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ok, so what bothered me the most was that, while the thing did look good, there were continuity fuck-ups all the way through it. i mean, at least the 60s version had charlton getting chin-stubble. and the blonde chick was a waste of space, with her simpering and her perfectly coiffed hair with its shiny blond highlights and flawless skin that had never had an insect bite, never mind scrambled through the thorny jungle every day. and the kid brother doing his hero thing? ugh.
luckily, i didn't have high expectations so i wasn't disappointed overall, just irritated by the hollywoodisms.
and yeah, the black man dies. but isn't that one of the rules of sci-fi movies? my main irritation was not that they had one "token" black or oriental person, but that, actually, the humans didn't look more mixed race. i mean, the crew of the ship wasn't that big, so there woul've been interbreeding, wouldn't there?
as for the horses, maybe they did have horses on the ship. dunno why they would, but they did carry live animals. maybe they weren't all apes?
i found it wierd that thade seemed to be the least human-like, jumping around and beating his chest.
on the whole, the look of the film and the plot inconsistencies didn't bother me as much as the lack of subtlety in most of the acting. all those overly gruff voices really kinda grated and seemed really hammy. |
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