What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?
Sept 28, 2018 17:41:08 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Sept 28, 2018 17:41:08 GMT
Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970, directed by Ted Post, staring James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, Victor Buono, James Gregory, Jeff Corey, Natalie Trundy, Thomas Gomez and others and Charlton Heston.
Science-Fiction that starts where the 1968 movie ended, Taylor (Heston) dissappears early on and instead we follow a sole survivor of an other spaceship that has crashlanded on the same planet who was part of an an interplanetary rescue mission in search of Taylor and his crew. He (Franciscus) discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by a telepathic humanlike tribe. I don't want to give away too much for those who eventually haven't seen it.
I remember seeing this many years ago with high hopes, but back then thought it was a huge disappointment
. Seeing it again now, I thought that it was not as bad as I remembered it and the storyline is actually good. Franciscus is actually very good as the new astonished astronaut, and Hunter and Evans returned in their roles to, Roddy McDowall (sorely missed) wasn't available and was replaced by a lesser actor. While Franklin J. Schaffner had a great visual eye and was a great stylist at the time of the 1968 movie, Ted Post was more of an assembly line director, and his direction is rather flat and unimaginative. The undergroud city sets are very impressive, but the tribe and their powers might have sounded good on paper, but comes of at times as ridiculous, especially a hymn-like praising song.
If they wanted to create a series and not just live on the name, they become cheaper and cheaper, why didn't they learn from the James Bond movies, bigger budgets with every movie.
Science-Fiction that starts where the 1968 movie ended, Taylor (Heston) dissappears early on and instead we follow a sole survivor of an other spaceship that has crashlanded on the same planet who was part of an an interplanetary rescue mission in search of Taylor and his crew. He (Franciscus) discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by a telepathic humanlike tribe. I don't want to give away too much for those who eventually haven't seen it.
I remember seeing this many years ago with high hopes, but back then thought it was a huge disappointment
. Seeing it again now, I thought that it was not as bad as I remembered it and the storyline is actually good. Franciscus is actually very good as the new astonished astronaut, and Hunter and Evans returned in their roles to, Roddy McDowall (sorely missed) wasn't available and was replaced by a lesser actor. While Franklin J. Schaffner had a great visual eye and was a great stylist at the time of the 1968 movie, Ted Post was more of an assembly line director, and his direction is rather flat and unimaginative. The undergroud city sets are very impressive, but the tribe and their powers might have sounded good on paper, but comes of at times as ridiculous, especially a hymn-like praising song.
If they wanted to create a series and not just live on the name, they become cheaper and cheaper, why didn't they learn from the James Bond movies, bigger budgets with every movie.