Poll Favorite PLANET OF THE APES films & tv series?

[2takesfrakes]

Tim Burton's "Planet of the Apes" is fantastic! Absolutely incredible. The rest of the franchise, particularly what came before it, just looks so cheesey ... so corny ... But when I just happened to catch Tim Burton's movie of it, I was really impressed. But my enthusiasm for it hasn't gone so far that I ever felt compelled to watch the sequels to it. I was just so surprised that it was good!

 

[marsh8472]

Ranked from best to worst

1) I liked "Planet Of The Apes" 1966 the most. Seeing them find out Earth is being controlled by the apes for the first time introduces the shock factor that's not in the other original films.

2) "Beneath the Planet Of The Apes" is my next favorite. They got most of the actors back and pretty much picked up right where they left off from the first film.

3) "Conquest of the planet of the apes" is my next favorite. Seeing how they humans lost Earth and the war and such.

4) "Battle for the planet of the apes", next favorite. Seeing the aftermath and humans trying to get Earth back was alright.

5) Next up was the planet of the ape series. Good idea to make a series out of it. I probably wouldn't have had humans talking. I rationalized it by pretending that they were some time between the events of Battle of the planet of the apes and the planet of the apes.

I won't try to rank the rest. Escape did not have much action. It was more of a comedy. I did not watch much of the animated series. All of the newer movies I kind of just sat through as it just gave me something to watch. It's nice that the apes look better.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Gotta go with the '68 film.

 

[Set Harth]

But my enthusiasm for it hasn't gone so far that I ever felt compelled to watch the sequels to it. I was just so surprised that it was good!

I haven't felt compelled to watch the sequels to it either, but in my case that's because they don't exist.

 

[Christopher]

5) Next up was the planet of the ape series. Good idea to make a series out of it. I probably wouldn't have had humans talking.

That would never have been feasible. The show's budget for ape makeup was finite, so they had to rely heavily on human guest characters with usually just a few apes. So the humans had to be verbal and intelligent. It was the only way it could be done on a TV budget and schedule.

 

[Greg Cox]

I haven't felt compelled to watch the sequels to it either, but in my case that's because they don't exist.

Exactly. There are no sequels to the Burton movie, which turned out to be a one-off.

The franchise was rebooted again with RISE, followed by DAWN and WAR.

In other words, you have the original five movies, the Tim Burton remake, then a new cycle of APES movies beginning with RISE.

 

[Christopher]

In other words, you have the original five movies, the Tim Burton remake, then a new cycle of APES movies beginning with RISE.

Plus the live-action TV series and the animated TV series from the '70s, making five distinct screen continuities in all (although the first five movies only fit in the same continuity if you ignore a lot of details). People tend to lump the live-action show in with the original movies because it had Roddy McDowall and the same designs as the movies, but it's a variant continuity that doesn't track with the specifics of the films.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, I'm in the middle of reading something else, but I took a break to read the foreword to the anthology (only one typo!), and also Greg Cox's story. It was a very sad story, but the POTA universe is a nurturing environment for tragedies; it certainly captured the feel of the of the original movies and TV show very well.

 

[Greg Cox]

Well, I'm in the middle of reading something else, but I took a break to read the foreword to the anthology (only one typo!), and also Greg Cox's story. It was a very sad story, but the POTA universe is a nurturing environment for tragedies; it certainly captured the feel of the of the original movies and TV show very well.

Thanks!. Glad you liked the story.

And, yes, the original PLANET OF THE APES movies were deeply pessimistic at their core and didn't exactly do feel-good endings. They're dark, cautionary tales so that was the vibe I was going for . . . .

 

[RJDiogenes]

Thanks!. Glad you liked the story.

And, yes, the original PLANET OF THE APES movies were deeply pessimistic at their core and didn't exactly do feel-good endings. They're dark, cautionary tales so that was the vibe I was going for . . . .

You got it, and I hope the other stories do it as well. It unfolded in my mind as if I were watching a lost Apes short film.