Day: July 24, 2016

‘Star Trek Beyond’ is the sci-fi action movie we needed this year

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hellotailor:

With Justin Lin at the helm, Star Trek Beyond finds the sweet spot between the excitement of the 2009 Star Trek reboot, the charm of the 1960s TV series, and the friendship-and-explosions formula of Lin’s work on the Fast and Furious movies.

Justin Lin was an unexpected choice for Star Trek, and some fans were a little nonplussed by the action-packed trailers featuring Kirk leaping over rock formations on a motorcycle. Where was the philosophical message, the smart political subtext that made Star Trek stand out from other sci-fi franchises? But this judgement forgets the other tenet of Lin’s work on Fast & Furious: the constant emphasis on family and friendship.

This comes across as the film’s prevailing theme, right down to the small but important detail of Sulu (John Cho, electrifyingly cool as ever) being given a husband and child: the first canonically gay character in Star Trek, or in any other Hollywood franchise if this type.

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‘Star Trek Beyond’ is the sci-fi action movie we needed this year

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raltvater:

justinhubbell:

PLEASE RE-BLOG

I don’t normally say that? but everyone is talking (shaming people) about how the Congressional elections are SO IMPORTANT – but nobody is educating folks on how to go about it.

HERE IS HOW

Hey kids, don’t forget – it’s not just a presidential election! Keep hitting the polls!!!

AND DO NOT FORGET, MINDS CAN CHANGE OVER TIME. If every vote for the last 15 years was progressive, but in 1994 you find out that your candidate voted against a minimum-wage increase, consider all the evidence. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Have they voted for increases since then? Spoken about income inequality? Politicians are also people (well–most of them, I still think Malevolent Tangerine is a scientific experiment gone horribly wronger), and they can learn and grow too.