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The rise, dawn and war trilogy is really one of the best modern trilogies out there. Caesar is in my opinion, one of the best movie characters of the past 25 years 💯

You really just had to be there in the movie theater to hear everyone’s reaction when Caesar screamed NOOO!! I remember everyone gasped

Caesar is the best movie character of the 2010s.

Funny enough, the ending to the remake is closer to the actual book’s ending

My favorite Bad Ape line - “oh no! Why so small?”

I’d watch War over Rise any. day. of. the. week. The score, the cinematography, the acting! Just incredible

I liked Kingdom more than Rise but Dawn and War are just untouchable

The ones I’ve seen 1. Dawn: 10/10 2. War: 9/10 3. Original: 9/10 4. Rise: 9/10 5. Conquest: 8/10 6. Escape: 8/10 7. Remake: 3/10 8. Battle: 2/10 9. Beneath: 1/10 I will see Kingdom soon

Back to the old background! Hell yeah!💪

Dawn was one of the best theatre experiences I ever had. The movie seemed so predictable but turned out to be unpredictable. When Gary Oldman said I'm saving the human race I got literal chills down my body because you know he isn't. Brilliant storytelling.

Now that I have seen Kingdom: 10.Battle 9.2001 8.Conquest 7.Beneath 6.1968 5.Escape 4.Rise 3.Kingdom 2.Dawn 1.War

You forgot the best and bad ass line in all of the movies. Ceasar weak, Koba weaker 😂 I was like 😮 damn

Pretty solid ranking. I'll give mine in tier format: S: Planet (68), Dawn, War A: Escape, Rise, Kingdom B: Beneath, Conquest, Battle C: Planet (01)

Here's mine: 1. Planet of the Apes (1968) - a compelling story with some incisive social commentary. And the twist is not only a good shock, but a great character moment for Taylor as well. 2. War - emotionally devastating, engrossing conclusion to the trilogy. 3. Dawn - just a plain great movie 4. Conquest - I have a lot of love for the original series, and this one in particular is a lot of fun. Seek out the blu-ray, which reinstates the cut violence and the original, darker ending. 5. Kingdom - really enjoyed this one, I just wish we got a little more time with Proximus and Raka. It could go up a slot on rewatch. 6. Escape - I too love the light-hearted nature of this one, and the bleak as fuck tone shift that occurs in the second half. That ending was legitimately shocking when I was a kid. 7. Rise - it's a damn good film, but there are a few sizeable logic issues with it that bring it down for me, like the entire lab somehow missing that one of their chimps was pregnant and gave birth in its cell. Also Brian Cox is completely wasted. 8. Beneath - I really like the new stuff this one adds, and the ending is an all time "holy shit" moment for me. But they really should have come up with a more graceful way of dealing with Heston's disinterest in doing a sequel. 9. Battle - on paper this one has a lot going for it, but the execution is pretty lackluster. 10. Planet of the Apes (2001) - just kind of a lame, generic blockbuster with good makeup effects.

Gentlemen one thing that is criminally underappreciated is the connection between Battle for Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes. There is a deleted scene at the end of Battle where we see the underground mutants have been hiding a nuclear bomb all along and the mutant 2nd command, Martinez, says they will reserve and worship the bomb for generations. One top of that the leader of the cult in Beneath is also named Martinez so you can even see the canon in the names of the characters. I'm guessing he's Martinez the 20th or something lol. Eventually being around the bomb is what causes the mutants to grow telepathic powers and create illusions. The creepiest thing of all at the end of Battle when the kids and the apes are playing together you can see a subtle but dreadful tear of blood dripping down the statute of the Law Giver, which is a call back to the tricks the future mutants played in Beneath. The mutants are already beginning to impose their will before the final credits... It was like a faint but profound omen that even though in the moment the ape and human children are at peace the time line is inevitable that man and ape are destined to clash and causality determines the world is to burn. If they had included that scene in Battle to me it would have gone from 6 to like 8 lol Awesome Revenge of the Sith kind of Lore!

watched Dawn last night because of you Cody, it was amazing!🙌🏽💯💪🏽knew it was gonna be fire from the start

The response to Beneath has always been interesting to me. Personally, I love it, and I rank it very high on my list. At the same time, I completely understand why so many people despise it.

