The Reel Rejects - KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

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Starting point is 00:01:42 I love that. He's doing miming. Get your damn paws off of me. You dirty. You damn dirty. We understood that reference. Wowza. If you're listening to us on Apple or Spotify, please give us a five-star rating, leave a comment, leave a like. Don't forget to get your Reject Nation Chop Gear, you guys. I love this movie. I liked it. In the

Starting point is 00:02:15 beginning, I was like, it's a little, it actually wasn't slow, but I was like waiting for the action, and it all paid off because they took their time and set a foundation, and I really like this movie, and that they're setting us up for a sequel. Go. I really like this movie because they're setting us up for a sequel. That's my opinion on the movie. That's not all of my opinion.

Starting point is 00:02:39 I don't want to like go into an hour discussion and be like, well, what are you guys' initial thoughts? But I love this movie. I thought all of the acting was. I think Andrew and I are both curious to hear your hour long session. I thought the acting was phenomenal. And I think the heartfelt way that our lead was that no,

Starting point is 00:02:57 Noah comes into his position that he is our new Caesar taking over these people who take Caesar's crest and call it something else that's very, very greedy that they're just looking for this stuff in this fault. And I'm glad that we succeeded. But the only way that Noah could have succeeded was with the help of another human with May. So it's going to be hurtful if Noah and May in the sequel, if they see each other again and May's side is that the humans are now taking over again. And if it backtracks to where now they're

Starting point is 00:03:32 putting the apes back in cages like what they saw in the book, which is why obviously Noah has hesitation, except I like that he still was like Raqa said these things. Raka, Raqa. And he gives the necklace to May. And it's as though to say, remember, meaning me and you lived here together. And it was fine. I helped you and you helped me, although she did kind of drown them. But in the end, it was helpful for all of them altogether. So I really liked it. In the beginning, I was like, when are we going to get to like full on action? But I liked specifically seeing them grow up and seeing what the bond was.

Starting point is 00:04:13 Because in the end, when we see Eagle Clan kill that guy, it's so good. And then you realize why the kids and the whole Eagle Clan is all about getting these eggs, climbing to get them. They have to get bonded. They have to grow these eagles because that is their protection. And we never saw them until the very end, which was a great reveal. I mean, you did call it in the beginning, but I really love that. And we're still apes together strong. Apes don't kill apes.

Starting point is 00:04:39 Did apes kill apes? No, eagles did. Boom, baby. Boom. That was well put. Kind of. I stumbled in the middle of it, trying to get my thoughts out. But you guys feel me.

Starting point is 00:04:52 I understood. They get it. I actually, you know what? I thought this was ambitious, and I thought it was an interesting way to continue the story because I think it would have been a little bit repetitive if you would have just kept in Caesar's clan and gone from there, as much as I would have loved to have followed from there. You know, world building with a new set of apes here with Noah and with Anaya and Sunamah. Sunya, sorry.

Starting point is 00:05:19 You know, man, I always mispronounced. but yeah I thought that was very ambitious and I really like I really you know got emotionally attached with Noah fairly quickly and I really appreciated the development throughout the film with his character just how he had to undertake this leadership role again fairly quickly just with what happened with the destruction of his village his father you know getting killed right in front of him and then going on this journey and I thought it was interesting too because you know they didn't really have a lot of lot of, I mean, they had only had limited information. They didn't even know who Caesar was. And then, you know, they had this, and then there was this dictatorship, basically, you know, where they twisted the name of Caesar for nefarious reasonings. So I just love this whole idea that you have this figure of Noah here, like, rising for good in, in Caesar's name. And I thought that was such a beautiful and smart move. And again, I just loved this character. I thought he was,

Starting point is 00:06:23 you know, he was stoic, he was smart, he was fearless. And I think, you know, he had a lot of qualities, you know, especially throughout the development that a good leader has very much like Caesar. But yeah, no, and then some beautiful cinematography as well. I really liked the music in the film. I think it was the same composer as the Daredevil series, which I thought really elevated the film because there was a lot of suspenseful moments in there, some jump scares. I would say one major negative was a lot of the night scenes.

