Sentences with phrase «watching as the apes»

Watching as the apes and humans interact with one another, we witness bonding between them in a series of scenes lyrical in their naturalistic elegance and grace, but more prominently we witness their capacity to fear the other race.

Not exact matches

As we watched the gorillas in the zoo's Great Ape House, Calaya lay on her back atop a thin fire hose stretched high between tree limbs.

Megamind, like Shrek, appears to revolve around the assumption that there really are no more stories worth telling that haven't already been told; as such, this movie subsists upon aping superior tales of yesteryear with all of the overwrought self - awareness of writers who just recently learned the meaning of «meta» (but haven't watched nearly enough contemporary movies to realize that the tactic has already been done to death).

The storyline - which follows alcoholic superhero John Hancock (Smith) as he reluctantly allows a struggling public - relations expert (Jason Bateman's Ray) to mold him into a traditionally heroic figure - has essentially been crafted to act as an origin story for the central character, yet screenwriters Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan brilliantly ensure that Hancock rarely apes the conventions and tropes that one has come to expect with such a tale (ie one doesn't entirely realize that they're watching an origin story until everything's been said and done).

As Chris Terrio's screenplay tells it, Mendez's epiphany occurred while watching a late - night rerun of Battle for the Planet of the Apes.

In the capable hands of director Matt Reeves and motion - capture star Andy Serkis as Caesar, I'd gladly watch more new APES films by 20th Century Fox to see just where the narrative will take us and how closely it will skew to the original franchise storyline.

They chat on the phone as they jointly watch «Battle For The Planet Of The Apes» and the boy's late - 70s toy collection represents this common interest between the two.

I forgot I was watching a movie about apes as they felt like any other living, breathing character in a movie.

In choosing to explore the standalone ape society of the series» near future as it first comes into contact with human survivors, Reeves places his cast of digitally created primates front and centre in a way that's truly remarkable to watch.

As I watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, I couldn't help but notice a lot of parallels of story and characters to another movie: X-Men: First Class.

Unlike other heritage designs that ape the original watch, the Superocean wears influences from watches of yore rather than acting as a simple reissue of an old design.

With a good set of watch faces, some of which ape well - known Nixon watches, the Mission is a real joy to play with, and users can customize their own watch from the Nixon store, choosing from a wide variety of different straps as well as colored bezels.