[Prying open Leo's mouth and looking down his throat, as though looking for a soul]

General Thade: Is there a soul in there?
Attar: Get your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!
Limbo: Can't we all just get along?
Thade's Father: Damn them!

General Thade: I will stop him, father.

Thade's Father: Damn them... damn them all to hell!
Tival: Apes are afraid of water. They can't swim.

Ari: We drown!

Daena: That is why every day we pray for rain.
Captain Leo Davidson: Never send a monkey to do a man's job.
Limbo: [emerging from his hiding place] Oh! It's over already? I was *just* about to make my move...
Captain Leo Davidson: How did the apes get this way?

Daena: What other way would they be?

Captain Leo Davidson: They'd be begging me for a treat right now.
General Thade: Get me the spaceman!
Daena: What tribe are you from?

Captain Leo Davidson: United States Air Force, and I'm going back.
Captain Leo Davidson: Shut up! That goes for all species.
Ari: You know one day they'll tell a story about a human who came from the stars and changed our world. Some will say it was just a fairy tale, that it was never real. But I'll know.
Tival: They all want to see this human who defies the apes.
Captain Leo Davidson: Our apes couldn't talk.

Ari: Maybe they chose not to... given the way you treated them.
General Thade: Extremism in defense of apes is no vice.
[When telling the human tribes to run away while they can]

Captain Leo Davidson: Look, you gotta make your people understand, it's over there's no help coming.

Daena: You came.
[When confronting each other on the battle field]

Krull: My fight is with Thade, not you.

Attar: Then your fight is with me.
Captain Leo Davidson: I think it's fair to call this hostile territory.
Ari: It's disgusting the way we treat humans.
Captain Leo Davidson: Time to explain evolution to the monkeys.
Limbo: The young ones make great pets. Just make sure you get rid of them before they mature. Believe me, the last thing you want is a human teenager running around your house.
Captain Leo Davidson: I'm going to get my chimp.
Lt. Col.Grace Alexander: What? Was the Homo sapien mean to you again? We all know its just rocket envy, don't we?

Captain Leo Davidson: Ever consider an actual boyfriend?

Lt. Col.Grace Alexander: You mean do I enjoy being miserable? No thanks, I'll stick with my chimps.
Ari: Stop it! Who told you, you could throw stones at humans?

Gorilla kid: My father

Ari: Did he? He's wrong, very wrong. You can tell him for me I said so.

Gorilla kid: Human lover!
Limbo: Apes in cages... right!
[while holding a gun on Limbo]

Captain Leo Davidson: Play dead.
[to Leo in regarding Earth]

Ari: I'd like to see your world.

Captain Leo Davidson: I know. But they'd probably pry you and poke you and throw you in a cage too.

Ari: [smiles] You'd protect me.

[Leo smiles]
[Leo notices the human mark on Ari's hand]

Ari: I can't go home either now. So, maybe we're not so different.

Captain Leo Davidson: No, we're very different.

[Ari looks at him sadly]

Captain Leo Davidson: You care about everybody, but yourself.
Limbo: [Referring to the captured humans] All right, get 'em out and get 'em clean! Chop chop!
Sandar: Senator Nado, good evening!

Senator Nado: [Mutters]

Sandar: My dear, you look lovely!

Nova: Thank you, but I'm having a bad hair day.
General Thade: Everything in the human culture takes place below the waist!
Krull: Monkeys are further down the evolutionary ladder,

[groaning]

Krull: just above humans!
Zaius, Thade's Father: [about humans] I warn you their ingenuity goes hand in hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious, as violent. You must find this human quickly! Don't let him get to Calima!
Captain Leo Davidson: We're in control now! We're the 800 pound gorilla!
Limbo: [referring to cuffs] No, no, no, I don't need those anymore.

Gunnar: Says who?

Limbo: Says them! They tried to KILL me! Like I was nothing but a - miserable...

Gunnar: Human?
Limbo: [after being cuffed with cuffs used for humans] Ow! These things hurt!
Limbo: How many times do I have to tell you? Wear you gloves when you handle humans!
Ari: [blocking Limbo] You kill him, and you'll only lower yourself to his level.

Limbo: Exactly!
Ari: Hm, I knew it, you're sensitive. An uncommon quality in a man.

Krull: [groans]
Captain Leo Davidson: [referring to Calima] Well, that's where my crew is, so that's where we're going.

Limbo: Doesn't he ever stop?
Gunnar: You're letting him go?

Captain Leo Davidson: No, he rides with us.

Limbo: Wha? Wha?

[whining]

Limbo: This is suicide!

Limbo: [after others move away] Only a human would think riding through an army encampment could work.
Limbo: Y'know, I'd like to thank you, for opening my eyes to a brave new world of trade with the humans.

Captain Leo Davidson: Yeah, no problem.

Limbo: Farewell, Spaceman!

Limbo: [immediately turns around to a group of children] Now, who wants to buy some aspirin?
Limbo: [looking at captured humans] Are you trying to put me out of business? These are the skankiest, scabbiest, scuzziest humans I've ever seen.
Senator Nado: [to Ari about humans] Next you'll be telling us that these beasts have a soul.
Captain Leo Davidson: The smarter we get, the more dangerous we become.
[first lines]

Captain Leo Davidson: [to Pericles, who is panicking during a simulated space mission] You lost.

Captain Leo Davidson: [stops the simulation] Again.
Ari: It doesn't matter: apes, humans, your planet, my planet, the universe seems only to reward cruelty with power.
Senator Nado: Trite but true: "Youth is wasted on the young."
Sandar: She spends a fortune grooming herself.

Nova: And I'm worth every penny.

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Planet of the Apes short comments

Lina 2022-03-25 09:01:06

The emotional handling of the characters is too calm, which makes me feel a little pain in the ass. (PS: I'm pretty sure I saw the opening scene. Mark was pretty young at the time. Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter didn't fall in love because of this movie, did they? )
Lonnie 2022-04-24 07:01:03

It's a thankless task to remake such a creative-winning film, and it's a little uncomfortable to watch Mark Wahlberg have an affair with a mother ape, so it's probably a spoof of Lincoln turning into an ape in the end.