Posted on 06/29/2014 7:38:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Audiences will get more than a dystopian future when they line up to see Dawn of the Planet of the Apes next month.
The second film in the rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise reportedly packs a pro-gun control message, according to a new review of the film in Variety. The story also touches on environmental fear mongering, albeit in a reduced fashion compared to the first installment.
The “Apes” franchise has always been a politically loaded one, and this latest entry states its left-wing credo in ways both allegorically implicit and bluntly direct. (You’d have to be pretty obtuse to miss the pro-gun-control subtext attached to misdeeds on both sides of the man-monkey battle.) While the previous film functioned as something of a cautionary tale against man’s destructive meddling with his environment, “Dawn” apportions blame a little more equally, as the beasts (introduced in a thrilling, technically jaw-dropping faceoff against a grizzly bear) are shown to be no less reckless an influence on the biosphere than their former superiors. “I always think ape better than human,” Caesar admits to Malcolm, his speech patterns having evolved rather rapidly even over the course of this film. “I see now how like them we are.” It’s a reverse epiphany that would have Jane Goodall in tears.
The upcoming film is set roughly a decade after the 2011 hit which showed how the franchise's genetically engineered apes came to be....
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There is only one “Planet of the Apes” movie and it is the original starring Charlton Heston. All of the others stink. That is all.
Darn. Please let the new Transformers movie be absent of this tripe. While I did enjoy the action of White House Down the leftwing propoganda was almost too much to suffer thru
Who knew that there were so many apes in the US?
U got dat rite
I’ll watch it when it shows up on bittorrent.
Get real. Cats are way more intelligent than dogs. I have made up numerous studies showing that to be true.
Read the comments on Variety. Uproarious. I keep going back and laughing. I think one of the best was referring to the ape Caesar riding a horse carrying an m4, the commenter said that that was a great picture of our commander in chief.
They elected Barack Obama :-)
Actually that was a scientist who worked with Caesars friend at the drug company. He was exposed to the virus that gives apes intelligence. apparently its a deadly pathogen to us.
O God I love it so much but we can’t hand ammo like that to our enemies!
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Yeah, uh…I think you’re right.
I don’t blame the Mod for removing it (I didn’t intend it like that).
I understand.
I've been watching it, piecemeal, the last few hours and I got bored. The way they 'transform' from car(the autobots) to warrior is repetitious and boring as well. No imagination, it's just an obvious CGI blend routine.
Probably be a whole bunch of food just laying around, with most of the humans killed off by a plague.
ahhh leftist propaganda..funny how these same Hollywood lib who hate guns so much have armed guards protecting their asses 24/7
Didn’t the first one attempt to have Charlton Heston make some “antigun” point?
I think it was achieved in the editing of a cameo scene he was in.
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