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War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Don't listen to them...this series is worth watching.
I looked through the reviews of The Planet of the Apes series, and I'm so glad I watched them anyway. Many people rated 1 star and a few people reviewed War for the Planet of the Apes as "the worst movie ever". I completely disagree and remind them of Beneath the Planet of the Apes and some of the others from the original series.
The new series was not the greatest thing I've ever watched in my lifetime, but it was certainly very good. The story line makes complete sense and the acting and animation is spectacular. The movies could definitely been a little better...maybe, but I like that they didn't do a scene by scene remake like Psycho with Vince Vaughn (which is also not the worst movie ever...close...there are a lot of bad movies out there), and, instead, they came up with a new series that is more of a prequel to the original series.
All in all, don't listen to the dorks who wish they could even make something that ranks with the worst movie out there, but haven't the talent to even do that. See it for yourself and judge for yourself. I thought they were pretty good. I would even watch them again every once in a while.
I also really liked that in Rise of the Planet of the Apes they briefly mentioned the space expedition that is a homage to the original Charlton Heston The Planet of the Apes. I hope they follow through with that.
A Haunting at Silver Falls (2013)
Really???
Almost a good horror movie.... Had elements of Sixth Sense, The Ring, The Gift, and Stir of Echoes (in fact, that's probably how the film was pitched to get it made). Problem was I saw all of those and they were all way better. It was decent though, and with the above being said, we kept watching. I did like the interaction of the ghosts with the main character. I also thought the acting was pretty good all around. Then came the last half hour. I came to a point where I wanted to turn it off, but I had already invested my time and wanted to see how it ended. With out giving anything away...I should've gone to bed. It's like the screenplay guy couldn't figure out how to end the movie and someone else came up with an idea to just get it over with. There seemed to be some great avenues to explore and they either didn't know how or wanted to try to be "clever". It did inspire me to post my first review on IMDb though...