Planet of the Apes is my favorite movie, along with Idiocracy. I have all the planet of the apes movies, dvds, even the t.v. series. The entire collection. I also figured out the ending to the newest film with Marky Marky and the monkey bunch.
If you are interested and saw the movie and didn't understand the ending this is what i came up with 7 years after it came out!
OUR PRESENT DAY:A) Super-smart ape (Pericles) enters wormholeB) Man (Capt. Leo Davidson) enters wormholeC) Ship (temple) enters wormholePREHISTORIC EARTH 1): Following the "first one in, last one out" wormhole theory, the last-to-the-wormhole ship (full of super-smart apes and crew members) crashes on a prehistoric Earth.The many humans find themselves stranded and do their best to survive. Some have children and allow the apes to procreate as well. They eventually run out of supplies on the ship and are forced to let the apes out of their captivity. The apes eventually get smart enough to exist without the humans' help.As the apes grow smarter, the humans find them a possible threat...especially one ape on-board, named Semos. Insulted by the human's authority over the apes, Semos leads the revolt to attack the remaining humans.2) Led by Semos (the smartest and most aggressive ape of all), the apes seal off the crash site of the ship and deem it the "Forbidden Zone". They are very smart, and form small villages, where they are relatively peaceful and prosperous. Humans subsist like animals outside the cities, with others being enslaved within ape households, doing manual labour, functioning as entertainment, and living as pets.3) Semos becomes regarded as the progenitor of the race (and somewhat of a messiah figure), with his bloodline held in royalty. He is the father of Zaius (General Thade's father), whom he tells of stories of the apes original state as "pets" and shows him a gun as proof.4) Many years pass. Semos dies. Humans eventually lose all knowledge of a world beyond captivity.5) What we see in the movie:Capt. Leo Davidson comes out of wormhole and leads the rebellion over the apes. He follows his homing beacon to the original crash site, and discovers the ship had preceded him through the wormhole thousands of years ago. He sees the broadcast by the crewmembers that details the ape rebellion, and hears about the super-smart and very threatening Semos. The cut-off broadcast suggests their demise.(General Thade learns that people once held the power, as evidenced by the gun his father [a descendant of the original ape, Semos] shows him. This fact, combined with his natural hatred of humans, pushes him over the edge to enact martial law and kill all humans, so as to ensure that apes remain the dominant species.) The battle ensues.6) Following the "first one in, last one out" wormhole theory, the first-in-the-wormhole Pericles arrives in the Alpha Pod. (Amusingly, the apes think Pericles is the second coming of Semos, their progenitor and messiah figure.) Capt. Leo Davidson uses the pod to escape the Planet of the Apes.7) Captain Leo Davidson arrives in a highly evolved world, filled with apes that have advanced to the level of modern human society (as evidenced by the statue of "Ape-raham Lincoln", a monument to General Thade, who ostensibly escaped and rose to power by playing upon ape society's xenophobia and human prejudices, thus winning their hearts by killing all "threatening" humans). This is Earth, in the future of the timeline that Davidson caused (this is evidenced by Davidson's pod instruments stating "approaching Earth's orbit", with the date-clock stopping around 2155).Instead of stopping the apes from enslaving humanity, Davidon's rebellion (and the gun) has given the apes a reason to take zero hesitation on whether to kill a human or not, as evidenced by the deification of the brutal, anti-human General Thade (who, the plaque said, "saved the ape race") and the absence of humans.The human race has thus been rendered virtually extinct, and the apes have continued to evolve.8) The movie ends.
