Really surprised this movie isn't listed here

[kolchak]

I noticed that Planet of The Apes is listed here and also wanted to give a shout out that I love the wav files.   it is a favorite movie of mine.  

I used them in a multimedia project I did and also a web project i had to do for college some time ago and i got an "A".  It was on the college's server and has since been removed since they only keep them there for so long but if i put it back up somewhere i will ask first, sorry about that.  I did not receive any money, it was strictly educational purposes.  

I also like the dialogue in the sequel Beneath the Planet of the Apes and while on the subject of the movies sequels, I was wondering why they weren't on the site.  In Beneath how could the other astronaut ot chrononaut end up in the exact same time as Taylor?  what are the odds?  and he lands near the same ape community and runs into all the same ape characters?  not to mention, how did a new york subway even partially survive a nuclear war?  how can those mutant humans live down there?  if the mutant humans survived, where did the other primitive humans come from?  why would they worship a bomb that can (and has already) destroy the planet and made them mutants?  how would it give them psychic powers (although that could happen over the course of time since humans are evolving gradually)?

the next sequel still makes my mouth drop open.  don't get me wrong i still enjoy the films but this one is an even bigger stretch.  Escape From the Planet of the Apes.  At the end of Beneath Earth's atmosphere is destoyed by the Omega Doomsday Bomb, yet these primitive apes manage to raise a sunken time ship from the first movie (which is never explained), figure out time travel, and go back to the exact point when Taylor left his time.  then conveniently, the one ape who understands all of this, is accidently killed by a 20th century ape (ironically, i think i get the message there) early in the film when they are being studied in a human laboratory.  

i do like this movie because of the nature of the President of the United States portrayed in the film.  the CIA guy is saying that these apes from the future are a threat to national security (how?)(give me a break, the year they are from is 3000 something)yet the president says that maybe for all we know it is God or nature's will (something like that, i haven't seen it for a little while) for apes to rule the planet.  I can imagine how this movie would cause an uproar among strict religous types.  even in the film Cornelious (the main ape) tells a human court that they believe they were created in God's image (an ape).  The gasps from the audience in the movie cracks me up.  evey intelligent species would think they are special in the eyes of their creator.  i'm sure intelligent life on other worlds might think the same way unless they are more advanced than us and know otherwise.

There were of course more sequels and they go downhill from here.  Escape sort of sets up the events for the next sequels which are tolerable but by the final one Battle for the Planet of The Apes, you're kind of glad the powers that be bring the movie series to an end.  

The book actually has the Ape civilization more advanced than human civilization and it would be nice if they could do a re-make according to the novel.  The recent re-make I thought wasn't too bad but still not exactly up to the caliber it could've been.  although i love that ending. didn't see it coming.

[Shadowphile]

One of the many sequels set in the past (can't recall which one)  ends with the missile silo crew saying that they need to respect the missile and fear it.  He may even say 'worship' but it's been a while since I've seen it.  This is how they end up praying to a planet buster missile.

'Unto my God I reveal my inmost self.  Oh and I peel my face for good measure, since exposure to radiation over all these centuries hasn't sterilized me it's just given me a gross face and awesome telepathic powers.'

Franky, if I was to pick a techno deity to worship, I'd go for the Giant Head that spits out automatic weapons.....

[RCMerchant]

That was Beneath the PotA. Victor Bueno was in it ,and James Franciscus fights Charleton Heston. I thought it was the best of the series,too. I've been known to worship inanimate obejects on occasion, like toilet bowls.

[odinn7]

I love all of the PotA movies (except the re-make, that is)...sure, they are a stretch but I grew up with those films. I had (still do really) all the playsets and everything. Some of the movies had real weak explanations (or none at all) of how things happened but if you could let that go, they are real fun movies. The final one, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, was a mde for TV movie I believe and was the last fizzle from the series but I even have fond memories of that one.

Now...NO!  and  DO! have completely new meanings to me after I saw the Conquest film...I have tried training my daughter this way but it doesn't seem to be working on her as well as it did on the apes in the film.