Planet of the Apes: Classic or Dud

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Big premise with disappointing follow-through? That's typical of all science fiction in all media. You've got to make allowances for that. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm sure you can come up with a counter-example or two, but still.)

Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 13 March 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

The original and its sequels rock. What I really like about them is how stoner-y they are... the pacing and camera angles seem to assuming that everyone watching them has been hitting the doob big time.

The Tim Burton remake - one of the worst films ever made. After this I swore never to watch another Burton film.

DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 13 March 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link

the burton version sucked, for sure. but was it really one of the worst movies of all time?

OTM about the stoner-isness of the original, though...it's a large part of why it's so entertaining.

latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Sunday, 13 March 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude. and the answer to your first question is: yes, yes it is.

DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

I've eaten out of an "Apes" cereal bowl for 30 years.

Do you still have this bowl?

The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link

great revive

que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 12 January 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link

Wondering if you mean that in same spirit as this

The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 January 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link

I do have that bowl, and now two of the same bcz my sister bought me a duplicate.

It always pays to be married to a producer of a 'franchise':

https://www.metv.com/stories/rip-natalie-trundy-who-went-from-perry-mason-client-to-planet-of-the-apes-regular

a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link

Linda “Nova” Harrison better watch her back.

Disco Cladistic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 January 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link

fun fact: the writer of "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" - Paul Dehn - actually wrote the covert ops training manual for the US in WW2 that was basically the blueprint for the CIA's manual currently in place

sarahell, Thursday, 16 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link

Convenience link to other thread: Planet Of The Apes movie series - Classic or Dud

Disco Cladistic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 16 January 2020 16:03 (four years ago) link


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