The symbolism was the evil White man finally getting his due from the non-Whites, represented by apes, that he had “oppressed” for years.
There is no such thing as “just a movie.” They all have an agenda.
Ya think?
Slave revolt? I dunno.
I liked the first movie with Charlton Heston. I can’t get into the rest of them, try though i might. And I really tried.
I couldn’t get past the first 15mins of that POS.
Oh, c’mon! You must be one of those Limbaugh-marinated types. I mean really, how can you possibly read anything into that sensitive scene??? Sheesh.
Paid government contractors building the wall are apes ?
Libtard critic for VillageVoice media said that it was good to see dedtructful man on the run.
All I saw were trailers for these films.
My overall assessment was that the do-gooders in Hollywood decided to portray black Americans as a kind of ape or monkey. But, you know, not quite dumb at the level of an animal, but Hollywood decided to portray black Americans as being surprisingly close to human beings.
And, of course, Hollywood made them “noble savages”. Better, in some ways, than civilized humans. Those civilized humans (the white guys) were smart, and had technology, and had built vast civilized empires, and all, but those white people didn’t have no soul, you know what I’m saying?
So the movies seem to hold out the hope that white people would be cast down and replaced by the far superior “noble savages” who weren’t quite human, but were at least not evil white people.
Oh my stars this was the stupidest movie. I keep laughing at the most inappropriate places. Like for real Ape Love Story how far were they going to go? Riding around on their little horsies. I nearly died.
What on earth gave you that silly idea?....................
“Was Planet of the Apes trying to make a point?”
LOL? Ya think? Penny for your thoughts.
Don’t you see? Erudite Hollywood elites are sooo much more in tune to what’s wrong with society and they have to send messages to us rubes in a way we can understand.
This is why I rarely go to movies.
Let me spoil this movie for all here. It was human’s last stand and the apes gave a dolly to the captain which had smallpox like ailment, except it rendered the humans to be stupid and dumb. Then the last vast human army was about to attack the apes and they were all killed in an random avalanche. The apes lived happily ever after with their new improved mind-altered human. The movie sucked.
Gee, Hollywierd making a message movie! Who’d a thunk it!
Years ago I worked at a residential real estate brokerage in an upscale neighborhood in north Baltimore. One of my colleagues specialized in brokering apartment buildings and rehabs in the inner city. He was the first person I heard to refer to Baltimore City as the “Planet of the Apes”. And leaving the city to go to the suburbs was “Escape from the Planet of the Apes”.
Don’t watch the most recent Planet of the Apes movie.
Stick with the Charlton Heston original. It is far superior.
For sure a slam against evil White men - the national Anthem part just turned out to be a lagniappe for the Hollywood scum.
Damn...
Give it a year or two, and Hollywood as we know it is ...toast. Death of the industry.
Next up is going to be small budget, high quality films from indy producers. Many of which will reflect real America, and real values.
Until then, I’m out and spend zero hours and minutes;
TV
Movies
Sports
Have they done the nuclear holocaust in planet of the apes yet? Say what onean about the old ones, they were still not that bad.