Planet of the Apes [Blu-ray] Overview
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 11/04/2008 Run time: 106 minutes Rating: R
Planet of the Apes [Blu-ray] Specifications
Many early science fiction films are now, quite inadvertently (and in most cases undeservedly), objects of camp attention: we laugh at the silly makeup, tin-can special effects, and the naive "high-tech" dialogue. Planet of the Apes is no such film. Its intelligent script, frightening costuming, and savagely effective conclusion (which needs no big-budget special effects to augment its impact) remain both potent and relevant. When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes. However, the ape community is riven with internal dissention, centered in no small part on its policy toward humans, who, on this planet, are treated as mindless animals. Befriended and ultimately assisted by the more liberal simians, Taylor escapes--only to find a more terrifying obstacle confronting his return home. Heavy-handed object lessons abound--the ubiquity of generational warfare, the inflexibility of dogma, the cruelty of prejudice--and the didactic fingerprints of Rod Serling are very much in evidence here. But director Franklin Schaffner has a dark, pop-apocalyptic sci-fi vision all his own, and time has not dulled the monumental emotional impact of the film's climactic payoff shot. If you don't know what I'm talking about here, you owe it to yourself to check out this stone classic, and even if you do, see it with fresh eyes; and don't be surprised if you get the chills all over again... and again... and again. --Miles Bethany
Customer Reviews
Especially if you can find it, make two discs edition (), the silver lid, rather than the output that appears increasingly ubiquitous Amazon: Planet of the Apes Buy, because this one doesn 't have all these delights are. Unfortunately, I believe that the two units is in press.
How can the film itself, I do not think I'll be watching it again: I know you must turn off the reason, first appeared in a movie like this, but only inmiddle age, I could not around the holes in the plot. Were simply too great. Sure, I know it is a classic film and all. And certainly, when I was a teenager fired my imagination a lot.
But this time, the only thing I wondered was deceived, as I was previously on this second-rate entertainment. In this case, the plot-hole that had triggered my dissatisfaction, the fact that Heston was not impressed by the fact that the apes speak English. At least in BoulleBook, said a different language, that had to learn slowly.
I know that sounds like a small thing, but if you start to notice that a lot of other things seem to go wrong at the point where you are just rolling their eyes instead of the movie on its own.
Another thing that seemed completely out, was the direction to consider the crash-to-earth scenes. I know that would have a limited budget, but must be some of the incompetent managementI have seen.
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