In a message dated 8/7/01 4:24:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << SPOILERS below SPOILER SPACE SPOILER SPACE SPOILER SPACE SPOILER SPACE SPOILER SPACE SPOILER SPACE SPOILER SPACE >From Sci-Fi Weekly http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/news.html Apes Ending Explained? ruce Snyder, 20th Century Fox's head of distribution, talked to Zap2it.com about the controversial ending of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes movie. Following are his comments, which may contain spoilers for the film. The new surprise ending, intended to top the original 1968 film's Statue of Liberty ending, has many viewers scratching their heads. But, Snyder told the site, "Actually, you're not supposed to be able to [explain it]. If the truth be known, it wasn't really supposed to make sense. It was just supposed to go 'whoa,' make you think. Now is he in another world, did he go back in time, did he get forward in time?" Snyder added, "The reality is, there's no firm answer to that. It's whatever you want it to be. Everybody keeps looking for [the answer], but you've got to remember you just watched a movie about talking monkeys in outer space. Don't look for too much logic, you know." Apes is now playing. So, in other words, the ending is a copout. By the way I found it totally predictable. I actually liked the movie even though you knew the chimp had to come back but the story did explain how different ape species were all together, why they all could speak and all spoke the same language (well that one is a bit of stretch. they might all speak the same general language but after a few thousand years it would not even closely resemble english).
