Planet of the Apes (1968) MOVIE REACTION!! 

Hi old as dirt person here. Yes I saw it and yes it was a shock that it was the planet earth at the end. The assumption was it was another.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes is the 2nd one, and it's good. I can't vouch for the others, I saw them when I was 5 or 6.

Please do some of Charlton Heston's other popular films, you will love them.

the original four sequels to this, are all good to decent , they go in unexpected and weird places, but I don't know if they're going to draw an audience. you should definitely check them out on your own if you don't react to them.

The sequels get progressively worse. There are a few interesting ideas in there but if you stop now then you've seen the best of the franchise. And this movie is a lot more interesting if you think of Dr. Zaius as a flawed hero. Having seen how humanity had destroyed themselves he is desperately trying to keep his own people from going down that same path.

Sounds like such a terrific memory. Do you happen to know the exact theatre of which you both watched it in?

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines? "Flight is a scientific impossibility!"

@@AdamtheGrey02 It was the Weston theater on Weston Rd in Toronto, Canada. Of course, like most of my past...it is no longer around.

@@anthonydandrea4376 Thanks for the response. I live in BC so I totally get that part as most of my nostalgic places have been torn down and replaced as well. Cheers.

@@AdamtheGrey02 Cheers!

Did he laugh like Charlton Heston when his crew mate planted the American flag?

There's much better films, and more iconic moments. Why did he land in America??

@@philjones45 The crew are all Americans. Recall the American flag Landon plants in the soil at the lakeside. The ship was assumably returning to it's preprogrammed landing site. Sometime in the future they must have installed a space port in New York City.

@@philjones45 LOL! Where would you like them to land instead? 🤨 Oh, please!!! Can you make out list of your top 100 films that are MUCH BETTER than this one, and have MORE INCONIC moments? We would really want to see that list... 🙄

@@Tony-Plinkett easily

@@philjones45 Just as I figured....

The script alone makes it more than a "good movie".

Don't forget Heston was also in True Lies as the head of the Spy organization wearing an eye patch and True Lies has also become a 90s spy thriller comedy classic.

10 Commandments is pretty good.

​@@rustincohle2135 what I was about to say, let alone the other acting (like the doctor), the music, the sets, camerwork.

He's the classic leading man.😎

I thought it was from Merle Shain's "Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others". Just kidding, don't go ballistic.

I seriously doubt they were taking the quote from that source...

Rod Serling delivers,as usual.😀

Damn, I've only seen Planet of the Apes. I did see him in The Omega Man (based on I Am Legend) which was a pretty decent film. And of course, he's one of many famous actors to appear in Tombstone.

And of course The Ten Commandments. Heston once remarked that for much of his acting career, he didn't need trousers.😂

I'm not religious but the filmmaking artistry in Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments are off the hook.

Soylent Green is mandatory viewing and much more so in current times.

@@excalibur2024guy almost 70 years old,The Ten Commandments is still what movies should look like !

In my opinion, you can tell that many modern filmmakers refuse to watch films made before the 80s. It really shows in their disappointing films.

Serling was _not_ responsible for the finished script. When he adapted the novel, his treatment was a very faithful adaptation, but it was too expensive to film. The book was very different, it was an advanced ape society set in a NYC-like metropolis. So, the other writer Michael Wilson (who's considered one of greatest screenwriters of all time) was brought in to scale down the story to a primitive ape society, which of course changed the whole theme of the story with apes living in a dogmatic society rather than a technologically progressive one. The whole story of Taylor being persecuted by this religious ape cult was based on Wilson's own experiences when he was blacklisted in Hollywood for his political views. The characters' names changed, all the dialogue was Michael Wilson's, the themes, the overall plot, the situations, the philosophical discussions etc. are all Michael Wilson. Even Serling credited 95% of the finished script to Wilson and said it wasn't really his movie. But the studio wanted to give him credit for his contributions. The only thing really credited to Serling was the idea for the ending, which he reused from a previous Twilight Zone episode. Although, the reveal of the Statue of Liberty was different in Serling's script. There was no "D you all to H" moment.

@@rustincohle2135 Thanks man. I didn’t mean to insinuate that he wrote it or anything. I’ve always seen him listed as a co-writer and I loved The Twilight Zone as a kid so I’ve always loved that he had a hand in POTA as well.

Rod Sterling was wonderful at weird story telling. Stories that made you think.

@@glennthompson1173 Serling was wonderful at that, yes, but he did _not_ write this story. Read my above comment.

