“Requiem,” by Robert Louis Stevenson

 Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me;
“Here he lies where he longed to be,
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.”

Dr. Bedelia Whatsername (Gillian Anderson) could be a cover that Dana Scully was forced to adopt to hide from the government in the same manner that Fox Mulder once did.  Both characters are medical doctors and, toward the end, Scully did tend to assume that stoical, reticent way of speaking that Bedelia has.

At this point, the networks really should just be sending me money for these ideas.

The Tinycats all have their eyes wide open, and are learning to use their legs.  They will doubtlessly be a handful for MamaCat and the rest of us quite soon.

Note how Little Ninja appears to be roaring. He heard someone say he was the runt of the litter, and is now working to disprove that.

Wouldn’t a day in late autumn or early winter have more of the right feel? Weren’t his parents killed during the colder weather? (His mother is wearing a fur stole, isn’t she?)

And Frank Miller’s “Year One” — including Bruce Wayne’s “Yes, Father” epiphany — occurs in winter, right?

At least we got a “Batman Day.”  If those weirdos can have a “Star Wars Day,” then I’m pretty sure I should have demanded a “Batman Day.”

My book had been selected for “Oprah’s Book Club.”

It was awkward.  She kept saying the the novel’s “Loretta Chambers” and “The Atlantic Coast News Hour” were thinly veiled (and somehow adulatory) references to her and her program.

I kept trying to figure out how to delicately and quickly explain that they were not.

I really liked it!  It had a fun, cool depiction of ape culture, and a surprisingly awesome villain in the form of Koba.  The great CGI and some terrific voice acting made both Koba and extremely likable Caesar seem real.

The action and special effects delivered; this was a nice little darker action flick with a science fiction premise.  Koba and the sometimes unsettling battle scenes made this something that would also please horror movie fans as well.   The scene where Koba tricks the two men at target practice?  Yeesh.  Look at that sneer.

We’ve got three cardboard good guys that make up a pretty boring de facto nuclear family.  For a better example of how to script post-apocalyptic characters, the screenwriters ought to see “28 Days Later” and “The Walking Dead.”  Jason Clarke’s Malcom was sooo nice and intuitively understanding, I kept hoping that one of the apes would knock him upside the head to slap some character depth into him.  The far more interesting characters were Koba, Caesar, and Gary Oldman’s Dreyfus.

Question — does Kirk Acevedo play a shmuck in everything that he’s in?  I am reaching for an “Oz vs. Apes” joke right now, but cannot seem to find it.

Question — I am no techie, but would human survivors really need hydroelectricity just to power a long-range radio?  Couldn’t something like that be powered by a generator or some other power source?

Anyway, this was a fun, darker sci-fi movie — I’d happily recommend it.