PLANET OF THE APES (1968) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION

[@Ollie-h1n]

The director said his big fear was that the audience would laugh at talking apes. He said if that happened, the movie would be DOA. It never happened. This movie was HUGELY popular!

[@billcrandall9386]

I suspect that few of us saw the "evolved" movie apes as having to resemble their presumed ancestors too closely.

[@jaynefindlay3158]

Jane Goodall just turned 90 and she still travels and speaks 300 days of the year.

[@davewildermuth7519]

Next Stops, Vintage Sci-Fi Edition: "Soylent Green" (1973) "Logan's Run" (1976) "The Omega Man" (1971)

[@buckbuchanan4902]

All classics! Add The Ten Commandments to it as well.

[@BrianBogiaBricky]

I was addicted to "Logan's Run" (1976). Really good movie!! Then they turned it to a TV series.

[@tonyclements1147]

@@BrianBogiaBricky The novels were pretty good too.

[@noirgatherer]

Don’t forget The Green Slime.

[@karenduncan2478]

I loved Logan's Run and the series!

[@erinhansen2110]

Thanks for watching the original instead of the remake!

[@DaleKingProfile]

Although they should watch the new ones too, but after watching these.

[@ezpzeee]

Yes! I was so afraid that they would start with the re-makes!

[@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm]

Just for God sakes don't watch the Tim Burton one! 😝

[@DavidSmith-vb7gz]

@@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm I was so excited for the remake, loving these as a boy, and the tv series. The only good in the Burton movie was Paul Giamatti…. What a waste.

[@garrywolfe6077]

@@DaleKingProfile Definitely agree but - TBF - the remake was actually a very good one though...

[@conureron3792]

The ending blew my mind the 1st time I saw this movie as a kid.

[@richdiddens4059]

The book has even a crazier, triple whammy ending. And the time setting of the book would be more like 1950's. Fun fact: the book's author, Pierre Boulle, also wrote The Bridge On The River Kwai.

[@terrymochinski2032]

Same here. I was 10 when it was first shown and the ending hit me really hard. Still get that same feeling even if I just think of it.

[@noirgatherer]

This was THE big franchise before Star Wars came out. As a kid born in 1971 I grew up watching this on tv, reading the comics, playing with the toys and watching the Saturday morning tv show. This series was huge back in the day.

[@jeremiahrose4681]

Another 1971 person, nice.

[@tonyclements1147]

70s here too, the Mego figures were great.

[@teriaugustine6464]

71 here too. I still have my Planet of the Apes breakfrast mug from around 1974 I believe. I loved the tv series along with the movies.

[@daleclark2376]

'67 model here, and I still have my Planet of the Apes belt buckle!

[@michaelkulman7095]

James Bond was a big franchise...

[@Divamarja_CA]

Lassie Come Home (1943), co-starring a very young Elizabeth Taylor and Roddy McDowall is one of my faves.

[@oldgreygonzo5186]

@34:05 the Orangutans on the judge panel start doing "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" when she starts talking about him being from the same planet!

[@steveleslie2170]

One of the actors thought of this and the director kept it in the scene.

[@erikagholston6610]

This was the first time I realized that.

[@jeffsmith8383]

Yeah, I loved that part 😂

[@floppsymoppsy5969]

They were so captivated by the scene they didn't even notice ❤

[@leefriedman9882]

I always wait for that part.😀 Such a subtle reference. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys

[@gailmackinnon7328]

I was 15 when I first saw this in 1968 and the ending really surprised me. Had no idea it would turn out to be Earth. So innocent and naïve in those days. 🤯

[@jeffpawlinski3210]

Twenty years ago I was driving with my five year old son in the backseat when he randomly said "Dad, wouldn't it be weird if apes ran the planet? Screech! Ran into a Blockbuster and rented this classic for us that night. He's 25 now and it's still one of our favorites!

[@thewarrior5486]

Were you able to return the video in time before Blockbuster closed forever? hahaha I used to work at a BBV from 1993 to 1995. Loved that place!

[@6140LIBRA]

😆😆😆👏

[@david.j9.rabbithole808]

“Screech!” 🤣❤️

[@EddieLopez711]

Don't forget to rewind 🤣🤣🤣

[@6140LIBRA]

@@EddieLopez711 😆

[@happymethehappyone8300]

The soundtrack/sound effects DEFINITELY deserve praise,, Especially in the beginning,, They added SO MUCH to the movie. 🌎🐵🦍🦧🐒

[@Land-Shark]

The ape that was the President of the Assembly was actor, James Whitmore, who played Brooks in "The Shawshank Redemption".

[@waterbeauty85]

My favorite James Whitmore role was SSgt Kinnie in 1949's "Battleground." He was shocked that many people remembered him for that movie because he thought it was such a small role, but his performance as a tough as nails sergeant in the 101st Airborne during the battle of the Bulge was iconic.

[@stevenkranowski5141]

Whitmore was also famous for his one-man stage show "Give 'Em Hell, Harry!" in which he re-enacted President Harry S Truman's fiery campaign speeches he made leading up to the 1948 Presidential election.