Always love ya work Cody keep the vids coming ❤

I really appreciate your channel. I have found so many great movies to watch based on your suggestions. I am excited to see Abigail based on your glowing reviews.

Could you do a full review of Rise and Dawn so we get your full views on those movies?

You killed me with the clip from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. 😂

Nothing tops the original, in my mind. Still one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.

Every time a Cody video drops I smile

i just watched your old one yesterday that’s crazy lol

I watched Rise for the first time last night, and watched Dawn today. I absolutely loved them both. What have I been missing out on!? I plan on watching War tonight.

10. Beneath the Planet of the Apes 9. Escape from the Planet of the Apes 8. Battle of the Planet of the Apes 7. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 6. Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes 5. Charlton Heston’s Planet of the Apes Extreme Leap in Quality 4. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Another Extreme Leap in Quality 3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2. War for the Planet of the Apes 1. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

I just rewatched Dawn a few days ago. And after hearing you talk about it, I decided it's already time to rewatch it again

I LOVE the oners in Dawn. Thrilling set pieces and cinematography

Saw the new one tonight. Loved it. Big fan of the recent trilogy. I've only seen the recent four so here my ranking 1. Dawn 2. Rise 3. War 4. Kingdom

This is a great video! I have spent the last 5 weeks reviewing all the apes films. Just got to do war and a ranking, lol!! Won't argue your ranking. Some of my placements are a little different. I actually like Conquest more than the original, lol!

Damn. I think Beneath The Planet Of The Apes is pretty damn great 🐒

@Cody As always some made me scream in excitement and some make me shake my fist at the sky lol but that is the fun of these :). Thank you for all the ranking madness and the explanations of why they land or dont land for you. Hope wife has a lovely Mothers Day

Your video gets a thumbs up for the jay and silent bob clip😄

Matt Reeves is genuinely a favorite director of mine because of Dawn and War AND THEN he makes The Batman and just 🫨🙌

I just recently finally watched the new trilogy…Koba’s storyline in Dawn is one of the most brutal and gut wrenching arcs I’ve ever seen. An incredible movie full of complex characters, my fav too. I think Kingdom did a great job with complexity in the characters as well, where it’s not easy for you to get behind certain characters choices but completely understand why they make them. Great filmmaking

I gotta say that Tank scene from DAWN where the POV is a first person shooter type of camera work was my favorite scene that was badass

Thank you for this inspration to watch the movies! I will - for the first time at the new ones (2011~ 2024)

1. War for the Planet of the Apes. 2. Dawn 3. Rise 4. Kingdom 5. Original

After watching this video of yours I decided to finally watch all of the Planet of the Apes movies! They’re on Hulu right now and I’m excited to watch them! I always trust and respect your opinions so hearing your praise on these movies, and remembering my parents watching them when I was in high school made me FINALLY try them out! Thank you Cody, you always recommend the best stuff 😊

I rank them as follows... 1.) Dawn 2.) War 3a.) Rise 3b.) Kingdom 4.) Original 5-9.) Beneath/Escape/Conquest/Battle (I just never really liked any of them at all) 10.) 2001 I really liked Kingdom even though it was slow at times, but I absolutely LOVE the idea of Caesar's teachings being bent for someone's personal ideology. It's the sort of thing that we see going on in the present day on a near constant basis. Apes and humans aren't so different after all. It was hard to pick Rise over Kingdom or vice versa so I pretty much have them the same. The only *slight* bump to Rise is that there's a bit more emotion in that movie. War was really damn good as well, but I honestly don't think anyone can put anything other than Dawn up there. Maybe I can understand purists putting the original. I get it. But my goodness Dawn is just one of those incredible movies that comes around every so often. Oh, and of course I put the Tim Burton one last because that movie was absolute garbage and I remember seeing it in theaters and I just couldn't stand it. That Helena Bonham Carter ape just weirded me the hell out. Terrible movie.

Totally agree with you about Dawn. Truely one of the best movies ever made and its not even close.

