Planet of the Apes ending?

Twister

I have see the planet of the apes twice and I don't get the ending ?

He leave's the planet of the Ape's and goes to Earth only to find it populated by the Ape's? What the f@*k is going on?

Stick to the origanal if you don't want to end up confused!!

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We do this for Romulas!

Illkillya

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here is the POTA ending as I understand it:
After the big war, the main character has a chance to stay on the planet and become a leader figure and aid in the construction of a society where humans and apes can co-exist peacefully. Instead, he chooses to leave, and possibly because of this, the desired society does not come about.

He returns in the future, and the twist becomes apparent when he lands. At first I had expected him to crash into the white-house and see Humans and Apes together in the government, confirming that the peaceful society actually worked out, but instead, it shows the statue of the bad ape as the hero, and there are no humans to be seen, so since the bad ape is held in high regard by the present population, we can only assume that humans are despised. Then the apes appear with guns and technology, and i'd say that means they are now what humans were in the year 2000, and the roles of humans and apes have been completely reversed.
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as seen two posts down in a thread identical to yours, http://www.boards.ie/bulletin/Forum12/HTML/000999.html

TwoShedsJackson

This may explain it - btw, it doesn't make the ending make sense just sets out the sequence of events, more or less. And there is already one thread specifically about the ending and another about the film itself, so don't bother making another thread next time.

Karl Hungus

He never went to a different planet at all!
It's time travel... People have this confused.

tHE vAGGABOND

its silly and runis the movie TBH..

Even if its an ape future, an exact copy of Washington DC is just silly, and makes no sense..

(Tho the baddie ape did not seem dead the last time we see him, and Dirk's original pod is still there I suppose..

Supercell

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by AngelWhore:
He never went to a different planet at all!
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Last time i looked out the window sober at night, i saw one moon not two

corkie

Spoiller Link: -
Do not go to this link if
you haven't seen the film.

www^upcomingmovies^com/planetoftheapes^html

The above site provided a link to an essay
on the ending.

www^rottentomatoes^com/forum/message^php?message_id=52629

Replace '^' with '.' above.




Best regards,

John

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Cloud

I'm afraid I must disagree with Illkillya.

Here's my take.

We see Leo Davidson get back in his ship and go back in time to when he left. He returns to Washington DC overrun by apes. But it is not the future, or the planet he left. It's an altered past. There's a big Thade statue instead of Abe. The inscription goes:

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In this temple as in the hearts of the apes for whom he saved the planet, the memory of General Thade is enshrined forever.
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Ah, I see the image CT posted conforms with my theory. And also confirms how Thade got back to Earth's past. The explanation lies at the bottom of the lake - Leo Davidson's delta pod wasn't as badly damaged as we may have thought.

John.
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Just read all the other threads, doh!

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