PLANET OF THE APES (1968) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION 

Thanks for watching the original instead of the remake!

Twenty years ago I was driving with my five year old son in the backseat when he randomly said "Dad, wouldn't it be weird if apes ran the planet? Screech! Ran into a Blockbuster and rented this classic for us that night. He's 25 now and it's still one of our favorites!

The ending blew my mind the 1st time I saw this movie as a kid.

Interesting to see that "See no evil...Hear no evil...Speak no evil" symbolism scene with the elders go unnoticed in these reactions (I've watched many). Its kind of like watching history disappear before your eyes. That was once a powerful symbol not so long ago.

Next Stops, Vintage Sci-Fi Edition: "Soylent Green" (1973) "Logan's Run" (1976) "The Omega Man" (1971)

This was THE big franchise before Star Wars came out. As a kid born in 1971 I grew up watching this on tv, reading the comics, playing with the toys and watching the Saturday morning tv show. This series was huge back in the day.

Does no-one ever pay attention that there’s a crack in the glass casing of Stewart’s suspended-animation capsule??? 🤷🏻‍♂

The director said his big fear was that the audience would laugh at talking apes. He said if that happened, the movie would be DOA. It never happened. This movie was HUGELY popular!

@34:05 the Orangutans on the judge panel start doing "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" when she starts talking about him being from the same planet!

If I am not mistaken Rod Sterling was famous for the show The Twilight Zone

One of the messages in this film is that the different species of apes has often been compared to the different races of humans, living and working together but each in their own unique caste. While the actors were on lunch breaks during filming, it was noticed that all of the chimps ate with the other chimps, gorillas with gorillas and orangutans with orangutans, each at their own tables. It didn’t matter who the actors were or what race or gender was wearing the ape makeup, they instinctively ate with their “Own Kind”.

The ape that was the President of the Assembly was actor, James Whitmore, who played Brooks in "The Shawshank Redemption".

Fun fact: The scientist Cornelius played the butler in overboard with Goldie Hawn ❤

Gelding is a term used for a neutered male horse. That was what they planned to do to Tayler when he made his first escape attempt.

If you notice during the Tribunal, the 3 judges were doing the famous, "See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil" poses, one covering his eyes, the next his ears and the last his mouth, as Cornelius was speaking.

I'm so glad you went back to the original instead of the remakes! I remember watching this with my Dad in 1968 - a real bonding moment as he shared his love of sci fi.

I was blessed with the chance to have lunch with Jane Goodall. Just she and I in the teacher's lounge of my high school where she had just made a presentation. I just happened to walk through and saw her sitting down to eat; I sat down and we talked for about a half hour. One of the highlights of my life.

Charlton Heston plays Taylor. Also watch him in The Ten Commandments and in Ben Hur

During their journey, Stewart's stasis pod malfunctioned and an air leak caused her to die in her sleep.

When Planet of the Apes (1968) was in the theater the ending shocked the audience. No one had thought the movie was an antinuclear war movie until the ending.

My roommate would quote this film constantly! " IT'S A MADHOUSE, A MADHOUSE!"

Now you go on and knock out CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND!!!! 😊❤😊

Lassie Come Home (1943), co-starring a very young Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall is one of my faves.

"Don't look for it, Taylor--you may not like what you find!" I saw this when I was maybe 6 or 7, and it blew my young mind. Didn't actually grasp the gravity of it for years. Definitely in my top ten. As always, I enjoyed this one. It's great to spend Friday evening with good people and great reactions! Luv ya, guys!✌️❤

My mom took us to the theater to see this when it came out. The makeup blew everyone away.

I'm so glad you started with this instead of the more modern ones.

14:44 The iconic music score that Jay has noticed as being very distinctive was by the legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith, who did the music for dozens of movies between the 1960s and 1990s, including POLTERGEIST (1982), which you’ve already seen.

How wonderful that you watched this with no knowledge. I wasn't sure that was possible any more.

This movie was also referenced on Spaceballs, at the end when Mega Maid crashed onto the planet.

1- The maniacal laughter at the American flag in the beginning is foreshadowing the “joke” they’re on Earth, in America. 2- digging up the one plant in the beginning, a symbol that man destroys life. I love the soundtrack. Adds so much to the film.

the chase scene with the apes chasing taylor,one of the best in movie history..and that line when taylor speaks..iconic

Kinda funny, Amber called it right from the beginning. " they returned to earth".😊

Charlton Heston also famous for Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments

Rod Serling was the host and creator of The Twilight Zone. He was a big fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious. 😁

I saw Planet of the Apes at the theater when I was 14. This movie wouldn't have been as successful as it was without the cast they assembled, especially Charlton Heston! My favorite line in the movie, and the one that made the entire theater burst out in yells and applause was "Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!"

