After years of proclaiming I was a one Apes film owner and just watching the others on cable whenever they came on (which is more often than you might think), I decided to embrace my true inner fan and get the box set.
I smell a marathon.
;-)
That is the box with the extended version of "Battle..." too.
Good call!
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lol, I thought this was going to be about Star Wars on blu :p
That is the DVD box correct? The blu ray one was super expensive when it first came out.
I personally like only the original film.
I am aware it was based on a French novel, not sure it ever received a proper English translation.
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TV's Frink said:
lol, I thought this was going to be about Star Wars on blu :p
Me too. Hey, that rhymes!
I thought about getting the blu-ray POTA box set, but I absolutely loathe the sequels, so I only picked up the first one.
Actually, I kinda like Escape. Still haven't seen Rise.
skyjedi2005 said:
I am aware it was based on a French novel, not sure it ever received a proper English translation.
Hey that's really interesting. I never knew. Would be very strange if they never made an English translation of a book that spawned such a massive hit film. I gotta look into this!
skyjedi2005 said:
That is the DVD box correct? The blu ray one was super expensive when it first came out.
I personally like only the original film.
I am aware it was based on a French novel, not sure it ever received a proper English translation.
I think that's the English translation of the novel pictured behind the box set.
Looks like a re-printing that came out around the same time as the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes film judging from the image on the spine .
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
You are correct sir. Good eye. It's an interesting read. Plenty of it made its way into the film. Some of it it is very different, however. The idea and the message are still very much the same. As much as I dislike the Burton version, he does work in one aspect of the book that is interesting. Of course, he had to Burtonise it and muddy the message.
TV's Frink said:
lol, I thought this was going to be about Star Wars on blu :p
I thought it was April.
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Whoah. I really thought this was about Star Wars on Blu as well. I think I nearly had a heart attack!
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yeah, I was ready to get a baseball bat and club him!
But why didn't you get the pota set on blu ray?
FanFiltration said:
That is the box with the extended version of "Battle..." too.
Good call!
Does it include the unrated cut of Conquest also? The Blu version has that, and it's much better than the theatrical cut. Really violent and brutal--like you'd expect a revolution to be.
Unlike the theatrical cut, Caesar's final speech has zero sympathy, so the unrated cut doesn't fit in with Battle at all because he makes it pretty clear that the future doesn't involve ape and man walking off together in the sunset holding hands.
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Warbler said:
But why didn't you get the pota set on blu ray?
A few reasons; I want to be able to watch them at work on my lunch break, I want to rip the audio to MP3s so I can listen to them while commuting, and I wanted the extended version of Battle.
Jay said:
Does it include the unrated cut of Conquest also?
No, that's Blu-ray only. I'll end up getting the Blu-ray set eventually too.
I knew this was obviously not going to be about Star Wars.
But I didn't know there were other Planet of the Apes films until the new one came out and people started talking about them. Make of this what you will.
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I bought the films as individual discs because they were on sale for total cheaper than the box set. All mine have the same case art as what you've got there and there's nothing on my "Battle" that says it's an extended version. Is that only available in the box set?
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Anchorhead said:
You are correct sir. Good eye. It's an interesting read. Plenty of it made its way into the film. Some of it it is very different, however. The idea and the message are still very much the same. As much as I dislike the Burton version, he does work in one aspect of the book that is interesting. Of course, he had to Burtonise it and muddy the message.
As a big fan of (most of) the original 5 movies, I really enjoyed reading the book. It's amazing because it's pretty short, but you can tell that material from it was pulled into at least the first 3 movies, and maybe even more after that. And still there is a lot of material that never made it into a movie.
And ditto on the Burton part. Darn, I really wanted to like that movie.
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