Planet of the Apes (1968)
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
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The skillfully rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise has coaxed audiences to think of simian brethren as complex creatures with significant brain power, but Primate treats Ben strictly as a killing machine, as cunning as he is unrelenting.
Save for the existential terrors of the “Planet of the Apes” series and that one pivotal scene in Jordan Peele’s “Nope,” it would be difficult to scrounge up even one notable film that sees horror staring back at us with a heaving pant-hoot and an aggressive chest-pound.
Unlike many horror films about primates, their narrative is not about a King Kong gigantic ape or intelligent apes that fight the good fight (Planet of the Apes).
When Ben gets rabies, it is as if he is waking up to the infantilization and decided to start the “Planet of the Apes” franchise.
It won’t truly turn us into a planet of apes, but you could do a lot worse for a January horror film.
Nothing, to my taste, beats the 1968 original "Planet of the Apes," but then again, few sci-fi films have matched that movie’s mix of thrills, high camp, and high concept, plus that great kicker of an ending.
This homage to the 1968 Planet of the Apes film will be remembered and respected for decades to come.
Something else that I really enjoyed about War is this idea that the Simian Flu had mutated, leaving any survivors susceptible to new, horrific effects, which is a nod to the type of humans we meet in 1968’s Planet of the Apes .
War for the Planet of the Apes, which caps this science-fiction trilogy, is not only the best installment of the new Apes films, it’s one of the best summer blockbusters in year — and the best Apes film since the original classic Planet of the Apes in 1968.
I am sure we will be seeing an all new trilogy in the coming years that will bring us back to the world of apes closer to that one depicted in the 1968 classic Planet of the Apes.
Several characters from the 1968 film appear here in younger form: Cornelius (played in Planet of the Apes by Roddy McDowell) is an infant and Nova (Linda Harrison) is a young girl.
They will also have fun with nods to “Mad Max,” 1968's “Planet of the Apes” and even “Old Yeller” from 1957.AdvertisementArticle continues below this adYou could think of “Deadpool & Wolverine” as a movie written by smart, funny people (director Shawn Levy, heading a five-man writing team with Reynolds) with absolutely nothing to say, or you can think of it as a delight that's strictly for the Marvel fandom.
I'm sure there'll be a comprehensive bullet-pointed list of cameos on the film's Wikipedia page by the time you read this, but among other things I believe I spotted a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, the spires of the Williamsburg bridge (site of an important Spider-Man battle) and the top of the Statue of Liberty's torch (the original 1968 “Planet of the Apes” was a Fox production), all buried in the ground like the “two vast and legless trunks of stone” in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem “Ozymandias.”
Despite employing the most hallowed, and yet derided, visual icon in science fiction: that of the Statue of Liberty in the midst of a post-apocalyptic desert landscape, Planet of the Apes remains a modern science fiction classic.
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As Jack travels further into the unknown, Kosinski creates a sense of unease and tension, not unlike Franklin J. Schaffner’s suspenseful pre-ape scenes in “Planet of the Apes.”
Enter John Chambers (John Goodman), a prosthetics guru whose work on simian features, for “Planet of the Apes,” earned him an Academy Award, in 1969, and whose talents the Agency has called on in the past.
As it happens, Mendez had a relationship with makeup artist John Chambers (John Goodman), who won an honorary Oscar in 1969 for his work on "Planet of the Apes."
Mendez enlists the assistance of make-up effects artist John Chambers (John Goodman), who had won an Oscar for his work on Planet of the Apes (1968), and a fast-talking movie producer named Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin)—a fictional conceit who takes the place of Robert Sidell, another make-up effects artist who worked with Chambers—to set up a production company, secure a script and preliminary production drawings, and con the Hollywood press into printing stories about the planned production before heading to Iran.
What’s nice about “Dawn” is that while we still see foreshadowing glimpses of the future as seen in the original 1968 “Planet of the Apes”–humans being caged, for instance–the sequel doesn’t try to hit the viewer over the head with references to the original movies as “Rise” sometimes did.
"Rise," directed by British writer Rupert Wyatt, melded smart science-fiction with great affection for Franklin Schaffner's original 1968 feature "Planet of the Apes."
But the outcome has already been set in Franklin J. Shaffner’s 1968 “Planet of the Apes” which proves that that will never be the case.
This installment inches events closer to a merge point with 1968's Planet of the Apes while maintaining its own unique identity.
Dating back to the original 1968 film, the “Planet of the Apes” franchise has been an exercise in sci-fi irony.
This is a sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), which itself was the prequel to a sci-fi franchise that began with Planet of the Apes in 1968 and which had burned out through multiple extensions and remakes.
I felt a little disappointed, however, in the lack of vision for the society of the humans who can manufacture futuristic flight and hack into the most sophisticated program in the universe but still look like they stepped off the set of the 1968 version of “Planet of the Apes.”
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Talk about saving the best for last, “District 9” isn’t just the best action movie of the summer (by a mile); it’s the most gripping, intriguing and compelling sci-fi allegory to grace the big screen since 1968’s “Planet of the Apes” – and that makes it an instant sci-fi classic in its own right.
Also, like the original “Planet of the Apes” that starred Charlton Heston, “Apocalypto” relies on a deus ex machina surprise ending that is intended as a commentary on civilization and progress.