The last movie you've seen thread 2016

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Saw "Interstellar" on Wednesday. I loved it except the ending, which was overall too convenient in my opinion. He should've just died in space and that be the end of it.

The ending made me think of it as sort of the original Star Trek film's deformed grandson.

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Watching Star Trek: Beyond. As laughable as the complaints from the self-proclaimed "alternative right" may or may not have been, the "message" of the film thus far is quite obvious. The Federation allows for mass immigration and for liberalism in the personal sphere. Amazing. Fantastic. More importantly, it represents a belief in consensus and shared interests. Krall and his motley crew, if nothing else, represent a belief in the necessity and importance of struggle. He also seems to embody a concept multiple illiberal movements--both the anti-globalization current of the present and the anti-colonial ones of the past--for years you have pushed against the frontier, now the frontier pushes back. Were I a Marxist, I would say that this film is also implicitly one of imperialism; the Federation is a liberalizing force that brings all peoples together under a spirit of tolerant, multi-cultural capitalism. Krall's goons are the a barbarian force defending their premodern way of life--such as it even is at this point.

Overall, the film is far too explicit in its value systems, to the point of being a poor propaganda piece. I would like to think I could have written a better film. Sadly, some epic chronicling the last gasp of the frontier would likely be 2.5 hours long. And for a name like "Beyond", this film is quite assuredly not nearly "scary" enough. I would have hoped dearly for more tense moments aboard a dying ship, well beyond where any man had gone before.

EDIT: Fantastic. Some bullsh#t origin story. Why need it be an embittered Star Fleet captain? A perpetually expanding, eternally modernizing internationalplanetary organization seems more than enough to inspire revenge from the developing worlds.