Planet Of The Apes movie series - Classic or Dud

i must have seen those original films dozens of times over the years when i was a kid. they played them a lot. i never got tired of them.

I didn't know this until tonight, because I have an old DVD set of the first five movies from 2006, but in 2008 they put out a Blu-Ray of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes that includes the original ending where Caesar lets the other apes murder the humans. I'm gonna buy one on eBay.

The CGI apes looked terrible at all times

Really? I think this still looks brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB4XrhYLQ4A

Somewhat off-topic but the comedian Dana Gould's Hanging With Dr. Z. schtick in which he portrays Dr. Zaius as a gossipy gadfly of Old Hollywood cracks me up.

I really like the new series. as far as ongoing 'franchise' sf films it's probably the best one outside of Dune.

i've now seen all ten ape movies and I enjoy them all...to varying degrees....except for the Burton one, fuck that one.

oh and Battle for the Planet of the Apes really sucks

Kingdom is pretty good but obviously not as good as the 2017 reboot kickoff or Dawn. I think maybe I like it as much as the last one but I'm actually a little fuzzy on that film.

I am a little bleery as to how equipment that has stayed unused and dormant for over 300 years magically still works when booted up, i.e. the satellites at the end

yeah that's the sort of inanity you sometimes just have to go with

one thing that bugged me: given how many fucking guns there are in this country, you'd think they would still be around and plentiful even 300 years in the future.

cyrus and i watched the first two of the new trilogy last night. gonna watch War tonight or tomorrow. we liked them. you get used to the weird look of all the apes. it is its own reality. cool action scenes. i will never get used to that impossibly-fast-movement thing of CGI though. where everyone scrambles up a building in two seconds. i liked that final battle on the building in the second one. all the metal flying everywhere. it looked cool. can imagine it being very cool on a big screen.

War's really good.

what I appreciate the most about the new one is the obvious allegory to early Christianity, where in the mere 300 years after Caesar died, he's been forgotten by some, fondly remembered by a few, wildly misinterpreted by most

i should rewatch War.

there was every reason this one could have really sucked (no Matt Reeves, no Andy Serkis) and I'm glad it didn't, even if some of it seemed like a slight rehash. I don't suppose we'll ever get some weirdo remake of Escape from in this series.

One.can dream

No monkey sex scenes in this one, I know, I’m disappointed too

i loved the other three remakes a lot but i found Kingdom to be a total snorefest. i turned it off after an hour of eggs and birds and whatever the fuck zz

I liked the first two, despite James Franco, but then gave up less than halfway through the third one because I didn't really want to look at extended scenes of apes keeping each other in POW camps, thanks. But I quite liked the recent one. Once it got to the point, it clipped along pretty well.

yeah but the new one is like 50% apes keeps each other in POW camps

keeping

Maybe I'm a much meaner person now.

I bought the Blu-Ray of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes that I mentioned upthread and the ape revolution ending is fucking amazing. Apes piling up pyramids of dead cops in the street! Zero conciliation from Caesar! It's fantastic. Highly recommended.

i liked the first three remakes but have no desire to watch the newest one for some reason even though it stares at me from hulu every day. maybe i've had enough. that remake trilogy though, really surprised by how entertaining they were. i think i just assumed they would be lame.

I thought it was a cool idea that the bad apes were worshipers of Caesar

yeah the allegory there was...quite blunt