Dewmann wrote:Perhaps my biggest issue with the film though, was the implication that all of the apes from the sanctuary, after being made super smart, fighting across the bridge, and getting to the forest, somehow went on to raise the Apeshit Revolution (As I like to think history would call it) that led to the downfall of humanity. Now, that sanctuary didn't seem like it held even a hundred apes, and even though they were all extremely intelligent, that lack of numbers is a severe disadvantage. As soon as the government got word that a small army of super intelligent apes broke out of a sanctuary, had killed several people, fought through a SWAT Team, were using makeshift weapons, and had a leader who could fucking talk, they would immediatley lock down every zoo ever, and then burn the forest that the apes got into to the ground. Super intelligence won't exactly help an ape if he's coated with napalm from a jet speeding overhead. Maybe the government would try to take one or two alive to dissect, but their primary objective would be to burn everything until you could smell charred chimp from miles away. There is no way that the Apeshit Revolution should have succeeded if the government got involved early enough. Every nonintelligent ape in every zoo within the state would be put to sleep, and again, forests would be razed to the fucking ground.
I doubt the government would have done anything. How do you explain to someone in authority that there are hyper-intelligent apes running around and get taken seriously? They'd have to get video evidence as a minimum and if they wanted army support they'd have to get testimonials, documents, lab reports, &c. from the company who were involved with the apes. That's hard enough because James Franco's character was pretty much the head of that and he wouldn't cooperate, because he doesn't want the apes to be killed, and, aside from the fact he did most of his research outside the lab, he's probably got a few coworkers in his pocket which just gives more hurdles for the government investigators to jump over.
While that would all be going on, the virus is spreading over the planet and people are losing their shit. I imagine it would be a lot like a less organised
Contagion, at this point. The virus kills, like, what, 98% of the human population all up? With something that serious going on I don't think that any real government would send out any resources to deal with a crazy story about smart monkeys when they would do a much better service as peacekeepers.
There are plenty of stray-ends in the Planet of the Apes series but I don't think this one is too far of a stretch.