Friday, January 28, 2011

Monster Movie of the Week: GIANT EFFING ROBOT EDITION: Transformers (2007)


TRANSFORMERS (2007)

Director: Michael Bay

Genre: Sci-Fi/Action


THE MOVIE


The next best thing to giant monster movies is giant robot movies. Especially when the giant robots can physically change themselves into various vehicles and hardware. Michael Bay’s Transformers, of course, is based on the 1980’s line of robot toys and it’s accompanying cartoons and comics in which two factions of giant alien robots land on earth and assume alternate shapes based on common earth forms to hide themselves hence the tagline “Robots in disguise.”


In this reimagining of the original Generation 1 story, the Decepticon faction is already on earth as the movie begins and searching for information regarding their missing leader Megatron, who apparently disappeared here in search of the Allspark, a cube that grants sentient life to machines. The heroic Autobots attempt to head them off. The Autobot Bumblebee assumes the form of an old Camaro and arranges to be sold to young Sam Witwicky, who is unknowingly in possession of an item that will locate the Allspark (and trying to sell it on eBay.) Bumblebee befriends Sam and introduces him to the other Autobots before both are captured by agents from a mysterious government agency called Sector Seven which is in charge of monitoring Transformer activity on earth and are actually holding both the Allspark and Megatron’s frozen body in a secure location. Meanwhile the other Decepticons learn the location and both they and the Autobots converge there for a final battle.


Why does a robot need to have teeth?

As someone who knew and loved the original Transformers cartoon as a child I have to say I was very nervous about this movie. The robot designs I had seen were decidedly different from the simple cartoon designs and liberties are taken with some of the characters and there are many omissions of classic characters (like Soundwave) in favor of original or redesigned secondary characters. That being said, having seen the movie, I am very satisfied with the result. Michael Bay’s Transformers is a kinetic action packed reimagining of the “Transformers” I know and love.


Steven Spielberg produced this movie and his influence can be felt in the touching relationship between Sam and Bumblebee, which has shades of E.T. Sam himself is actually fun to watch and is one of the most realistic depictions of a teenager I have seen on screen (he would make a perfect Peter Parker/Spiderman.) Optimus Prime (Voiced by Peter Cullen who provided his voice in the G1 cartoon) and the other Autobots are beautifully brought to life and their transformations are very cool to watch often complete with the trademark sound effect you may remember from the cartoons. And, of course, the movie is filled with balls-against-the-wall action like a James Cameron Terminator movie on steroids.




MONSTERS/EFFECTS:


There are about twelve different Transformers in this movie. They are all much more alien and intricate then the classic designs and are composed of thousands of small moving parts. Their faces are composed of small metal flaps and lids that move to read emotions. For example, their eyes are colored bulbs (blue for Autobots and red for Decepticons) and they have little metal lids above and below the eyes that move in a particular way to convey different emotions. It’s all fodder for slow motion BluRay viewing.

While the Autobots are well realized in the movie and are all given lines and plenty of screentime, the Decepticons do not fare as well and this is my only real gripe with the movie and probably comes from being overly familiar with the characters in the cartoon. Of the Decepticons, most of the screentime goes to Blackout (the kick-ass giant military helicopter,) Scorponok, Frenzy (the small gremlin-like robot that can turn into a boombox,) Barricade (the police car,) and towards the end, Megatron. Starscream, Bonecrusher and Brawl show up later and are relegated to cameo roles. You never really get a sense of who the Decepticons are and how they work as a group. This is a particular loss when it comes to Starscream who was always a genuinely interesting character on the cartoon because of his constant Shakespearean power struggles with Megatron. This would have been a good and very obvious opportunity to make the Decepticons more than just hulking brutes. On the side, as a purely fanboy complaint, I wish they had gotten someone to do Starscream’s voice who sounded like the late great Chris Latta who had one of the most recognizable voices from the cartoon. His raspy high pitched voice was the essence of Starscream.


The most radically redesigned character in the movie is probably Megatron, who no longer changes into a gun to be wielded by others (thank God) and has a purely Cybertronian design as he does not assume an earth form during the course of the movie (his alternate form is a Cybertronian jet.) When he was first leaked on the net I hated his design because it is very pointy and alien and weird but I’ve grown used to it and now I quite like it (although it looks like crap in profile.) Megatron is voiced by Hugo Weaving in the movie but his voice is so electronically processed and deepened that I couldn’t even recognize him but that’s good because he is appropriately big and scary in this movie.


