I think the years have been good to it. There's an article on The Dissolve that unequivocally calls it the best since the first Apes movie, and the Director's Cut treatment on the Blu-Ray is certainly a vote of confidence.

- Planet of the Apes

They also had an old school bus. Don't forget the school bus.

In 4, the apes are capable of intelligence, but cowed and tortured into subservience. Near the end of the movie, one of the apes says "No," showing they're capable of speech. Caesar trains and teaches them to act as a militia. The apes are definitely smart-ish in 4.

Also, this is a franchise where history isn't written. They monkey with the timeline so much in the original series that it'd be absurd to expect things to go in the same direction.

I think it's a disservice to review this movie with such a focus on its place in the series' "canon." We don't know where this version of the series is going, and based on its focus on "realism," I doubt we're going to see humanoid apes speaking eloquent English, wearing robes, and pontificating about the Lawgiver.

So typical of a narcissistic author to write themselves into a story as a do-nothing pothead who gets garroted in jail. BEEN THERE

In what way? The AVClub for getting clicks for someone else's work, or the author of the twitter account, using Beloved Television Characters?

Um, Mattell is a… brilliant company with lots of well thought-out, practical, ideas. They are insuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and their personal hygiene is above reproach.

It's all one big passive-aggressive swipe. Heck, his Squarespace ads start with him dissing his publishers for doing a rush job on his website.

I'm pretty sure he pairs up the podcast tapings with a couple of nights of standup shows in the same venue. When he was in my town, the Thursday night early show was a podcast, and the late show/all shows Friday and Saturday were standup. He probably accepts a loss on that show's tickets since the podcast provides…

I agree; they seem to be reviewing the case/guests rather than the episode itself.

I liked the first few episodes (he has a lot of insight when it comes to film today), but got tired of him using each interview as a backdoor for him to sneak in some punches for critics who dislike him.

Not a fan of the live Welcome to Night Vale; as it turns out, pausing for audience approval every other line really screws with the show's rhythms.

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This was the last great Iron and Wine album. It's definitely the peak of Sam Beam fleshing out his sound before it finally buckled under the weight of yakkety sax on the following album.

Yeah; it makes me go "To Be Tah-Key" and it hurts.

Shut up Eolith you're not even Leonard!

Sometimes dead is better.

That title is making my brain force a rhyme that isn't there. It's like drawing in pointillism and asking my pupils not to vibrate.