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Best Planet of the Apes sequel?

Regressica
03-06-2007, 08:59
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_%281968_movie%29#Sequels

Now I believe that Escape is generally considered the best, but I would argue that the much under-appreciated Conquest is on par with Beneath. Escape is fine and well, but it doesn't have the X-factor.

Thoughts?

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I love you, Dr Zaius!
Chumblywumbly
03-06-2007, 09:02
Thoughts?
The Tim Burton remake is the most confusing film in existence.

And Helena Bonham-Carter is damn hot. even as an ape.
Regressica
03-06-2007, 09:12
The Tim Burton remake is the most confusing film in existence.

And Helena Bonham-Carter is damn hot. even as an ape.

If you thought she was hot in the remake, check out this shot from the original:

http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/WanadooFilms/ScienceFiction/PlanetApes1.jpg

But yes, being a big fan of the original I was quite unhappy with Burton's little "re-imagining". Usually like his movies too.
MadBadgerStan
03-06-2007, 09:19
IMO I'll sit down and watch any of them... However the Simpsons did do a funny version If I can remember... =P

But I prefer Escape or Battle.

However the chance to vote for ''I don't give a fuck of the Apes'' was too strong... :p
Chumblywumbly
03-06-2007, 09:20
If you thought she was hot in the remake, check out this shot from the original:
Heston turns me off.

Ape-women however....

*shuned*

But yes, being a big fan of the original I was quite unhappy with Burton’s little “re-imagining”. Usually like his movies too.
It was basically pants.
Andean Social Utopia
03-06-2007, 09:39
hmmm... very difficult choice, the first two films are of course excellent, but in the end I vote for "Conquest", because it is definetely underappreciated, but also the most political and violent of the ape films.

The fifth one is the only "throw away" episode in my opinion,
but overall I was impressed by the consistency of quality over
four whole sequels.

*sits on porch waiting patiently for the great pet killing virus*
Dobbsworld
03-06-2007, 11:25
It needs Heston, though - even if only for a moment. My vote is for Beneath.
HC Eredivisie
03-06-2007, 11:29
The one they blow up Earth.
Dobbsworld
03-06-2007, 11:32
The one they blow up Earth.

That's Beneath.
HC Eredivisie
03-06-2007, 11:35
That's Beneath.I thought it was the last one (seeing as the blow up Earth) so I voted for Battle :/
Dobbsworld
03-06-2007, 11:41
I thought it was the last one (seeing as the blow up Earth) so I voted for Battle :/

Oops.

I could see making that mistake, though.
Regressica
03-06-2007, 11:50
It needs Heston, though - even if only for a moment. My vote is for Beneath.

lol. What about that look-a-like they hired for Beneath? Hahaha. What was up with that?

hmmm... very difficult choice, the first two films are of course excellent, but in the end I vote for "Conquest", because it is definetely underappreciated, but also the most political and violent of the ape films.

The fifth one is the only "throw away" episode in my opinion,
but overall I was impressed by the consistency of quality over
four whole sequels.

*sits on porch waiting patiently for the great pet killing virus*

lol. I say we don't wait, but begin domesticating apes right now. Seriously though, I'm certain at some point in the future we will keep them as pets/slaves/pet-slaves. I don't see why we should miss out because of the time we were born. Somebody start a corporation damn it.

It isn't really that relevant, but...

Homer: How can you do this, Marge? How can you desert your children?
Lisa: Have a blast, Mom.
Bart: Rock the Casbah!
Homer: *sarcastic* Man's best friend indeed.
Dobbsworld
03-06-2007, 11:55
'Escape' was just too goofy.
Regressica
03-06-2007, 23:09
'Escape' was just too goofy.

Yeah. It was going for the whole 'fish out of water' thing. And I didn't care for how Cornelius and Zira acted all cutesy at that senate thing.
Divine Imaginary Fluff
03-06-2007, 23:28
Of the sequels, I've only seen the first. I quite liked the ending, though.;)
"You... bloody... BASTARD!"

*BOOM*
Regressica
04-06-2007, 01:04
Of the sequels, I've only seen the first. I quite liked the ending, though.;)
"You... bloody... BASTARD!"

*BOOM*

lol. I read a funny, negative review of it once that read something like: "... so Heston gets angry at the mutants and apes and decides to blow up the world". Makes him seem irrational.
Ifreann
04-06-2007, 01:10
Planet of the GIANT ENEMY CRAB>all
Demented Hamsters
04-06-2007, 02:00
To be fair to Tim Burton's horrid mishmash remake, the original sequels make no bloody sense as well.
Look at the first movie: The spaceship is sent to another planet, but through some malfunction returns to Earth thousands of years after it departed. Crew are in suspended animation, so are still alive after all that time.
fine, I can handle that concept.
1st sequel: Another astronaut is sent to retrieve them.
wtf?
It was a malfunction that got them to Earth, circa 10000AD (or whenever it's meant to be), so how would a 2nd spaceship follow them? surely it'd have ended up at the original intended destination.
2nd sequel: even worse, now some apes get the crashed re-entry spaceship and somehow manage to make it fly off away from the exploding Earth (blown up with one bomb!) and fly back into time.
again, wtf!

At least Burton made it a time-space hole they were sucked into. Have to give him credit for at least trying to make a semi-plausible explanation there.
Can't understand why Dopey (wassiname? Mark something) took off at the end. He had a hot blonde chick and an even hotter apegirl - and perhaps more importantly - he had a gun and a spaceship. He could have set himself up as a king with his harem of hot blonde-on-apegirl action.
Idiot.
Troglobites
04-06-2007, 03:46
He could have set himself up as a king with his harem of hot blonde-on-apegirl action.
Idiot.

I'd kiss ya, but you're so damn ugly.