Yes. The movie makers clearly have no idea how CIA & NASA works.
Letting aliens in the open, have them press conferences, keep them in luxury hotels....
Wow, was the story writer smoking pot when writing this? wtf?
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It was the 70s, so probably yes. :-)
shareIf the apes had spoken right off, things might've been different. But as it was, it was simply "monkeys in space".
shareThey were probably smoking the same thing the screenwriters in POTA and Beneath were when they decided to have both Taylor and Brent NOT realize something was up when the talking apes they met spoke English.
shareWow, was the story writer smoking pot when writing this?