Ape Movies
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As far as I'm concerned, there are no movies which can compare to the
Planet of the apes quintology: Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of
the Apes, Return to the Planet of the Apes, Birth of the Planet of the
Apes, and Battle for the Planet of the Apes.
You are joking, I hope.
Graham
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Joking! About the greatest movies made ever! Perish the thought! The
world would be a much darker place without the proper ape movie. Without
ape movies, Roddy McDowell would have had no career! I'd definitely
watch a Planet of the Apes movie than some wimpy "apes are beautiful
misunderstood creatures" tripe like Gorillas in the Mist.
John
"Now! fight like Apes!"
And I always thought that the Apes movies ruined McDowell career, it seems
like the only things I've seen him in since have been low budget horror.
Did you go to school in Arizona, I seem to remember a guy walking around
campus in an ape costume around the time the movies where released?
BTW what are your criteria for Great Movies, mine are story-line, acting,
direction;
Graham
There's no future in Time Travel
Don't forget bodacious<sp?> women!!
Trent
"Tracers work both ways"
That's what I meant with good acting!
Graham
There's no future in Time Travel
My main criteria for a movie is that it has a lot of things blowing up,
and none of that touchy-feely "lets get in touch with our feelings stuff".
That is why I like the old star trek, but not ST:TNG or DS9. In the old
Star Trek, Kirk/McCoy/Spock/Scotty would scarf on an Alien babe, set
phasers on maximum, and every once in a while obliterate some blood
sucking alien. Meanwhile, in the new, mamby-pamby star treks, every one
gets in touch with each other's feelings in one giant encounter group
session, with Picard/Riker getting in touch with their feminine sides.
The only thing good about the ship's counselor in ST:TNG is that every
once in a while she shows up in a low-cut dress. Even the Klingons are a
bunch of wusses.
In a fight there is no question Kirk would kick Picard's tail all over
creation, and all the while Picard would be saying, "I understand your
pain James." What a bunch of wimps.
John
Bet you own a lot of guns too<g>
Trent
"Tracers work both ways"
In '65 having a 'black woman' on the bridge was pretty 'touchy feely'
stuff for the time…
Heard somewhere that ST:TNG is one of the least violent shows on
Teevee. What a change from the original, where, if you weren't
getting top billing, you wouldn't survive the first planet. I think
Picards got style, and that if he wasn't surrounded by pansies and
suck-ups he'd be much better off. So who's doinking the ships
counselor THIS week?
I guess my memory must be failing, because I find that both the
original and STNG are very similar: Kirk/Riker, Spock/Data, etc. Even
the STNG storylines seem to be recycled. Although I've never figured
out how the Klingons mutated so much in such a short time!
Graham
There's no future in Time Travel
Babylon-5 seems to have broken the usual Star Trek mold. At
least, every once in a while, somebody gets blown away, although I
don't care much for the post-Vietnam stressed veteran commander,
although they call it something else. The rest is okay though.
Beautiful graphics, of course <g>.
Graham,
he did make a heck of a lot of episodes of Night Gallery. Some quite
good.
"You do trust me, don't you? Of course you do."
— "To Play the King" (BBC)
That's what I meant about McDowell – "Night Gallery" while extremely
entertaining didn't win many awards.
I'm not too sure if I trust you, I can't see your hands.
Graham
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