The movie was excellent at accomplishing its intended task: making you think about how we act as humankind. Not an uncharacteristic viewpoint from the '60s of where we as a society were headed. I remember watching it the first time in a theater and being quite impressed with the way they ended it, though I had guessed the answer some time previously.
The second movie was much less worthwhile. After that, the franchise went a bit off the rails.
When I was 9 I saw Escape From the Planet of the Apes and I cried like a baby when Kim Hunters baby was killed by humans. We suck. 
(The only) fun fact about Burton’s abortion…my sister is an extra in it as one of the humans. She worked for weeks on it, but you can really only recognize her in one scene. She’s one the slaves in the wagon cage with Kris kristofferson.
I managed to avoid it until last year.
I knew the ending, of course, but there was one small plot hole about it. Surprised that he was really on Earth? You’ve been speaking English to the apes for the last hour, you moron!
And 2001 should have won the best costume Oscar, so there.
They each have their charms but I really like Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. It’s my favorite after the original and I might have seen it more times than the original. It’s main flaw was the lack of budget was pretty obvious but they did what they could.
I remember seeing it in the theater with my boyfriend.
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I remember seeing it on network tv in the early 1970s when many students in the dorm watched the tv in the lounge. One of the chem majors (plastic guard in his shirt pocket) kept yelling “this is the greatest scene ever!” As Heston and Linda Harrison were on horseback on the beach. He was also the same dweeb who got mad for us watching the “Peter Pan” with Mary Martin instead of some serious show (yes, we clapped to believe in fairies).
For a really lousy movie, I have a soft spot for “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”. Don’t know why; maybe nuking those damn dirty apes is appealing. Definitely the mutants should have given more lines to Victor Buono.
I think it was GP. My parents never would have let me see a GP movie at that age. I was lucky to be able to see Fiddler.
I collected the Planet of the Apes comics/magazines as a youngster. There was one story from the movies along with another new and original adventure in each issue (which came out monthly) along with other articles and what not. In fact, I still have them.
OMG! I had the exact same experience. To this day I think it’s the most hysterical I’ve ever gotten over a movie :o