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WLM - Planet of the Apes (1968) (Patreon)

Published:
2023-04-09 11:00:02
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2025-08-21 18:50:53
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On this month’s We 🦧 Movies, we’re chatting about an ape-solutely fantastic piece of science fiction filmmaking, the 1968 Planet of the Apes! How incredible is all the stuff even before we get to the apes? Have you marveled at all the fabulously designed sets inside Ape City? And what was the budget for all those people-catcher nets on this production? Had to be pretty high. PLUS: Womb-y Babies vs. Egg Babies!

Planet of the Apes (1968) stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, James Daly, Linda Harrison, Robert Gunner, Jeff Burton, and Maurice Evans as Dr. Zaius; directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

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Rob Brown

I saw a documentary about the makeup work on Planet of the Apes a couple years back that starts off with John Landis joking that the hair and makeup people are the most dangerous people on a film set. John Landis. If there’s someone that shouldn’t be calling anyone else a danger on set…

Kate G

My sentiments exactly

Paul

So much monkey business with this show.

Adam Lewis

Damned dirty podcasters!

Andrew Dean

Can you pretend the sequels are bad and do them all?

Peter Reynoso

Been looking forward to this. In my top three. Cum chisilers was just a bonus.

Jamie

Oh I hope you cover the rest of the series in the future. Especially Beneath(2) and Escape(3). Incredible arc!

Eren Keskin

Reject modernity, embrace monke

Eren Keskin

Now I want to watch Chimps at Midnight by Orangutan Welles

Tim O'

You were in the comments for the AD too, what are we doing here?

We Hate Movies

Giving us $10 a month to act like an ass apparently. 🤷

Paul Heidtman

Looks like he jumped ship already. Sad. 🤣

joe cottrell

No guys, I give you $10 a month because I like your content. I’ve been listening to the pod since 2014, been a Patron probably as long as you’ve had one. We obviously don’t agree on politics but you guys make me laugh. “It’s ok to like a movie” and vote Democrat.lol.

Tim Batson

Bananas are for closers.

jribs

I hate every chimp I see from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z

Craig

Just relistened to the Soylent Green episode last week. Great double feature with this and all those Heston impressions.

Paddy O'Rourke

The twist ending is literally the DVD cover. It's wild.

Darryl Bowen

I met Booth Coleman who played zeius in the Apes TV series while at the LA comic con shortly after the Tim Burton apes movie was announced. He was sitting by himself I walked up and asked for his autograph and while writing on it I asked if he would be in Burton Apes movie if asked. He looked up at me and glared growling "why the hell would I ever want to do that?" And shoved the autograph at me. At the time I thought he was an asshole but perhaps he knew what a shit show it would be.

Rob Brown

While ratings were certainly treated differently back then, it’s bonkers to think that the G-rated Beneath has the hero get shot in the face before the OTHER hero dooms the world to nuclear Holocaust with his dying breath.

AlsoNamedB0rt

Yeah but it’s not okay to vote republican, because they are hate-filled fascists who are actually trying to harm people.

Tom Day

Ape-ril has been awesome, I hope it returns every year

Abby M

POTA is probably what first really got me into sci-fi as a teen. Opened a whole new world for me. Loved the episode. (Me maniacally laughing Heston style) I listened to it a second time and then busted out the whole dvd box set. I wish you would do the sequels as someone suggested 😭

Super-Roboto

As much of a cult classic that this movie is I feel like it's still underrated, at least compared to other sci-fi around the time. I feel like it's still not mentioned enough even though the more recent trilogy has garnered high praise.

JP

You guys only did this so you could do impressions of Phil Hartmans Charlton Heston impression

Phillip

The book actually does address the language issue. The character in the novel spends months observing and apes and learning the language enough to converse with them. It’s also written with a frame story around the narrative and a completely different twist ending. I can only imagine going to see the movie in 1968 and getting a similar, though vastly different story and completely different twist at the end. Also the apes in the book are much more advanced with the use of technology and such, though I like how tue movies brings them down in technology development I do like how the book describes how instead of having crosswalks on street corners they have monkey bars they climb to go up and over, while holding their briefcases with their feet, it would have been worth it just for that to see in a movie.

Adam

This was great, top 5 episode absolutely

Pete

It’s so good. I just watched it for the first time this year and was blown away. Some of the sequels rock as well. I much prefer the older run to the newer series, although some of those are great too. Burton’s is without a doubt the worst.

rob_sothoth

Due to growing up in rural Scotland, I watched this movie on TV far too young to the point where the scenes where Heston finds his crewmates (one as a display in a museum and the other lobotomized) genuinely horrified me and the ending blew my mind. Not exactly seeing it in the theatre, but pretty close in that I didn't have anything spoiled for me.