[@waterbeauty85]

@@stevenkranowski5141 OMG That reminds me that James Whitmore was also known for the one man show "Will Rogers' USA." What an amazing actor.

[@carycomic1954]

He also played the valiant-but-ill-fated Sergeant Ben Peterson of the New Mexico State Police in 1954's THEM!

[@shirleybuffington6420]

If I am not mistaken Rod Sterling was famous for the show The Twilight Zone

[@andreshernandez1180]

Wow, you are young. Yes, he created The Twilight Zone.

[@MW-ni6zp]

Yes. And the Night Gallery too.

[@pulsarstargrave256]

@@MW-ni6zp Not really Night Gallery. He was the host and wrote many episodes but it wasn't his creation.

[@nathan.brazil780]

Rod Serling (no T in there)

[@numbersasaname2291]

And he was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II.

[@d.kyrstede3556]

When Planet of the Apes (1968) was in the theater the ending shocked the audience. No one had thought the movie was an antinuclear war movie until the ending.

[@ricomajestic]

It was more than an antinuclear war movie!

[@d.kyrstede3556]

I know that..@@ricomajestic

[@keithwarrington2430]

I was always amazed that a cliff had appeared next to the statue of liberty, like a metal statue ( next to the sea ) would last as long as it takes for a cliff to form, everyone was saying "oh it's been America all along" and I was saying It's a fake! I was 10 and many around me were adults, I realized maybe adults weren't so bright after all.

[@ricomajestic]

@@keithwarrington2430 A metal statue can last a very long if it is treated the right way and depending on the type of metal. Some metals naturally form an oxidation layer that protects them from corrosion or are very chemically inert.

[@billcrandall9386]

Yeah. I was stunned.

[@pamelaesparza1586]

Fun fact: The scientist Cornelius played the butler in overboard with Goldie Hawn ❤

[@BrianBogiaBricky]

So funny!!

[@bryce253]

That's the ONLY other thing you know Roddy Mcdowall from?! 😂 wow.

[@pamelaesparza1586]

@@bryce253 no but the only reason I mentioned it was because I don't know how much of his work they have seen but I know they reacted to the movie overboard and I thought they might remember him ❤️

[@reesebn38]

If you grew up in the 70s & 80s you loved Roddy McDowall. Not just from all the Ape movies but The Legend of Hell House, The Poseidon Adventure, Fright Night 1&2.

[@Chou-seh-fu]

Satan from "Fantasy Island".

[@Friend_Of_The_Muse]

Interesting to see that "See no evil...Hear no evil...Speak no evil" symbolism scene with the elders go unnoticed in these reactions (I've watched many). Its kind of like watching history disappear before your eyes. That was once a powerful symbol not so long ago.

[@NavvyMom]

Exactly.

[@GhostWatcher2024]

I have a knickknack of a trio of dragonets in that pose.

[@BuddyAkin478]

I was just going to comment on this. Symbolism lost. It's at about 34:07.

[@BobBenson-qz8lp]

The 3 wise monkeys derived from Japan from exchanges with Buddhist Chinese. Today we even use the excuse, "I didn't see anything. I didn't hear anything. Spare me from the evil I will create for myself by getting involved" No one helped me on the NYC subway platform when a homeless psychotic was trying to push me off the tracks, and everyone stood around and said and did nothing, see no evil, hear no evil, and then speak no evil when the cops asked who saw it!

[@rolandzamora4040]

Charlton Heston plays Taylor. Also watch him in The Ten Commandments and in Ben Hur

[@cla9085]

The Ten Commandments is a must

[@janellvincent8046]

Both Ben Hur and Ten Commandments are a must see.

[@Chou-seh-fu]

Also has a small role in "Tombstone", and another in "True Lies" with Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[@piedmontish]

Yes! Ben Hur as well!!

[@danteaubert3645]

The Omega Man

[@daleclark2376]

"Don't look for it, Taylor--you may not like what you find!" I saw this when I was maybe 6 or 7, and it blew my young mind. Didn't actually grasp the gravity of it for years. Definitely in my top ten. As always, I enjoyed this one. It's great to spend Friday evening with good people and great reactions! Luv ya, guys!✌️❤

[@stephenlynn7442]

Gelding is a term used for a neutered male horse. That was what they planned to do to Tayler when he made his first escape attempt.

[@NavvyMom]

I was kind of surprised they didn't get that.

[@anorthosite]

"Castrate" likely would not have made it past the censors of the time.

[@deborahcornell171]

​@NavvyMom There's another couple I watch who reacted to this movie, neither one of them knew either.

[@NavvyMom]

@@deborahcornell171 Interesting. I mean it's a horsey term, but still figured it was out there in general parlance, but it seems not. Or at least nowhere as much as it used to be.

