They say not to judge a book by its cover. To that, I say: hogwash. Fair or not, if a book doesn’t have some interesting cover art, I usually pass on picking it up for a read. I gotta’ say, from my experience, it usually works. I recently learned the hard way, however, that the same can’t be said for DVD covers. While going through the $5 bin at Best Buy, I saw the Planet of the Apes (the Mark Wahlberg version). The cover art looks pretty epic. A few days and a Netflix DVD later, it was in my mailbox. My initial reaction was surprise. I was kind of surprised at how limited the special effects seemed. Since the movie was made in 2001, I was expecting more. Anything that’s post-2000, I kind of automatically assume it will have some realistic special effects. Then again, it’s a story that is about talking apes. I suppose no amount of special effects will make that look completely convincing. Still, based on the picture quality, it seemed like it was filmed in the 197...
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