No, I will not elaborate.

Okay, I will elaborate a little. I hate disney movies, they’re all slop, but I loved the last PotA trilogy (Rise, Dawn, War), in fact War is one of my favourite movies of all time. I was extremely concerned with the big mouse bought Fox that they would disneyfy PotA but Kingdom had similar vibes to the last trilogy and had some really lovely moments, e.g. the observatory scenes and any scene with Raka. Soundtrack was also nice. I liked it.

  • delirious_owl@discuss.onlineEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    Rise was great, but I could never get over the giant plot hole of Dawn. They started a war over a dam to power radio devices?

    Ffs its San Francisco…just have some folks hop on a bicycle generator. You don’t need that much power for a radio.

    • puff [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      I mean they wanted to power the entire human civilization in SF; they were living inside an enormous skyscraper. Suspend your disbelief, it’s an amazing trilogy.

      • delirious_owl@discuss.onlineEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        You really don’t need that much power. Especially for post apocalyptic society. They are so few people and surrounded by tons of infrastructure that was capable of supplying power for 500 times their population.

        I didn’t even mention solar power. There was a scene where they even had a small solar panel at their tent. Don’t tell me they can’t go collect solar panels from the rich folks homes in SF and the hills of the East Bay…

      • delirious_owl@discuss.onlineEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I didn’t actually. Maybe that’s the source of this silly plot tho?

        Might make more sense if they just tried to squeeze in a hat tip where it didn’t belong

  • Red_sun_in_the_skyEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I just watched it today. I won’t say I liked this more than the last three. It wasn’t too tense. I liked the visuals and the forests. I was waiting for at least one action set piece that’s wild. I loved when the ape commandeers a tank in the second movie. There wasn’t anything like that in this (at least how I felt).

    Tap for spoiler

    The main plot felt ok. The stakes felt off. I feel like they should have amped up the humans wanting to keep the weapons and information to themselves as opposed to apes getting it. Only to open that schism near the end felt like a cheap setup to the next movie. They should’ve gotten the ape clans and proximus stuff over in the first half. Then the human conflict should’ve been started in the second half of the movie. I did like raka though. Gone too soon.

  • novibeEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I just rewatched the trilogy, and I gotta say if libs don’t understand why people “worship” Kim il sung and the Kim family in general after it I think media literacy is dead. I will not elaborate. Not even a little.

    • delirious_owl@discuss.onlineEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Are you referring to the hierarchy of the apes or the humans or both?

      There at plenty of humans that prefer to live in non hierarchical communities…have been for centuries

      • novibeEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I did say I wasn’t doing to elaborate, but I mean of Caesar as a Kim il sung figure. Like he wasn’t the ONLY reason the apes managed to free themselves (no great men and all), but he still was extremely instrumental. And all apes respected him, like a leader, and respected his family. They followed him and were loyal to him. They had faith in him. Because he sacrificed so much for all of them. And they kept his memory alive, a memory of freedom and struggle, of loyalty. He represented that for them. The struggle to be be free. Winning that struggle.

        Like I had first watched the trilogy when I was younger, and when I rewatched it now the first thing that popped into my head after the movie was like: Caesar is a communist revolutionary, and these just showed how a “cult of personality” is naturally born from the struggle for freedom. Like wouldn’t you love and devote yourself to the person and their cause that freed you from torture, slavery, abuse? That freed all your friends and family??

        Please don’t take me seriously, I’m silly and high.

          • novibeEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I mean not specifically Kim, but like Fidel, Mao, Lenin etc.

            But also that not understanding how people can love a leader in such a way shows so much privilege.