[@deborahcornell171]

@NavvyMom Definitely not as much as it used to be. That's the case with a lot of words, phrases & expressions that are dropping by the wayside. It startles me sometimes.👀 Btw..if you're interested, the other reaction to this movie (that I mentioned) is on TBR Schmitt's channel. Like Amber & Jay, they're a likable young couple. They're sometimes very funny & they have pretty in-depth discussions after watching a movie which actually is always worth listening to. They've been doing this about 3 years so they have an extensive Playlist. They've also done several tv series. I've especially enjoyed their reactions to The Sopranos & Fargo. You should check them out.🩵✨️

[@SmokeNoMirrors]

“The name Rod Serling sounds familiar”….and it should my guy! Check out his work :)

[@e.d.2096]

My roommate would quote this film constantly! " IT'S A MADHOUSE, A MADHOUSE!"

[@CharlieJ69]

Funny, I did it today at work lol

[@e.d.2096]

😮!!!​@@CharlieJ69

[@markwilliams6394]

I would say that to my dad all the time.

[@tbirdUCW6ReAJ]

“SHUT UP, YOU FREAK!!!” - Julius

[@Serai3]

I LEAVE THE 20TH CENTURY WITH NO REGRETS

[@BlueShadow777]

Does no-one ever pay attention that there’s a crack in the glass casing of Stewart’s suspended-animation capsule??? 🤷🏻‍♂

[@SkemeKOS]

IKR None of the reactors I've watched even notice it lol

[@lt6134]

My mom took us to the theater to see this when it came out. The makeup blew everyone away.

[@33Keith33]

One of the messages in this film is that the different species of apes has often been compared to the different races of humans, living and working together but each in their own unique caste. While the actors were on lunch breaks during filming, it was noticed that all of the chimps ate with the other chimps, gorillas with gorillas and orangutans with orangutans, each at their own tables. It didn’t matter who the actors were or what race or gender was wearing the ape makeup, they instinctively ate with their “Own Kind”.

[@alanr4447a]

I imagine chimps, gorillas and orangutans each have their own preferred diets, so it'd be natural for them all to go where the right kind of food was being served. 😉

[@ebashford5334]

It's such a primal urge to align ourselves with an in-group based on whatever.

[@mikegaskin3196]

I'm so glad you started with this instead of the more modern ones.

[@Eric-ff4bf]

Rod Serling, the name you mentioned as being familiar at the beginning of the film, was the creator of The Twilight Zone. There are so many allusions in this film: inverting human/animal relations, hints at similarities of Imperialism and how Europeans saw non-Europeans as lesser beings, hints at American slavery and race relations, etc. Brilliant. This came out the same year as 2001: A Space Odyssey

[@michaelbrandt5416]

Stanley Kubrick who directed "Space Odyssey", was said to be inspired by the Ape make-up, that he chose to include the intro with his own version of the dawn of mankind into "Odyssey".

[@cog4life]

Now you go on and knock out CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND!!!! 😊❤😊

[@Colleen1976]

Yes please. Keep the classic Science Fiction movies coming.

[@andrewgrant6516]

How wonderful that you watched this with no knowledge. I wasn't sure that was possible any more.

[@elizabethfranco1284]

Charlton Heston also famous for Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments

[@michaelbajar-kb5mq]

I’m so happy you watched the original before watching any of the newer ones. Loved these movies as a kid

[@mypl510]

Hands down the best of the series, including the new ones!

[@tediousmaximus1067]

I agree!

[@dylusional419]

Big facts. I like the Marky Mark one too

[@bethcushway458]

It's a classic. You can't beat it. I hated the sequels. The new ones are incredible and the homage and respect they pay to this film and the original lore is fantastic.

[@scottmoore1614]

You can’t top the original.

[@silverlobo2135]

Best is relative, BUT you have to ignore the blatant racism and hypocrisy of Taylor and Charlton Heston as a person.

[@BobBenson-qz8lp]

Brooks Hatlan in Shawshank redemption, who hung himself at the half way house. He was one of the prosecutors in Taylors trial.

[@lt6134]

Rod Serling created the tv show Twilight Zone. Some of the best tv I remember as a kid! “Eye of the Beholder” was my favorite episode.

[@JDdiGriz]

Great show, my favorite episode was "Night of the Meek"

[@BGNOLA]

Planet of the Apes was based on the Twilight Zone episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air"

[@cliffordbrooks3355]

@@BGNOLA Actually, it was based on a novel by Pierre Boulle who also wrote Bridge Over the River Kwai. I read it as a kid. The screenplay was much better. That ending is sooo Rod Serling.

[@BGNOLA]

@@cliffordbrooks3355 probably a mix of both

[@jediknight73]

As a child twilight zone would scare the poop out of me lol

[@mermaidmelodies1492]

THAT was the original "Subverting Expectations"!

[@gkiferonhs]

I was blessed with the chance to have lunch with Jane Goodall. Just she and I in the teacher's lounge of my high school where she had just made a presentation. I just happened to walk through and saw her sitting down to eat; I sat down and we talked for about a half hour. One of the highlights of my life.

[@terryconnelly484]

My mom met her as well along with the gorillas...1 sat down near her No threat

[@laurogarza4953]

It muat have been!!!

[@bethcushway458]

Oh wow! That is amazing. What an inspiration and an incredible woman❤

[@ezpzeee]

"Soylent Green" and "The Omega Man" for more Charlton Heston. "Logan's Run " is another great one.

[@alexanderstewart439]

IMO the movie I am legion is a remake of the Omega Man.

