Apes Will Rock

Struggled through my last two days of no drinking. Two things got me through 1) Taking Alex to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2) Killer knock out food at the end of the day from our friends at the Chinger.

Regarding the monkey picture - the best part about the whole damned thing is that it never forgot what it was, a summer action movie where monkeys begin to take over the world. The movie says to you 'OK you know you know these stories and have seen them in a thousand other movies. Scientist with good intentions doesn't realize the fatal flaw with his miracle cure in time to stop bad things from happening....evil money guy manipulates things and can't see they are dealing with forces beyond their control...the love story...'

Once you work through all the shit and tolerate some of the two dimensional human characters, then comes the sentience and rise of Caesar and that is, by far the coolest part of the picture. Yes, belief must be suspended when Caesar frees monkeys from a local zoo and they storm the Golden Gate Bridge in a desperate attempt to make a new life, a new planet if you will in the Redwood Forrest.

The boy and I willingly suspended our belief and had a damn fine time at the movies.