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@natecull My description of /Star Trek/ (2009) at the time was "extruded space-action-movie product".

Combining your points 2 and 3, /Forbidden Planet/ and TOS share the idea that the highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations are flawed in some social or psychological way that is meant as a warning about, or at least an exploration of, our own cultural problems. The Krell destroyed themselves because they did not appreciate the monsters of their own id, while the Talosians devastated their planet by war and then decayed into indolence in their fallout shelters.