[@ezpzeee]

The original is better. My opinion, of course.

[@tanyahendricks8465]

Those are all great movies.

[@IggyStardust1967]

@@alexanderstewart439 "I Am Legend", was actually the third film adaptation of that book. "The Last Man on Earth", which starred Vincent Price was the first, "The Omega Man" was the second, and Will Smith's was the third.

[@Osprey850]

Jay, since you're "obsessed" with apes and Jane Goodall, I'd like to recommend the movie "Gorillas in the Mist," from 1988. It's about Dian Fossey, who was sort of Jane Goodall's American counterpart. It's a very good movie that stars Sigourney Weaver, whom you might remember from Ghostbusters.

[@Colleen1976]

That's a great suggestion for Jay.

[@dunringill1747]

Great suggestion

[@NavvyMom]

Yes, this was on my list of movies they should see. Dian Fossey was to gorillas what Jane Goodall is to chimps.

[@kirksmith2051]

Great film.

[@PenelopeFrank]

1- The maniacal laughter at the American flag in the beginning is foreshadowing the “joke” they’re on Earth, in America. 2- digging up the one plant in the beginning, a symbol that man destroys life. I love the soundtrack. Adds so much to the film.

[@tonyclements1147]

The flag scene, he was laughing because it’s been 2k years and the guy was “claiming” the planet for America..that early in the film no one realized they were on Earth.

[@PenelopeFrank]

@@tonyclements1147 yeah, that’s the punch line

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

He's laughing at the flag because it was very unlikely any country they knew still exists in a recognizable form. The other astronaut was showing reverence to a symbol with no likely meaning anymore.

[@tonyclements1147]

@@dudermcdudeface3674 Thank you.

[@reaper7264]

Yeah it's about irony.

[@michaelstallings5824]

the chase scene with the apes chasing taylor,one of the best in movie history..and that line when taylor speaks..iconic

[@tonyclements1147]

During their journey, Stewart's stasis pod malfunctioned and an air leak caused her to die in her sleep.

[@pjg58x]

Rod Serling also narrated the Jacques Cousteau TV specials. He passed away at age 50.

[@bighuge1060]

If I'm not mistaken, there is a visible crack in the top of the glass hibernation chamber which caused that air leak.

[@FeaturingRob]

This is a classic. The original novel the film is based on was French. The co-screenwriter of the film Rod Serling was the creator of the classic TV series The Twilight Zone. - Charleton Heston (Taylor) was Moses in The Ten Commandments, Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur (which won him the Oscar for Best Actor), and many other amazing films, including Hooker in Tombstone. - Roddy McDowell (Cornelius) was an English born, naturalized American star known for his distinctive voice. He was a child actor in the 1940s. Besides the Planet of the Apes films and TV series (which lasted one season in the 1970s), Roddy did film, TV, and stage. He was the voice of V.I.N.Cent in Disney's The Black Hole, Octavius Caesar in Cleopatra (starring his BFF Elizabeth Taylor), Andrew in Overboard, and voiced Samwise Gamgee in the animated Return of the King in 1980. He was also a well-known photographer who had books of his work published. - Kim Hunter (Zira) was the originator of the role of Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in the original Broadway production in 1947, and reprised the role in the 1951 film version, winning both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for her performance. - The President of the Assembly that questions Taylor was James Whitmore, who you will remember as the elderly Brooks Hadlin in The Shawshank Redemption.

[@richardzinns5676]

One of the biggest stars of the time, but my favorite Charlton Heston performance is the supporting role of Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers (1973 and 1974 in the U.K., 1974 and 1975 in the U.S.).

[@MrJamaigar]

Unfortunately, the novel is one of those books that's never gotten a close adaptation; aside from a Hungarian comic book, later translated into English

[@jamesrobertson2361]

You guys missed the reference where the judges covered their eyes , ears and mouth . Hear no evil , See no evil , Speak no evil.

[@NavvyMom]

I'm thinking a lot of people aren't as familiar with that as they used to be.

[@BlueShadow777]

Unsurprising. There’s only one ‘reactor’ I’ve seen who actually picked up on this. Kids these days are hyper-unintelligent.

[@bethcushway458]

To be fair they missed a lot😂

[@vincepurdie]

@@BlueShadow777 Unknowledgeable is not the same as being unintelligent.

[@The_Real_Fomsie]

If you notice during the Tribunal, the 3 judges were doing the famous, "See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil" poses, one covering his eyes, the next his ears and the last his mouth, as Cornelius was speaking.

[@MrJamaigar]

All three judges are orangutans, who represent the conservative, narrow-minded political class; other smart apes ,the chimps, are the younger, more liberal generation. It's all a cinematic caricature of the political landscape of the 60's; (this movie came out in 1968)

[@RetroClassic66]

14:44 The iconic music score that Jay has noticed as being very distinctive was by the legendary film composer Jerry Goldsmith, who did the music for dozens of movies between the 1960s and 1990s, including POLTERGEIST (1982), which you’ve already seen.

