This will always be the first Charlton Heston movie I can recall seeing, because we weren’t into gladiator movies at the casa and I liked sci-fi and apes.

I was three when it came out, so the first time I saw it was on TV some years later (most of you, go ask your parents what the world was like before VCRss and Tivo. Catch that misty look in their eye? It’s cuz they’re OLD) And you know what? It sucked me in. I honestly didn’t think that it would end the way it would (“Goddamn you all to hell!”)

I really liked the refreshing dialogue and politically correct treatment of simians.

Bye, Chuck.