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    A confusing plot hole from Planet of the Apes

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    A confusing plot hole from Planet of the Apes

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      Did you even watch the movie? They explain it right away!

      Someone “blew it up” and the resulting explosion launched it into space.

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        I’ve only watched the musical from the Simpsons.

        • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Doctor Zaius, Doctor Zaius…

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            Can i play the piano anymore?
            Of course you can!
            I couldn’t before!

        • Vegeta@lemmy.ca
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          🎶 I was wrong. It was Earth all along. 🎶

          • consumptionone@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Yes, you finally made a monkey out of meeeee!!!

        • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpanzee.

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          It was based on a movie…?

          • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Marky Mark and the Monkey Bunch.

        • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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          Dint family guy also did a musical

        • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social
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          I’ve only seen this picture. Still went “shit, yeah…”.

      • Anamnesis@lemmy.world
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        I always thought that was silly. How did it stay so intact?

        • grue@lemmy.world
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          like this

      • MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
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        It was a terrorist cell “Maniacs” who blew it up.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        .

    • Nicht BurningTurtle@feddit.org
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      No, this is a misunderstanding. This is just an unusual rock formation. It has nothing to do with the actual statue, that still stands on Earth.

      • atomicorange@lemmy.world
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        Oh, kinda like Mt Rushmore. Nature truly is remarkable.

        • freetopos@feddit.nl
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          3 months ago

          *Count Rushmore

          • inbeesee@lemmy.world
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            Round MushCore

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      Wait, that’s not Mega Maid?

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        Suck! Suck! Suck!

        • dditty@lemm.ee
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          She’s gone from suck to blow

          • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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            That’s an even better line. Very nice

      • TechLich@lemmy.world
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        Oh shit, there goes the planet.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      Fr*nch sent them one, duh

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world
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        🤮

        jk i love the fren*h

        William of Normandy was my granpappy

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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          You and everyone else’s

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            no… no… only me. not even any of the ancestors in between

    • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca
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      It’s actually still earth and the protagonist time travelled.

      They travelled to the past when only the upper half of the statue was built.

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      It was a different statue that looked the same. Just a coincidence. It’s not that deep.

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        Buy why is it human? I’m just happy they fixed this oversight in the (vastly superior) 2001 remake with the Lincoln Memorial.

        • Lux (it/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Just a coincidence, it was actually shaped by erosion

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          It’s not human, that’s just pareidolia.

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        I want to think this whole thread is just whimsical, but I have to know for sure - y’all get that it’s future Earth, right?

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          deleted by creator

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            Still not sure if you’re serious, but check out the rest of the movies or read this.

            In the original novel it’s an alien planet where apes dominate humans, but in the movies humans in the near future on Earth use intelligent apes as slaves until the apes revolt and take over. Eventually a nuclear apocalypse destroys that civilization, which is followed by the less advanced one seen in the first movie. Rod Serling came up with the ending that made it future Earth.

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              And in the last movie they set off a doomsday weapon that destroys the whole solar system

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                Wow, that’s some serious doomsday shit. Tbh I burned out on the franchise and haven’t seen that one.

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                  I think they are talking about the original set of movies. Ya thought it was only the new ones that got milked? Fuck no the original one got milked hard.

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                    Yes it was the original set. I think there were 3-4?

      • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
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        Ah, Gene Roddenberry must’ve written the movie then.

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      That’s the ocean after global warming. They’re really in Las Vegas.

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        2001’ sea level rise, climate change is worse than I thought.

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      No! They did it! They blew it up!

      And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen?

      And then the birds took over and ruined their society.

      And then the cows. And then…I don’t know, is that a slug, maybe?

      Noooo!

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        If you reach the bird people you’re too far ahead.

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        Weird how the copper of the slug statue looks older than the other ones. I hope someone got fired for that blunder

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          It’s, like, even more futuristic copper so it colors differently.

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            Or maybe version their statue was built with the help of their version of Ea-Nasir.

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              No matter how many times he’s reincarnated, he always has shitty copper and treats his customers with contempt!

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      They sold it, to pay for the debts after the stock market crash of 2025.

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        I mean copper is an expensive metal these days. Probably make mint selling Lady Liberty for scrap.

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          Unfortunately she’s hollow, like a shitty chocolate easter bunny.

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      Everyone forgets that the planet of apes is actually las vegas, if the camera where to go a little more to the left we would see a eiffel tower as well

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        These themed hotels are getting out of hand

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          Trump had a bunch in Atlantic City themed as casinos!

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        Yeah, I think it’s one of those artsy things they sometimes do to just confuse the viewer. In the book the eiffel tower is mentioned which makes everything more obvious.

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        I thought planet of apes was in hollywood?

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      🎵Oh my God, you’re so wrong.

      It was Earth, all along.🎵

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        I love you, doctor Zauis!

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        Its not the end of the journey but the simians you meet along the way.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

      I like how the only thing left of fucking New York City is made of iron and thin sheets of copper.

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        For reasons not directly related to the movie, I just so happen to have this on hand.

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        Whatever, but I know the commander because he’s my pal. Don’t think you know something about the commander. Here’s a picture.

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        It could be that they’re not in the former area of NYC, but the statue made its way to where they are. She’s hollow, yeah? Could she float? Could she have been taken back by the French at some point and then sent to some island like Tahiti?

        Or is this movie a distant sequel to Ghostbusters 2?

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          I think you’re trying too hard to defend a shitty movie. :)

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            Nah just having fun. I like the theory down-thread that this is the Las Vegas Statue of Liberty.

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              Maybe George Lucas can buy the rights to the movie and change the ending to that giant sphere. GOD DAMN U2 ALL TO HELL!

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      So… in the novel… it IS actually a different planet and obviously the Statue of Liberty is not there.

      You likely already know this but the statue in the movie is a convenient symbol for change over time which is relevant to the book. No spoilers.

      Anyway… read the novel! It’s great.

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        I haven’t read the book, but that makes this even funnier to me. Lol

        Will add that to my list.

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      More confusing is how it ended up next to cliffs on a shore line when it lives in a marshland enviroment

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        She may have just walked there, as seen in the documentary Ghostbusters 2.

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        Clearly, the statue was carried by ocean currents south from New York, through the Panama canal, then back north where it washed ashore at the tip of the Baja peninsula in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

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      Sold to aliens for scrap by a bankrupt country (for 10 hamburgers, which is approximately 10 hamburgers in todays hamburgers).

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        Are we talking real beef?

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          Vegan™, made from Soylent green.

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