The thing I like about Escape is that they took the original Planet of the Apes source novel that the first movie was based on and inverted it - in the novel it's the human astronauts who are in the apes place and vice versa, with the protagonist becoming something of a celebrity in a technologically advanced ape…

I feel the exact same way about Beneath. The entire thing is insane and it's got one of my all-time favorite movie endings.

The pharmaceutical industry has much more money than the snortable chocolate industry.

I suspected as much. I'm afraid to rewatch it as an adult.

Someone who innocently wears a Tweety Bird shirt because she likes it is fine with me. Someone wearing one ironically because they think it makes them hipster-cool is a thousand times more irritating.

I thought it was King Shit of Turd Mountain

Piglet always creeped me out. And I still don't understand what the honorific "the Pooh" actually means.

We have a waffle iron that makes Mickey Mouse waffles.

Does she cultivate that look of deranged evil or is it just her natural default setting?

She only likes you. LIKE!

But is a dancing hot dog a dancing sandwich?

Competitive eating sounds absolutely fucking vile on every level.

The cops are going to be looking down her pants? That'd be the only way to know she was born male if she now indentifies as female.

Yeah, I'm in Wisconsin 4 or 5 times a year and I see it everywhere. It's my wife's favorite and not available in Illinois so we always stock up when we're there.

I absolutely love Beneath the Planet of the Apes and the DVD is part of my permanent collection. Deeply flawed yes, but absolutely brilliantly fucked up and crazy, plus one of my favorite movie endings ever. I would vote it close second for best of the original franchise.

True. There's a lot to choose from there. The kids found the dentist/N2O scene the funniest.

I tell them that all the time. They've got cushy middle-class lives and nothing to complain about, but given our current culture they take their run-of-the-mill middle-class teenage angst entirely too seriously. My wife and I didn't have it nearly as good growing up and we weren't half the candy asses kids are these…

Yes! My favorite scene.

Doesn't matter. The whole point is to maximize ticket sales. They wouldn't take the chance.

The studio and the financial backers would. The whole point of corporate entertainment products is to make money.