Everything GREAT About Dawn of the Planet of the Apes!

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes! A sequel that everyone expected to just be meh…and then some people thought it was meh? Seems unlikely. But let's take a walk through it. Here's everything right with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes!

CinemaWins Socials:

[phatnana]

The scene of Koba pretending to be a dumb ape is actually terrifying! Its the first time we see a human level of cunning and manipulation from an ape. Until then, you're thinking Koba is just going out-right fight Caesar at some point.

[ianmoone]

There’s a deleted scene where Caesar presents Koba with the bear pelt as a gift for saving him and Blue Eyes, where Koba embraces Caesar in a hug, and it really shows that, had the ape community not crossed paths with humans, Koba very much would have stayed a good ally and friend to Caesar

[The_Story_Of_Us]

This isn't hard canon, but a deleted scene from War has The Colonel tell Caesar that a human came to him and pleaded with him to make peace with Caesar, so he executed him... Caesar immediately found out this human was Malcolm. You know, in case the end of Dawn wasn't enough of a debbie downer.

[sherede]

The part at the end where Malcolm says “I really thought we had a chance…” and Caesar says “…me too” gets me in the feels every time 😭

[Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

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Koba fights with pure animalistic fury and bludgeoning. He lets his muscle and instinct do the talking.

Caesar uses punches, blocks. He fights more like a man, another sign of his evolution, and ultimately why he wins the fight.

EDIT: remembered this because of that scene, when Caesar is choking Koba, you can see him wrestle with his primal chimp instincts demanding he kill Koba. Chimp societies are brutal and savage, and the fact that Caesar is clearly evolved but not TOTALLY detached from his animal nature is why he’s so friggin cool to me

[darwinaguilero]

The movie is framed like a tragedy, and I love it. Everything falls into place in the wrong way and ends in a very bittersweet way. I think my favorite scene is where Caesar thinks about Will. Calling him a good man means the world to me.

[interviolet]

Koba is such a Shakespearian villain, you understand how and why he is the way he is and that conflict was basically unavoidable.
Interestingly koba is a bonobo one of the more docile apes that looks similar to a chimp.
Caesar is a chimp one of the most dangerous and scary apes but with the intelligence to control his emotions at least makes him more composed until he isn't.
Rise had some slightly less than real rendering but Dawn and War they look photo real like it's freaky lol

[TheDukeOfTumwater]

One scene you didn’t mention that I really like was the scene with Gary Oldman’s character alone in his office after the power comes back on, and being brought to tears over the memories of his family. I really like it for two reasons: 1). It highlights the fragility of our modern existence, where we’re reliant on technology to hold our most precious memories which can be easily lost forever, and 2). gives us some insight into the character and grants him a degree of empathy that wouldn’t be extended to similar ones in other movies. I like to think that part of the reason he wanted to get the power back on was so that he could be reunited with the memories of his long dead family. A very humanizing moment that often gets underlooked but which I think illuminates what is so special about this trilogy.

[dwightlangdale]

Also I'm pretty sure "Run" is the first, and one of the few things Maurice actually says. As most of the time he signs. The "Run" is probably my favorite line. So chilling, but also, like wholesome if you think about it? Maurice is the OG

[skateboard_sandwich]

“It only takes one bad dude to mess up life for millions.”

This. Resonates.

[erikpinillo]

This trilogy was so paradoxical in that it was the best in the sci-fi business, yet hardly anyone talked about it when they were initially released.


Happy its getting recognized, (it's my personal favorite of the 3)

[kieranduffy]

This movie is absolutely phoenomenal. One of my personal favourite movies of all time and IMO the best of the entire series.

[njmoonfrost]

The sad thing about Koba? He forgot about the first human that took care of him and his mother. She tried so hard to keep them safe and happy. She’s the one that taught him sign language. But his hate for humans made him blind

[thingusbingus]

Part of why I love Gary Oldman in this is one scene which shows him crying over his family. He shows so much much pain amd sorrow without a line, and you instantly understand why he hates the apes, he can't blame anyone specific for losing his family to the simian flu so he turns his anger and sorrow on the apes. It's easy to say we'd all seek peace ourselves, but we're not in his shoes.

[livelife]

One thing that needs to be mentioned is how during the battle scene the apes were just pointing the ARs and spraying bullets in the human's genral direction you never even see them reloading, chances are there was some friendly fire here and there. By the time Koba is on their doorstep you can even see one to the right shooting at the gate, not at the parapet above or the ones who survived Luca's fireball slam just at the steel wall in front of him, this truly paints a picture of just how unprepared with battle they were and makes their survival in War all the more impressive.

[nick_QA]

"Who's to decide who's not a true scotsman" It's actually not that bad. Koba killed Rocket's son already, and in doing so made himself not an ape, so he's not protected by that law anymore.

[sharkbait]

“If I saw Koba I’d just remove my own face and offer it to him, I think?”

Absolutely relatable my guy, this was actually akin to my thought the first time I saw this scene

“If I was being stared down by Koba like that I’d probably give him my right arm to beat me with”

[ianprudencio]

When you say "another war-hungry, complicated anti-hero/villain, 'peace was never an option, '" I keep thinking about the goose. It was only when I looked up the quote, did I understand who you were referencing.

[Mathmachine]

I love how you can feel the genuine passion for these movies and all the interesting things they did, even with what are generally considered the bad ones. It comes from an actual place of love rather than just filling a quota for a gimmick.

[MariAnimates]

Clearly this series was not the one to rewatch for me post-pandemic, during active genocides. Everything about this movie hits *HARD* in ways I didn't know I had in me. I genuinely cried watching these movies. I haven't had a movie perfectly reflect the era of my life so well in a long time