and $117m overseas for a $237m cume on a $12m budget.

That’s it for this weekend. It’s another busy frame next weekend as Walt Disney’s Planes: Fire and Rescue (seeing it tonight, review tomorrow or Tuesday) squares off against Universal’s The Purge: Anarchy (review Thursday) and Sony’s Cameron Diaz/Jason Segal farce Sex Tape.
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all I've got to say is that Michael Bay needs to watch this movie to learn how to write a movie. This movie was complete and one of the best sequels I have ever seen. I know that Godfather 2 is just about the gold standard for sequels and this movie is silver, or should be it is one of the most complete movies I've seen, and the best part was its unpredictablity.

The Amazing underlying race tones were amazing to me. How the human said that the Apes were animals and live and act like animals, but the one guy realized and Caesar said ," I forget how much we are like them". I swear Kirk Acevedo plays the same shady shit* starter character in every TV show or movie because he's good at it. I love watching the fight within and how each character is different. Every Ape had their own personality and I loved it. I told my friend that if he sees it this week hit me up and I'll go with him to watch it again.I can't say enough good things about this movie
 
i went to 3 diff cinemas today before my girl and I could get tickets

sold out everywhere

Koba was that dude
shame he went about it the wrong way

8/10
 
Saw this movie today. Very well written. It really felt like the Monkey were black folk who are generally a peaceful and forgiving people.
 
godofwine said:
all I've got to say is that Michael Bay needs to watch this movie to learn how to write a movie. This movie was complete and one of the best sequels I have ever seen. I know that Godfather 2 is just about the gold standard for sequels and this movie is silver, or should be it is one of the most complete movies I've seen, and the best part was its unpredictablity.

The Amazing underlying race tones were amazing to me. How the human said that the Apes were animals and live and act like animals, but the one guy realized and Caesar said ," I forget how much we are like them". I swear Kirk Acevedo plays the same shady shit* starter character in every TV show or movie because he's good at it. I love watching the fight within and how each character is different. Every Ape had their own personality and I loved it. I told my friend that if he sees it this week hit me up and I'll go with him to watch it again.I can't say enough good things about this movie
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You have giant 10 story plus tall robots. It would be kind of hard to create a movie like apes
 
4North1Side2 said:
The super highly intelligent monkeys were next door neighbors with the humans but had no clue that they were around. Monkeys attacking the humans directly sacrificing themselves instead of attacking them stealthly by climbing over objects. Kobba never getting shot while riding the horse but having pin point accuarcy while dual wielding a rifle and machine gun. Rifles never needed to be reloaded.
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In the first movie Ceasar wanted the forest to be their world. When this movie first came on they were saying that they haven't seen in humans in 2 winters. I took it as Ceasar probably instructing his apes to stay in their world

Oh yeah just saw it today and it was a great movie
 
Caught the Matinee, hardly anyone in there, i was shocked, whats more shocking is the fact that i keep hearing how well it's doing in the theaters.

was a great movie!
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Lord T said:
For everyone who saw it, what was the crowd size at the theaters? I saw the 9:15 showing last night, and it was pretty empty. Besides me, my girl, and my friend and his girl it was about 15-18 people in the whole theater.

This is one of the films that everyone always complains that Hollywood doesn't make, but when they got a chance to see it are they turning out for it?
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my wife was really hell bent on going to one of the Studio Movie Grills here Friday....but they
were all sold out when we tried to buy tickets online. and all the AMC theaters
we looked at online only had 3D showings.....and we werent trying to watch it in 3D.
So we just went to see it Saturday at Studio Movie Grill and it was packed as shit for a 5:15pm showing.


Koba = Marlo
Ceasar = Prop Joe
 
Lord T said:
For everyone who saw it, what was the crowd size at the theaters? I saw the 9:15 showing last night, and it was pretty empty. Besides me, my girl, and my friend and his girl it was about 15-18 people in the whole theater.

This is one of the films that everyone always complains that Hollywood doesn't make, but when they got a chance to see it are they turning out for it?
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funny you mentioned Studio Movie Grill..that "meat eater" pizza is good :lol:
 
They got it right. That's the highest compliment you can make about a movie.

The apes not wandering makes sense to me because why would they go venture where humans were when they wanted nothing to do with them?

Remember the conversation between Cesar Da God (Will be referred to as CDG going forward) had with Big Mo? Wondering if the humans were all gone and mentioning it had been 10 years since they've seen them in the forest? They not going out into the place humans were..they're staying home.

Now humans I'm sure went there at points but hadn't in 10 years and if they hadn't needed the power they wouldn't have went into the woods either... civilization is dead.. there was a period where everybody was dying, everybody was fighting, and everybody was struggling.. they JUST started getting shit together.. and thus you see them in the forest.

Story was great to me because it was not about the humans.. that was crucial. It was about the apes.. their families, their moods and emotions.. This wasn't a movie that needed a twist. It was a movie where we needed to continue to see how they progressed into what the franchise will eventually be (with them fully evolved)

The Koba shit was necessary.. he had to get it started, next movie will be a huge war.. this was the prelim to what's to come as far as nonstop action goes.

Really enjoyed how little it was about the humans..

Every penny they spent on this movie was well spent.

It wasn't really long to me, it was what it needed to be in order to tell this particular story.

CDG can't be fucked with.
 
There were way too many kids at the showing.. i went to a late one and they had toddlers and shit in there..

the bright spot is within 20 minutes all they asses were asleep.
 
4North1Side2 said:
My theater was packed.
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havelcok said:
i went to 3 diff cinemas today before my girl and I could get tickets

sold out everywhere
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Cool. After seeing the box office take for the weekend I see that it did good. I was just surprised at the turnout at the theater I went to especially on opening night. Every other movie I saw so far: Captain America 2, Amazing Spider Man 2, X-Men: DOFP, Maleficient, Godzilla, Transformers was packed. Even when I saw "Edge of Tomorrow" it had a sparse crowd but more than my "Dawn" crowd.

The worst turnout I've been to this year was going to see "Raid 2" at the theaters opening night. It was me and four of my friends that met up to go see it....and in the whole movie theater it me and my four friends!:lol: Man I wish we had brought some beers in there we were tripping like we were watching the shit at home!:lol:
 
largebillsonlyplease said:
There were way too many kids at the showing.. i went to a late one and they had toddlers and shit in there..

the bright spot is within 20 minutes all they asses were asleep.
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That must be a new phenomenon or some shit b/c I see folks out at all hours of da night & at such movies w/their kids. :smh:
 
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:smh: Horrible parenting these days. I went to Walmart for cough medicine at 2am and saw about 10 kids in there. I had to be in bed at 7:30 growing up. Parents buying them snacks in their jammies and crap....:smh:

ShortyCumStain said:
That must be a new phenomenon or some shit b/c I see folks out at all hours of da night & at such moviea w/their kids. :smh:
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Lord T said:
For everyone who saw it, what was the crowd size at the theaters? I saw the 9:15 showing last night, and it was pretty empty. Besides me, my girl, and my friend and his girl it was about 15-18 people in the whole theater.

This is one of the films that everyone always complains that Hollywood doesn't make, but when they got a chance to see it are they turning out for it?
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The 4:50 showing about 65% full in a giant RPX theatre.
8 P.M showing 90% full
Thats right so good i wanted to see it again...second time for free though...love multiplexes

Koba:Human work,human work,human work !!!!!!!
 

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