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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Planet
EAN: 0024543229742
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 8336
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: April 03, 1968
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Description:
Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this legendary science fiction masterpiece. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall).
Amazon.com essential video:
Many early science fiction films are now, quite inadvertently (and in most cases undeservedly), objects of camp attention: we laugh at the silly makeup, tin-can special effects, and the naive 'high-tech' dialogue. Planet of the Apes is no such film. Its intelligent script, frightening costuming, and savagely effective conclusion (which needs no big-budget special effects to augment its impact) remain both potent and relevant. When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes. However, the ape community is riven with internal dissention, centered in no small part on its policy toward humans, who, on this planet, are treated as mindless animals. Befriended and ultimately assisted by the more liberal simians, Taylor escapes--only to find a more terrifying obstacle confronting his return home. Heavy-handed object lessons abound--the ubiquity of generational warfare, the inflexibility of dogma, the cruelty of prejudice--and the didactic fingerprints of Rod Serling are very much in evidence here. But director Franklin Schaffner has a dark, pop-apocalyptic sci-fi vision all his own, and time has not dulled the monumental emotional impact of the film's climactic payoff shot. If you don't know what I'm talking about here, you owe it to yourself to check out this stone classic, and even if you do, see it with fresh eyes; and don't be surprised if you get the chills all over again... and again... and again. --Miles Bethany
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Rating:  - A Truly Exeptional Collection Arrives on Blu-ray in STYLE!!!
I have loved this series ever since I was a young boy who saw the original movie on TV. When the TV series came out, I was glued to the set for every episode, and then the cartoon series became a part of my regular Saturday morning viewing. This is one of the few movie franchises that I loved growing up that has not lost any of its charm with me now as an adult. I first bought the Limited Edition Evolution collection on DVD a few years ago, and followed up with my purchase of the Ultimate Collection that came enclosed in a bust of Caesar. When I first heard of the arrival of this series on Blu-ray, I thought they would simply transport the DVD versions I already owned onto a Blu-ray platter. BOY was I wrong!!!!!
I will not go into the details of the story line for this series, since so many have already done a great job at that. What I will focus on is the Blu-ray 40th Anniversary Collection.
I had seen pictures of the collection, and was very excited to get my own copy, but I had never actually seen a copy of it in the stores. Because of that, I wasn't quite sure what to expect with regarding the quality of the set. I had just recently been MAJORLY disappointed with Fox's horrible Blu-ray box set of the Omen series (another favorite of mine). The packaging for that set was one of the worst I have ever seen on any format. But I digress....this is not a review of the Omen set. Let's start with the outer box. It is of very sturdy construction with the spaceship ... Read More
Rating:  - Planet OF The Apes (Bluray) 4 Stars for some misses.
First off, I should mention, I am a Big Fan of the series and fans never seem to have any imput on putting together what they might want in a boxset, but I guess they would get it right the first time and the studios could never reissue it over and over..
Packageing: It is nice that this series was issued on BluRay, but with big disapointments. How can anyone be so stupid to create such a great box set and house the DVD's so poorly, I had to return the box set twice. Every disc was scartched or had some sort of cosmedic flaw on each disc. After returning it twice I finally decided to send the discs back to fox and have them send me them seperate in the Bluray cases. At least I get to keep the box and book and also have the disc stored seperatley. I would of rather had an upright box with the book and cases seperatley. I also wondered why they did not include the 2001 movie and the 2 TV series, also remastered in Bluray form. I myself would've enjoyed having the TV Series remastered. The current bluray edition of the 2001 is bare boned. Now since I bought the Ape head edition a few years back, now I have to sell it for a loss and rebuy the TV series seperatley. Movie Studios always find a way to screw you, when they issue and reissue DVD's over and over.
The Remastering: Picture/Sound: When first buying this I was quite delighed to find the directors cut of Conquest. And now having both Battle and Conquest in there extended form along with the theatrical versions ... Read More
Rating: - Cases Please?
I love the films and the transfers, but the DVD mounts in the case are hard to use. I fear the discs will fall out at some point. I'd love it if the company would offer us a deal on additional slim cases to protect the DVDs.
Rating: - Blu-Ray Box Set Design
I'd advise buying the box set and never opening it. Keep it for its novelty and future worth as a collector's item. Then buy each each title on Blu-ray DVD separately and watch those.
The big bulky jacket opens like a binder. The front cover swings open to the left, and the back cover swings open to the right. Once it's opened, you are presented with a graphical timeline based on the movie plots of the Ape adventures. (I'm fairly certain Ape Maniacs assisted the writers of the timeline, since the actual makers of the films weren't all that concerned if every detail made sense).
The front cover swings open again, as does the back cover -- so that, once the binder is completely opened, it spreads four panels wide. On the first panel on the left, there is a description of the special features on each disk. Also on this first panel, the DVD of "Planet" is mounted.
On the second panel, the DVDs for "Beneath" and "Escape" are mounted.
The third panel is where the book mounted. The book can be removed from the binder by slipping its back cover out of the binder's sleeve behind it. The book is rather interesting and made remarkable, I think, by its several behind-the-scenes photos.
On the fourth panel, "Conquest" and "Battle" are mounted.
The binder is made of sturdy cardboard. As stated, the DVDs are mounted on the inside covers. The mounts are little, clear rubber disks that are glued to the cardboard. Prying the DVDs off ... Read More
Rating:  - Blu-Ray quality review
This is a review of the quality of the Planet of the Apes [Blu-ray. The video looks good for a film as aged as this, but is not even close to stunning. The high def transfer in some cases actually serves to accentuate problems you might not have noticed otherwise. I saw more than a few soft scenes where they looked unfocused. Grain was never too obtrusive, but the colors were uneven through a good portion of the film. Some scenes were rich and vivid, and others washed out. My biggest problem is the sound. They present the sound here as a DTS 5.1 mix, and a mono mix. I chose DTS and was sorely dissapointed. My subwoofer never kicked on. That means that there was never an instance when there was a frequency lower than about 85hz. This made for a very shallow sounding mix. Adding to that, the surround speakers never seemed to register anything, and you've got what sounded to me like a mono mix anyway. All of the sound seemed to come from my center channel. To me, digitally remastering a film soundtrack at this level means accentuating the lower registries by adding lower frequencies, and placing atmospheric and musical elements in the surround channels. If you don't plan on doing that, what's the use of calling it a DTS 5.1 mix? Anyway, this is by far the best transfer I've ever seen of the film, but don't be looking for anything more than a slightly better than average transfer, and a glorified mono track.
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