I'm going to see Dawn of the Planet of The Apes tonight. *Spoiler*

[rug]

[mnhtnbb]

1. LOL!

[joeybee12]

2. Hah!

It stars Gary "I'm a racist homophobic anti-semitic douchebag so everyone in the whole world is also" Oldman, correct?

[NewJeffCT]

3. wow

never knew that about Oldman - I just know he's in a crap ton of movies.

[joeybee12]

5. He went off in a recent GQ (or maybe Esquire) interview about how Mel

Gibson was treated unfairly because the Jews run Hollwyood, and everyone says F***ot and n****er...typical teabagger.

[Frank Cannon]

4. Apparently, he plays a fascist asshole in the movie.

So the casting is perfect.

Anyway, the rest of the cast and crew can't help that he's a dick.

I can't wait to see it. The last movie was surprisingly good.

[joeybee12]

6. I dont think I've seen any of the newer ones...

Only the old ones with Roddy McDowall...

[pinboy3niner]

7. He was a great actor, always a pleasure to see onscreen--even in monkey costume

R.I.P., Mr. McDowall.

[joeybee12]

9. I've beeb watching the old Carol Burnett shows...

He shows up in a lot of them..he always seemed like such a nice, easy-going guy.

[pinboy3niner]

10. I remember being impressed with a young Roddy in an old Twilight Zone episode

He did more than one, but in this one he was one of a gang of young punks. He probably wasn't quite so young at the time, because I think he built his career in England before we ever saw him here.

[joeybee12]

11. I think his first role was in How Green Was My Valley...

Dated, but still a good movie.

[NewJeffCT]

8. better than I thought it would be

though, I thought Freida Pinto was so stunningly beautiful that it almost distracted from the movie. Glad it was not really a sequel to the Tim Burton/Mark Wahlberg version.

[NewJeffCT]

12. so

how was the movie?

[rug]

13. It was good, especially the battle scenes.

Nothing like apes swinging from cables and bashing each other.

But the first one was so well-plotted. I was genuinely impressed how they came up with a facially plausible scenario of how the world could go from man to apes.

This one was good but the plot necessarily was more conventional. I really would have liked to see more about how the ape society developed before they moved on to the battles.

Koba was a great, great villain.