And the whole “that’s good/that’s bad” conversation with the doll/frogurt seller is one of the most famous bits of dialogue from the entire series

Disney should buy it! It would take even less effort than the minimal amount they spend on the MCU!

Replying to my own post because I found a scan of that very issue!

Yes, but great films do that. Jaws didn’t have the nonsense from the book about Hooper sleeping with Brody’s wife, and The Godfather didn’t have the nonsense about a woman with a gigantic vagina who can only be satisfied by Sonny’s massive dick as everyone else’s just flops around in there. Later (after Sonny’s death)…

Yes, that’s true. And I actually remember reading that endorsement in the late lamented Twilight Zone magazine in late 1982 (yes, I’m old). As I recall, he was particularly impressed by Raimi’s homebrewed Steadicam clone that they used in various shots.

Or how people in Victorian novels speak of “making love” by which they meant simply chatting affectionately with their object of desire and not doing what we expect they mean.

My go to for the name Durant is the late husband & wife team of historians Will and Ariel Durant, authors of the 11 volume “Story of Civilization”.

This is from a guy who when given permission to make his own movie, gave us Maximum Overdrive. And who didn’t like Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining. You can like King as an author, but his taste in movies is absolute shit.

Because they wanted to make it clear it was attached to the franchise. Also the many 1970s sequels to the original movie all had “Planet of the Apes” in their titles so maybe an homage?

It’s like how in school we’d read in some 19th century text that somebody “ejaculated” a statement and we’d all burst into laughter.

I’m talking about the (perhaps unconscious) themes of the work, not the obvious additions of little consequence like the ruined Statue of Liberty (as iconic as it is). But it certainly has nothing to do with US centric things like the civil rights movement or the “race riots” in the inner city at the time, which what…

Is Playdate worth having? I remember when it came out and everybody was saying “WTF? A tiny black & white console as expensive as the Switch? And the crank doesn’t even charge it?” But the “season” idea of its games seems interesting.

Well, gorillas can weigh over 400 pounds, so a horse might care about that part!

You do realize that it was based on a book? In French. It had nothing to do with American culture or events. I mean, France isn’t exactly immune to racism, being a former colonial power, but a serious investigation of the themes of Planet of the Apes would need to look at French, rather than US, history.

I’m waiting more for the Planet of the Slugs, Maybe? But it is interesting that H.P. Lovecraft, long before the original Planet of the Apes, wrote about how after humans went extinct, a species of intelligent beetle would create a new civilization, and after them a spider civilization. He also described various…

WWJD? Get it on with an ape, I’d assume.

I always found it unintentionally hilarious that Elliot introduces his son to ET but just vaguely refers to his wife and daughter in that Xfinity commercial. Like in the movie, it’s only the boy who really counts.

Serves him right for getting his character killed in A Quiet Place. He can’t even co-star with her in her major franchise now!

But isn’t that basically what people do in real life with Tom Cruise and John Travolta? But maybe that they are also Scientologists makes it okay.

You have to understand that Franklin was a parody of the (since retired) Sesame Street puppet Roosevelt Franklin, which probably nobody under 50 remembers at this point, as he was only there in the 1970s. RF was intended to appeal to Black children, but they found him a bit too stereotypical.