People sometimes say that Star Wars was the first sci-fi property to be heavily merchandised, but in fact it goes back decades before that! The Gerry Anderson TV shows (e.g. Thunderbirds) are another example.

@@ThreadBomb Very true, the promotions were done through, besides what's mentioned, lunch boxes, school supplies, action figures and other toys.

Fright Night was my favorite vampire film 🧛‍♀

Zira was absolutely brilliant and I personally felt her actress, Kim Hunter, carried the story along better than Heston did. Heston's acting was a bit over-the-top for me, but I do acknowledge and understand how he was a well-earned legend for his time, whereas I grew up in a completely different one with different methods of acting.

lol! This is the second POTA reaction where someone made that observation... I guess noise makers used for toys that use a reed, with a gravity weighted diaphragm, is a lost, advanced technology, never seen by today's generation 👶🙄🤣

its mechanical.

Escape is the next best one despite a relatively low production value. I like the way having been to the Planet of the Apes in the first 2 movies really lets you see the story from the apes’ point of view (it’s literally the flip-side of the first movie).

Very well said, especially "these are ruthless films". I couldn't have said it better. Also, in my youth, one Christmas I got the POTA treehouse playset with a couple of action figures, and I was over the moon with delight.

While knowing Heston from The 10 Commandments and Ben-Hur on TV in the 60's, I remember this and other Heston films of the time my parents took me to which were 'hard' films looking back now you mention it. Some I was one and done with like Marathon Man - not a fan of torture. Ruthless is a good word.

There used to be an accepted formula in the industry that each sequel would take one third less at the box-office than its predecessor, hence the reducing budgets. I haven't seen anyone mention it, but I suspect that what changed all that was home video. If you hadn't seen previous films you weren't likely to see a sequel. When home video arrived suddenly people could easily catch up with the previous films they had missed at the cinema in a way they couldn't before. As a consequence budgets for sequels started to actually increase as cinema audiences for sequels could easily be larger than the originals.

@@johnnhoj6749 I don't know about this "accepted formula" stuff. Can you name any other ongoing film series of the same time?

I personally felt 'Escape' completed the trilogy in that those 3 explain everything. It was fun growing up with several of the greatest movie composers imo, few of whom remain.

​@@terrylandess6072I just saw Beneath and Escape today. Beneath was a real sequel with fantasy. Escape is totally different, feels like a different genre.

Everyone knows the classic ending without even seeing the film, that’s how good it is!

Haha sorry! It’s just too good

I’d love to see someone react to the whole original series.

@@AtomicVampire1 maybe we’ll do that 👀

Movies with Mary will drop her Planet of the Apes reaction tomorrow!😀

By all means, continue to overthink.

Perhaps he came from West coast, and the stars are different?

Astronaut Dodge refers to the "...cloud-covered night, that strange luminosity, yet there's no moon." Rod Serling probably was thinking about the night sky, same as you were, when he wrote the script...and he cut off that line of thought!

​@JonCombo the stars differ according to latitude not longitude

I'm glad I'm not the only one that disliked the 2nd. I think it's a matter of whether you like the concept or not and frankly I didn't, but that's not to say that that these 2 reactors wouldn't enjoy it. I absolutely loved the concepts behind the 3rd and 4th movies.

I didn't care much for Escape. It feels too light hearted. Conquest was better. Battle was the weakest.

If this video get enough love, we’ll do the sequels 😊

I really loved Escape myself.

​@@ninjabluefyre3815I like Beneath more, it's true to the spirit of the first film.

Dr Zeus, Dr Zeus !!

You are incorrect. Rod Serling was _not_ responsible for the finished script. When he adapted the novel, his treatment was a very faithful adaptation, but it was too expensive to film. The book was very different, it was an advanced ape society set in a NYC-like metropolis. So, the other writer Michael Wilson (who's considered one of greatest screenwriters of all time) was brought in to scale down the story to a primitive ape society, which of course changed the whole theme of the story with apes living in a dogmatic society rather than a technologically progressive one. The whole story of Taylor being persecuted by this religious ape cult was based on Wilson's own experiences when he was blacklisted in Hollywood for his political views. The characters' names changed, all the dialogue was Michael Wilson's, the themes, the overall plot, the philosophical discussions, the situations etc. are all Michael Wilson. Even Serling credited 95% of the finished script to Wilson and said it wasn't really his movie. But the studio wanted to honor him for his contributions. The only thing really credited to Serling was the idea for the ending, which he reused from a previous Twilight Zone episode. Although, the reveal of the Statue of Liberty was different in Serling's script. There was no "You blew it up, D you all to H" moment. All the things you're crediting to Serling was actually Wilson.