[SamAdams76]

I was watching "Planet of the Apes" recently, that 1968 film, which was technically not bad for a movie made way back then. But it was a bit of a silly premise for a movie. Anyhow, at the very end, when Charlton Heston sees the statue of Liberty poking out of the sand, it didn't make a lot of sense to me. The statue is located on an island that is off of another island (Manhattan). So how does it get to a beach on the mainland pretty much fully intact? Also, there were mountains along the beach. Now you walk the beaches from Maine to Florida and not see any mountains at all.

This movie was obviously filmed on the West Coast (where there are plenty of cliffs) and passed off as being the East Coast. Also, some of those Apes were pretty damn intelligent. But why were they speaking English?

[Lee'sGhost]

"But why were they speaking English?"

IF you see the whole series you find out that they learn it from us (people). The plot line is, dogs and cats die out bec of some disease so humans begin adopting primates as pets. Over they years they become more intelligent and develop the ability to speak. Then baby Milo comes from the future and . . .

Never mind.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We watched POTA last night for the ump-teenth time. Husband knows all the good lines. I've actually walked along that same stretch if beach. It's right along the Pacific Coast Highway. Duh.

I said the exact same thing to husband, "Now how did the Statue of Liberty make it all the way to a California beach?" LOL!

Local college kids in 'The People's Republik of Madistan' came up with this years ago on frozen Lake Monona. Pretty creative.

[JimRed]

Also, some of those Apes were pretty damn intelligent. But why were they speaking English?

Duhh...so the movie would not need subtitles???

;^)

[Holicheese]

I glad the part the part about talking apes bothered you almost as much as the topography.
It was on last night. As you said, for a movie almost 40 years old, not bad.
I just want to know why Chuck kissed the Chimpanzee woman when he had the smokingly hot Nova standing right there.

[Bommer]

This movie was obviously filmed on the West Coast (where there are plenty of cliffs) and passed off as being the East Coast. Also, some of those Apes were pretty damn intelligent. But why were they speaking English?

Initially when the film was first tested, they did not speak at all. Audiences did not follow the plot line of the movie, because all the apes did was throw poop at Chuck Heston and drink their own pee. The producers felt that they could not convey a good liberal anti-bomb story with poo, so they reshot it and made them sound British, because Canadian apes sounded stupid, eh?

/sarc