and was thinking about how Dawn... Apes and Age of Extinction are polar opposites. one is an experiment in how unlikable can we make every single character the other is how sympathetic, sufficiently motivated, or at least understandable can we make everyone. one is how much action can we shove into this thing to distract people from the story and characters. the other is how sparingly can we use action so the audience is not distracted from the character-driven dramatic story. one disrespects its audience by telling an incoherent mess of a story and tries to trick them into thinking its about something the other expects its audience to be able to follow the psychology of the characters and understand the nuances of human interaction with a foreign species used as an analogue to our own one has cgi monkeys the other has cgi robots and the list goes on to one thousand but you get the point
As I'm reading this, using my brain, I find that the conclusion I come to is its impossible to tell which movie you hate and which you love.
