Re: Rise of the Apes
All I can say is WOW. This was a great movie. I liked it from the previews to begin with, but I figured that they just showed all the good parts and details in them anyways. Man was I surprised. It's a great story and somewhat believable. I agree that the CGI is something to be "discussed" but it didn't really make the movie any less worthy of seeing.
The argument of how could they defeat jets and tanks and what not, could be easily explainable, allow me to theorize for a moment.
They are going to let man bring the war to them, and knowing how aggressive/violent/vengeful men can be, I'm sure we would. How many tanks can navigate the forests, we wouldn't use our jets to get to them because we won't be able to see them under all that thick brush. Also I understand that we might just start cutting/blowing up the forests, but we couldn't do it to all of them. The apes would have migrated and began populating other areas also, allowing them to increase their numbers. We would have to send in troops, but again, it would be their land and they are supremely dominate in a wooded environment.
Also being that they are mostly nocturnal creatures (and very agile and strong), they would be somewhat covert. Attacking at night, going in to urban areas, using the buildings as their trees, perhaps unleashing the virus in secret on us and/or wiping out our leaders.
Also the virus may in fact be easily transferable from human to human. In the movie there was a brief scene where an infected human sneezes on someone else maybe at that moment transferring it to him. That man was a father, he could easily transfer it to his children, they could easily transfer it to their classmates, they in turn transfer it to their parents, they in turn... you get where I'm going with this. Hell, maybe even the apes could transfer the virus to humans.
All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
