@socketwench - So the writer of the Second-Through-Fourth Movies (I think that's Paul Dehn) had an entire timeline in his head about how the Apes world came around to the first movie.

The story behind Conquest is amazing. But the execution really comes across as reading a Wikipedia Article about the Apes Rebellion. It feels very tell-don't-show...like the writer is explaining the plot to us in a board meeting versus writing a movie.