Re: About "Planet of the Apes" (face slap!)

a425couple <[email protected]> wrote in news:OP05K.213128$OT%
[email protected]:

> About "Planet of the Apes"  (face slap!)
> 
> It was loosely based on the 1963 French novel
> La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle.
> "Planet of the Apes" is a 1968 American science fiction film
> directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and stared Charlton Heston
> and Roddy McDowall.
> Interesting, 5 movies and a television series.
> 
> A wise acre just posted on the Heinlein FB group,
> 
> "I've wondered why, in the original Ape movie, Heston never
> looked at the night sky and saw the moon. Surely that would
> have tipped him off sooner."
> 
> --- Because movie makers can control and direct and
> channel our thoughts? !

My favorite answer:

"The moon blasted out of orbit on September 13, 1999."

(The script writers basically ignored the issue by throwing in a 
random line by one of the astronauts about there being no moon. 
Otherwise, the big reveal at the end would have been s small bit of 
trivia at hte beginning.)

-- 
Terry Austin

Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than 
Lynn:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
(May 2019 total for people arrested for entering the United States 
illegally is over 132,000 for just the southwest border.)

Vacation photos from Iceland: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB