25 Years on, 2001's 'Planet of the Apes' Has Become a Bit of a Guilty Pleasure
The film’s time-paradox finale has fueled fan debate for 25 years, with Reddit threads and a DVD insert offering competing explanations.
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25 years on, 2001's 'Planet of the Apes' has become a bit of a guilty pleasure
We didn't exactly go bananas for Tim Burton's odd take on "Planet of the Apes" back in 2001, but now, on the occasion of the sci-fi film’s 25th anniversary, we've had time to reflect on not only the summertime spectacle's notable missteps, but also its unsung merits.Invading the hallowed grounds of director Franklin Schaffner’s 1968 original "Planet of the Apes" was risky business at best, but 20th Century Fox rolled the dice with their long-ges…
25 Years Later, I'm Still Thinking About The Ending Of The Marky Mark 'Planet of the Apes'
ShutterstockIt’s pretty hard to defend the 2001 Planet of the Apes reboot. In both style and aesthetics, this Tim Burton film hasn’t aged that well, and if you fire it up today on streaming, it feels like a direct-to-cable sci-fi movie from the 1990s. And yet, when I saw Planet of the Apes in the theater on July 27, 2001, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Specifically, I couldn’t stop thinking about the ending of the film, which, superficially,…
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