[@SRG558]

I saw Planet of the Apes at the theater when I was 14. This movie wouldn't have been as successful as it was without the cast they assembled, especially Charlton Heston! My favorite line in the movie, and the one that made the entire theater burst out in yells and applause was "Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!"

[@NavvyMom]

Yup, I loved that line too. It was great on so many levels. The shared frustration that he can't talk for so long, and then when he finally does, it's what so many of us were thinking, and then the instant "Oh crap what are they gonna do to him NOW?

[@keithwarrington2430]

@@NavvyMom You were all thinking apes had paws?

[@Whitebrowpriest]

4:47 - The female astronaut (Stewart) died and became mummified because she had a crack in her hypersleep chamber. The other guys pods were fine, so they were protected in the chambers, only aging minimally as in weeks, as opposed to Stewart, whose body decomposed after death, according to the very long time period their ship actually floated in space during the spatial anomaly they hit that through their ship into a time differential.

[@davidmacias741]

Also Roddy Mcdowell was Cornelius who was a popular child actor and adult actor. He was the TV host on the movie Fright Night who had a show as a vampire killer. His most famous movie was as a child called How green was my valley, a heart breaking movie.

[@NavvyMom]

Yup, and he was also in the "My Friend Flicka" movies. More horsy stuff for Jay.

[@davidmacias741]

Forgot about Flicka! Great movie.

[@karlsmith2570]

Hey Jay and Amber, interesting fact for you: Charlton Heston (Taylor) when attending the premiere of this movie when it was released, met up with Kim Hunter (Zira) and when she'd spoken to him, he didn't recognize her, because he'd been so accustomed to seeing her in her prosthetic makeup. Also, the prosthetic Ape makeup was made of some material that was really flammable and some of the actors that played Apes were smokers and required to use really long cigarette filters so the makeup wouldn't ignite

[@Divamarja_CA]

Too lazy to keep reading before making this comment: Kim Hunter (Zira) co-starred in A Streetcar Named Desire as THE Stella, made famous by Marlon Brando’s empassioned cry.

[@Clownboy15]

Oddly in the third movie, there was the scene in the courthouse that they weren’t required to be in, the camera was shooting the actors playing the judge and all. Since the weren’t going to be seen the makeup artists started taking off their prosthetics. What the McDowell and Hunter realized is without them on, they lose the character! Their way of speaking and emoting to make the makeup look natural was part of the character that could not be replicated with the mask off.

[@karlsmith2570]

@Clownboy15 there's also the fact that Roddy McDowell didn't play Cornelius in "Beneath The Planet Of The Apes," but had returned to the role in "Escape From The Planet Of The Apes"

[@Clownboy15]

@@karlsmith2570 yeah, this was because he was committed to another project directing the movie, Tam Lin.

[@KenOtwell]

I'm so glad you went back to the original instead of the remakes! I remember watching this with my Dad in 1968 - a real bonding moment as he shared his love of sci fi.

[@SupportGamin2025]

Y'all are so dumb the new movies aren't remakes

[@twylanaythias]

So many people miss the significance of Dr Sayus telling Taylor "Don't go looking for answers - you might not like what you'll find." He knew. He knew the entire time that Taylor was somehow from Earth's past; that humans had destroyed the planet once and that Taylor could well possess the knowledge to destroy it again; that Cornelius' archeological discoveries had been legitimate all along.

[@les4767]

This film won a special Academy Award for makeup effects for the ape faces that could emote and "speak." Revolutionary makeup for films.

[@aleatharhea]

Rod Serling was the host and creator of The Twilight Zone. He was a big fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious. 😁

[@clayf3522]

"Consider the Sacred Scrolls ... the Thirteenth Scroll, which says: 'And Proteus brought the upright beast [man] into the garden and chained him to a tree and the children did make sport of him'."

[@BigC.]

Try Soylent Green next, also one of my absolute favorites from this era, and with the legendary Charlton Heston.

[@patrickmcmurtry3235]

Kinda funny, Amber called it right from the beginning. " they returned to earth".😊

[@jeffreywhipple9925]

One of the greatest end scenes in movie history

[@papabearlives9995]

It was the biggest reveal of any movie ever.

[@laurogarza4953]

Roddy McDowell, a British actor famous also in America, starred in this film and the sequels and the subsequent TV series!! He was close friends with Liz Taylor growing up and all their lives AND you will recognize as the butler in the romantic comedy starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russel, "Overboard," which he also produced. SURPRISE!

[@jrobwoo688]

This movie is a true sci-fi classic! Thanks for watching this one y’all!

[@gordontanner4407]

Corneilius is played by Roddy McDowell. Who will break your heart and make Rob cry as a child in "How Green Was My Valley".

[@ammaleslie509]

Have you guys seen How Green Was My Valley? It's a B&W classic--wholesome family film

[@mikemiller3069]

This movie came out during the height of the cold war. I think the "forbidden zone" was due to radiation which may have dissipated but was still forbidden to the rest of the apes.

[@danielpeckham5520]

Yes the implication is a nuke war happened between super powers and ended civilization

[@TheSmokey999]

I remember being about 6 yrs old in 1975 and sitting in the couch watching this on tv with my dad .

[@70sMusicLady]

Another good futuristic movie is "Logan's Run"(1976). I adore Michael York. Everyone has to die or is "renewed" at the age of 30. ---- Simply put, in the"Planet of the Apes" the great apes, orangutans, gorillas, and chimpanzees all have their places in the society. The orangutans were the leaders basically, the chimpanzees were the workers and the gorillas were the warriors/police.

[@duanevp]

The music is just brilliant. I've always loved it and I've heard it kind of reappear in soundtracks ever since, either as a purposeful homage or just inspiration.

[@anorthosite]

The composer, the late Jerry Goldsmith (whose resume of movie and TV scoring was phenomenal), reportedly used a greater variety of musical instruments (some exotic to the west) in this movie than had ever been used in ANY film.

[@vespoint]

My brother and I are 60 and 62 and we still quote this movie. We had Planet of the Apes baseball cards.

[@cherylswindle5705]

Get your hands off me you damned dirty apes!!!

[@SJHFoto]

I didn't have those, but I had a bunch of trading cards from back in the day. I was just telling someone about that-before DVDs or even VHS, trading cards with frames from the movie were the only way to capture favourite films/TV shows. For reference, England was still destroying tv shows after airing them thinking there was no reason to keep them (especially black and white shows) (That's why so many episodes of Dr Who are lost)

[@michaelbrandt5416]

I still have those said cards (not the entire collection), and they were from the 1974 short lived tv series only.

[@movieman1556]

Sadly, young people don't seem to get the impact the ending today that it had when it was released. The ending was and still is considered one of the best film endings ever. I saw this film when it was released. My only complaint is they should have not shown the top of the statue which is a dead giveaway. It would have had a greater impact with just the slight pan they did at first.

[@avillarreal209]

These have always been my favorites.. I'm glad you decided to start with the original..

[@bryancurtis220]

James Whitmore who played one of the orangutans (President of the Assembly), later went on to play Brooks in the Shawshank Redemption.

[@DFWTexan42]

1965 - 1989 was a golden age for big Hollywood Sic-Fi movies. It was the first time our filmmaking technology was mature enough to believably visualize the authors intent.

[@randybass8842]

I'm glad you got to see it without having the ending spoiled for you. It's such a surprise ending, and you don't see it coming. But Dr. Cornelius knew about it but was in denial to maintain the status quo.

[@tvdroid22]

There's something so satisfying about a well-done classic. That's Charleton Heston (Taylor). Heade an appearance in Tombstone. He was also in Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, to mention a few. The music was by Jerry Goldsmith, no stranger to sci-fi scores. Roddy Mcdowall (Cornelius) was one of the most talented actors of any era. While the sequels suffered from lesser budgets, they did present answers to how the whole thing happened. They were gonna geld Taylor (snip, snip). The orangutans are intellectuals, the chimps are essentially a worker sector, from general labor to sciences, and gorillas are the muscle. Did you catch the see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil homage by the orangutans in Taylor's trial? And they were talking humans before the apes.

[@NavvyMom]

I've been looking for someone to mention the different "castes" and you're the first. We saw it more as the orangutans were the religious caste, the chimps were the scientists, and the gorillas were the warriors. And now that we know more about chimps and gorillas, they probably would have switched that up since the chimps are the warmongers.

[@terryv2006]

You missed the crack in the chamber cover of the female astronaut. That’s why she aged to death and dried up.

[@SJHFoto]

The "real" reason is that back in the 60s, a female undergoing the depravations of our hero astronauts would keep it from having a G rating. For reference, 15 years later, George Lucas filmed female Rebel pilots for Return of the Jedi, but their dying would take away the PG rating (and there was no PG-13 in the States yet)

[@keithralston1133]

There is this one and 4 sequels. The drive-ins ( where you go to the movie and stay in your car) would run all of them in a dusk to dawn format.

[@marcfromparis333]

The second one is really really bad.

[@Whitebrowpriest]

3:34 - Rod Serling was the creator, and host of the famous Sci-Fi/Mystery TV series, "The Twilight Zone".

[@benjauron5873]

How the Statue of Liberty swam all the way from Upper New York Bay to Point Dume deserves a movie in itself.

[@pauld6967]

Ah, that's just where that piece landed after being flung by a nuke's blast wave.

[@ricomajestic]

Well the in the movie they are supposed to be in the New York of the very distant future and you clearly see that in the 2nd movie. Of course the filming was done in CA!

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

It takes place in the Ghostbusters universe.

[@BlanketMan]

@@ricomajestic Yeah, gotta forgive a little artistic license.

[@gustonzimasheen]

I was obsessed with these films, and had all The Planet of the Apes films on VHS, which I watched every day during our 3 Week school holidays. There was also a TV series at the time.

[@js3599]

Cornelius was played by Roddy McDowell.. He played Andrew, the butler in the movie "Overboard" with Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn...

[@barkingsquirrel1751]

Rod Sterling was the lead writer for the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone", one of the most classic Sci-Fi shows on TV from 1959 - 1964. Case in point, the last scene of this movie is one of the most iconic endings in cinema history. GREAT REACTION VIDEO YOU TWO!!! KEEP IT GOING !!!

