723: We Bought an Ape Prison

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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You did it, you blew it all up! And now it’s… the Summer of the Planet of the Apes! Our own troop of hairless apes tackles the well-regarded modern “Apes” trilogy this month, beginning with 2011’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” James Franco is a scientist? Brian Cox runs a sketchy ape facility? Tom Felton thinks his dates want to see caged primates? Just when you think this movie has it all backward, that’s when you realize: we’re actually all rooting for the apes....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 723, July 24.
0:10.0	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:12.3	I am your host, Jason Snell, and we are going to, you know, sometimes, especially in the summer, I like to do little themes.
0:19.3	Little themes.
0:19.9	This is a mini theme to start the summer.
0:23.1	And I'm calling it the summer of the planet of the apes. That's right. Summer of the planet of the apes in which we are going to be visiting now. Not the original movie Planet of the Apes. We already did that for the 50th anniversary of Planet of the Apes.
0:38.9	You can go back and listen to that episode.
0:40.7	We are going to watch the trilogy of films that are the modern reboot of the concept of
0:47.8	Planet of the Apes and how it came to be, starting with 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, starring James Franco, okay, whatever,
0:59.0	and Andy Circus as Caesar, the capital A ape.
1:05.4	Joining me, I have a whoop, is that the right word?
1:10.2	The whoop of apes here to talk about apes for three blockbuster episodes.
1:17.4	We'll begin with the guy who looked up the term whoop.
1:19.9	It's Brian Warren.
1:21.0	Hello.
1:22.7	Hey, Jason.
1:23.7	A whoop is the collective noun for a bunch of chimps.
1:26.5	So I hope that's us.
1:28.2	Yeah.
1:28.3	Why not?
1:29.2	We're whooping it up for three movies.
1:32.8	Annette Weirstra joins the troop as well.
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