hermes
Acrobat
Ok, I read a thread in a nother forum concerning PLANET OF THE APES. Since there is some debate ast o whether the thread belongs there or not, I decided not to respond there and instead respond here where it belongs.
I'm responding in particular to the people who said the ending made no sense. It's a complaint I keep hearing and it bugs the hell out of me, because it seems like people didn't pay attention at all to the film.
The reason he returns to Earth adn the APES have already taken over is this...
Remeber the ship where the monkeys escaped in the first place? The Apes talk of it being there for thousands of years. You see, just like Wahlberg and the Chimp, the ship slipped through time, thousands of years before they did.
The monkeys took over.
When Wahlberg goes back in time, he doesn't go back thousands of years, he goes back a few hundred years. That's why the monkeys are in charge.
Jeesh. It makes sense, albeit in the skewed version of sense that the movie has. Though I've been told this is how the book ends as well.
Now why is it that later the monkeys seem to have less civilization than before?
Let's not forget the originals Anti-Nuclear stance and how this version seemed to have a pretty post apocalyptic landscape as well. Perhaps something to be explained in the sequal.
There are lots of things that play fast and loose with logic in the movie. Lots of things that are, well convienient at best.
But none of it really had an impact on me while I watched it. I let suspension of dibelief take over. I mean c'mon, it's a movie about talking Apes and it's alot of fun.
I think it was interesting how the original's loud and clear Anti-Nuclear message is changed to a subtle warning of the dangers of genetic engineering in this new version.
OH, and Tim Roth as the main villian was excellent.
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Steve
Same Old Story-
I'm responding in particular to the people who said the ending made no sense. It's a complaint I keep hearing and it bugs the hell out of me, because it seems like people didn't pay attention at all to the film.
The reason he returns to Earth adn the APES have already taken over is this...
Remeber the ship where the monkeys escaped in the first place? The Apes talk of it being there for thousands of years. You see, just like Wahlberg and the Chimp, the ship slipped through time, thousands of years before they did.
The monkeys took over.
When Wahlberg goes back in time, he doesn't go back thousands of years, he goes back a few hundred years. That's why the monkeys are in charge.
Jeesh. It makes sense, albeit in the skewed version of sense that the movie has. Though I've been told this is how the book ends as well.
Now why is it that later the monkeys seem to have less civilization than before?
Let's not forget the originals Anti-Nuclear stance and how this version seemed to have a pretty post apocalyptic landscape as well. Perhaps something to be explained in the sequal.
There are lots of things that play fast and loose with logic in the movie. Lots of things that are, well convienient at best.
But none of it really had an impact on me while I watched it. I let suspension of dibelief take over. I mean c'mon, it's a movie about talking Apes and it's alot of fun.
I think it was interesting how the original's loud and clear Anti-Nuclear message is changed to a subtle warning of the dangers of genetic engineering in this new version.
OH, and Tim Roth as the main villian was excellent.
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Steve
Same Old Story-