[@shainewhite2781]

One of the best Sci-fi movies ever made! It won an Honorary Oscar for Best Makeup in 1969. The Best Makeup category didn't exist in 1982. The original script, based on the 1963 novel, was a lot different, as the apes drove buses, tanks, jeeps, cars, trains, as well as flying helicopters and airplanes, and that they had a hierarchy similar to the United Nations. However, this was deemed too expensive and they cut down the budget to $5 million dollars. The film was released on Valentine's Day 1968, making $32 million dollars at the box office, and received positive reviews by critics.

[@larrybremer4930]

I still think the Apes in the Dawn of Man sequence of 2001 deserved that academy nod for makeup more than planet of the apes.

[@ricomajestic]

Not just Sci-fi! One of the greatest movies ever made!

[@happymethehappyone8300]

ALL MUST SEE Classics that are PERFECT to watch with your kids,, After watching the first 3 of these movies,, I can promise you that you WILL DEFINITELY want to watch ALL the movies listed..."Pocketful Of Miracles" (1961) A truly uplifting movie which is ABSOLUTELY LOADED with legendary & iconic actors/actresses & several soon to be..The second & ALL the movies after,, star legendary comedic acting icon Don Knotts who has starred in many movies that focus/highlight his unique style of comedic acting..BOTH of you & the kids will truly enjoy/love watching several of his classics like,, "The Ghost And Mr. Chicken" (1966),, "The Incredible Mr. Limpet" (1964),, "The Shakiest Gun In The West" (1968),, "How To Frame A Figg" (1971),, "The Reluctant Astronaut" (1967),, "The Love God?" (1969),, This director made a genius decision when he decided to choose this pairing of legendary comedic icons (Don Knotts & Tim Conway) for this MUST SEE Classic Movie,, "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (1975)...Last but certainly not least,, This movie is the earliest of them all that is earlier in Don Knotts career & would become an instant MUST SEE Classic when it was released,, "No Time For Sergeants" (1958) It also stars many other acting icons like Andy Griffith,, Jamie Farr,, James Millhollin,, Dub Taylor,, Myron McCormick,, Etc..Etc.

[@r.e.tucker3223]

THIS is why I watch reactions. For someone new to get their socks knocked off the way I did. Good reaction, y'all.

[@chrishackett554]

My best friends mom and another mom took four of us to watch the movies at a drive in theater in upstate NY. Probably around 1976. All FIVE movies were showing in sequence lol the moms made it through two and half and they had enough apes for one night. So iconic of a series. Way better than the remakes. Ironically enough. The studios cut the films budgets on each subsequent movie. Remember the name Dr. Hesline if you watch all five.

[@imonlybleeding8021]

My Dad introduced me to this movie as a teenager. I was born well after the height of the Cold War and too young in the 80s to understand the Cold War. But, when my Dad had me watch it, I was old enough, and that ending hit like a truck. When this movie was released, it was the height of the Cold War, when kids were probably still doing drills at school for the breakout of nuclear war. So, that ending was only more significant in 1968.

[@jdeang3531]

Roddy McDowell (Cornelius) did a guest spot on Johnny Carson show dressed in full makeup during a break from shooting. It’s quite entertaining to watch.

[@dngillikin]

I haven't seen footage of that. I have seen clips of Paul Williams in his makeup as Virgil from "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" doing an appearance on the Tonight Show.

[@jdeang3531]

@@dngillikin you may be right in that is what I saw but He did it for Carol Burnett. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqmXinqogZqZgMksi=bBkGAG6pGN7m3JCl

[@alanr4447a]

When he was doing the PooA TV series, he did part of his guest appearance on _The Carol Burnett Show_ in full makeup.

[@LMmccallL57]

Thank goodness you watched the original! 👍🏽 Rod Serling was the host of "The Twilight Zone" TV series, and was also against racism on and off-screen.

[@jimglenn6972]

James Whitmore was Brooks in Shawshank Redemption.

[@visaman]

Easy Peasy Japaneesy

[@JessieHTX]

I've loved this series since I was a kid in the 80s. So cool to see a reaction. Seems like everyone ignores the original and just watches the newer ones.

[@larryairgood4320]

"Gorillas in the Mist" (1988) starring Sigourney Weaver is a biographical drama of wildlife expert Dian Fossey, who studied mountain gorillas in Uganda and Rwanda and became the world's leading authority. Like Jane Goodall, anthropologist Louis Leakey also profoundly impacted the career of Dian Fossey, although this highly admired film does not show that connection. Hope J sees it someday.

[@NavvyMom]

A few people in comments are recommending it. so we can hope.

[@juggy-ik7qy]

One of the best films ever madee and costumes still hold up almost t 60 years later.

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

The surgical procedure they were planning to do on Taylor was castration, also known as gelding in large animals such as horses.

[@williamcarbajal383]

6:28 ... Y'all didn't even flinch at the mention of the name of the Star is Bellatrix... That's kinda Le Strange 😅

[@Parallax-3D]

Most of the Black family is named for stars. Sirius Black, Regulus Arcturus Black.

