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No. 10 - Planet of the Apes

When Charlton Heston's spaceship crash-lands on a planet some 2,000 years in the future, he's reasonably certain he's in a galaxy far, far away. Nope, it's Earth (as we learn in the final seconds). Apes have evolved, and humans devolved, so that we are the wild animals and apes the so-called civilized species. Heston tries hard to convince the apes that he's an intelligent beast and is fortunate enough to convince a few.

VERDICT: Two thousand years is a long time. Anything could happen. And look, we're not always so kind to apes, so who's to think they'd be anything but rotten to us? Think about that the next time you laugh at a chimp.