I remember being about 6 yrs old in 1975 and sitting in the couch watching this on tv with my dad .

1965 - 1989 was a golden age for big Hollywood Sic-Fi movies. It was the first time our filmmaking technology was mature enough to believably visualize the authors intent.

Rod Serling created the tv show Twilight Zone. Some of the best tv I remember as a kid! “Eye of the Beholder” was my favorite episode.

"Soylent Green" and "The Omega Man" for more Charlton Heston. "Logan's Run " is another great one.

I’m so happy you watched the original before watching any of the newer ones. Loved these movies as a kid

One of the greatest end scenes in movie history

Hands down the best of the series, including the new ones!

Also Roddy Mcdowell was Cornelius who was a popular child actor and adult actor. He was the TV host on the movie Fright Night who had a show as a vampire killer. His most famous movie was as a child called How green was my valley, a heart breaking movie.

James Whitmore who played one of the orangutans (President of the Assembly), later went on to play Brooks in the Shawshank Redemption.

Jay, since you're "obsessed" with apes and Jane Goodall, I'd like to recommend the movie "Gorillas in the Mist," from 1988. It's about Dian Fossey, who was sort of Jane Goodall's American counterpart. It's a very good movie that stars Sigourney Weaver, whom you might remember from Ghostbusters.

My brother and I are 60 and 62 and we still quote this movie. We had Planet of the Apes baseball cards.

This is a classic. The original novel the film is based on was French. The co-screenwriter of the film Rod Serling was the creator of the classic TV series The Twilight Zone. - Charleton Heston (Taylor) was Moses in The Ten Commandments, Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (which won him the Oscar for Best Actor), and many other amazing films, including Hooker in Tombstone. - Roddy McDowell (Cornelius) was an English born, naturalized American star known for his distinctive voice. He was a child actor in the 1940s. Besides the Planet of the Apes films and TV series (which lasted one season in the 1970s), Roddy did film, TV, and stage. He was the voice of V.I.N.Cent in Disney's The Black Hole, Octavius Caesar in Cleopatra (starring his BFF Elizabeth Taylor), Andrew in Overboard, and voiced Samwise Gamgee in the animated Return of the King in 1980. He was also a well-known photographer who had books of his work published. - Kim Hunter (Zira) was the originator of the role of Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in the original Broadway production in 1947, and reprised the role in the 1951 film version, winning both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for her performance. - The President of the Assembly that questions Taylor was James Whitmore, who you will remember as the elderly Brooks Hadlin in The Shawshank Redemption.

"Consider the Sacred Scrolls ... the Thirteenth Scroll, which says: 'And Proteus brought the upright beast [man] into the garden and chained him to a tree and the children did make sport of him'."

You guys missed the reference where the judges covered their eyes , ears and mouth . Hear no evil , See no evil , Speak no evil.

Hey Jay and Amber, interesting fact for you: Charlton Heston (Taylor) when attending the premiere of this movie when it was released, met up with Kim Hunter (Zira) and when she'd spoken to him, he didn't recognize her, because he'd been so accustomed to seeing her in her prosthetic makeup. Also, the prosthetic Ape makeup was made of some material that was really flammable and some of the actors that played Apes were smokers and required to use really long cigarette filters so the makeup wouldn't ignite

Roddy McDowell, a British actor famous also in America, starred in this film and the sequels and the subsequent TV series!! He was close friends with Liz Taylor growing up and all their lives AND you will recognize as the butler in the romantic comedy starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel, "Overboard," which he also produced. SURPRISE!

How the Statue of Liberty swam all the way from Upper New York Bay to Point Dume deserves a movie in itself.

Another good futuristic movie is "Logan's Run"(1976). I adore Michael York. Everyone has to die or is "renewed" at the age of 30. ---- Simply put, in the"Planet of the Apes" the great apes, orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees all have their places in the society. The orangutans were the leaders basically, the chimpanzees were the workers and the gorillas were the warriors/police.

One of the best Sci-fi movies ever made! It won an Honorary Oscar for Best Makeup in 1969. The Best Makeup category didn't exist in 1982. The original script, based on the 1963 novel, was a lot different, as the apes drove buses, tanks, jeeps, cars, trains, as well as flying helicopters and airplanes, and that they had a hierarchy similar to the United Nations. However, this was deemed too expensive and they cut down the budget to $5 million dollars. The film was released on Valentine's Day 1968, making $32 million dollars at the box office, and received positive reviews by critics.