The effects through out the movie are eye-popping and hyper realistic. Bay is a big fan of using practical on set effects and explosions whenever possible and it gives Transformers a sense of realism that is missing from a lot of purely studio shot CGI effects films.




MONSTERS FEATURED


Optimus Prime - Semi truck

Bumblebee – A ’74 Camaro then a 2009 Camaro.

Jazz- Pontiac Soltice

Rachet-some sort of hummer ambulance (WTF?)

Ironhide-GMC Topkick

Megatron-Cybertronian jet

Starscream-F22 Raptor more or less like his G1 appearance

Barricade-some sort of Mustang derived police car (yeah, that’s low profile.)

Blackout-a big military helicopter

Brawn-a tank (kind of superfluous to the movie.)

Scorponok –a mechanical scorpion with no robot form

Frenzy-transforms into various small electronics

Bonecrusher-a clawed minesweeping military vehicle

There are some other “accidental transformers” as well as a pissed off Nokia phone.



HOME VIDEO AVAILABILITY


Widely available in both DVD and BluRay.


MOST MEMORABLE SEQUENCE


I loved Optimus Prime’s highway fight with Bonecrusher. So good and so like every Godzilla movie should be.


SEQUELS


Transformers Revenge of the Fallen 2009, which is about as hot a mess as you are likely to see in a big Hollywood movie.


Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)


SEE ALSO:


Transformers: The Movie 1987


TRIVIA:


The Soundwave problem:


Blackout, Barricade and Frenzy were originally going to be called Soundwave at different times in a nod to the original iconic Decepticon who turned from a giant robot to a tiny cassette player. Barricade and Blackout both “eject” smaller Decepticons much like Soundwave (the Barricade action figure actually features a small Frenzy figure that can be removed from his chest a la the original cassette figures) but fan reaction to such a great departure was so intense that they changed the names (and presumably the heads.) Frenzy changes into a boombox but is only about seven feet tall and very different in character from Soundwave, so the filmmakers decided to name him after one of the robot cassette figures.

Soundwave appears in the sequel Revenge of the Fallen, in which he spends the entire movie in orbit making sweet love to a satellite.


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Friday, January 21, 2011

Hate Hate Hate Hate.


This makes Sofia Coppola in The Godfather Part III forgivable.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

HEAT



God I love Michael Mann’s “Heat”. I will kick you out of my goddamn apartment if you tell me you haven’t seen that movie. The following are conversations that have all happened in my apartment over the course of time and more often than not over the course of an evening:

MY AWESOME SELF: You haven’t seen “Goodfellas”???

SAD SOUL #1: No.

MY AWESOME SELF: Get the FUCKouttamyhouse!

MY AWESOME SELF: You haven’t seen “Do The Right Thing”???

SAD SOUL #2: No.

MY AWESOME SELF: Get the FUCKouttamyhouse!!!

MY AWESOME SELF: You haven’t seen “The Never Ending Story”???

SAD SOUL #3: No.

MY AWESOME SELF: Get. The. Fuck. Outta. My. HOUSE!!!!

I saw “Heat” at least 5 times in the theater when it was released in 1995 (the year of our Lord but more importantly the year of Kevin Spacey’s appearance as John Doe in “Seven”), I owned the double cassette VHS copy, the soundtrack, several posters, the laserdisc, the DVD, and now the Bluray. You know how much I love “Heat”? Last week I put it on with the volume down. I wasn’t even looking at it. I just wanted it in my peripheral. Then I had to go run errands and I didn’t turn it off. Why? Because what kind of crazy bitch takes the ice trays? No. Because I wanted to come home and look at my television and think, “Oh! Heat is on!” And I did. Cause I’m a genius. Go ahead and chest bump your monitor player, I love ya’.

My buddy/comedian Sean Flannery (my guy!) has two of my favorite Flannery arguments that always get under my skin and make my head explode in rage:

1. Stevie Wonder is overrated. (How would you react to that?)

2. “Heat” sucks.

