WLM - Planet of the Apes (1968)
Added 2023-04-09 11:00:02 +0000 UTCOn 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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Comments
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.
rob_sothoth
2024-06-28 23:50:01 +0000 UTCIt’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.
Pete
2024-05-29 02:44:25 +0000 UTCThis was great, top 5 episode absolutely
Adam
2024-03-26 01:33:50 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Phillip
2023-04-30 02:49:27 +0000 UTCYou guys only did this so you could do impressions of Phil Hartmans Charlton Heston impression
JP
2023-04-21 04:10:00 +0000 UTCAs 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.
Super-Roboto
2023-04-19 16:13:44 +0000 UTCPOTA 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 😭
Abby M
2023-04-18 15:57:01 +0000 UTCApe-ril has been awesome, I hope it returns every year
Tom Day
2023-04-17 00:47:36 +0000 UTCYeah but it’s not okay to vote republican, because they are hate-filled fascists who are actually trying to harm people.
AlsoNamedB0rt
2023-04-12 17:31:37 +0000 UTCWhile 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.
Rob Brown
2023-04-12 06:17:39 +0000 UTCI 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.
Darryl Bowen
2023-04-11 21:58:55 +0000 UTCThe twist ending is literally the DVD cover. It's wild.
Paddy O'Rourke
2023-04-11 21:36:15 +0000 UTCI'm Canadian and don't get the joke
Marty TC
2023-04-11 20:32:31 +0000 UTCJust relistened to the Soylent Green episode last week. Great double feature with this and all those Heston impressions.
Craig
2023-04-11 13:44:39 +0000 UTCI hate every chimp I see from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z
James Ribaudo
2023-04-11 03:08:09 +0000 UTCBananas are for closers.
TDB
2023-04-10 23:00:12 +0000 UTCNo 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.
joe cottrell
2023-04-10 22:27:34 +0000 UTCLooks like he jumped ship already. Sad. 🤣
Paul Heidtman
2023-04-10 21:32:41 +0000 UTCGiving us $10 a month to act like an ass apparently. 🤷
We Hate Movies
2023-04-10 20:33:32 +0000 UTCYou were in the comments for the AD too, what are we doing here?
Tim O'Connor
2023-04-10 04:22:57 +0000 UTCnah
Hard To Gwil
2023-04-10 03:08:20 +0000 UTCTrump 2024!
joe cottrell
2023-04-10 02:08:16 +0000 UTCNow I want to watch Chimps at Midnight by Orangutan Welles
Eren Keskin
2023-04-10 01:00:28 +0000 UTCReject modernity, embrace monke
Eren Keskin
2023-04-09 23:35:08 +0000 UTCOh I hope you cover the rest of the series in the future. Especially Beneath(2) and Escape(3). Incredible arc!
Jamie
2023-04-09 21:50:51 +0000 UTCGreat episode!
Patrick Kilcoyne
2023-04-09 19:59:28 +0000 UTCBeen looking forward to this. In my top three. Cum chisilers was just a bonus.
Peter Reynoso
2023-04-09 17:56:26 +0000 UTCCan you pretend the sequels are bad and do them all?
Andrew Dean
2023-04-09 15:17:30 +0000 UTCDamned dirty podcasters!
Adam Lewis
2023-04-09 14:46:57 +0000 UTCSo much monkey business with this show.
Paul
2023-04-09 14:43:00 +0000 UTCMy sentiments exactly
Kate G
2023-04-09 13:00:21 +0000 UTCI 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…
Rob Brown
2023-04-09 12:07:51 +0000 UTCLets goooo!
Richard Richie
2023-04-09 11:47:22 +0000 UTC
