{"id":8682,"date":"2016-10-02T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8682"},"modified":"2016-10-02T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:27:10","slug":"planet-of-the-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/planet-of-the-apes\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet of the Apes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next <strong>Planet of the Apes<\/strong> movie isn&#8217;t coming out until next year but this list is ready so I&#8217;m posting it.<\/p>\n<p>I read the original novel by Pierre Boulle years ago and enjoyed it a lot. I read some fairly recent graphic novels by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/planet-of-the-apes-the-utopians\/\">Daryl Gregory<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/betrayal-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-2\/\">Corinna Bechko<\/a> and enjoyed them too.<\/p>\n<p>Ape fever was so high in the 1970s that there were 2 TV shows. The live action <strong>Planet of the Apes<\/strong> (1974) gets 3\/5. I haven&#8217;t seen the animated <strong>Return to the Planet of the Apes<\/strong> (1975).<\/p>\n<p>As for the movies, I&#8217;ve seen all of them &#8212; the first 6 more than once. Here&#8217;s the list.<\/p>\n<p>The original series<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planet of the Apes\n<ul>\n<li>1968 -&gt; 5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Beneath the Planet of the Apes\n<ul>\n<li>1970 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Escape from the Planet of the Apes\n<ul>\n<li>1971 -&gt; 4\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Conquest of the Planet of the Apes\n<ul>\n<li>1972 -&gt; 3.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Battle for the Planet of the Apes\n<ul>\n<li>1973 -&gt; 3\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tim Burton&#8217;s version<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Planet of the Apes\n<ul>\n<li>2001 -&gt; 2.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new series<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rise of the Planet of the Apes\n<ul>\n<li>2011 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes\/\">Dawn of the Planet of the Apes<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>2014 -&gt; 4.5\/5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>War for the Planet of the Apes\n<ul>\n<li>2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next Planet of the Apes movie isn&#8217;t coming out until next year but this list is ready so I&#8217;m posting it. I read the original novel by Pierre Boulle years ago and enjoyed it a lot. I read some fairly recent graphic novels by\u00a0Daryl Gregory and\u00a0Corinna Bechko and enjoyed them too. Ape fever was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,6,79,8],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-movie","tag-planet-of-the-apes","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9268,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions\/9268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}