Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy break down the 2014 action/sci-fi sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. They discuss how the Planet of the Apes series has endured, Andy Serkis' incredible performance as Caesar, siding with the apes or the humans, and more. Apes together strong. Next week we'll be continuing on with our Disaster Movie Summer with the 1980 comedy Airplane!. You can stream Dawn of the Planet of the Apes on Hulu, Disney+ and Max but don't forget to check your local library or apps like Hoopla and Kanopy! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 2014.
0:03.0	Ape Started Podcast
0:05.0	And Human Will Not Forgive.
0:08.0	The movie, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. X. Hello everyone and welcome to Unspoed.
0:35.4	I am Paul Shear joined as always by Amy Nicholson.
0:38.2	We're talking about movies disaster movies.
0:41.2	All types of different disaster films. And Amy, let's go to what people think
0:48.1	might be the best Planet of the Apes film. I'm talking about 2014. That is the year the dawn of the
0:55.6	Planet of the Apes comes out and it's 56 years into the Planet of the Apes franchise and this is the biggest one that they've ever made.
1:08.0	Which is so weird when you're trying to think like it is the second film in the third reimagining of the franchise and that's the one that hits right usually it's the first one as a quick
1:17.5	quick recap plenty of the apes franchise there was the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulet there was the 1968 movie with Charlton Heston.
1:25.0	That movie had four sequels.
1:26.8	Some good stuff.
1:27.8	Then there was the 2001 Tim Burton movie which did not get any sequels.
1:31.5	They were hoping to get sequels, did not get any sequels. Thank the current iteration kicks off in 2011 with
1:37.2	Rise of the Planet of the Apes and this is the second one. Yeah and Rise
1:41.1	just to refresh your memory, really is like a contemporary retelling of
1:46.7	Planet of the Apes.
1:47.7	It takes place in a human-owned world, much like today where a scientist played by James
1:52.3	Franco is about to ruin the world trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's.
1:57.2	He's testing his drug on chimpanzees and one mutates into this deadly simian flu and at the very end of the movie
2:04.0	you get the sense that it's spilling over
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