Planet of the Apes

[raj]

That is scary RCMErchant.  The one on the left looks more real.

[Dennis]

I liked the original and the sequels, which is unusual for me, the TV series I didn't watch.
RC, I find those pictures oddly disturbing, is Michael going to be the father parent of a new race of talking chimps.

[Yaddo 42]

Caught some of those episodes combined into faux-movies back in high school, Didn't care for anything except for the opening credit sequence which managed to evoke the air of the first couple of films. The rest just seemed like standard 70s TV fare: group of heroes on the run. Remove the scifi trappings, and it was one more variation on The Fugitive.

When it turned up on SciFi during those daytime marathons I gave it another shot. Same reaction, except that it seemed even more by the numbers. Plus I would run across that same episode where Orko and one of the humans are stuck in an old BART station after an earthquake, almost every time. I began to believe they showed that one more than once in a given marathon.

[RCMerchant]

A mutant species,no doubt!
 I used to enjoy the   Marvel comic book as well,it used to have some great art by Mike Ploog. The remake 's big mistake IMO was having the human slaves talking,which made them more ...human(?).In the original,Charleton Heston's situation seems much more hopless due to the fact the only beings of his own race were primitive mutes. And Roddy McDowall  seemd like the glue that held the whole series together.And how can you top the Lady liberty ending? Tim Burton had a tough challenge ...

[Gerry]

Tim Burton had a tough challenge ...

And failed miserably IMO.

[RCMerchant]

Yes,he sure did. I bought it on vhs when it first came out.I sold it a yard sale for  a dollar.

[llamaflyagaric]

Ahh, yes. "I just can't help but believe that somewhere out there, there's gotta be something better than man."

Oh, Charlton. You sills, silly, homosapien.