― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Chuck Heston's best role, great Jerry Goldsmith score, great cheesy twilight zone ending...MONKEYS (ok, actually apes but whatevah)!
there's no way in hell it's not classic
― latebloomer: correspondingly more exaggerated mixing is a scarifying error. (lat, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Can there be such a thing????
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, classic film, and despite their relative qualities, you have to see the rest of them at least once through. Personally, I like #3 the best, I think, although for the sheer chaos of the mf'ing revolushun, ya gotta go for #4. I enjoy the first from time to time, but to me it's like A New Hope - a lot of waiting and building...foundations to be laid that I don't have the patience to sit through as much on subsequent go arounds.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
(and in a better world, no sequels for either)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
**sound of water crystallizing as hell freezes over**
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
Fun fact: J. Lee Thompson, who directed the fourth film, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, also directed the original Cape Fear.
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 10 March 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Movie, toys, masks, record-comics, and Marvel comics based on it = classic.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 10 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I've eaten out of an "Apes" cereal bowl for 30 years.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 March 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Endicott Peabody, Sunday, 13 March 2005 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 13 March 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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