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Going Ape: Day Two

Going Ape: Day Two

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May 22, 2024
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The original Planet of the Apes film was helped by being sort of a big budget, high production value B-movie because it lacked the pretentiousness that could easily have overwhelmed the material. Because it was a big success the studio set about making a sequel, which lacked the quality of acting, directing and writing, so the result was an amusingly terrible B-movie about the apes.

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