In the original novel it's an alien planet where apes dominate humans, but in the movies humans in the near future on Earth use intelligent apes as slaves until the apes revolt and take over. Eventually a nuclear apocalypse destroys that civilization, which is followed by the less advanced one seen in the first movie. Rod Serling came up with the ending that made it future Earth.

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Crashumbc 2 points 2 years ago

And in the last movie they set off a doomsday weapon that destroys the whole solar system

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SereneSadie 4 points 2 years ago

Ah, Gene Roddenberry must've written the movie then.

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EffortlessEffluvium 37 points 2 years ago

That’s the ocean after global warming. They're really in Las Vegas.

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ThatGuy46475 2 points 2 years ago

2001’ sea level rise, climate change is worse than I thought.

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samus12345 36 points 2 years ago

No! They did it! They blew it up!

And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen?

And then the birds took over and ruined their society.

And then the cows. And then...I don't know, is that a slug, maybe?

Noooo!

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And009 2 points 2 years ago

If you reach the bird people you're too far ahead.

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holdstrong 0 points 2 years ago

Weird how the copper of the slug statue looks older than the other ones. I hope someone got fired for that blunder

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samus12345 1 point 2 years ago

It's, like, even more futuristic copper so it colors differently.

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rmuk 2 points 2 years ago

Or maybe version their statue was built with the help of their version of Ea-Nasir.

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samus12345 1 point 2 years ago

No matter how many times he's reincarnated, he always has shitty copper and treats his customers with contempt!

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Nikelui 33 points 2 years ago

They sold it, to pay for the debts after the stock market crash of 2025.

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dohpaz42 7 points 2 years ago

I mean copper is an expensive metal these days. Probably make mint selling Lady Liberty for scrap.

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atomicorange 9 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately she’s hollow, like a shitty chocolate easter bunny.

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Kolanaki 30 points 2 years ago

🎵Oh my God, you're so wrong.

It was Earth, all along.🎵

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happysplinter 9 points 2 years ago

I love you, doctor Zauis!

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MehBlah 1 point 2 years ago

Its not the end of the journey but the simians you meet along the way.

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drew_belloc 30 points 2 years ago

Everyone forgets that the planet of apes is actually las vegas, if the camera where to go a little more to the left we would see a eiffel tower as well

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MsPenguinette 11 points 2 years ago

These themed hotels are getting out of hand

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dogsnest 3 points 2 years ago

Trump had a bunch in Atlantic City themed as casinos!

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zaphod 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I think it's one of those artsy things they sometimes do to just confuse the viewer. In the book the eiffel tower is mentioned which makes everything more obvious.

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Asfalttikyntaja 1 point 2 years ago

I thought planet of apes was in hollywood?

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 25 points 2 years ago

GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

I like how the only thing left of fucking New York City is made of iron and thin sheets of copper.

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octopus_ink 12 points 2 years ago

For reasons not directly related to the movie, I just so happen to have this on hand.

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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 2 points 2 years ago

Whatever, but I know the commander because he's my pal. Don't think you know something about the commander. Here's a picture.

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FrChazzz 2 points 2 years ago

It could be that they’re not in the former area of NYC, but the statue made its way to where they are. She’s hollow, yeah? Could she float? Could she have been taken back by the French at some point and then sent to some island like Tahiti?

Or is this movie a distant sequel to Ghostbusters 2?

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 1 point 2 years ago

I think you're trying too hard to defend a shitty movie. :)

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FrChazzz 2 points 2 years ago

Nah just having fun. I like the theory down-thread that this is the Las Vegas Statue of Liberty.

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ChickenLadyLovesLife 1 point 2 years ago

Maybe George Lucas can buy the rights to the movie and change the ending to that giant sphere. GOD DAMN U2 ALL TO HELL!

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wowwoweowza 14 points 2 years ago

So… in the novel… it IS actually a different planet and obviously the Statue of Liberty is not there.

You likely already know this but the statue in the movie is a convenient symbol for change over time which is relevant to the book. No spoilers.

Anyway… read the novel! It’s great.

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The_Picard_Maneuver 6 points 2 years ago

I haven't read the book, but that makes this even funnier to me. Lol

Will add that to my list.

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sirico 14 points 2 years ago

More confusing is how it ended up next to cliffs on a shore line when it lives in a marshland enviroment

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djnattyp 7 points 2 years ago

She may have just walked there, as seen in the documentary Ghostbusters 2.

