Re: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

On 22/05/2024 17:20, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <v20n99$d80$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

John Savard  <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:

I remember the original Planet of the Apes movie quite well, despite
having only seen it on teleevision. That movie was justly praised...
and then its many sequels were justly execrated.

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You should read the book.  It's also good, but different.

 Yeah... In the book, it really was a different planet,
(with parallel evolution of humans and apes, *sigh*) and
he got the special relativity thing right as best as I
can recall.

And - well, somebody gets back to Earth.
Sort of.  See Wikipedia.  Or read the
book, of course.

The first "Planet of the Apes" movie was consistent with that.
But when they decided to do sequels, they introduced the
wacky space time wedgie thing to get back to present day.