[@cherylswindle5705]

Chuck Heston in his little Moses skirt in Ten Commandments….. oooh baby AGAIN!!! 😍

[@bernardsalvatore1929]

ROB SQUAD ALSO, YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN CHARLTON HESTON BEFORE, IT WAS WAS AN OLDER VERSION, IN THE MOVIE TOMBSTONE!! CHARLTON HESTON WAS THE FARMER/RANCHER WHO TOOK DOC HOLIDAY IN TOWARDS THE END OF THE FILM!!!

[@philburton2223]

Good catch. I would of never remembered to remind them of this fact.

[@colindeane9759]

Great to see a reactor joining this franchise from the beginning, so many jump in with the modern movies without grasping the original concept!!! You need to continue the franchise right through!!! Love the Court with the See no evil Hear No evil and Speak no evil! The fact that there is at least 10 movies in the franchise and a TV series as well shows how popular the franchise was and with another movie on the way still is!!! I look forward to enjoying it all with you!!

[@OroborusFMA]

The crash is actually very well conceived. They were supposed to make an pre-programmed landing and the computer found itself without all the landing coordinates it was expecting. It tries to readjust several times but then opts for landing in the water as the safer alternative.

[@anorthosite]

Shot from helicopter, with rotating camera and selective panning and zooming. The stock "Irwin Allen era" engine sounds were pretty cool. But I have to wonder: How did such a TINY ship decelerate from near-light-speed in time to make a semi-controlled landing. And even NOW, we could not identify a "sure-suitable" target planet, 300 LY away. OK, OK - it's a Movie :D

[@sp72929]

The whole franchise is stunning and the movies make together one fantastic story. I really recommend to watch all the movies - one warning the second is the waekest of them so don't be disappointed too quickly as the rest is great. 👌

[@yaimavol]

You have to see Charlton Heston in Ben Hur. One of the best movies ever made. It's epic.

[@MIGHTYR1]

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[@bugvswindshield]

I saw this as a little boy and I was blown away! So good. I've met Jane Goodall, cooked dinner for her and Danny Glover in Ellensburg Wa. when they were their for support of Washu the "talking chimp", she used sign language and taught her children without help from people. Amazing. Dr Fouts was in charge and a brilliant man. I actually got to meet the chimps while working (years latter) as a technician working in the upper area's of the chimp enclosure. Advised to not get with in 3 feet as the chimps could break my hand with ease and could bite off fingers, etc. But after just a few days I was told the chimps were very comfortable around me and I should be safe. I never disrespected them, never made direct eye contact and in fact, when grabbing my tools I would try not to insult them with tip of digit movement and only "grab" my tools as a chimp might. I never has dung slung at me! Some of my coworkers did though lol !

[@laurogarza4953]

I studied these scientists as an undergraduate.

[@NavvyMom]

I read Fouts's book, "Next of Kin." It was amazing. Washoe was amazing. One anecdote he told in the book was of a woman who was one of the volunteers(?) who was away for a while. She'd had a miscarriage or her very young baby died. Anyway she was away for an extended time. When she came back Washoe was a bit aloof with her. She signed to Washoe about losing her baby. Washoe signed back "Cry." She understood what the woman was feeling, having lost her own firstborn. I was thinking about her a couple of years ago and googled her and was sad to learn she'd died. Is Fouts still alive?

[@bugvswindshield]

@@NavvyMom Not sure. I've not been there in a couple of decades. My whole family has moved away.

[@ESJAY0198]

Those were well known actors from the 50's and 60's. Roddy McDowell who plays Cornelius was a famous child actor from the 40's and throughout the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. Kim Hunter who played Zera as well. Taylor was Charlton Heston was huge in the 50's and 60's. He played Moses on the 10 Commandments. James Whitmore is another legend from the late 40's and 50's. Rod Sterling was the Genius behind the Twilight Zone and known for Night Gallery and paranormal and ufo documentaries. This was the first of 5. All good movies. The 3rd installment "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" will explain how it all happened.

[@davidcosta2244]

Charlton Heston was in the first of the new planet of the Apes, and played the older ape that told the younger leader about guns being dangerous, which was ironic, since Heston was the president of the NRA at the time. That movie was good on how they showed the apes becoming intelligent from that space storm that the researchers went though.

[@ESJAY0198]

@@davidcosta2244 That's right and he played Moses and didn't care about the kids who died in Columbine. Michael Moore exposed him

[@cherylswindle5705]

@@davidcosta2244Mr.Heston was huge throughout the 70’s and was active through his life, until Alzheimer’s struck him at the end. I consider him, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and John Wayne the greatest male actors of all time. You can’t talk about Charleton Heston without mentioning Ben Hur… and that chariot scene!!! THAT was film making at its best. Another was Spartacus with the incredible Kirk Douglas!!!

[@Jillyconjem]

My Aunt took me to see this in NY when it first came out. I was only 8. My parents weren’t thrilled, to say the least. I definitely was traumatized by nearly naked Charlton Heston. 😳 But I ended up having a crush on Roddy McDowell (Cornelius). Also, the actor who played Dr Zaius played Samantha’s dad on the tv show Bewitched. Great movie. 👍🏻