"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Film Review

In my spare time I go to the cinema, I have alot of spare time so this is usually twice a week down my local independent cinema where I review them for a local website ad occasionally for the paper. Unfortunately they don't always get used so I thought I'd upload my verdict on " Rise of the Planet of the Apes" on the off chance someone would actually read and find it useful -

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (12A)

While researching a cure for Alzheimer’s scientist Will Rodman ( James Franco) takes home an orphaned chimpanzee after it’s mother is “put down” due to a failed drug trial. In Will’s care Ceasar the chimp begins to display near human intelligence, intelligence that could prove dangerous as it grows...

                                                               One angry monkey

My reaction to the trailer for “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” went something like, “That looks ridiculous, I want to see it.” What I expected was a far fetched, unbelievable and big budgeted blockbuster involving some sort of monkey uprising that would be enjoyable but equally laughable. What this film delivers though is quite something else…

The thing about the film that makes it so brilliant is the CGI (computer generated imagery). It’s astounding. It’s hard to believe that all the apes are essentially cartoons but are so detailed that you would be forgiven for mistaking them for real monkeys. The motion capture CGI is so effective that you even empathise with the chimps and long sequences involving only the monkeys interacting with each other did not drag what so ever and made the possibility of the plot all the more realistic. What was Avatar again?

Caesar's reaction to the new "One Direction" song proved his human intelligence

Behind Caesar is Andy Serkis, also known for being behind other motion captured characters such as “King Kong” and “Gollum” in “Lord of the Rings,” so really the unofficial master of motion capture cemented by this  show – stealing turn. James Franco, Freida Pinto and the other human members of the cast were good, not award worthy but enough to keep the story going despite being overshadowed by their CG counterparts.

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" suffered some genre confusion when it went all "Oliver Twist"

The film is also thought provoking, raising some controversial questions we all have some opinion on.  Is animal testing justifiable? Is keeping animals in captivity wrong? And for me who were the real animals in the film?

An emotional, exciting and epic picture. A sequel is almost definite to this worthwhile watch – 4/5

Things are looking up, even if salad is involved!

Human contact achieved! Good thing too as another day at home may have led me to actually chew my arm off, or worse - turn into a full hermit like my younger brother who's gone mentally derranged and demands to strangers Xbox live, "Tell me you like penguins!" and serenades then with heartfelt renditions of Coldplay's "Yellow".

We walked around our miserable hometown for 4 hours talking about anything and everything. To the stranger's ear bollocks but I like talking bollocks. I'm very good at it, it's what friendship is all about. Not that I should give lessons on that, being socially awkward makes it hard to find a proper group of people who are on the same wavelength as you so I guess even if it did take 15 years I'm lucky to have these guys! Look at me the old sap!

When I arrived home I found my Mum cooking. Mum. Cooking? Yes indeed, she's decided we need to start eating healthily so I found a chicken breast, salad and sauteed potatoes on my plate today. It doesn't sound too bad but GIVE ME BACK MY FROZEN CHICKEN DIPPERS! I want processed food and it's only been a day.

Dieting is the most stupid practise (practise, practise, practice blah) and when it happens in our house it consists of everyone eating sloppy Weight Watchers microwave meals then getting fed up and ordering a "one off" chinese take away at the weekend. It's scary and serious this time, she asked me to do...badmington with her!! What the duck is that all about?

Lets just accept that some people just aren't meant to be skinny!


As I have no photo of the three of us here's an excellent photo of Michelle McManus from when I stalked her around Murcia airport -

Laters

Actual Human Contact!!!

Today I'm going to meet up with a couple of friends, doesn't sound majorly exciting but I haven't seen them or any other people of my age for around two and a half weeks, partly because I've been on holiday but otherwise just because I fail as a teenager.

We are going to loiter around street corners and take turns swigging Blackthorne from the bottle (which we stole of course) and shout abuse at old people. Actually that probably wont happen, probably more like we'll loiter around the beach, swigging fanta from the can (which we bought) and only shouting abuse at eachother, a regular occurance.

I just have to wait another 4 hours. Typical isn't it - I arranged it so I could have a lie in but then because I know it's going to happen I'm wide awake and showered by 8 in the morning. I guess I'll just have to watch the Jeremy Kyle Show and take pleasure in watching that dreadful man patronizing drug addicts, mornings can't get much better!

Later on I might try and post a picture of all of us (mainly to make this blog look more interesting. My "People who may have found me interesting" aka "page views" is at 6, I see this as an achievement) so you can see what cool regular sort of teenagers we are...um...sort of!

I'll leave you with this photo -

Yes, my poor unsuspecting dog was forcibly made to wear a unicorn hat for my amusment - but it's funny right?

Queries on Shopping

I guess I should type blabble hear then yes and you'll promise to read it?

Today I went shopping, I have some queries on the matter;
-Why do till people ask if you would like your receipt in the bag? Where else is it going to go? I'm half tempted just to say, "No just put it in my ear, it's warm and safe in there."
-Why do some changing room assistants take your items and hang them up for you. It's not as if they are too heavy as otherwise we wouldn't of carried them around the whole shop with us.
-Why do changing room assistants ask you how many items you have and then count them again anyway?
- Why do tweenie groups of friends always match. Look at 11-14 year old groups of shoppers, they always co-ordinate. It's scary.
-Why do people always feel the need to talk loud enough in changing rooms for the whole shop to know that you need to bring alcohol to Matt's 14th birthday party and that your boobs look funny in this dress. I usually concoct sarcastic resposes under my breath.

That's all I can think off to query at the mo(fo). I like to question things and people and won't stop until they give a credible answer. I once had a very amusing conversation (arguement) with my science teacher on why knowing about atoms would at all help me become a journalist. He said it would make me think "locigally," I responded that it's more important to be creative. His outfits radiate logicality. His face radiates a strange smell.

I like shopping though. I don't consider myself materialistic but we would all be kidding ourselves if we said we didn't like to spoil ourselves with nice things and show our personalities through our attire. I try to do this, it normally involves flowers which is strange considering I'm not an overally flowery person. My aura would be a shade of purple, I'm a purple person.

Better fly guys. Type you later!

Recently I started typing all my thoughts into a word document. It seemed futile, why write down what I was thinking to myself? Why not share it with all you lucky people!?
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