Yawn.

Opposable thumbs are really a big selling point, turns out.

I love the way the first twenty minutes play out. It's practically languid!
I can't quite describe how it sucked me in. (The first movie I ever saw in the theater, too.)

This is supposedly corrected in the latest one.

Well, the book doesn't exactly end with a statue of Aperaham Lincoln, but you are 100% correct (in all but detail).

The make-ups and the "ape" movements are first-rate, though. Besides the awful story, casting, and dumb ending, the thing I hate about Burton's is the terrible, terrible pacing. It's as if everybody associated with that was thinking let's hurry this along and get it over with.

"I have no idea how his career survived…"

Battle gets picked on, but I dig it alright. It's got "Ape shall not kill ape," Paul Williams, and that whole scene with Mandemus in the armory.

Like EMO haircuts and disco dancing!

Yeah? Well, I walked out of your 3rd movie, and I'll never watch another one.
Plus, damn you got scrawny!

I think the ending you're referring to is Beneath's.

I thought James Cameron was even "attached" to it at one point? [Citation needed.]

That's why they all wore shock collars through their development.

Wait. What? You're a fan of Dr. Who? How did I not know that? Man! Dummy, me, I guess!

While the astronauts plan was to return to Earth, the whole thing had been bolloxed. The astronauts as much as say they do not know where they are. (And there's a whole weird mention of two moons, if I'm recalling correctly, that's never mentioned again.) The apes never mention evolving from humans. Only Dr. Zaius…

Batman merchandising taught Planet of the Apes merchandising how to teach Star Wars merchandising how to do it.

Fun Fact?: I believe there is an actor who appears in all five of the original Apes films, and it is not Roddy McDowell. Though her contributions are mostly in minor cameos, Natalie Trundy (wife of series producer Arthur P. Jacobs) is credited in the four sequels, and I have always heard she was in ape make-up…

America is reliving, in 2017, the economic and racial issues it should have settled in the '30s. We are returning to a social structure whereby subsequent generations will see static and decreasing standards of living. The world beyond America will matter far more as U.S. influence recedes. There are vast areas…

There are plenty of people who are "beloved" right now who just haven't earned it.

This isn't funny. Not at all.