Jane Goodall just turned 90 and she still travels and speaks 300 days of the year.

There's something so satisfying about a well-done classic. That's Charleton Heston (Taylor). Heade an appearance in Tombstone. He was also in Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, to mention a few. The music was by Jerry Goldsmith, no stranger to sci-fi scores. Roddy Mcdowall (Cornelius) was one of the most talented actors of any era. While the sequels suffered from lesser budgets, they did present answers to how the whole thing happened. They were gonna geld Taylor (snip, snip). The orangutans are intellectuals, the chimps are essentially a worker sector, from general labor to sciences, and gorillas are the muscle. Did you catch the see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil homage by the orangutans in Taylor's trial? And they were talking humans before the apes.

There is this one and 4 sequels. The drive-ins ( where you go to the movie and stay in your car) would run all of them in a dusk to dawn format.

James Whitmore was Brooks in Shawshank Redemption.

You missed the crack in the chamber cover of the female astronaut. That’s why she aged to death and dried up.

The music is just brilliant. I've always loved it and I've heard it kind of reappear in soundtracks ever since, either as a purposeful homage or just inspiration.

ROB SQUAD ALSO, YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN CHARLTON HESTON BEFORE, IT WAS WAS AN OLDER VERSION, IN THE MOVIE TOMBSTONE!! CHARLTON HESTON WAS THE FARMER/RANCHER WHO TOOK DOC HOLIDAY IN TOWARDS THE END OF THE FILM!!!

This movie is a true sci-fi classic! Thanks for watching this one y’all!

Rod Sterling was the lead writer for the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone", one of the most classic Sci-Fi shows on TV from 1959 - 1964. Case in point, the last scene of this movie is one of the most iconic endings in cinema history. GREAT REACTION VIDEO YOU TWO!!! KEEP IT GOING !!!

Cornelius was played by Roddy McDowell.. He played Andrew, the butler in the movie "Overboard" with Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn...

This is such an amazing movie with so many iconic scenes and quotes.

Corneilius is played by Roddy McDowell. Who will break your heart and make Rob cry as a child in "How Green Was My Valley".

"Gorillas in the Mist" (1988) starring Sigourney Weaver is a biographical drama of wildlife expert Dian Fossey, who studied mountain gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda and became the world's leading authority. Like Jane Goodall, anthropologist Louis Leakey also profoundly impacted the career of Dian Fossey, although this highly admired film does not show that connection. Hope J sees it someday.

🦍One of Thee Most Iconic endings Ever

I saw this as a little boy and I was blown away! So good. I've met Jane Goodall, cooked dinner for her and Danny Glover in Ellensburg Wa. when they were their for support of Washu the "talking chimp", she used sign language and taught her children without help from people. Amazing. Dr Fouts was in charge and a brilliant man. I actually got to meet the chimps while working (years latter) as a technician working in the upper area's of the chimp enclosure. Advised to not get with in 3 feet as the chimps could break my hand with ease and could bite off fingers, etc. But after just a few days I was told the chimps were very comfortable around me and I should be safe. I never disrespected them, never made direct eye contact and in fact, when grabbing my tools I would try not to insult them with tip of digit movement and only "grab" my tools as a chimp might. I never has dung slung at me! Some of my coworkers did though lol !

Chuck Heston in his little Moses skirt in Ten Commandments….. oooh baby AGAIN!!! 😍

I was obsessed with these films, and had all The Planet of the Apes films on VHS, which I watched every day during our 3 Week school holidays. There was also a TV series at the time.

Musical score was amazing yet to be topped in originality.

6:28 ... Y'all didn't even flinch at the mention of the name of the Star is Bellatrix... That's kinda Le Strange 😅

You have to see Charlton Heston in Ben Hur. One of the best movies ever made. It's epic.

Roddy McDowall played Cornelius. Charlton Heston played Taylor, Linda Harrison played Nova, Kim Hunter played Dr. Zira, Maurice Evans played Dr. Zaius and James Whitmore played President of the Assembly.

These have always been my favorites.. I'm glad you decided to start with the original..

I watch this movie so many times I lost count. Charlton Heston, Ben Hur 1959, Tresure Island movie 1990, The Ten Commandments 1956 were he played Moses. Charlton Heston, the star of this movie is to me the best actor that ever lived.

