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Galaxies to Get Lost In

Watch these when you want to disappear into an entire built world — hostile planets, star empires, colonial expeditions gone wrong — at full blockbuster scale.

All mainstream spectacle and easy to enter; Prometheus turns genuinely nasty and Mickey 17 is stranger and more satirical than the franchise entries, but none of it is heavy lifting.

• Dune (2021)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
• Star Trek (2009)
• Prometheus (2012)
• Mickey 17 (2025)
• Starship Troopers (1997) — The overlooked one that rhymes with Mickey 17's satire and Prometheus's nasty streak — a full-scale star-empire war on a hostile bug planet that plays as straight blockbuster spectacle while quietly skewering the militarism it's selling, so pull it down if those two landed.