My reaction to number 2 is almost identical to my reaction to number 1.

If you’ve never seen “Heat” Jesus Christ! Will you please handle that? Will you get on that? Or would you rather get the fuck outta my house because I have no problem kicking you out. Real talk, I’ll kick your ass out if you haven’t seen “Vampire In Brooklyn”***. If you have seen “Heat” Roger Ebert just tweeted a link to an article about it:

@ebertchicago: “Heat” deserves recognition as one of the all-time greatest crime films, sez my Cairo Correspondent Wael Khairy. http://bit.ly/f1Ab69

***I will not kick you out if you haven’t seen “Vampire In Brooklyn”. You can actually move in. “Vampire In Brooklyn” was released the same year as “Heat”. Also released to the public that year? My disappointment in Eddie Murphy.

Monster Movie of the Week: Deep Rising (1998)

Note: Not really sure what is going on in this poster. And why is Special Effects Team in quotations? Do they mean it sarcastically?


Deep Rising (1998)
Director: Stephen Sommers
Genre: Survival Horror/Action

THE MOVIE:

Few movies have as solid a genre movie/B-movie pedigree as Deep Rising. It was written and directed by Steven Sommers, who would later go on to do The Mummy series and GI JOE. It featured Treat Williams (The Phantom and The Substitute 3,) Famke Jensen who, up until that time, was known for being the best Bond girl ever in Goldeneye, Anthony Heald from Silence of the Lambs, Wes Studi of Streetfighter: The Movie, Trevor Goddard (Kano in Mortal Kombat,) and Djimon Honsou, at that time best known as Horus in Stargate. So pop this movie in your DVD player knowing what to expect: Deep Rising is not an allegory for anything, it is not trying to make any particular statements about the world. It is, however, a solid monster movie.


Sommer’s movie was part of the ‘90’s wave of creature flicks that were just beginning to cash in on the digital promise of Jurassic Park. No longer were movie monsters to be encumbered by only having to use clunky rubber suits, stop motion effects, or animatronics. Finally we had a generation of movie creatures that were capable of real kinesis. These monsters could convincingly run and jump and give chase which added a new level of fun to the genre.


Deep Rising involves a plot to destroy a luxury cruise liner so that its owner (the typically slimy Anthony Heald) can cash in the insurance money. He hires a group of mercenaries to intercept and destroy the ship. The mercenaries charter the boat of the very Han Solo-esque John Finnigan (Treat Williams, who actually says “I’ve got a very bad feeling about this” at one point during the movie). When they arrive at the ship they find it deserted with the exception of a few crew members and a Sexy Jewel Thief (Famke Jensen). The survivors tell of sea monsters that have eaten the rest of the passengers. The remainder of the movie involves Finnigan and the mercenaries’ attempts to escape the tentacle monsters and get off the ship.

Roger Ebert gave this movie a very unfavorable review, referring to it as another Alien clone, which I find odd because its tone and content are totally different from Ridley Scott’s movie, which was relatively cool and humorless. Yes, it has a toothy monster in a confined space but that’s about the only similarity. I would say it actually has more in common with James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) because it features a bunch of gun-toting machomen who get their asses handed to them by monstrous forces they don’t understand.



THE MONSTER/EFFECTS:

Most of what we see of the monster are its tentacles, each one ending in a toothy maw. This creature seems to have an infinite number and length of these tentacles. This has led some to believe that there is in fact more than one monster. However, we only actually get a look at one of them in its entirety during the very cool ending of the movie and the monster is revealed to be a sort of giant Lovecraftian octopus (a Kraken, perhaps?).




MONSTERS FEATURED:


Just the one.


DVD AVAILABILITY:


Available in a plain-jane early generation Disney DVD, with practically no extra features.


MOST MEMORABLE SEQUENCE:


I don’t know about you but I’m a sucker for a good still-alive-regurgitated-victim scene.


SEQUELS:


None yet, but there have been rumblings.


SEE ALSO:


Anaconda(1996)

TRIVIA:


The original title of this movie was “Tentacle,” for obvious reasons.


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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Hey Have You Seen The Tree of Life Trailer?



