The recent Planet of the Apes series is a rare exemple of a perfect trilogy. It didn’t rely on human characters and the stories were actually driven by the apes.

I just rewatched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and it reminded me how great this franchise is. The dialogues are simple yet powerful. It got better after each movie. But the most important aspect of that franchise is that it actually focused on the apes and didn’t need humans to drive the story. Humans characters were used as a plot device instead of becoming the plot. The Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise is the worst when it comes to this. So many times in movies like this humans take away from species/fantasy characters the movie is supposed to be about. The recent Godzilla/kong movies also comes to mind. I applaud them for that.

Submitted March 12, 2022 at 11:26PM by Balls_of_Adamanthium https://ift.tt/PI2hzRC