Defending Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes

[Werewolf]

A little, I guess, nit picky thing about the Ed Wood movie that always bugged me is they never pronounced Bela's name right. It's Bay-Lah. Not Bell-ah. It just really bugs me every time I hear it misspronounced in the movie.

[dr_cyclops]

FAN: Mr. Hanks, I know you are a very busy person, but I was wondering, may I have an autograph?
TOM HANKS: Certainly.
FAN: Thank you. Do you know which one of your movies was my favorite? "Mazes and Monsters". You were great as 'Pardeux'.
TOM HANKS: Pardeux?!!!..

[Brazoo]

A little, I guess, nit picky thing about the Ed Wood movie that always bugged me is they never pronounced Bela's name right. It's Bay-Lah. Not Bell-ah. It just really bugs me every time I hear it misspronounced in the movie.

Yeah, it's been a while since I saw it, but I think can remember them saying Bey-lah sometimes, but for all I know that's how Ed Wood pronounced it. I really don't know.

I have one nit-picky type thing with the movie too though. It's a pet peeve of mine when movies are set up with narration openings - like, a character brings you into the tale, but they don't bring the character back at the end to bookend things - if that makes sense?

Jeffrey Jones as Criswell opens the story as if he's presenting the tale of Ed Wood - just like the real Criswell does in the real "Plan 9 from Outer Space" - but he doesn't come back at the end. Instead the epilogue is just text on the screen - and I think it would have felt more complete if 'Criswell' was narrating at least.

Even Ed Wood had the good sense to book end his movies - so to me that's a weird (albeit minor) flaw that stands out.

The Disney movie "Aladdin" is another movie that always pops into my mind when I think of this error. (Though, amazingly they bring back the narrator for the end of Aladdin part 3 to cap things off - so I can't be the only one who noticed this.)

[Brazoo]

FAN: Mr. Hanks, I know you are a very busy person, but I was wondering, may I have an autograph?
TOM HANKS: Certainly.
FAN: Thank you. Do you know which one of your movies was my favorite? "Mazes and Monsters". You were great as 'Pardeux'.
TOM HANKS: Pardeux?!!!..

I don't get it. I WANT to get it - but it's over my head!

EDIT: Okay - "Mazes and Monsters" is a real movie, I thought this had something to do with the game Hanks was playing in "Big" or something. I should check this crazy movie out.

[ctc]

>and I think it would have felt more complete if 'Criswell' was narrating at least.

"Can you prove that these events NEVER happened?!?!?"

>"Mazes and Monsters" is a real movie,

Nobody who'd ever seen it would say that....

Don C.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I was also glad to see the humans retain the ability to speak. It just doesn't make sense that they would lose it, especially while the apes gained it. If the humans were all mute, how would the apes have learned to speak English?

the humand in the original movie were not really mute. that was proven by the fact that Nova learned to speak just before she died. they were just not allowed to talk by the apes so as a result they lost the ability.
for the record, i always liked Burtons movie as a stand alone film. not as good as the orginal but still entertaining

[shellshopexotics]

Well I loved the original movies and TV series. I like the new Planet of the Apes. I loved Rise of the Planet of the Apes!

[samurainoir]

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