Planet of the Apes.

[JTRipper]

That's a pretty poor substitute for Flash Mountain.

 

[Bot_40]

Well, unlike Alton Towers, the magic kingdom doesn't happen to be 45mins drive from here

 

[FreakinMeany]

Originally posted by Twrecks


That was the first movie. The whole idea Apes would've built a Lincoln memorial et al is really beyond speculation. That implies parrallel universes, not time travel which the movie begins with.

I happened to rent the DVD just the other night and wonder if it was only time travel implied at the beginning of the film. Perhaps he traveled back in time AND to a parallel universe.

Imagine this is our timeline and that of the parallel universe:

(a) big badaboom ----> (b) apes ----> (c) ape man ----> (d) human ----> (e) space human

Prior to the space storm, our story is at point (e), and the "hero" gets zapped to a parallel universe right at the juncture of (c) and (d). Overlap of existing ape-men and evolved humans inhabit the planet he crashes on.

The mother ship goes after him (why?) but space storms being highly unpredictable things, causes them to wind up at point (b), thus changing the future of this parallel world at point (c) by shifting the balance of power to the native ape-men already there. The original inhabitants come to think of calima as their origin. The native evolved humans see apes with the stranded space people and think the same.

Dumbass hero arrives later and departs, leaving the parallel world to go on evolving basically uninterrupted cuz Mr. General monkey-boy is still alive at the end of the story - I mean, really, are hundreds of semi-smart ape-men all of a sudden going to embrace co-existence with dirty humans? PA-LEASE!

Humans obviously become the wild animals of the jungle almost doomed to extinction.

.... woah, I've spent too much time thinking about this.