Better safe than sorry. The massive book, too, could be littered with such messages, but it's hard to tell when your eyes glaze over. Nonetheless, the book was cinematic in structure and detail in ways the movie, ironically, never is. The movie is mostly indecipherable chaos and grandiose spectacle. The audience is never so lucky.
Apes control the planet and humans are their slaves.
Wrong movie - but not by much. Earth's cities are rubble, and small tribes of men live in the wilderness. They have no memory of their former civilization, and most have never seen the aliens who mine Earth's resources from under protective domes that re-create the poisonous atmosphere of their home planet. Travolta is the aliens' chief of security who stumbles onto a vein of gold. But, once familiar with alien technology, Pepper turns it, and remnants of human military equipment, against his alien masters.