Planet of the Apes

Kirk Hammett · Post by **Kirk Hammett** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:37 am

I've seen all 5 old movies and the new one. The old ones had way better storylines although both old and new had good actors. I've never seen the TV show, yet, though. Anybody else seen and like?

Templar · Post by **Templar** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:57 am

Loved all of the old movies. I've seen some episodes of the series too (The humans are all suddenly able to talk for some reason).

Had high expectations for the new one. The makeup was fantastic, but the rest of the movie felt like Tim Burton just got up and left. I mean besides the much needed dose of a nice hairless female body, would anybody have really cared about what happened to Estella Warren (or any of the human characters, like that really stupid kid)?

After a while I was like "Aww, go ahead and kill Mark-y-Mark. In fact, wipe 'em all out! These guys don't deserve to exist, the movie'd probably be better without 'em!"

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:33 pm

I only saw the remake. I thought the make-up effects were really good. Furthermore it was a nice but not very special adventure-movie with a surprising ending.

vrikasatma · Post by **vrikasatma** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:17 pm

I was a MAJOR Planet of the Apes fan 'way back when it was first out. So were both of my brothers. Dad had M*A*S*H*, Mom had Dinah, we had Planet of the Apes. I did a whole school report on the books and movies after the local cinema held a PotA marathon, showing the whole series end to end.

One thing I didn't like about the series was that they had the gorillas as the bad guys and the chimps as the good guys. Anyone who's ever watched a documentary on apes knows chimps are raging, tub-thumping bastards and gorillas can be sweethearts (chimps practice cannibalism, gorillas don't). The Burton revision addresses that; the villain is a chimp and while the silverback gorilla can be a badass, he's mostly on the humans' side.

I liked the remake. I admit to being a Tim Burton fangirl, and I was pretty glad to see he can move beyond the garish swirly black-and-white stripes. And I WANT one of those red ape war tents!

MattSullivan · Post by **MattSullivan** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:31 pm

The new planet of the Apes sucked hard core monkey nipples.

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 11:17 pm

i had no idea what the hell was with the ending

Kirk Hammett · Post by **Kirk Hammett** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 5:39 am

The one thing I disliked about the new one was that the humans talked...and the end was so different. It was still good thouhg, but I prefered the old. I cant type on this laptop! Bleh!

nachoboy · Post by **nachoboy** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:23 am

i own all five originals, andi seen the new one once. i would have to agree with matt when it comes to the new one.

but yeah, jus bout ery single halloween, i watch at least one of the planet of the apes movies. they are rockin awesome!

Kirk Hammett · Post by **Kirk Hammett** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:00 am

Get your stinkin' paws of me you damned dirty ape!

Or something like that!

Morkulv · Post by **Morkulv** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:35 am

MattSullivan wrote:The new planet of the Apes sucked hard core monkey nipples.

No! Michael Clarke Duncan rules!