Those were well known actors from the 50's and 60's. Roddy McDowell who plays Cornelius was a famous child actor from the 40's and throughout the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. Kim Hunter who played Zera as well. Taylor was Charlton Heston was huge in the 50's and 60's. He played Moses on the 10 Commandments. James Whitmore is another legend from the late 40's and 50's. Rod Sterling was the Genius behind the Twilight Zone and known for Night Gallery and paranormal and ufo documentaries. This was the first of 5. All good movies. The 3rd installment "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" will explain how it all happened.

Roddy McDowell (Cornelius) did a guest spot on Johnny Carson show dressed in full makeup during a break from shooting. It’s quite entertaining to watch.

I saw this movie in the theater in 1970 when I was 11 years old. It was pretty cool back then.

The surgical procedure they were planning to do on Taylor was castration, also known as gelding in large animals such as horses.

4:47 - The female astronaut (Stewart) died and became mummified because she had a crack in her hypersleep chamber. The other guys pods were fine, so they were protected in the chambers, only aging minimally as in weeks, as opposed to Stewart, whose body decomposed after death, according to the very long time period their ship actually floated in space during the spatial anomaly they hit that through their ship into a time differential.

So many people miss the significance of Dr Sayus telling Taylor "Don't go looking for answers - you might not like what you'll find." He knew. He knew the entire time that Taylor was somehow from Earth's past; that humans had destroyed the planet once and that Taylor could well possess the knowledge to destroy it again; that Cornelius' archeological discoveries had been legitimate all along.

My Aunt took me to see this in NY when it first came out. I was only 8. My parents weren’t thrilled, to say the least. I definitely was traumatized by nearly naked Charlton Heston. 😳 But I ended up having a crush on Roddy McDowell (Cornelius). Also, the actor who played Dr Zaius played Samantha’s dad on the tv show Bewitched. Great movie. 👍🏻

THIS is why I watch reactions. For someone new to get their socks knocked off the way I did. Good reaction, y'all.

My Dad introduced me to this movie as a teenager. I was born well after the height of the Cold War and too young in the 80s to understand the Cold War. But, when my Dad had me watch it, I was old enough, and that ending hit like a truck. When this movie was released, it was the height of the Cold War, when kids were probably still doing drills at school for the breakout of nuclear war. So, that ending was only more significant in 1968.

This was my favorite movie when I was a kid. I had all the action figures ... so far ahead of its time!

Watched as a five year old, the whole family at the movies..this movie was headlines. truly, nothing like this was done ... and people of all types had something to say it was crazy..people yelling screaming at screen I remember that

Classic film. Unforgettable ending.

I was 15 when I first saw this in 1968 and the ending really surprised me. Had no idea it would turn out to be Earth. So innocent and naïve in those days. 🤯

Thank goodness you watched the original! 👍🏽 Rod Serling was the host of "The Twilight Zone" TV series, and was also against racism on and off-screen.

for another classic ape movie, I suggest the original 1933 King Kong.

ROB SQUAD THE PUPPY LOOKS ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Guys remember Overboard with Goldie Hawn .. the butler Andrew on the yacht is the guy who plays Cornelius .. Roddy McDowall. 😁

This was an excellent movie. It’s not just a movie, it’s a piece of artwork. “It belongs in a museum!”😄 I love the character situations they are put in and the soundtrack is quit intriguing.

While you are on the alien trip...put 'Starman' on your list

Try Soylent Green next, also one of my absolute favorites from this era, and with the legendary Charlton Heston.

The French writer who originally wrote the book had no idea that it had actually made it to print. When he wrote it, he was working on another project when he happened upon every writers' bane: writer's block. So, to get past it, he started writing this (the title of which actually translates to "Monkey Planet"). When the American producers approached him about making a film from one of his books, he was elated... until he found out it was THIS book. He never intended for it to be submitted for printing, thought it was complete trash. And the rest, as they say, is History. There are 5 movies total in this series. They attempted a "remake" in the late 90's-early 2000's that, in my opinion, fell flat. Then a homage series of movies recently that, again in my opinion, was outstanding. Check out the originals first to sorta set a foundation for watching the remakes.

I'm glad you got to see it without having the ending spoiled for you. It's such a surprise ending, and you don't see it coming. But Dr. Cornelius knew about it but was in denial to maintain the status quo.

Oh my god! Yes! Please continue with the originals before getting to the reboots! The classics need more attention! Edit: You say you’re watching the rest of them?! YES! There’s 5 originals, a tim burton remake, and the reboot trilogy, soon to be quadrilogy