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This is going to be difficult to pick apart, as it's a really solid and entertaining film. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Star Trek Beyond is the best live action Macross film I've ever seen. Seriously, they are incredibly similar: The protagonists are drawn into a fight with creatures that are somehow connected to humanity. Said creatures are focused entirely on conflict. Thus the film focuses about the question of whether peace or violence is better for the progress of the species. Of course, it is optimistic, saying that while violence is inevitable, peace is better and should be striven towards. Music is used as a weapon. People die, and it is genuinely touching. It is quite obvious that Simon Pegg wrote it, with a greater than usual emphasis on Scotty, and a joke which seems very reminiscent of Dr Who (when The Beatles were referred to as classical musicians) The film is not perfect, but I find it very difficult to think of any particula...

Before release When the new Ghostbusters film was announced, I saw the announcement surrounded with rhetoric that the all-female cast was to counter the "imbalance" or the first films. In my opinion, pushing equally hard in the opposite direction is not a way to be progressive. "Two wrongs don't make a right" as the adage says. Eventually the trailers came out, and they made the film look atrocious. They mention that "30 years ago New York was saved by 4 friends", pitching this film as a sequel. They featured a few jokes, most of which seemed incredibly unfunny. "How hilarious! She's implying that the ectoplasm went into her vagina! And she's a woman! A woman being crude is funny, right?!" You know, gross out humour that isn't funny in the first place, let alone when relying on the gender of the person for shock value (which would of course only actually shock people who haven't ever talked to a woman in their entire li...