Planet of the Apes: The Most Underrated Trilogy of All Time

I’ll never forget that “NO” in cinema, could hear a pin drop

I love how this is basically the ape version of the story of Moses. Caesar was born a slave but raised in the king's palace, frees his people... Even in the third movie, the avalanche wipes out the remaining humans (red sea wiping out the army), and finally Caesar leads his people through the desert to their Canaan and dies within sight of the promised land. Its insane how thought out it all is

I have always adored the Caesar trilogy. Easily my favorite trilogy. And Caesar is easily one of the best character of the last few decades.

The first movie is good but the other two are masterpieces, and I think a lot of people miss the best part by dropping it after the first one

You're right on the money here. While the world is glazing over Marvel movies, this gem of a trilogy just got looked over

i just wanna give props to the guys who thought up how quickly the disease would travel across the world with that animation at the end of the first movie. cause it took covid about 2 months to lockdown most of the planet IRL so.... yeah...

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The third movie was brilliant. The humans are doing terrible things but it ends up being sort of like a dying animal kicking and screaming. The element of the virus taking speech is tragic, and Caesar himself is empathic to that. He never wanted humans to die off just to leave him alone. I would even argue Caesar, being the first smart ape and raised by James Franco, would have the most sympathy towards humanity out of the ape society. He basically fought the ape civil war on humanity’s side in the second one

24:49 I got some very sad news about that: in a deleted scene, the Colonel is talking to Caesar and how he met Malcolm and what happened was that Malcolm was really trying to convince the Colonel that the apes weren’t bad. What happened next was that the Colonel then tells Caesar that he killed Malcolm by shooting him. So this man not only took away Caesar’s wife and eldest son, he took away his good friend too. So that’s why Malcolm isn’t there!😭😭

That last scene in the first movie between Will and Caesar always gets me. And that last line of "Caesar is home" always gets a few tears out of me. Such a good trilogy.

11:29 I would say Rocket is more like Daryl than Maurice. I would say Maurice is more like Hershel, as he is mainly the one who seeks reason.

What's amazing is how well they did with this masterpiece of a saga despite the lack of a major fan base. This was never a Star Wars, MCU or Lord of The Rings. Heck, Avatar now has a greater fanbase. The filmmakers involved with these Planet of The Apes movies never compromised. They were given absolute control and they absolutely delivered. I'm still trying to get my head around all of the technical achievements and the incredible, dynamic, engaging and emotional story of Caesar. I cried like a baby when our hero died and he's an ape. And he barely speaks.

"APES DO NOT WANT WAR!!! "

Hands down one of my favorite modern trilogies that get better after every entry

Do NOT sleep on these films. Best trilogy in recent memory.

Caesar: Do not worry, Maurice. You are home now. Apes are strong... With or without me. Maurice: Son will know who was father... And what Caesar did for us.

I was a kid when this trilogy started. The first one left me in awe and the third one left me crying for almost an hour. Easily my favourite trilogy

So I'm a mason (in small-town Canada, no less, so you know I'm ready for the fuckin' apocalypse) and I can accurately assess that it takes roughly only 8-10 years for plant life (especially trees, even their roots are fucking strong) to break through concrete. All they need is a few multiple winters of Earthquakes or storms battering and weakening the structure making cracks and then rainwater getting in and winter freezing it all over before the next thaw makes it all worse. Now repeat cycle for X amount of years. A whole skyscraper's foundation can collapse from that in less than 5 years and it all gives way for moss and such. All that to say: 10 years? When I watch the movie I think "unlikely but definitely not implausible" for it to look how it does. At the very least, there'd definitely be plants in the floors and bottom walls of houses and buildings and shit growing through cracks in roads (I don't think they'd almost already look like little forests like they do in the film unless shit was already planted there but I've never been to San Francisco). I'd also like to point out that the apes say in the film that they haven't seen Humans in 10 winters. That doesn't mean the apocalypse began 10 winters ago, for all we know it could be 12-15 years later. Much more reasonable for what's shown. The Last Of Us after 20 years I think is fairly accurate. Especially when you consider they also say in both continuities that they bombed the fuck out of the major cities during The Outbreak. They probably accelerated the reclamation by nature thanks to that. The most glaring one is a Will Smith film called I Am Legend. The bulk of the film is set less than four years after the initial apocalypse and yet New York City looks like a fucking forest in Times Square and most of its streets. Yeah, I don't think so unless you've got some wicked fucking limestone.

It would be very interesting if the new villain, Proximus Caesar, took Caesar's name as his family name to claim his throne. IIRC we see the same window symbol Caesar had in his house as the new symbol for his kingdom. Would be kind of cool how Caesar's name and legacy is twisted to give this new ape authority and power.

The “Rick Grimes of Apes” had me rolling 😂