Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
Another franchise viewed, reviewed, and ranked definitively. It's gonna be a while before the tenth film in the franchise gets released, so it avoids being the dreaded Top 10 for some time. It's a ticking clock, though. It's a franchise that should never have existed, coasted on money for a long while, got lucky a… Continue reading The Planet of the Apes Franchise: The Definitive Ranking
#3 in my Ranking of the Planet of the Apes Franchise. The renewed Apes franchise comes to a conclusive end (while keeping things open for further sequels that are currently in development) with a trilogy capper that intelligently explores the fallout from the previous film for the main character. Matt Reeves follows up one of… Continue reading War for the Planet of the Apes
#1 in my Ranking of the Planet of the Apes Franchise. Matt Reeves took the foundation laid in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and he just flat out ran with it, making one of the best looking, most emotionally involving and satisfying, and all around best built film of the franchise. Everything about… Continue reading Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
#5 in my Ranking of the Planet of the Apes Franchise. This is a much smarter way to reboot a moribund series, taking the aesthetics into a new century while also updating the narrative to match with new technology. It also trusts the audience to empathize with a non-human character using that new technology, and… Continue reading Rise of the Planet of the Apes
#7 in my Ranking of the Planet of the Apes Franchise. It's hard to talk about this movie without touching on its production history. This is a poster child for a studio using a recognizable name to hit a release date. They were going to release this in July of 2001 no matter what, and… Continue reading Planet of the Apes (2001)
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