My own personal list: 9. Beneath 8. Battle For 7. 2001 remake 6. Conquest Of 5. Rise Of 4. Escape From 3. War For 2. Dawn Of 1. 1968 Original I haven't yet seen Kingdom but from what I've read and heard my guess is that it will land somewhere among the top 4. It's also worth noting that I love or at least very much like every Apes movie that exists, with the exception of Beneath. That's the only one that I find largely dull and / or skippable.

Haven’t seen Kingdom yet 9. Battle 8. Conquest 7. Escape 6. Beneath 5. Burton 2001 4. Rise 3. Planet 68 2. War 1. Dawn

Great list sir

I LOVE UR CHANNEL❤️

Definitely agree about Toby Kebbell! He's such a great performer but he's really sort of consistently overlooked.

2:17 - Brent never "lost" his ability to speak

I believe that in the Burton version, Wahlberg went through a 2ND time warp at the end, what you may not know was that in the original novel it ended in the modern day, ironically, I thought that the ending was BETTER than the rest of the film, it was also a hint about the beginning of the Apes taking over as Thade was a liberator of enslaved Apes, in some parallel World.

Hi Cody I love that Halloween II Rob Zombie tee shirt that your wearing it looks awesome.

Love the whole series. I grew up with it and still have the Mego ape figures. Curious what you and your dad thought of the short lived TV series from 74

Cody, Still patiently waiting for the Rudderless review.

Perfect list 👌

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes does a great job at telling it's own story but it captures similar imagery from the 1968 film that makes it really feel like it's becoming the world that Charlton Heston crashed on.

The Tim Burton ending was very much in line with the novel. In fact the author Pierre Boulle hated the ending of the first movie.

1. Dawn 10/10 2. War 10/10 3. Rise 10/10 4. Original 9/10 5. Kingdom strong 8/10 6. Escape 8/10 7. Conquest 7/10 8. Battle 5/10 9. Beneath 4/10 I haven't seen the Burton one since I was a kid and don't remember it very well

im watching the planet of the apes movies right now for the first time im 1 hour into rise and you upload this😂

I haven’t seen Kimgdom yet but other than that I agree with just about everything you said in this video.👍

1. Dawn 2. War 3. Rise 4. Kingdom 5. Original 6. Escape 7. Conquest 8. Battle 9. Remake 10. Beneath

Dawn has an ape on horseback with a machine gun. That alone makes it better than 99% of summer blockbusters.

great video dude! About the ending of the burton remake i think that it is a call back to the original book, i've never read it but for what i've heard it's closer to the book than the first movie. Still the og movie did it better

Would you ever review all the films individually? Id love your indepth positives, mixed and negatives on these.

6:19 the only problem with this is for me is. Battle of the planet of the apes, the gorilla to me seems like 100% Drax from Gardians of the Galaxy. They needed to give us the origin of The Lawmaker

Rise dawn and war are personally my favorite trilogy of the planet of apes franchise in my opinion.

Just watched your review of the ranking 5 years ago lastt night

Couldn't agree with you more on this list - except for only one switcheroo in the listing of these films - for me personally, I would put WAR second on the list, with RISE at third, and of course, just like you said, DAWN definitely being number one - 100%! I think it is a true masterpiece and I would actually say that I always compare DAWN to EMPIRE STRIKES BACK as they were both astounding films that were set as sequels in massively amazing sci-fi trilogies. Another terrific video, Cody!

I think the ending to Tim Burton's is it supposed to play homage to the original book. In the original book the society of apes was a modern society with motorized vehicles and technology.

Dawn is one of my all-time favorites as well!

Personally, War's darkness is why I think it's the best one. Dawn is obviously a great blockbuster, but at the end of the day, it still feels like a blockbuster. The finale is our hero ape facing down evil villain ape on top of an exploding building. War, meanwhile, felt so mature for a blockbuster. The finale of that movie is a bit more tragic and touching in my opinion. But at the same time, Dawn is the more digestible film, plus War had misleading and terrible marketing.

