Aug 2017
Maurice celebrates the Challenge of the Apes finale. And it was good! We had a grand time monkeying around and I learned a few things - like Smerd is an even bigger Ape fan than I am. It was exciting to see so many of us immerse ourselves in the Ape universe. Here's how the final results stacked up:
beatnik (moi) - 5775 points - Makes me Caesar - Long live the King!
SethYeah - 5658 points - he never delivered on the promised monkeyfucking but Seth nearly took Caesar's crown.
Smerd - 5253 points and Smerd definitely gets the Orangutan Award by reading 29 consecutive issues of Marvel's POTA comic.
India - 3074 points - India bounced all over the place gathering points here and there like a true monkey!
Box-a-Hair & sidekick @der - 3018 points - they cut a solid swath through both universes.
Foz - 2381 - and Fozzie may have been the only one of us to actually score off the Marmoset song.
peeps - 2214 points - She deserves an extra bonus for suffering through the Kong musicals.
JohanWOW - 1311 points and that was all achieved in the first two weeks.
Ballz - 1295 points - took a couple of long pauses but came back strong at the end.
barkingBaphomet - 1016 points from a varied list of movies and one classic Spidey show.
troma - 881 points without entering either universe!
NoseOfNicko - 471 points - for a late starter, nicko did alright.
Gymnopedie - 91 points from boggy Creek
Thank you all for participating. I hope everyone had as much fun monkeying around as I did. Tell me what you liked and didn't like. Did you miss FTV points? Did you like that points were based on minutes instead of movies watched? Did you like the reading bonus? Will you be back next July for .... The Animals Amuck & Disaster Flick Challenge or would you prefer something else? Do you know all the lyrics to "Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!" ???
Maurice celebrates the Challenge of the Apes finale. And it was good! We had a grand time monkeying around and I learned a few things - like Smerd is an even bigger Ape fan than I am. It was exciting to see so many of us immerse ourselves in the Ape universe. Here's how the final results stacked up:
beatnik (moi) - 5775 points - Makes me Caesar - Long live the King!
SethYeah - 5658 points - he never delivered on the promised monkeyfucking but Seth nearly took Caesar's crown.
Smerd - 5253 points and Smerd definitely gets the Orangutan Award by reading 29 consecutive issues of Marvel's POTA comic.
India - 3074 points - India bounced all over the place gathering points here and there like a true monkey!
Box-a-Hair & sidekick @der - 3018 points - they cut a solid swath through both universes.
Foz - 2381 - and Fozzie may have been the only one of us to actually score off the Marmoset song.
peeps - 2214 points - She deserves an extra bonus for suffering through the Kong musicals.
JohanWOW - 1311 points and that was all achieved in the first two weeks.
Ballz - 1295 points - took a couple of long pauses but came back strong at the end.
barkingBaphomet - 1016 points from a varied list of movies and one classic Spidey show.
troma - 881 points without entering either universe!
NoseOfNicko - 471 points - for a late starter, nicko did alright.
Gymnopedie - 91 points from boggy Creek
Thank you all for participating. I hope everyone had as much fun monkeying around as I did. Tell me what you liked and didn't like. Did you miss FTV points? Did you like that points were based on minutes instead of movies watched? Did you like the reading bonus? Will you be back next July for .... The Animals Amuck & Disaster Flick Challenge or would you prefer something else? Do you know all the lyrics to "Dr. Zaius! Dr. Zaius!" ???
Charleton Heston is the man! It was a surprisingly solid film (apparently from some shoddy source material), and I liked the whole future time-travel aspect. However, Beneath came along, and something struck a chord with me. When Brent and Taylor had to fight to death, I realized I was hooked. So then when Taylor
I found the Kong movies were less bad-ass, but I did thoroughly enjoy a few of them. I liked them all, but they didn't blow my mind like the PotA films. I probably liked the '76 and '86 ones most, because they were kinda violent. They shot the shit out of Kong, and it was a bloody mess. They're all okay though, but I'm not crazy about Jackson's over-long 2005 Kong. Meh.
I threw in a few random ape things, like episodes of Freddy, Futurama, Darkplace, and Monkey Shines to be more diversified, but in the end... I just fucking love Planet of the Apes.
I'll add that I hated the Tim Burton film. I suppose it might've been more faithful to the novel, but if the author of said novel admits that it's not a great book... then it wont be a great movie.
I rewatched the newer PotA flicks to get bonus points, but by that time, I got the ape fever. I saw War and thought it was the best of the new batch of PotA flicks. Cool movie.
As a challenge, I did have fun with this one. A lot of fun. I hated that Apes Saturday morning cartoon, but most of it was gold. I liked the points-per-minute idea, but it doesn't work for all challenges (like the October challenge, for example). @Der shares my sentiments, and really enjoyed the Roddy McDowall PotA entries.
I'm down for Animals Amuck and Disaster flicks.