{"id":4821,"date":"2011-08-04T23:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T04:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2011-08-04T23:23:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T04:23:48","slug":"repostaicnnordling-reviews-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/04\/repostaicnnordling-reviews-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::AICN::Nordling Reviews RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In a way, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES plays out like a story handed down in a world where the apes are already the dominant species.\u00a0 Much of the film feels like a bedtime story an ape parent would share with their child. \u00a0I held off writing this review because after I saw it I was so completely satisfied and happy with the film that I thought I was just overly gushing. \u00a0The film couldn&#8217;t be that good, could it? \u00a0But as the next couple of days passed, the film still stands tall in my mind. \u00a0It&#8217;s not that the expectations were low enough to be pleasantly surprised &#8211; no, this is a genuinely great science fiction film, and I think the filmmakers, and WETA, especially, deserve the benefit of the doubt. \u00a020th Century Fox has nothing to worry about. \u00a0I should have seen it coming &#8211; RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES stands tall and proud with the rest of the summer releases, and while many of those will be forgotten, RISE will be looked back fondly for years to come. \u00a0Yes, it&#8217;s just that good.<br \/>\nNordling, out.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/50662\">Ain&#8217;t It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a way, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES plays out like a story handed down in a world where the apes are already the dominant species.\u00a0 Much of the film feels like a bedtime story an ape parent would share with their child. \u00a0I held off writing this review because after I saw &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/04\/repostaicnnordling-reviews-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::AICN::Nordling Reviews RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}