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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 156 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Did you even watch the movie? They explain it right away!

Someone "blew it up" and the resulting explosion launched it into space.

[–] winety@lemmy.zip 84 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I've only watched the musical from the Simpsons.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doctor Zaius, Doctor Zaius...

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Can i play the piano anymore?
Of course you can!
I couldn't before!

[–] Vegeta@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🎶 I was wrong. It was Earth all along. 🎶

[–] consumptionone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, you finally made a monkey out of meeeee!!!

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[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always thought that was silly. How did it stay so intact?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No, this is a misunderstanding. This is just an unusual rock formation. It has nothing to do with the actual statue, that still stands on Earth.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, kinda like Mt Rushmore. Nature truly is remarkable.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait, that’s not Mega Maid?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dditty@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's gone from suck to blow

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

That's an even better line. Very nice

[–] TechLich@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Oh shit, there goes the planet.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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It's actually still earth and the protagonist time travelled.

They travelled to the past when only the upper half of the statue was built.

[–] EaterOfLentils@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

It was a different statue that looked the same. Just a coincidence. It's not that deep.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Buy why is it human? I'm just happy they fixed this oversight in the (vastly superior) 2001 remake with the Lincoln Memorial.

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Just a coincidence, it was actually shaped by erosion

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[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s the ocean after global warming. They're really in Las Vegas.

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[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 36 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No! They did it! They blew it up!

And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen?

And then the birds took over and ruined their society.

And then the cows. And then...I don't know, is that a slug, maybe?

Noooo!

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[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They sold it, to pay for the debts after the stock market crash of 2025.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean copper is an expensive metal these days. Probably make mint selling Lady Liberty for scrap.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately she’s hollow, like a shitty chocolate easter bunny.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

🎵Oh my God, you're so wrong.

It was Earth, all along.🎵

[–] happysplinter@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I love you, doctor Zauis!

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[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Everyone forgets that the planet of apes is actually las vegas, if the camera where to go a little more to the left we would see a eiffel tower as well

[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These themed hotels are getting out of hand

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

I like how the only thing left of fucking New York City is made of iron and thin sheets of copper.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

For reasons not directly related to the movie, I just so happen to have this on hand.

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[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So… in the novel… it IS actually a different planet and obviously the Statue of Liberty is not there.

You likely already know this but the statue in the movie is a convenient symbol for change over time which is relevant to the book. No spoilers.

Anyway… read the novel! It’s great.

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

More confusing is how it ended up next to cliffs on a shore line when it lives in a marshland enviroment

[–] djnattyp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

She may have just walked there, as seen in the documentary Ghostbusters 2.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Sold to aliens for scrap by a bankrupt country (for 10 hamburgers, which is approximately 10 hamburgers in todays hamburgers).

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Actually it was the French aliens that transported them on their spaceship

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This is either satirical or the biggest WHOOSH I've seen so far this year.

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[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

What they don't explain is how everything else is gone, and even the entire coastline is different, but somehow the upper half of that particular copper statue has somehow survived

[–] hilly@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

It turns out, that on their planet, the apes have made an exact replica of the statue of liberty

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

A wizard did it.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The bigger plot hole is that this is not consistent with any global warming or giant earthquake. Rising sea levels would not have a beach and rocky formation right next to statue of liberty. And a crazy violent earthquake that would move land and rock well above the statue of liberty and right next to it, would have knocked the statue over.

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[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

I hate.. Every ape I see, from chimpan-a to chimpanzee, you'll never make a monkey out of meee.

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