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Planet of the Apes-- Good, would have been better if they made parts even remotely believeable

PostPosted:Thu Aug 02, 2001 12:51 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>Saw it last night.. and I could say it was a Great movie, if the unbelievable stuff wasn't so damn unbelievable.

Alright, I can follow the whole thing with the station and the apes and time travel just fine. Hell everything is just fine until you get closer to the end. First off; WHERE did the freakin horses come from?! Ok, so the station crash landed (I won't even dare think why) on a DESERTED and UNINHABITED world. Smart apes take over station, humans run off and over hundreds of years the apes build a civilization. There's NOTHING about horses there, and contrary to what <a href="http://www.goats.com" target="new">Goats</a> says in their previous comic.. I don't think the horses were on the station :)

Now, there's also the question of why humans became such pussies and how the damned space station was functional. How the Hell do you control an explosion like that?! I also liked the fact that smoke came out of no where just when it was needed. For all he knew, it should have ripped the station apart and blown up all the humans behind it. Once you get closer to the ending, I asked myself this same question:
<img src="http://www.goats.com/comix/0108/goats010801.gif">

Now, the ending was cool and all, I found it funny too (if not very predictable), except that it's Totally freakin impossible. He went BACKWARDS through time, NOT forwards! Just the little things I guess.

Don't get me wrong,, besides this and the damn morals they tried to shove down your throats, the movie was quite good. Also sets up for a sequel (just like it's daddy)</div>

PostPosted:Thu Aug 02, 2001 1:16 pm
by G-man Joe
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Yep....too many conflicts and contradictions. BTW, he's actually from the Planet of the Gay Astronauts.</div>

My thoughts exactly

PostPosted:Fri Aug 03, 2001 2:34 am
by Gentz
<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I don't think that this was really a movie to be taken literally though. It was more of a surreallist fantasy type piece.

However, there's one thing that really bugs me: I don't care how long the fucking fuel cells last, that space station was <i>dust</i>. It was a RUIN. There's no way I'm believing that the control panel and all the wiring needed for it to be powered on these magical fuel cells remained completely in tact while the remainder of the ship crumbled and fell apart.</div>

PostPosted:Fri Aug 03, 2001 4:24 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>hehe, not to mention they just happened to be the only part of the ship he could get to</div>

PostPosted:Sat Aug 04, 2001 2:14 am
by Zeus
<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold"; text-align: left; '>I agree about the contradiction with the ending, which is why I have issues with the end. The rest of the film was great IMO</div>