"“You Blew It Up”: Looking Back at PLANET OF THE APES" Topic

"Planet of the Apes, in addition to being one of the best and most enduring sci-fi films ever made, is also one of the genre's most cynical, pessimistic, and depressing entries. We tend to gloss over that aspect because it's tempered with people dressed up as apes. Wearing an ape costume really relives a lot of the tension, and turns Franklin J. Schaffner‘s classic 1968 film into a subversive piece of entertainment filled with action and suspense. These elements are essential in a film that eviscerates not only the prejudices and conflicts of the 1960s, but the inequities and shortcomings we continue to experience almost 50 years later.

Astronaut George Taylor (Charlton Heston) and his crewmates Landon (Robert Gunner), Dodge (Jeff Burton), and Stewart (Dianne Stanley) have left Earth in 1972, and because of Einstein's Law of Relativity, they don't expect to return until 2673. However, their ship inexplicably crashes on an alien planet in the year 3978. Stewart has become a mummified corpse due to a crack in her hibernation chamber, so Taylor, Landon, and Dodge head out into the alien landscape to explore and find a way to survive…."
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Do you remember?… (smile)

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Armand

You Dam, Dirty Ape!!!

I had all of the action figures.

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Armand

Loved that movie when I was a kid !

It's such a good movie. Only saw it when I got the laserdisc a few years ago. The full size crashed spaceship in the lake is worth the price of admission. I now have the Japanese LD box set with all the movies and am looking forward to watching in the near future.

Such a good movie.

Alas, totally overshadowed by Burton's 2001 cinematic triumph starring "Marky Mark" Wahlberg …

Good memories for sure!… (smile)

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Armand

I just recently finished the 5 original Ape movies. The most coherent sci fi saga with the best continuity I've ever seen. Great acting, great ideas and epic in every sense. I love these movies.

In Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the last movie in the original series, I tell ya it was comforting to know that us pathetic humans still knew how to conduct a combined arms attack on a fortified position in the near future! 60mm mortars, recoiless rifles, marching fire, smoke screen just before the assault, I mean it was textbook! I guess some of those Army field manuals survived the apocolypse. Anyway we showed them damn dirty Apes how it's done!