Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

***SPOILERS***

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a prequel to the original 1960s film “Planet of the Apes”. It stars James Franco who plays “Will Roodman” a scientist who experiments on chimps, with a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. When one of those chimps goes into violent rage, the company boss orders all the chimps to terminated. Will discovers that chimp was protecting another chimp she just gave birth to. He decides the baby chimp take it home, where he also lives with his father, who also has Alzheimer. Then he discovers that chimp has inherited his human intelligence of his mother.

After 5 years, Will gets married to a female veterinarian. While Caesar grows into big chimp and has a loving relationship with Will and his father. Which leads to a scene, that shows Caesar attacking a neighbor, during an argument with Will’s father. Caesar is sent to by court order to an animal shelter that houses apes. Then he sees the poor treatment of the apes, by the caretakers and brings them together. Finally Caesar leads an breakout out the shelter and a revolt down the streets of San Francisco.

The CGI is great in this film. The apes look very real and threatening. And human-like motion is done very well. Especially with Caesar, who played by Andy Serkis, who also did Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" . Caesar’s human-like emotions in this film were captured very well..

John Lighgow, does an excellent portrayal of man suffering with Alzheimers. The scenes with his son in the movie, are very moving.

The most unlikeable character in this film. Tom Felton’s character, who played an abusive caretaker, in the animal shelter. My problem with his character seemed a bit cliche as some one who’s mean to all the animals.

The Apes vs Humans battle scene, that we see in the trailer, comes near the end of the movie. But that is because so much time is spent on story and character development beforehand. That’s good thing, because it helped me care a lot more about who wins that battle later the film. Personally, I felt so much for the Apes that I wanted them to win. But the same time, I didn’t want them to kill innocent humans.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is not perfect film. It lacks some originality. But. I was surprised how good this film was. The trailers make it seem mediocre, because they don’t capture the emotional impact this film has.

By Miguel Pierre

Billy Joel and Elton John

Billy Joel and Elton John have been friends for a long time. Billy Joel and Elton John have done a lot face to face concerts. There is that Billy Joel does and songs that Elton John does.

They did a tour together in Japan. They sing and play piano together along with their bands.

They sing great together.

by Justin Stenzler.

Billy Joel and his daughter Alexa Ray Joel

Billy Joel and his daughter Alexa Ray Joel performed together for the rain forest benefit and for Barack Obama. The song that they did together is Baby Grand which is a song he did a duet together with singer Ray Charles. Alexa's middle name is Ray after singer Ray Charles.

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Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith

Justin Bieber and Jaden Smith did a song together called Never Say Never. Justin sang and Jaden rapped. Jaden Smith was in the documentary movie Never Say Never. That song was in the movie of the remake The Karate Kid.

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Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber was born in Stratford, Ontario Canada. He started by posting his videos on youtube. His most favorite singer growing up of all time has always been Usher. His first single was One Time. In February of this year he was in movie called Never Say Never which was a documentary about his life story. Never Say Never he sang with Jaden Smith the son of Actor Will Smith and actress Jada Pinkett Smith. That song was for the remake of movie The Karate Kid.

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Eminem

Eminem's real name is Marshall Mathers III. His mentor is Rapper is Dr. Dre in Interscope Records. His first hit albums were Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers. He was in a movie 8 Mile which had a hit song Lose Yourself. He did a song for album Encore Just Lose It. In that song

He dressed up as characters MC Hammer, Pee Wee Herman, Michael Jackson and Santa Claus.

He made a lot of songs and albums. In 2009 he came back with album Relapse and then in 2010 he made an album called Recovery. He made a cameo in Funny People.

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First Look at Tom Cruise in Rock Of Ages Movie

The first image of Tom Cruise as rocker Stacee Jaxx in the film version of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages has arrived online (via his official website), and Cruise looks nothing like the character from the musical (who had long, curly blonde hair, wore a cowboy hat, tight white pants and some sort of pink muscle shirt). This may only be one of a couple looks for Jaxx in the movie, and we hope so because right now it just looks like Tom Cruise with long hair. Boring.

When we first heard Cruise was taking on this part, we imagined a complete transformation a la Tropic Thunder, where Cruise was almost unrecognizable as a seedy movie producer. In Rock of Ages, Stacee plays a wild, Bon Jovi-like rocker (circa mid-1980s) who uses and abuses Sherrie (Julianne Hough), the small town girl from Kansas who moved to Los Angeles with big hopes and dreams. The film, due out on June 1, 2012, also stars Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Malin Akerman, Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Bryan Cranston.

source : movies.com

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Rock of Ages Movie

Rock of Ages which is right now a broadway show will next year turn into a movie.

"Rock of Ages" (2012)

Rock of Ages movie photos, trailer, plot, news, and cast list for this musical starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta Jones, Mary J Blige, and Malin Akerman.

Movie Synopsis: "Rock of Ages" takes place in Hollywood in 1987 and follows a small town girl who meets and falls for a young rocker with the help of classic '80s tunes by Styx, REO Speedwagon, Journey, Pat Benatar, Twisted Sister, Poison and Whitesnake .

source : about.com

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The Story of When I Got Into Wrestling

My cousins Keith and Matt Solomon got into wrestling when I was 8 years old. The first match I saw was HBK Shawn Michaels who's real name is Michael Hickenbottom and Big Daddy Diesel who's real name is Kevin Nash vs Davey Boy Smith The British Bulldog and Yokozuna. Every year it gets better and better every year. I went to a lot of wrestling matches. And met plenty of wrestlers.

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I started listening to music when I was 5 year old. At age 5 it was Elton John, Neil Diamond, Donovan, Pink Floyd, MC Hammer, Rick Astley and Black Box. At age 8 I stopped listening to all those performers and started listening to Dan Fogelberg. At age 9 I started listening again to Elton John and started listening to The Village People. At age 10 Jimmy Buffett. At age 12 I started listening to Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Donna Summer, Neil Diamond, Peter Paul and Mary, Tom Jones, Meat Loaf, Ricky Martin and Puff Daddy. At age 14 Jimmy Buffett, Eminem, 50 Cent and Insane Clown Posse. At age 18 John Tesh, Yanni and No Doubt. At age 21 Alexa Ray Joel and Brooke Hogan. At age 24 and then at age 25 I was able to organize all my favorite performers.

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Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond was born in Brooklyn, New York. He went to Abraham Lincoln High School. He enrolled to NYU. He was in movies The Jazz Singer and made cameos in Saving Silverman and Keeping Up With The Steins. My aunt Helen Solomon would play his song America which is my most favorite song since I was 5 years old. It would be for my Grandpop George Babchik's 75th Birthday. There would be pictures for when he along with Grandma Pearl Babchik, Aunt Helen Babchik who later be Helen Solomon, Jack Babchik would come to America and my mom Karen Babchik who would later be Karen Goldberg and then Karen Stenzler. He returned to Madison Square Garden on Thursday August 14, 2008 my dad and I went to see it.

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The Memory of Saxophone Player Clarence Clemons

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in Music when he watched Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan show in 1965. My cousin Rich Mazzella was a fan of Bruce Springsteen since he was born. He went to a lot of his concerts.

My cousin Rich got me to be a fan at age 14 but then I became all over again at age 21. My cousin Rich Mazzella took me to see Bruce Springsteen in concert on March 10, 2008 in Nassau Coliseum. It was a lot of fun. He sang for Barack Obama's historical inauguration.

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