Damn. I wish my eyes could see the world the way Terrence Malick’s movies visualize it. I don’t want to come off as corny right off the bat but watching his movies, well the only intelligent way I can put it is that shit is like watching a moving painting. I get blown away by each frame. Here’s the trailer to his next movie The Tree of Life.

I get a very Thin Red Line-esque (that’s right I make up words on this) vibe from this first trailer. I have no problem with that. I love The Thin Red Line. When it comes to contemporary war movies people usually fall into three categories: Saving Private Ryan people, Black Hawk Down people, and people like me who don’t shut the hell up about The Thin Red Line.

The Thin Red Line was a huge deal when it first came out. It’d been twenty years since Malick had made a movie and every actor around wanted to be in on this one. Go back and look at the cast of The Thin Red Line. Everybody is in that movie. I’m at the point now when I watch it I’m just looking to see who’s not in it. Like how is Billy Crudup not in TTRL? If I was Billy Crudup and I was watching TTRL on a lazy Sunday afternoon sitting on my couch butt naked and blue in my Watchmen makeup I’d be like, “Am I in this movie? Jesus Christ aka Jim Caviezel is in this, Adrien Brody’s in this movie, there’s John C. Reilly, John Travolta, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Nick Nolte’s sweaty forehead veins. Damn! Casey Jones from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie is in this! Am I in this? Why am I not in this?”

Talk to that Criterion Collection blu-ray if you haven’t yet. It’s fantastic. It’s a a great way to see the movie for the first time and the bonus features do as good a job as I’ve seen on Malick’s movie making process.

*Spoiler alert, according to everyone who worked on TTRL Malick’s way of making movies is: 1)Genius oozes out of him. 2) He makes a lot of it up as he goes along.

Damn, I said all of that and I’m supposed to be talking about The Tree of Life. You’re going to get everything in this first trailer that you’ve come to expect from Malick. Voice overs, eye candy galore, and visions of space that I haven’t seen since the last time I did acid and was convinced tacos were the key to life’s answers. Sign me up! It stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain (her last name should be Chastity. Don’t ask me why but it should.) The Tree of Life opens on May 27, 2011. You’ll be wondering what the hell it was about on May 28th.

Monster Movie of the Week: Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)


GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE (1989)

Director: Kazuki Omori

Genre: Daikaiju eiga

Country: Japan


After the Showa series ran its course with 1975’s Terror of Mechagodzilla, the Godzilla franchise went on a long hiatus until 1984’s relaunch, Godzilla (known here as Godzilla 1985). The movie was praised for its return to the darker themes of the early films but was criticized for its often ponderous tone and its lack of a monster opponent for the Big G. It would be another five years before the new Heisei, or versus series, would resume in earnest with Godzilla vs. Biollante, a movie that is notable for its remarkably unique and imaginative creature design, introduction of new “hard” science fiction elements, and often bizarre plot.


Biollante begins in the aftermath of the previous movie, as scientists are sifting through the rubble of Godzilla’s most recent attack on Tokyo and pulling out bits of the monster’s biological material from the debris. Godzilla vs. Biollante introduces a element into the series through its biotech subplot. In the Showa movies, Godzilla’s biology had not been given much attention, but in the 1990’s and 2000’s it is a recurring theme. In the 1980’s, the use and ethics of biotechnology and genetics was a huge issue. Biollante was actually released the same year as Michael Crichton’s landmark sci-fi novel, Jurassic Park, which also featured the application of biotech as one of its main themes.






Much of the human activity in the movie concerns the quest to obtain and use the Godzilla cell samples by different factions. This is actually kind of a cool idea, and if there had been a Godzilla attack, you can bet that lots of people would like to get their hands on his samples to use for their own ends. Researcher Dr. Shiragami, mourns the loss of his young daughter in a terrorist attack and spends much of his time looking into psychic phenomena, especially the psychic properties of roses (Um, whaaa?). One of his students is Miki Saegusa, a psychic who develops a bond with Godzilla. Miki becomes a fixture in the later Heisei movies, which feature a fairly tight continuity.