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watty 4 points 2 years ago

Clearly, the statue was carried by ocean currents south from New York, through the Panama canal, then back north where it washed ashore at the tip of the Baja peninsula in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

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Zzyzx 2 points 2 years ago

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Evil_Shrubbery 13 points 2 years ago

Sold to aliens for scrap by a bankrupt country (for 10 hamburgers, which is approximately 10 hamburgers in todays hamburgers).

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massive_bereavement 2 points 2 years ago

Are we talking real beef?

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Evil_Shrubbery 3 points 2 years ago

Vegan™, made from Soylent green.

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Ledericas 12 points 2 years ago

Actually it was the French aliens that transported them on their spaceship

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MonkeMischief 4 points 2 years ago

"Hnng hnngyeeess, the Eeevil Council are French! Nyah hah! Nnggyah! Power me up, babyy! Nggyah hah!"

--Betty

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Ledericas 2 points 2 years ago

gouald ha'tak vessels.

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LovableSidekick 11 points 2 years ago

This is either satirical or the biggest WHOOSH I've seen so far this year.

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Irelephant 1 point 2 years ago

Check the community.

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LovableSidekick 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah it's memes. That doesn't clarify whether people are really thinking the status of liberty was a "confusing plot hole" or making fun of that.

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tonyn 10 points 2 years ago

What they don't explain is how everything else is gone, and even the entire coastline is different, but somehow the upper half of that particular copper statue has somehow survived

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hilly 10 points 2 years ago

It turns out, that on their planet, the apes have made an exact replica of the statue of liberty

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lime 9 points 2 years ago

*ding*

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Kusimulkku 3 points 2 years ago

I enjoyed watching that channel but the amount of *dings* over some misunderstanding about a thing that was explained a second before got to me

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son_named_bort 9 points 2 years ago

A wizard did it.

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humanspiral 8 points 2 years ago

The bigger plot hole is that this is not consistent with any global warming or giant earthquake. Rising sea levels would not have a beach and rocky formation right next to statue of liberty. And a crazy violent earthquake that would move land and rock well above the statue of liberty and right next to it, would have knocked the statue over.

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LeFantome 3 points 2 years ago

See the other comment about Las Vegas

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UnderpantsWeevil 1 point 2 years ago

No no no. They explain that in one of the prequels. It wasn't global warming or an earthquake. It was caused by a virus. You can't knock a statue over with a virus.

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humanspiral 1 point 2 years ago

How does a virus extend coastline 500 feet, and raising it 200 feet?

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UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 2 years ago

Via the lytic cycle. It just takes a while.

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humanspiral 2 points 2 years ago

lytic cycle

many Gigatons of viral and animal life can cause increase in land mass, then?

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Cheradenine 7 points 2 years ago

You maniacs, you blew it up

No tracking

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massive_bereavement 7 points 2 years ago

I hate.. Every ape I see, from chimpan-a to chimpanzee, you'll never make a monkey out of meee.

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FreeRangeMustard 5 points 2 years ago

The lord works in mysterious ways.

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BlackLaZoR 5 points 2 years ago

Is that statue in the room with us?

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dohpaz42 7 points 2 years ago

Don’t blink.

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DragonTypeWyvern 2 points 2 years ago

Or... Do blink? Because the staring is a trick to let them into your soul?

Moffat giveth and Moffat taketh away

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limer 1 point 2 years ago

Don’t blink

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Vandals_handle 4 points 2 years ago

Got there via worm hole, not plot hole.

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JackbyDev 4 points 2 years ago

Monke

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AugustWest 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe it was a fleshy headed mutant from the forbidden zone.

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thelefthandpath 0 points 2 years ago

Is this a meme or is this merely a statement of fact about a movie along with a photo from that movie

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MonkderVierte -1 points 2 years ago

Are you serious?

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jerkface 9 points 2 years ago

Are YOU serious?

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P1k1e 5 points 2 years ago

Are WE serious?

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MonkderVierte 1 point 2 years ago

A quick googling is too much to ask?

https://planetoftheapes.fandom.com/...

In 3978, human refugee George Taylor fled from Ape City with his newly acquired mate, Nova. During the course of several days, Taylor believed that he had been living on a strange, alien world. Following the shoreline, he came upon the Statue's ruins and realized that he was on Earth. Worse, he deduced that the humans of his own era must have waged a global war, which paved the way for a dystopian future where humans became subservient to evolved apes.

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Kellamity 4 points 2 years ago

Just in case you're not joking, that's the point of this meme. That the big reveal and emotional moment at the end of the film has been misunderstood and reduced to a plot hole

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MonkderVierte 1 point 2 years ago

Well, joke and internet is hard.

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jerkface 1 point 2 years ago

I can't believe you were serious. That's funny!

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