# Couple dumb Planet of the Apes film nitpicks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 19, 2023, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342 "2023-03-19T05:24:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/1 "2023-03-19T05:24:36Z")
1. They KEEP sending more astronauts to look for the previous ones! The first, the second…the TV series…the animated series. Yet we see in the first one that time dilation is in effect. Very little time has passed for Taylors crew in PotA but 700 years has passed on Earth. Did NASA just forget that they wouldn’t be hearing back from the astronauts at all for a couple of thousand years?? 2. Man those craft are shit at landing. Whether land or sea. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/2 "2023-03-19T06:03:51Z")
Shoe-feet ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/3 "2023-03-19T13:42:31Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Man those craft are shit at landing. Whether land or sea. But easy to repair. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/4 "2023-03-19T13:48:33Z")
A fun piece of trivia. The sound effect used for the spaceship entering the atmosphere is just the 1966 Batmobile sound effect played backwards. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/5 "2023-03-19T14:19:58Z")
I wish you hadn’t pointed those things out, it all made perfect sense before, now I don’t think I can ever watch the movies, TV series, or animation again without questioning the feasibility of the entire premise. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/6 "2023-03-19T14:32:48Z")
Hmmm…all this time I thought they had FTL travel, but used hibernation, like _Alien_. But I see the wiki summary says relativistic travel. Well, that just make a plot hole filled movie even hole-ier. Maybe the damn ship should wake them up in space, rather than try to land, crash, and THEN wake them up. Just a thought. Did the ship know where they were? Why did it circle back? How could a coupla 19th century tech chimps get the ship out of the water, clean it up, refuel it, without being seen or stopped, then learn how to fly it, launch it, go back in time (how?), when they don’t even have anything even as advanced as radio? No wonder I don’t watch this one too much. It’s a madhouse! A MADHOUSE! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/7 "2023-03-19T14:39:46Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > How could a coupla 19th century tech chimps get the ship out of the water, clean it up, refuel it, without being seen or stopped, then learn how to fly it, launch it, go back in time (how?), when they don’t even have anything even as advanced as radio? - Same way a bunch of cave dwelling survivors can learn to fly (somehow still working and fueled) Harrier jets. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/8 "2023-03-19T14:44:22Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > How could a coupla 19th century tech chimps get the ship out of the water, clean it up, refuel it, without being seen or stopped, then learn how to fly it, launch it, go back in time (how?), when they don’t even have anything even as advanced as radio? The chimps had the advantage of knowing that the tech and the physics behind it work. Monkey see. Monkey do. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/9 "2023-03-19T14:51:11Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The chimps had the advantage of knowing that the tech and the physics behind it work. Monkey see. Monkey do. 🙂 The ship looks like it was launched with a booster to get it into space. Maybe they found one in a subway tunnel somewhere? I’d say the movie is a mess, but the original book makes even less sense. And the less said about Aperaham Lincoln, the better! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/10 "2023-03-19T14:54:20Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’d say the movie is a mess Only if you care about stuff like how they got there or got back. The movies aren’t about space travel. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/11 "2023-03-19T15:16:51Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The movies aren’t about space travel. Movies where the tech is “a wizard did it” really are handwaving too much, IMO. If you “care about the movie”, consider: the movie hinges on Taylor not knowing where he is. They can never see the stars, or the moon, which would give it away, but everyone speaks perfect English (one with a British accent, no less!), the gravity is 1.0 g, and humans, mute or not, look just like Earth humans. This isn’t Star Trek or The Twilight Zone. 🙂 Where else could they be? Except 1968 sci-fi ville. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/12 "2023-03-19T15:25:54Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > This isn’t Star Trek or The Twilight Zone. Uh… [![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccddb5934c4e2c8600892de/1571786220825-URVIW6U7A3MAJ6RK6F7M/film_planetapes_rod_1.png) ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccddb5934c4e2c8600892de/1571786220825-URVIW6U7A3MAJ6RK6F7M/film_planetapes_rod_1.png) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/couple-dumb-planet-of-the-apes-film-nitpicks/981342/13 "2023-03-19T15:28:08Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Movies where the tech is “a wizard did it” really are handwaving too much, IMO The list of SF films you like must be very short.