
“Let’s see. We got soda, purple stuff. Sunny D! All right!” *
Did you love the amazing realism of the clip Vince posted earlier this week, where Alzheimer’s disease means you forget how forks work, apes who attack a person in a nice neighborhood somehow aren’t shot by police or euthanized by order of the court, and the motion capture effect looks like “a character from Madden superimposed onscreen”? Yeah, that was great. Oh, but there’s more. Andy Serkis (AKA Gollum), who plays Caesar the ape, is back to introduce two more clips from James Franco: Sexy Scientist, also known as Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
The clips below really show off the motion capture we can expect from the film, which opens August 5th. We get to see how Ceasar escapes and makes the other apes intelligent (still no explanation why firearms and the military don’t exist to fight the apes). I’m still not sold on this mo-cap, especially when Brian Cox just standing still looks fascinatingly real by comparison. But the most important question raised by these clips isn’t one of our humanity but rather a more practical concern: they spent all this money on mo-cap but they didn’t use any of it to fix Draco Malfoy’s creepy forehead?
[Videos via Blastr and ComingSoon]
* If at least one of you guys doesn’t claim he’d have stopped at “purple stuff” I swear it would be like I don’t even know you anymore.

Token Black Guy wants the purple stuff? Me? It’s clearly not my fridge as there isn’t a bottle of scotch to be found.
After a hard day of flinging poo, reach for the beer that simians like best!
Uncanny valley isn’t really applicable here unless you’re comfortable with fucking real apes, no?
*checks sexual history, withdraws comment*
you refrigerate scotch? gross, bra.
I’m waiting for a clip from the scene where a pack of apes go around raping suggestively-dressed women
hehe, I’ll lumber through your uncanny valley! *record scratch*
BTW, I’m in the Detroit airport and just met the elf from Bad Santa. I waved like a douche and he said hey, then I said hey back. I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
At first I thought a Phattys Rhymes & Dimes origin story was a terrible idea, but these clips are starting to pique my interest.
was that lab guy playing Jumanji?
That monkey’s definitely going for the purple stuff.
Freaky, if the bottom shelf is all Four Loko and severed heads, it would look just like His refrigerator!
Just saw the disclaimer from boPa…guess I’m predictable.
Who was that guy? Stryker….Stryker….STRYKER!!!! *punches nearest woman*
No, sorry…that’s Brian Cox, playing that Guy He Plays In Every Movie. My bad. Put this ice cold canister of Super Ape Smart on it. You’ll feel better in no time.
@Erswi:
The reason there’s no scotch to be found in your fridge is because I’m a superhero, and my power is the ability to sense, from across the globe, any attempt to destroy a good Single Malt. I had to euthanize your bottle, it was too far gone, but it was the humane thing to do.
And next time you put scotch in the fridge, I’ll be there on time, and I’ll cut you. I will cut you up.
Can you say… Gorilla Warfare? YEAAAAAHHH