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Planet of the Apes (1968) - Full Watch-along (Patreon)

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2026-02-10 19:00:04
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2026-10

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Planet of the Apes (1968) - Full Watch-along

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William Terry

A profound movie, witty dialogue by the Twilight Zone guy; and bunny in a photoshoot sweater and belt! It's all too much! The main theme of POTA is the conflict between religion and science. It reverses Darwin where it shows the somewhat dense apes becoming dominant over the humans who lose the ability of speech. The mission takes them to light speed and unexpectedly brings them back around to earth. I assume they had a test tube baby setup wherever they ended up. Apparently the moon has gone, which means that the Van Allen Belt is gone, maybe that's the reason for the Forbidden Zone. It turns out they were in New Jersey the whole time, what with the Statue of Liberty and some of the apes having Brooklyn accents. Taylor is a Christ-like figure, which constrains the story by having too many scenes with councils and characters from Hollywood Roman Empire movies, centurians, and praetors, etc. Bunny asked what Nova, (Taylor calls her "the woman" a bit late in the movie) was doing messing up what Taylor was writing in the sand. Maybe she was trying to imitate what he did, or just tidying up after him. I defend Zaius, who bunny says knows the real story, by saying yes he knows that Taylor is key to the ultimate fate of the world and Zaius is trying to prevent the apocalypse. It seems like the filmmakers had the sequel in mind, because it flows pretty well into the next POTA movie.

Ron

I really enjoyed your reaction, Bunny. This is one of my favorites from this era of sci-fi. The allegories from this movie are still highly relevant today. The funny thing is that I was introduced to the series when my grandfather took me to the theater to see the 4th movie in the series. (There are 5 total.) He told me, "We're going to see apes fight." I was 8 at the time. A couple of years ago, I got the chance to share this movie with my younger son and daughter who both enjoyed it quite a bit. My younger son went on to watch 2 and 3 (so far). I hope you get a chance to see more from this series. Btw, since you're an avid reader, you may also be interested in the original novel on which this is based. It was written by Pierre Boulle and was published in 1963. There are notable (and interesting) differences between the novel and the movie. --- * The "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" gag was ad-libbed! * Actors tended to group together by their costume species during breaks. * Heston didn't recognize the actress who played Zira (Kim Hunter) at the premier since he had only seen her with full makeup. * Nova was Miss Berlin (1963) and Miss Maryland (1965) and was married to one of the producers (Richard Zanuck) from 1969 to 1978). She's still alive at age 80.

Comrade Wireless Caller

Still one of my favorite film of all time so I'm glad you liked it! Taylor at times in it kind of a jerk but he has a fantastic story arc. He leaves earth because he despises people, then is solely responsible for defending the human race, ultimately realizing that his instincts were right all along. I love the sequels. No, not as good as the first. but they did something different with each one, never just rehashing the same story and gradually flipping the stories from the human perspective to stories about the apes. The new films are great, but I felt like War was too similar to Dawn. It didn't advance the overall story enough. I'd love them to continue the new film series and actually include some of the more SciFi elements of the originals like time travel, mutants etc.

Bruce Galles

My favorite movies...all 5 as a Itty bitty Bruce...until Star Trek came along. I had Planet of the Apes sheets!

Carlos Stevens

Charlton Heston delivered all the classic lines from the '70s... "...iiiiit's peeeeeople.... iiiit's peeeeople.... SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!" and "...you did it... DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!"

Mark Gosine

Image if you will. Loving a movie so much but not realizing that one of the writers was Rod Serling! Until the credits ran this one time.

Mark Gosine

Such an epic movie. All time movie twist at the end. Still one of my top ten. Timeless. Interesting you mentioned the music right off. The score was amazing. If you listen closely, you'll hear ape like monkey sounds mixed into the score. Every aspect of this was crafted well. I also noticed that you noticed the composer, Jerry Goldsmith, who wrote the Start Trek I movie score, AKA the TNG theme music, amongst many other famous TV and movie melodies.

bunnytails

Thanks for the little tidbits! I didn't know there were 5 movies in the series!

bunnytails

I would love to see the other movies as well!

bunnytails

It's been a really busy week at work and we've been unprepared for the sudden increase of customers. I keep finding myself thinking "IT'S A MADHOUSE! A MAAAAAD HOOOOUSE!"

bunnytails

Star Trek I, that was it! I knew I recognized the name but couldn't remember exactly which movie he'd composed that I had seen recently.

Jack

I am SO happy you enjoyed it, and even happier that the end wasn't spoiled for you! That has to be one of the greatest reveals in the history of cinema, to this day.

Andrew Westcott

The reason the music sounds familiar to 2001 is because the score was also done by Jerry Goldsmith (who you probably recognize from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The ST:TNG Theme, the ST:DS9 themes, and many others -- mostly Sci-fi stuff).