Umm, why is the History Channel running Planet of the Apes?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

[LSK]

1. they ran out of Nazi footage?

:shrug:

[TommyO]

2. Because *IT IS* history from some future possible earth!

I think, maybe...

Hell, I dunno!

[Madspirit]

3. They need filler and it's a great movie

"Planet of the Apes" is one of the only justifications for the existence of Charlton Heston.

I LOVE that movie...
Lee

[Boogie]

4. Future Channel

[Aristus]

5. "The deceased once told me: 'I never met an ape I didn't like'."

Great movie. Turning the Darwin debate on its ear was a stroke of genius. Just what I expect of Rod Serling.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Oh no they di'n't!!

:rofl:

[LostInAnomie]

7. "I hate every chimp I see. From chimpan-A to chimpan-Z..."

Usually the History Channel tries to legitimize showing movies by first airing a program with a facile connection. They probably had some show about Darwin, the first chimp in space, or world record for feces throwing on before.

[PVnRT]

8. Because the History Channel is a fucking joke anymore

n/t

[Chiyo-chichi]

9. Yesterday, they had UFO shows all day.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. No one's guessing there's a Presidents Day tie-in?

[eppur_se_muova]

13. "Chimpolini: The Early Years" ? nt

[Deja Q]

11. The good one or the to-be-expected-remake from 35 years later?

:crazy:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. The original

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. A glimpse of the future?

"You maniacs, you blew it up! God damn you all to hell!"

[dysfunctional press]

15. well...it IS president's day and all...and considering the current white house occupant-

i thinks it's very appropo.

[swag]

16. Because no one should forget the day when ape first killed ape.

[Xipe Totec]

17. In honor of our pResident, of course. n/t

[Akoto]

18. Take your hands off of me, you damn, dirty historians!

:rofl:

[unpossibles]

19. my guess would be because when it came out

it had obvious racial overtones.

Then again, it's probably just so a bunch of numbnuts can fantasize about being Charlatan Heston - alone with his gun, his woman who can't speak, and a bunch of dirty apes.

That said, I love the movie.