― David (David), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David (David), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is classic for having been shot on the campus of UC Irvine, but also because it works as satire, probably on purpose
― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 5 January 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 6 January 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
i also think the new twist was pretty cool, certainly tolerable - and it would be daft to say it ruined the film
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 6 January 2003 02:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
What is thius nonsense about showing Beneath... at three in the morning. I remember watching it when I was seven on ITV on a Staurday afternoon (after the Wrestling). I was shit scared of it.
Oh yeah.
The explaination in Escape From The Planet Of The Apes as to why the apes reach their ascendancy is pure brilliance. Its all due to a virus which wipes out cats and dogs....(If anyone else can finish this off I'd be most grateful, I cannot type it due to laughing too much).
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 6 January 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Battle" is def the worst though. Can we have a thread on "On the buses" movies now? Did anybody tape "mutiny", please please please
― Alan (Alan), Monday, 6 January 2003 10:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
When the POTA tv show was briefly popular in the UK they re-released the first and third movies on a double bill. At the screening I went to all the kids couldn't stop laughing at Chuck Heston's bare bottom.
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 6 January 2003 11:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
well it makes sense in that whats happened - possibly - is that rather than travel back to his Earth, Wahlberg had ended up on the Apes planet far in the future, where Thade used the computer in the room he was trapped in to learn more about human civilisation and then managed to escape he led the apes in advancing further and mimicking the achievements of men on Earth, literally....perhaps this was never the intention of Burton but its plausible in the context of the film. another idea was that Thade had escaped, travelled back in time to Wahlberg's Earth and changed the course of history, perhaps even preventing cro-magnons from emerging leaving apes to evolve to Thade's level but develop the intelligence of humans, consequently developing in exactly the same way apart from the obvious physical differences...scientifically illogical of course but then this IS planet of the apes we're talking about
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― old pedant returns (mark s), Monday, 6 January 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 6 January 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 10:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
And is still legendary around here to this day.
Never have seen any of the films, nothing sparked my interest. I know the catchphrases used in MST3K by heart, though.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 January 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
I watched the original yesterday for the first time ever. Have to say I really enjoyed it, even though I knew how it ended.
Want to watch the sequels but from the sounds of things, I'd probably regret it.
― Ant Attack |=| (Ste), Monday, 6 October 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link
don't be a fule, the sequels are great! the most bizarro franchise in hollywood history, you will not believe your eyes. and they don't get unwatchably dodgy until the 5th film.
my babble about the sequel from The 1970's Science Fiction Movie Poll :
I just watched beneath the planet of the apes the other night. the scene where the ape city army marching through the desert encounters a field of squirming apes crucified upside-down in flames while in the background an enormous statue of the lawgiver begins bleeding from his eyes is like a halfstep from jodorowsky-level wtf.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/beneath-the-planet-of-the-apes.jpg
and I know I've gone on about conquest for the planet of the apes around here somewhere, the prequel that depicts the rise of the apes as a 60s watts-style race riot. o_O
― Edward III, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
There was one that was set in one shopping preecinct, presumably one of the dodgy sequels.
I see the box set is cheap in HMV right now.
I went for the "likey Lads" one instead.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
the second one is hysterically awful, the third one (when the apes come to present day earth?) is great
― akm, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
for a serious apprec of the race angle, read this:
http://server40136.uk2net.com/~wpower/images/product_images/9780786426638.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 6 October 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I first consumed Beneath the Planet of the Apes as a Marvel comic book, and as that it was classic. Watching the movie was a slight let-down as a kid. But the whole nuclear thing made a big impact on me. I was pretty much obsessed with Planet of the Apes until Star Wars came along.
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.populationstatistic.com/images/vegas_zaius.jpg
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope. Try again.
― Mark G, Friday, 6 February 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
? is yr browser older than the Sacred Scrolls?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
In the last few weeks I've made it all the way to Conquest and had a pretty good time. For some reason I can't yet pull the trigger on Battle.
― Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Friday, 6 February 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
it's pretty uninspired even with the presence of Severn Darden and Paul Williams.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
That one was big letdown.
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 February 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
obv Fox cut the budget to the bone, but I liked the school buses.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
not to mention john huston and john landis, what a bizarro cast
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Landis?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
The Tim Burton film is the worst film I have ever seen.
I don't even remember very much about the film...but ^^^^ this.
It was among the few times in my life when the movie is so bad that you actually come out of the experience semi-angry. I have not seen a new Tim Burton movie since, and possibly never will.
― iatee, Friday, 6 February 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
c'mon, filmmakers fuck up. He did well turning Sweeney Todd into a horror musical.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 6 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah but there's a difference between an artistic stumble and a piece of art that's *so* actively bad that you immediately have to really wonder whether or not that person has anything of worth say to the world and whether or not should be making things to begin with...and I remember the remake being one of those.
― iatee, Friday, 6 February 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
err:
'of worth to say to the world and whether or not they should be'
― iatee, Friday, 6 February 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i've always wondered if the nuclear-bomb cult of mutants and their hymns in beneath the planet of the apes was at least partly the inspiration for the holy hand grenade sketch from monty python and the holy grail
― crack?!? wow, maybe they can have china white later! (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 08:45 (fourteen years ago) link
The "Planet of The Apes" series is reportedly getting an origin story with James Franco .
According to Variety, the actor has signed on to star in a prequel to the series.
A mag source said James had a great meeting with director Rupert Wyatt over the weekend about the movie, that will be set in the present day and chronicle how genetic engineering gave the animals intelligence. The actor will reportedly play an important scientist in the midst of the war between man and ape.
The effects team WETA Digital, who wowed moviegoers with their work on "Avatar," will reportedly use photo-realistic apes and not actors in costumes for the movie.
The "Apes" prequel is slated to start filming in July and will hit theaters on June 24, 2011.
― velko, Friday, 21 May 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't know about this til Franco interview in NYT (in which he rolled his eyes over it, bet the producers loved that).
Plot basically seems to sort of redo the 4th film in the original series, w/ Andy Serkis Gollumizing Roddy McDowall's Caesar:
http://www.filmjunk.com/2010/06/30/andy-serkis-to-play-caesar-in-rise-of-the-apes/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
'Return' is just bizarre in the way it carries on straight after the first and mirrors it in many ways - but its pretty confusing in that no-one bothers to explain WHY the Forbidden Zone has a wall of fire and stupid lightning bolts, or why the apes see the mirage of burning apes when they cross the threshold - the worst part is the underground humans singing choir during their bomb-worshipping sermon...needlessly drawn out, implausible and it sounds awful!
rong on so many levels
do you get befuddled by jump cuts too
they were over here, now they're over there! WHAT IS HAPPPENING
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I still haven't seen the R-rated cut of conquest for the planet of the apes that they released last year
need to rectify
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
The score/soundtrack for the original movie is so perfect that I think it elevates the material.
― (¬_¬) (Nicole), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
great score, esp that whole opening desert trek and the hunt sequence.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
morbz your love for planet of the apes is very humanizing, what other secrets are you keeping
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
dogs and children love me
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
aw <3
― (e_3) (Edward III), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Against my best instincts i think i kinda want to see thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MtqRd9tKLw&feature=player_embedded
― Number None, Thursday, 14 April 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Look at the bright side: even if it's terrible it's going to automatically be better than the Burton Apes abortion.
― das reboot (latebloomer), Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^ cannot be overstated
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I keep seeing people on Twitter bitching about the title, but I feel like it pretty much feels like the long and awkward titles of some of the 70s sequels. Its not like Dark of the Moon or something really lame.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Haven't seen more than a few minutes of the Burton version, but it was enough
― Number None, Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Burton not tHAT bad
otoh, i don't even wanna watch this trailer
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
burton version is incredibly bad and retains almost none of the stuff that was appealing about the original (aside from some great makeup effects)
that teaser was actually better than i expected
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Friday, 15 April 2011 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
james franco is gonna make one hell of a scientist
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Friday, 15 April 2011 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I hope this is just like "Deep Blue Sea" only with apes.
