> - THE ENDING! Like, gag me with a spoon! Ok, for those who haven't seen it, it's nothing like the original movie. The movie was decent until the last ten minutes. See it, and you'll be as disgusted as I am. Unless you understand it... if so, please explain here so I can maybe get a grip on that heinous ending.
> --Jez"damn, dirty dishes!"zika

The movie seemed like it was going to be a really good one. Right after the battle scene when Davidson takes off, I was expecting that to be the end, just an ambiguous 'riding off into the sunset.' But it didn't end soon enough, and, as a result, the entire movie was ruined.

The only explanation that came to mind was Star Trek-like temporal physics. The reason the planet of the apes got its people and apes was because the crew of the Oberon had gone looking for Davidson. If Davidson went back in time to before the Oberon left to search for him, there'd be a loop. If he got back, they wouldn't search for him, and if they didn't search, they wouldn't crash on that planet, and if they they didn't crash on that planet, he probably wouldn't have made it off of the planet because Pericles wouldn't have zeroed in the nonexistant crashed Oberon, and thus, he could go back in time and Oberon *would* search for him, and so and so forth. So, I was thinking that perhaps the loop replayed over and over with ever increasing variation until a solution arose, which apparently involved apes' dominance on earth rather than humans'. But, there are leaping problems with that, too--how could there be a statue of General Thade, who was born thousands of years later on a different planet in a different timeline?

But I don't think the writers intended an answer. I think there were just going for a stupid trippy scary feeling, and they were willing to destroy whatever semblance of rationality to which the film had clung.

gab"Recommends seeing the movie but walking out when Davidson gets in the Alpha pod"by