Only thing i like about beneath the planet of the apes is the ending , love that ending

I had to watch both dawn and war of the planets of the apes and I agree Dawn was really good I couldn’t stop looking at the emotions of the humans including gary oldman love that actor

Only saw the reboots so I'll rank those 1. War of the planet of the apes 2. Dawn of the planet of the apes 3. Kingdom of the planet of the apes 4. Rise of the planet of the apes

Man I guess I’m alone on this- but I LOVE ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes’. The ending is soooo dark

you should do a video about what you would like to see in a horror movie would love to hear your thoughts

After seeing Kingdom, Nintendo pulled a blinder by getting Wes Ball to do the Legend of Zelda movie!

You lost me with the negative review of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, this movie was a classic pivotal king pin in the whole line of Ape Movies...

I recently went back through the latest trilogy with my dad, we planned to watch one each night but ended up having a double bill with the first two then revisited War a few nights later. Save for The Lord of the Rings it's easily my favourite film trilogy just for how consistent it is. Plenty of other trilogies to me drop the ball usually for me in the third instalment but what they did with managing to build their own story whilst paying tribute to what came before without using it as a crutch was just amazing, it's the gold standard for reboots of beloved film franchises.

I ❤ planet of the apes! Even the bad ones have a certain charm to them you don’t see often. The world building and themes have always been so fascinating to me

I plan on watching the sequels from the 70s since they are on Hulu. But I’ve seen the original, the remake and the newest films from the last decade along side Kingdom. Here’s how I’d rank them 1. Dawn 5 out of 5 2. War 4.5 out of 5 3. Kingdom 4.5 out of 5 4. Rise 4 out of 5 5. Planet of the Apes (1968) 4 out of 5 6. Planet of the Apes (2001) 3 out of 5 The Tim Burton film is pretty empty, however he and his team swung for the fences to do their own thing….and it’s a big miss. But for me it’s a fun miss that I respect. I think once I watch the films from the 70s I’ll feel differently, but so far my nostalgia bias has me enjoying that remake despite it being at the bottom of my list of the 6. Also the remake has General Thade played by Tim Roth whose makeup is terrifying and convincing. His performance is the strongest of all the apes and he seems to cherish what he’s doing. He’s an underrated villain in my mind.

The pictures of Gary Oldmans family in Dawn are his actual family.

Yes Bro.. I love 1 to 3 ranked ones....

This is one of my favorite franchises, for me i would say. 68 Escape Conquest Rise War Dawn Kingdom Beneath Battle 2001

We for sure need your a list of your best favorite movies of all time.

I love the old school cheese of the original 5 movies.

In POA 2001 I always felt that dropping a plot point into the first act about how that portal can combine life forms, DNA or something else that resulted in when Mark Whalberg went thru the portal at the end of the film and he now looks like an ape might have been a better ending than what they did. It still would not have been that good but better than what they did.

The original is yet to be beaten. Excited to see kingdom

You should play planet of the apes last frontier if you like the reboot. It take place between dawn and war it play like a movie but with choice

Villians- #1 Tobey Kebbell as Koba #2 David Hewlett as asshole neighbor #3 Malfoy 😂😂😂

I see you fellow H2 advocate 🤘🏼

I came to work after watching Kingdom and was surprised the amount of people who haven’t watched the modern series

We learn to accept challenges. At this point. What will he love. That is what makes it entertaining. No doubt.

Not only is DAWN the best, but it also has one of the most badass teaser trailers of all time (I still go back and watch it here n there)

Rise, dawn and war trilogy is so good😍🍿

Love the originals and the tv series. But the last 3 new ones are far superior

Hey, Cody. How does your Pop feel about Dawn?

I'm just gonna say that Koba to me is the epitome of a "yo, he's lowkey right" villain, and straight up the best villain of my time.

Do you think the new prequel series will tie in all the original movies into them or just the original ? Like do you think the prequels will slowly start introducing mutants, time travel ect or just stick with the original and forget the rest ?

Agreed with just about everything, except the placing of Beneath. I love that movie for some fucking reason lol

Love the Franchise… old and new!

That's funny....I love Beneath. The absolute worst is Battle.