i just watched the original planet of the apes and am kinda confused about the twist ending.

i know hes been on earth the whole time and its in the future but what exactly happoned to earth to make it be ruled by the apes?

I first saw this movie when I was little and I remember crying because I thought of how much that would've sucked, to have known it was Earth all allong.

But uh, I dunno, I never thought of that. I bet in one of the many sequels (which I havn't seen) they might explain it, or have little tidbits to make you guess.

But I just figured maybe the monkeys evolved or something and then took over the humans, became smarter and shît.

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TacoWagonProductions
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If you can remember,when he sees the statue of liberty...he says "you did it"..everybody understand this movie differently..thats the beauty of it..to me..we had nuclear war and while he was in space thousands of years past by..when it comes to monkeys..evolution baby....

the sequels are totally horrid imo! the first was awesome, havn't seen the new one.

"...where wings take dream..."
- G. W. Bush

The new planet of the apes is horrible. Especially the ending. They tried to throw in another twist ending when Mark Walburg gets back to earth, but it makes absolutely no sense what so ever. Its gay. And in the battle at the end, the apes all get back up after the trusters go off on the ship. That pissed me off. Those guys shouldve at least died.

The old one is incredible. I always looked at it as there was a nuclear holacost, and evolution once again took over, and apes evolved into the dominate species on the planet.

Thats my take.

Thomas Verrette
tommy21485@earthlink.net
Imperial Pictures

cool thanks guys... i guess thats what he ment when he screams at the end "you blew it up!"

i think it was intended to be nuke wars. Because that whole dead zone they couldn't enter i thought was like a nuclear damaged area, and human agression destoryed us. And then monkeys evolve yada yada

maybe theres explanation in the book. Has anyone read it?

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TacoWagonProductions
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the sequals explain that it was nukes

I saw the first two. There was three more wasnt there.

PLANET OF THE APES- THE MUSICAL
Starring Troy McCLure

"I love you Dr Zaius"