I caught a matinee of Rise of the Planet of the Apes yesterday.
I remember seeing the original film at the Edmondson Drive-In Theatre in Baltimore, with my family as a ten year old...
I had to ask my parents to explain the part about the discovery of the wrecked Statue of Liberty at the end of that movie, and what that all meant...
The ape stars in this 2011 prequel far exceed the realism of the rubber masks worn by Roddy McDowall and other cast in the 1968 original Planet of the Apes mo-pic. And these computer generated creatures do indeed successfully manage to capture the audience's emotions and attention...
Here's a trailer that also reveals of some of the technological magic that brings these 2011 apes to life...
See the film in a theater if you can... It's one of those movies best appreciated on the big screen...