Meanwhile, Dr. Shiragami has come into possession of some Godzilla cells and has been tasked with using them to create a weapon to be used against Godzilla. Unbeknownst to his employers, Shiragami has been combining them with both the DNA of one of his psychic roses and that of his dead daughter (WTF?!), needless to say this does not end up well, and the resulting creature, Biollante, escapes into a nearby lake and grows to an enormous size. Biollante is a genetic relative of Godzilla and begins calling him to her. When the King of the Monsters arrives, the two have a skirmish, and Biollante is apparently defeated.






Godzilla then makes his way to the nearest nuclear power plant (as is his wont) he faces an all out attack from the humans, who unsuccessfully attempt to use Shiragami’s weapon against him. A fully-grown Biollante also appears, and battles Godzilla, nearly destroying him, before he triumphs and heads to sea. Biollante releases spores which briefly form into an image of Shiragami’s daughter and then head out into space(!?).



THE MONSTER/EFFECTS


First, Biollante features a new look for Godzilla and one that stayed fairly consistent throughout the 1990’s. The Biollante suit remains an iconic look for the character and one that is beloved by many fans. Strangely, it adds features that are actually less reptilian, such as a set of mammalian specialized teeth instead of the fangs or jagged teeth of past suits, an almost feline face, topped with what look like cornrows, and small, intelligent eyes. Apparently, this Goji has been doing push-ups, because he has a more muscular upper body, with pronounced pectorals and deltoids (the lower body is still flabby though).






The real star, however, is Biollante herself, who is totally unique in the history Godzilla monsters. This is the rare instance of Toho forgoing the usual man-in-suit technique and opting for a different approach to bring its monster to life. Biollante, in her final form, looks like a giant Audrey 2 from Hell and actually dwarfs Godzilla in comparison. She is a genuinely horrible monster and not at all goofy-looking, as many other Toho monsters are. Her “body” is sort of bulbous with a luminescent potbelly, crisscrossed with sinewy vines . She moves on a bed of tentacle-like vines, many of which end in toothy jaws. On her back are mossy scales. Half of her body is taken up by an absolutely huge and croc-like mouth, which is full of teeth, even on the base and roof of the mouth, and from which she sprays a radioactive sap. She is definitely one of the most original and compelling monsters to have appeared in a Toho movie.


As a Toho monster, Biollante is part of a long line Godzilla clones, demi-Godzillas, usurpers, and wanna-bes that include, the original Mechagodzilla, Spacegodzilla, and Orga (from Godzilla 2000). Even the American Godzilla has been worked into the mythos as a pretender with his reference in Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah and finally his appearance in Godzilla Final Wars. In GMK, poor Baragon, is temporarily confused with Godzilla and it doesn’t end well for him. If there is a real theme to the Godzilla franchise, is that there can only ever be one Godzilla, and you’d better not even try to replace him.





MOST MEMORABLE SEQUENCE


The battle at the end is quite good, and represents a rare moment where Goji is truly outmatched by an opponent.


SEQUELS


Followed by the also interesting, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah.


Sadly, this is Biollante’s sole appearance in a Godzilla movie. She does appear in the recent Wii game, Godzilla Unleashed as a playable character. And Shiragami appears in the cutscenes as well.


HOME VIDEO AVAILABILITY


In the DVD and Bluray age, Godzilla vs. Biollante has been pretty much unavailable in the USA. With no official DVD release, it is necessary to order it as an import or wait for the movie’s eventual release on Bluray. As of yet, only the very first Godzilla has been released on Bluray and the 1998 remake. If Toho and Columbia follow suit with what they did last time, you can expect most of the catalog to be released on Bluray with the new American movie in 2012.




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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Monster Movie of the Week: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)


Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Director: Ted Post

Genre: Science Fiction

THE MOVIE


The shocking twist ending of Planet of the Apes didn't exactly loan itself to a sequel but that didn't stop the powers that be at Fox from churning one out and creating a "franchise" that would set the stage later film series like Star Wars. The Apes sequels are a pretty diverse lot and, truth be told, it is one of the weakest and least original entries to the series. The first half of the movie is basically a retread of Planet of the Apes and the latter half is a bizarre visit to the remains of New York City and the psychic mutants which inhabit it.

