Honestly? OK for the time but compared to the film it was a bit lacking. If you've ever read something like CS Lewis' sci-fi you'll get what I mean. The premise is good, the execution clunky.

Planet of the Apes must be so irritating for lit-snobs who insist that a film version will always be inferior to the original text.

Roger Daltrey? Oh man... and I thought "Buddy's Song" was crap.

Tragically, the ending was probably the closest to the book the franchise has ever got.

Any excuse to leave this here...

If you do, please, PLEASE include A Matter Of Life And Death. OK, so it's "god" rather than "magic" but, well, it's fantastic.

Glad someone mentioned it before I had to - especially if we're including reverse-engineered uplift stories like #7

I'd love to know what that family in the Gamera pic are looking at with such astonishment because, damn, it must be good to complete ignore the carnage behind them.

They had me and I still feel dirty. (Sorry, someone had to go there.)

And the La's were singing about heroin, so... not the best thing for an advert talking about chalky residues?

Here's the offending Tee and the page for it:

Pffft - "Dante's Peak was the volcano flick grounded in reality (at least a little), but Volcano was clearly the more exciting choice."

Sounded a little like he was trying a South African accent.

I'm kinda playing Devil's Advocate here, but the US remake of Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress wasn't all that bad, was it?

Well, Mars isn't actually all that red - they tended to tint a lot of photos red because that was what people expected - the terrain varies quite a bit.

Ahh, it's always a pleasure confusing my colonial visitors with that one...

*shakes fist whilst sitting in front of his computer in Glasgow, Scotland* "Grrr, why I oughta!"

Does the final scene looks like a hippy version of Apocalypse Now, or is it just me?

I agree with your points, both of you, but the article is also discussing the size of the cult/religion/scam in numbers of adherents, so the question (as it appeared to me) referred to it being the "fastest growing" religion.

You could, just don't refer to physical mutilation or slang for genitalia and you'll be fine.