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Posted by Chad Shumaker (Member # 2384) on July 12, 2013, 09:32 PM:

Does anyone know if Super 8 trailers exist for the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes (yeah, yeah, I know, echh!) and the more recent (and better) Rise of the Planet of the Apes?

Posted by Ernie Zahn (Member # 274) on July 13, 2013, 09:12 PM:

Yuck. And yes I think so for the Burton film. Inquire with Phil at CHC to be sure.

Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on July 13, 2013, 09:26 PM:

There is a 16mm trailer for Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes on Us Ebay,if that helps. Robbiesreels is selling it.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on July 14, 2013, 07:47 AM:

I have a feeling that CHC sold prints. On the whole,it wasn't a bad
film, not in the same class as the original, but those ape fights
were very well done.

Posted by Ernie Zahn (Member # 274) on July 14, 2013, 08:22 AM:

All of my ape fan friends truly dislike it. I give it kudos for the amazing make-up work and and the choreography as you mentioned, Hugh.

Everything else about the film is pretty bad and literally set the franchise back 10 years.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on July 14, 2013, 05:42 PM:

I take your point Ernie, but the book it was based on bore little
resemblance to Franklin Schaffners film, although it was an improvement, thanks to folks like Rod Serling. The Tim Burton
film, I WOULD buy tomorrow, I think Burton is a Director, that had
he been based in Europe, would have received better acclaim.
His take on the "APES" was I first thought unnecessary, but then
times change, and it's such an abstract book, Burton's film fits the
bill.It's an American film, and one of my favourites ( apjac/Heston) and
perhaps would not have worked as well anywhere else,(like europe) although
both "War of the Worlds " films were based in the USA, and the
original story was based in England, it took the BBC to show
that tripods could be used believably as war machines in the
series "The Tripods" way back in the '70S, where Hollywood
couldn't in the '53 film.The definative "The War of the Worlds"
has yet to be made, as is Pierre Boulles "Planet of the Apes"

Posted by Chad Shumaker (Member # 2384) on July 14, 2013, 05:59 PM:

Thanks for the replies everyone- first things first-

Ernie- CHC? Can you tell me what that is? [Confused]

My logic for finding these is that I have been condesing some of my 200 footers onto 400 foot reels. I have Planet and Beneath on one reel, Escape and Conquest (when I get it) will go on a second, and then there's poor old Battle with nobody to hang out with. I figured I could get those two trailers to beef up the reel a bit.

Now, onto criticism business... The Burton picture, IMHO was terrible. My most prominent memory from that film was as follows...

I can recall sitting in the theater watching that movie on opening night and seeing apes playing basketball and listening to hip-hop in one scene. This was followed later by the "joke" line "Can't we all just get along?". I was in a theater that was very large and the majority of the patrons were black. There was total and uneasy silence during those moments and I can recall thinking that those scenes were in extremely poor taste.

Yeah the battle scenes were good, the makeup was outstanding, but for me this movie marked the beginning of Burton starting to slip. At least it didn't have Johnny Depp in it being some sort of weirdo like so many of Burton's modern "re-imaginings". Bleh.

Rise was great. I didn't have high expectations for it and was very surprised when it turned out to be a more realistic version of Conquest (my personal fave from the original series).

Anyway... there's my two cents. [Wink]

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on July 14, 2013, 06:14 PM:

A very valuable two cents they are,I CAN'T see the point in these
little pictogrammes,, and shun them. I make a humorous comment
I hope it's taken that way, I liken these things to the" laugh track"
on TV shows, but then in some cases, how can emotion be shown?
Modern communication.

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on July 14, 2013, 08:05 PM:

I like 'Rise' but no release of this. The one to look out for is the very nice 'scope trailer that Derann released of the original film.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on July 19, 2013, 08:45 PM:

I just have to say that this film inspred me to study astronomy, while a schoolboy, I didn't miss an episode of "The Sky at Night", from the late but great, Sir Patrick Moore. Heston delivered, literally, a shakespearean deliverey to his lines, which isn't suprising, giving
his love of theatre, a truly epic film that I love, Burtons film was
a different take on a truly odd novel, but I think wasn't all bad.
The dialogue wasn't any worse than what we the British public
have had to endure from Hollywood, eg; refering to Richard the Third as, " Dick Plantagenet" by Loretta Young, is surely not
to be taken as historic, but the same pap is delivered by Hollywood now as fact, and kids believe it.

Posted by Ernie Zahn (Member # 274) on July 19, 2013, 09:13 PM:

Hi Chad. CHC is Classic Home Cinema! Sorry about that.

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