Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

New thing today, watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014). We were excited about this one, since we absolutely loved the previous Apes movie. The previous one was surprisingly interesting, intriguing and exciting so we were curious to see what they would do with this one.

Sadly this movie was pretty terrible. I preferred Sharknado since at least it was free. We paid movie prices to see this and it was bad. It was too slow and overdramatic. It was a bit overbearing with the themes and overall just annoying. They needed to edit out a lot and speed things up - that would have helped a lot.

They also don't need to spell everything out. The apes sign, and we read all their sign talking. The magic of great movies is you can show dramatic moments without any words. I felt like the apes were better "actors" in the first movie because they showed so much without talking, but relying on non verbal communication. This movie takes so much of that away.

I also thought there was more variety of ape in the first movie. Here they seem to all be the same species where the first movie had various different gorillas, apes and other types it feels like.

Anyway this movie moves the whole Apes story along. They will probably make more sequels for this series. If that's the case we may just rent all future Apes movies. This one was NOT worth watching in a theater and puts a shadow on all future movies. It does make me want to rewatch the first movie though.

So anyway, we were not fans of this movie. I took my time going to the bathroom because I just didn't care about missing anything. This movie was incredibly disappointing! I would not recommend it for the theater and only maybe recommend for a DVD if you fast forward through parts. Even then. Eh...