Films like Macross: Do You Remember Love?.

Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) reads as Neutral, breathless, measured mecha / science fiction, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Highlander (1986) poster
1. Highlander1986

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Message from Space (1978) poster
2. Message from Space1978

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) poster
3. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan1982

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Crusher Joe (1983) poster
4. Crusher Joe1983

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983) poster
5. Legend of the Eight Samurai1983

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Arion (1986) poster
6. Arion1986

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Lensman (1984) poster
7. Lensman1984

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Toward the Terra (1980) poster
8. Toward the Terra1980

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) poster
9. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) poster
10. Atlantis: The Lost Empire2001

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981) poster
11. Adieu Galaxy Express 9991981

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Phoenix 2772 (1980) poster
12. Phoenix 27721980

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Macross: Do You Remember Love?’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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