Charlton Heston was not hot on doing a sequel but was talked into appearing so long as his role was scaled back to a cameo and his character Taylor was killed off at the end. The movie begins at the iconic conclusion of POTA and we follow Taylor and Nova into the Forbidden Zone where they come across some strange phenomena. Heston's character disappears and the rest of the movie is a search for him. To replace the Taylor character the writers came up with Brent, portrayed by mini-Heston, James Franciscus. Brent is an astronaut sent in search of Taylor who, improbably, passes through the same freak time warp which ensnared the crew of Taylor's ship.



While the first movie had some serious socio-political themes embedded into the story, in Beneath they seem a little forced and superficial. The Ape society as depicted in Beneath is highly divided between the chimpanzee "intellectuals" and the militaristic gorillas lead by the new character, General Ursus. Ursus seeks to lead a gorilla squad into the Forbidden Zone to confront the mysterious forces that have been observed there and any humans that they may encounter because, "the only good human, is a dead human." This whole subplot is a pretty ham-handed commentary on the Vietnam war, complete with chimpanzee peace protesters. The political angle in Beneath the Planet of the Apes lacks the wit and cleverness of the original.


Ursus, is the first in a long line of warrior gorillas in the movies. Even the Tim Burton remake carried on this tradition. In the original movie, however, the gorillas were depicted as laborers.




What is present in the sequel is a rather weird and subversive commentary on religion. There are two belief systems present in the movie: that of the apes, who worship a long dead messianic figure that they refer to as The Lawgiver and that of the mutants who worship a super-powerful doomsday missile. The religion of the apes is presented as a superficial and ineffective control system (Ursus barely tolerates sitting through a service) while the beliefs of the mutants presented as absurd and perverse.



Preparing for services at Our Lady of Perpetual Nuclear Destruction.



The other important point in talking about Beneath is the ending, in which Taylor blows up da earf, continuing/establishing a tradition in the Planet of the Apes movies for shocking or downbeat endings. I suppose there is no way to top the amazing ending of the first movie (although Tim Burton tried) so the writers just decided to go for destructive finality. Plus Heston wanted to have his character killed off. It is a pretty shocking ending, but one that is in character for the misanthropic Taylor. The funny thing is that there is not even music over the credits, just silence. I can imagine the slack-jawed, horrified reactions of audience members when the movie played in the 1970's: ominous silence, and then the sound of little boys afraid to cry. No wonder the next movie was a gentle fish-out-of-water comedy (well, with a shocking and traumatic ending).


But first you may want to catch a show while you are in town with the Ben Nye Dancers.


THE MONSTERS/EFFECTS

Sequels often operate under the economic principal of diminishing returns, that is each successive installment will bring in less money than it's predecessor. This is not really the case these days, unless you are talking about a series that is purely a money-making enterprise. Apes was a pioneering franchise that paved the way for all of the trilogies and sequels that would pop up in the '80's and beyond. Unfortunately, the producers of these movies were still operating under the old fashioned idea that each movie would make less and less money, and therefore should cost less to make. In Beneath, you can really see this in the decline in quality in the makeup. While the main characters, Cornelius, Zera, Zaius and Ursus, are given decent treatments, many of the background-and not-so-background-apes are given awful pullover masks with unarticulated mouths like something from Troll 2.

Ursus and Zaius even have a steam bath scene (!?) in which both actors wear some really bad full body monkey costumes. This is a pretty strong argument for keeping things concealed. No one was clamoring to see Dr. Zaius without his shirt on.

A lot of attention was payed to the newly introduced mutant characters who wear rubber masks to conceal their skinless faces. The mutants are irradiated humans who have developed psychic powers including telepathy, the ability to mind control humans to produce visions. These guys have some cool make up to give them that "invisible man" effect but are otherwise kind of goofy.



MOST MEMORABLE SEQUENCE

Beneath the Planet of the Apes features some impressive sets. There is a great scene in the middle of the movie where Brent stumbles upon the ruins of a New York subway station. The last third of the movie is set among these dilapidated urban underground settings.


SEQUELS


Escape From Planet of the Apes


HOME VIDEO AVAILABILITY


Widely available in a variety of really good formats. Can usually be found in one of the many Apes boxed sets, the best of which is the exhaustive Bluray set, which is complete with a book and an interactive documentary. The DVD set is quite good also.


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