War For The Planet Of The Apes: 10 Things That Must Happen

2. The Apes Win (But Something Else Is Lost)

As with the whole 'War' thing, the title pretty much gave this one away in 2011. So the apes take it all, wiping out the humans' last armed soldiers and driving who's left to the brink for good. It's hard to imagine the apes slaughtering every last human, but we (mankind) will need to disappear. Hiding underground, perhaps? Now, if Caesar does indeed die, then perhaps something could be lost with him: sympathy. Without his tempered outlook and familiar grasp of the human foreigners, the two sides could become alienated permanently. So maybe the apes get cynical and go on the offensive, taking no prisoners and ending the war. These are just brain loogies, of course; the movie really doesn't need to execute this one way over another. What it does need to do is a) live up to the title, and b) carry some moral weight even after humans are off the map. If it can do this and converge with other events as well, all the better.