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How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 6:44am
How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
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Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 6:44am
How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.

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revbob wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:49am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 6:44am
How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.
The Burton one is beautiful to look at—maybe the most visually pleasing of them all. And it's the closest to being faithful to the original novel. But it's undeniably blah.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 8:24am
revbob wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:49am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 6:44am
How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.
The Burton one is beautiful to look at—maybe the most visually pleasing of them all. And it's the closest to being faithful to the original novel. But it's undeniably blah.
Yeah but the end of the Burton one makes no sense.
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My humanity
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The end of liberty


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Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:32am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 8:24am
revbob wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:49am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 6:44am
How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.
The Burton one is beautiful to look at—maybe the most visually pleasing of them all. And it's the closest to being faithful to the original novel. But it's undeniably blah.
Yeah but the end of the Burton one makes no sense.
In what way? It's been so long, I don't recall the details.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:33am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:32am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 8:24am
revbob wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:49am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:08am


Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.
The Burton one is beautiful to look at—maybe the most visually pleasing of them all. And it's the closest to being faithful to the original novel. But it's undeniably blah.
Yeah but the end of the Burton one makes no sense.
In what way? It's been so long, I don't recall the details.
Not my explanation but try this.

I think that what happens is Thade somehow escapes from the crashed ship and finds a way to pilot something into the same electromagnetic storm. And then, well, he somehow ends up back on a modern Earth years before Wahlberg does and in the ensuing time, he helps apes overthrow the planet. So it's not that an ape civilization had somehow perfectly mirrored human civilization, but rather that the now-ruling apes have coopted the human's world and have remade it in their own image. The Lincoln Memorial is still the Lincoln Memorial, for example, but the face has been changed to memorialize Thade now, instead.
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty


We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

"Without the common people you're nothing"

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On another note. The Apes in the modern movies look great and yet i still prefer those ape costumes of the early films.
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revbob wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:49am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 6:44am
How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.
That's the latest one, innit?

If so, yeah, that was a boring crapfest.
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Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:41am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:33am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:32am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 8:24am
revbob wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:49am


I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.
The Burton one is beautiful to look at—maybe the most visually pleasing of them all. And it's the closest to being faithful to the original novel. But it's undeniably blah.
Yeah but the end of the Burton one makes no sense.
In what way? It's been so long, I don't recall the details.
Not my explanation but try this.

I think that what happens is Thade somehow escapes from the crashed ship and finds a way to pilot something into the same electromagnetic storm. And then, well, he somehow ends up back on a modern Earth years before Wahlberg does and in the ensuing time, he helps apes overthrow the planet. So it's not that an ape civilization had somehow perfectly mirrored human civilization, but rather that the now-ruling apes have coopted the human's world and have remade it in their own image. The Lincoln Memorial is still the Lincoln Memorial, for example, but the face has been changed to memorialize Thade now, instead.
Huh. My assumption (at least from my poor memory) was that, like the novel, Marky Mark returns to find that, yeah, the same thing happened to Earth. If so, I guess I missed the (dumb) ending and assumed something (maybe) better. Now I feel I should re-watch it in spite of it all.
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Spiff wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:47am
revbob wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:49am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 6:44am
How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.
That's the latest one, innit?

If so, yeah, that was a boring crapfest.
No, it must be 10+ years old by now.

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 10:03am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:41am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:33am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:32am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 8:24am


The Burton one is beautiful to look at—maybe the most visually pleasing of them all. And it's the closest to being faithful to the original novel. But it's undeniably blah.
Yeah but the end of the Burton one makes no sense.
In what way? It's been so long, I don't recall the details.
Not my explanation but try this.

I think that what happens is Thade somehow escapes from the crashed ship and finds a way to pilot something into the same electromagnetic storm. And then, well, he somehow ends up back on a modern Earth years before Wahlberg does and in the ensuing time, he helps apes overthrow the planet. So it's not that an ape civilization had somehow perfectly mirrored human civilization, but rather that the now-ruling apes have coopted the human's world and have remade it in their own image. The Lincoln Memorial is still the Lincoln Memorial, for example, but the face has been changed to memorialize Thade now, instead.
Huh. My assumption (at least from my poor memory) was that, like the novel, Marky Mark returns to find that, yeah, the same thing happened to Earth. If so, I guess I missed the (dumb) ending and assumed something (maybe) better. Now I feel I should re-watch it in spite of it all.
Wasn't it always Earth? Or did he not realize it?

Now Im thinking I might watch it despite Marky Mark. Although he's widely despised here at the rectory.

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Spiff wrote:
20 May 2020, 9:47am
revbob wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:49am
Marky Dread wrote:
20 May 2020, 7:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
20 May 2020, 6:44am
How do you like your Apes movies ranked? https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-9-planet-of ... 1843481003

I agree with the placements of #1, 8, and 9, but what's in between often baffles. Especially "War" at #2. I was fucking well bored shitless by that one. "Conquest," on the other hand, is top 3 for me—dark and vengeful, when the slaves overthrow the slavers. I also really dig "Beneath," even if it's pretty silly.
Yeah I really like "Beneath" although the ending gets silly. "War" should've been great but it just drags.

I also agree about "Conquest".
I haven't seen the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch one and I feel ok with that.
That's the latest one, innit?

If so, yeah, that was a boring crapfest.
The Burton one came out in 2000 or 2001. I know this because we moved a friend down to Tucson and saw it while there.
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