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The 2012 film is clearly superior. But I don't think 1995 film is as bad as many people say.

It's a mixed bag. It looks good and is well cast - except for Flash and Dale! The Queen song is great. Overall, the movie is kind of "meh".

I own the original "Westworld" on DVD. I have seen "Futureworld" but I don't own it. It's OK. At least they didn't try to rehash the original. I don't have HBO, so I haven't seen the new series.

I read a review of the movie by Jeff Rovin, who wrote, "This movie should be called 'Logan's Ruin' because that's what it does to the excellent novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson." I agree completely! The movie is OK, if you haven't read the book. But if you have read the...

The original is my favorite, but I really like the 1978 version too. The 1993 version was OK. I haven't seen the 2007 one.

I saw the movie version of that, "The Quatermass Conclusion". It wasn't bad, but I didn't think it was great either.

I've loved the movie version of "Quatermass and the Pit" for a long, long, time. Last Xmas a friend gave me the BBC TV version on DVD. The TV version was good, but I prefer the movie version, AKA "Five Million Years to Earth". The movie is in color, has better production values and...

I own fourteen Who stories on DVD and thirteen of them are Tom Baker stories. Counting down from #13 to #1 would look like this: 13. The Face of Evil (Chris Boucher/Pennant Roberts, 1977) 12. The Sun Makers (Robert Holmes/Pennant Roberts, 1977) 11. Terror of the Zygons (Robert Banks...

The 1951 version is a classic for the ages. The best thing I can say about the remake is that it prompted the release of a two disc special edition DVD set of the original.

Battle Beast - "Shutdown"

I didn't say it was impossible. But it seems unlikely to me.

The Lawgiver of the original POTA had a highly prejudiced attitude against mankind, e.g., "Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death." It seems unlikely to me that same individual could embrace peaceful coexistence with humans at one time, and then hate them so much later.

You could interpret it that way. However, I would argue that the events of "Beneath"/"Escape" altered the timeline - which Virgil describes in "Battle" as an infinite number of lanes from the past to the future. In "Escape" Cornelius relates future history where an ape named Aldo was the first...

I meant legitimate in the sense that, other than "Beneath", none of the other sequels are set on the same "Planet of the Apes" that Taylor (Charlton Heston) visited in the first film. The rest of sequels are legitimate, but none of them take place on a "Planet of the Apes". In "Escape" the...

The updated ape makeups were impressive. But otherwise it pretty much sucked.

Certainly the best of the original franchise. I don't think it's fair to compare the old and new films as film technology has changed so much in the interim.

I've got to admit that Roddy McDowall gives an incredible performance and basically carries the film. There's a scene where Caesar learns that Armando is dead. He starts crying, then screams out in anger, and then goes silent. McDowall goes from grief, to rage, to fear of discovery in the...

IMO, a weak finale. Although the extended cut with Alpha-Omega bomb scenes restored is an improvement over the original cut.

Personally, I think this is one of the better sequels. And in some ways I think it is the most legitimate sequel, since it is the only sequel set on the same Planet of the Apes as the first film. Although they did screw up the year which was, IIRC, 3,978 in the original and 3,955 in "Beneath".

I didn't actually remember. At the time I archived the results, I marked the songs that I submitted for future reference.