Get your hands of my DVDs, you damned dirty apes!

[yendi]

Amazon's got the five-movie Planet of the Apes box set on sale for $25, 50% off the list price. That's $5 a movie, or about $.02 per ape.

Note that the set does not include the Tim Burton Crapfest remake of the original movie (which is out of print, but available for a buck or two, although that would be like flushing money down a toilet, albeit a toilet starring Mark Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter) or the TV series (which is fun, but way overpriced).

Comments

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

Tim Burton needs to get over hiring his wife for every movie he makes.

[yendi]

Eh -- I'm less bothered by that (his wives have shown up in good and bad movies) than by his ability to make half-assed flicks like the Planet remake.

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

I am convinced he will not rest until he has crapped on every movie I loved as a child.

[yendi]

Well, if it's any comfort, I think he'll just let Lucas crap on Star Wars.

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

Oh, certainly it's the lesser of the evils -- just annoying (I also find it annoying that he uses the same actors over and over and over again: Depp, Keaton, his wife).

[montykins.livejournal.com]

I watched the Planet of the Apes box set awhile ago (March 2001, according to this (http://www.montykins.com/mkins/000450.html)), and it's an interesting saga. If by "interesting" you mean "starts off good and then rapidly devolved into bizarrely terrible movies".

The weird thing is that the best two are #1 and #3. The second one is nearly as bad as the last couple, but it doesn't have the benefit of at least being bad in a new way.

[yendi]

I've seen that happen with other series (the second Nightmare on Elm Street movie comes to mind). I think what makes it rare is that a terrible sequel often kills the series completely (think Blair Witch). It takes a movie with lots of potential to generate an awful sequel and then have the producers try again (or it takes a smaller flick -- if the first film is direct-to-video, I suspect sequels are a lot more likely).

[sainthuck.livejournal.com]

Wait, why is Burton's version out of print? Is this some sort of community service that he was sentenced to?