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Friday, 15 April 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Although apes AND sharks would move this quickly into "Best Picture frontrunner" territory now that I think about it.
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Friday, 15 April 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I kept thinking of "Monkey Shines" (which was s'ok).
What are the odds that this movie ends with a shot of an ape perched on the Statue of Liberty? Because, you know ... get it!?!?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
cgi apes look like crap
when that one jumps off the railing at the helicopter it's like oh noes attack of the panda
― if u see l ron this weekend be sure & tell him THETAN THETAN THETAN (Edward III), Friday, 15 April 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
It also looks like a prequel to "Congo"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, now I want to see it more than ever:
It plays out like an escape movie, says director Rupert Wyatt, as Caesar the chimp leads his fellow imprisoned apes to escape the research facility where they're imprisoned. Caesar enlists the aid of Maurice, an orangutan who knows sign language, and a big bruiser of a chimp named Rocket. It's an "A-Team of apes," says Wyatt.
― Anti-mist K-Lo (Phil D.), Friday, 15 April 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Assuming they're playing this for laughs.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 April 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
wait are we supposed to root for the ape-team or be terrified of them
― i can tina turner (elmo argonaut), Friday, 15 April 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw the Burton POTA in the theater with friends when it came out and actually had a blast watching it. I've paid good money to see movies that were far more dreadful and dull.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
visually it was pretty cool! if only the script had been worth a damn.
― das reboot (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 April 2011 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't that every Burton movie?
― Number None, Saturday, 16 April 2011 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Burton's always been hit or miss but I don't think at that point he had made anything as joyless and uninspired as Planet
― das reboot (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 April 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Robert Wyatt directed this new Apes? Oh, wait...
― Winky Dinky Dawgz (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 16 April 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Where are the orangutans?
― wk, Saturday, 16 April 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Watching the original again, was struck by how much of a quisling Cornelius is, for a heretic! Nearly shits himself whenever Dr Zaius is around. If they ever closely remake it they'll probably cast Jesse Eisenberg.
also,
orangutans = WASPS (administer the place, sittin pretty)
chimpanzees = Jews (scientists, liberals, just had an employment "quota" abolished)
gorillas = warriors + menials, exploited classes of color
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
I guess those classses resemble the US demographics and segregation mid-20th-century
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
I love the original movie series. After the first one, the best is Escape from the Planet of the Apes, followed probably by Conquest, Beneath, then Battle. Battle for the Planet of the Apes is pretty bad but I do love the very ending with the statue.
As a child I loved the tv series too.
The Tim Burton remake was irredeemably terrible.
― MrDasher, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone seen this?
The title of this film translates to something like “the bumbling ones on the plateau of the apes”; indeed the film is but one of many in the 30+ title O TRAPALHAOES saga, which can be taken to mean “pranks”, “shenanigans” or “pratfalls” – in essence, anything that isn’t helping. Starring legendary Brazilian comedians Dedé Santana, Mussum and Didi Mocó, O TRAPALHAO NO PLANALTO DOS MACACOS’ is a surprisingly earnest (and indefatigably goofy) recreation of the original PLANET, wherein a band of idiot heroes end up “liberating” a simian populace that hates them – save for one comely philosopher-queen chimpanzee...
http://www.spectacletheater.com/missing-links/#otrap
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 15 June 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
The first film premiered in New York 50 years ago today.
Rod Serling's original draft, which featured the Pierre Boulle book's modern ape civilization (and no doubt even more Cold War liberal speechifying), is being adapted for a graphic novel.
http://www.slashfilm.com/rod-serling-planet-of-the-apes-script-graphic-novel/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link