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View Poll Results: Which is your favorite Planet of the Apes movie?
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The Original with Charlton Heston
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Beneath -- James Franciscus and the Nuke Lovers
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Escape -- Roddy and the horrible polyester suits
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Conquest -- Roddy plays own son and starts the Revolution
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Battle -- Civil War with Apes
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The Saturday Morning Cartoon
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The TV Series
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The Remake -- Marky Mark can't decide between Helena and Estella
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Preferred Boulle's book
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"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"
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10-01-2009
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Which is your favorite Planet of the Apes movie?
Oh I have options for the folks who simply can't obey rules too.
Yes, it's okay to prefer the book, but it bears about as much resemblance to the movies as any of Jules Verne's books do to their movie adaptations....boooooooooorrrrrrrrring!
I will say that anyone who picks Battle--which I've never been able to stay awake through--is truly out of their mind....
His destiny, 
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Re: Which is your favorite Planet of the Apes movie?
I really enjoyed Conquest the most although I enjoy the whole series (and I did manage to force myself to stay awake, after a number of attempts through Battle).
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I saw the Charleston Heston version in the theatre. I was a teenager at the time, I think.
I was not impressed. Most of the "science" and "technology" was bogus, and I remember being unable to suspend my disbelief, even for a movie starring Moses his own self.
I saw bits and pieces of the others on TV, never a complete movie or episode. I couldn't stand any of them. Booooooooorrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnn nnggg.
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Re: Which is your favorite Planet of the Apes movie?
The original, no doubt!
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Re: Which is your favorite Planet of the Apes movie?
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I was not impressed. Most of the "science" and "technology" was bogus, and I remember being unable to suspend my disbelief, even for a movie starring Moses his own self.
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What "science and technology?" You mean the nets and wooden carts the Gorillas used to capture the humans with?
Or maybe the talking doll?
Maybe you're thinking of a different movie, dear....maybe The Omega Man? 
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The original, no doubt!
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Now there's another movie that I could not stay awake through...until the Mystery Science Theater version!
Apparently Best Brains always wanted to MSTify one of the Apes movies but they could never negotiate the licensing fees....
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Anything MST does is better than the original......
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Here's showing my age, or lack thereof...
I was not aware that this was more than a couple movies!
I saw the original and was unimpressed. If I wanted to see crappy sets with unrealistic fight scenes and crappy acting (sorry Mr. Heston-don't shoot me) I would much rather watch Star Trek. 
The original was ok. Since it is the only one I've seen, or care to see until those apes work on their MST negotiating skills, I'll refrain from voting.
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Re: Which is your favorite Planet of the Apes movie?
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Here's showing my age, or lack thereof...
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Well of course that's one reason I put in the remake: a lot of the "younger crowd" to whom the original movies are "camp" find the remake quite watchable with its new script and modern production values. It even features a hunky Mark Wahlberg and a scantily clad Estella Warren. What's not to like?
Unfortunately the poor direction and production values did get in the way of the original, which nonetheless was written by Rod Serling and shows it...
Don't look for it, Taylor. You may not like what you find,
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What "science and technology?" You mean the nets and wooden carts the Gorillas used to capture the humans with?...
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No, dearest Buffster. I mean the "hi-tech" backpacks that Moses and his Redshirt carried after climbing out of their "space-ship", and the space-ship, and the whole idea of circling back to Earth in 1,000 years or less (or the Statue of Lib would have dissolved), and apes evolving intelligence, speech (American English, no less!) in 1,000 years or less. Nah! 
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Re: Which is your favorite Planet of the Apes movie?
Although Battle was my least favorite, I loved them all.
My favorite science fiction isn't the science fiction with the shiniest special affects, it is those movies that actually say something about the human condition. About social topics which can be addressed when more mundane stories don't dare 'go there'.
That is the reason I still like the original star trek, even though the special effects were terrible. The stories are what made the shows, not the 'Kirk Fu' 
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