Starting point is 00:06:53 I couldn't see shit. It's hard to see. Yeah, I mean, there were definitely times where it was a little bit of a slow burn, but I didn't mind because you know, again, there was a lot of world building and they were really taking their time developing the character of Noah, which I liked. I'm with Greg that I didn't

Starting point is 00:07:10 think William H. Macy. I understood what they were attempting to do with William Mitch Macy's character, you know, a guy who, you know, was just a survivor at any cost and teaching Proximus, you know, about Caesar and just the history of the world. And, you know, he twisted that in such an evil way. And I get that. But I just like, Greg, I thought he was kind of a waste of a character. But I was happy to see William H. Macea because I love him. But, Greg, what are your thoughts? Yeah. No, it was a good time, guys.

Starting point is 00:07:42 okay thanks guys for being there I had a I had a good time I'm glad I could join you both it was the Planet of the Apes franchise is a really fascinating one to me because after the

Starting point is 00:07:56 1968 one there is a mixed bag of sequels needless to say some are really not very good and then there's you know the the new trilogy

Starting point is 00:08:11 and the last two helmed by Matt Reeves which are like so top tier planet of the apes films that it is kind of a daunting task to then go all right let's do another one after that because those were so good and so beloved and just like they're those are so cinematic you know and going into this having enough distance from them I was able to really go

Starting point is 00:08:41 with an open mind and not just try to draw comparisons the entire time even though me starting this off is instantly comparing it because it's hard not to when you when you when you when you kick it off with the death of caesar the funeral mourning him then to kind of be reminded of those films and then you start you and so much of it is about dealing with the aftermath and the trajectory of season and I liked a lot of the ideas that they were dealing with um I feel like sometimes they're like the social political commentary stuff maybe could have dived a little bit deeper in or committed more to it at times because there's stuff like that seems a little bit anti-gun and and anti-fascism in an obvious way and and also like the the idea of how you know you often

Starting point is 00:09:37 hear the teachings of like Jesus Christ for example and then you know, as centuries go on and different denominations form and wars are fought in the name of Christ. And then you're like, this isn't really like Jesus taught, you know? And so I like, I like kind of like that religious aspect that they were, that they were dealing with. I thought the movie actually had a lot in its mind more than spectacle. And so I appreciated a lot of what they were going for. Overall, I would say I like the movie a lot. I wouldn't say I necessarily loved the film. I do think that it did have some pacing issues because while it was like a little bit

Starting point is 00:10:14 slow at times, I don't mind slow. I think War for the Planet of the Apes is a pretty slow film, but there is something that it's so striking about that movie's mood and atmosphere that this movie doesn't quite have as strong of a grip on, but it's still really good throughout. Like throughout, I still thought it was really good. And I was thoroughly engaged from beginning to end. Like, I like the new characters. My favorite was the character who got killed off rather early on.

Starting point is 00:10:41 He was, like, my favorite character. I thought he brought such life to it, you know, whereas everyone in, I keep wanting to call him Eagle Fang. What are they called? Eagle Clan. It's funny. I was thinking about the film. Eagle Clan. While I can distinguish and tell them apart, they're so similar in their, in their,

Starting point is 00:11:05 in their behavior and their mannerisms and the way they the the the speech pattern you know so i think racka really provided something kind of refreshing and i thought proxamas was uh while a bombastic bolstering performance still sort of felt um the dialogue given to him was a little bit more and like i kind of just like a generic villain and so i wasn't so there was those like elements of it where I felt like they were sometimes aiming really high, but I like, I love the expansion on the world building. I love the way the world looks where it's like a beautiful, apocalyptic landscape with the green ruins overtaking everything.

Starting point is 00:11:51 I like that this one had a great sense of wonder to it. Yes. The arc was awesome. The action scenes were great. And, you know, in a planet-based franchise where there's like so many films, I, I, one of like nine or ten films or something. And this is what I would say is on definitely one of the stronger ends of the Planet of the Apes films, you know?

Starting point is 00:12:12 Yeah. So I really, how many are there's a five? I want to count. I want to know this number five plus the trilogy plus the remake plus this. What is that? Nine? Ten? Some of there. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:22 I think this is definitely on the stronger end of the Planet of the Apes franchise. Yeah. And so, yeah, overall, I like, and I liked the human girl. What was her name? Yeah. She was good. Reject. When I heard that this company wanted to partner up with us yet again, I was so enthusiastic about it.

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The Reel Rejects - KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

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