No 8 - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The first of two films on the list that I specifically didn't watch trailers or TV spots of. To start, I'm not entirely sure I like this better than the previous installment however seeing as 'Rise' was my film of 2011, that doesn't mean this is by any means a bad film. It's a good one. This is a smart blockbuster, one that has beaten other films such as Interstellar, Amazing Spiderman 2 and Gone Girl at the box office. All this from a franchise that seemed dead from Marky Mark and the 2001 attempt. So back to this film and the apes have reached the forest and have built up a strong tribe with clear rules. Meanwhile the world as we know it has been mostly wiped out by an synthetic disease and only small pockets of civilisation remain. Trust is a strong issue in the movie. Both camps require help from the other to survive. The acting is strongest from the motion capture apes notably Serkis (Caesar) and Kebbell (Koba). A few years ago, there was a decent campaign to get Serkis an Oscar nomination for his role in 'LOTR' but if justice existed, he should get it for this. He won't, but he should. The emotion that exists within complicated computer coding is miles ahead of whatever face feelings Russell Crowe or Hilary Swank could ever muster. The ending doesn't set up a third film as much as the first did but it's commericial and critical success won't make it a hard decision.
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