I watched it all bass-ackwards. I didn’t realize it was on till halfway through part 1, where I jumped in.
I don’t know enough about nuclear physics for a lot of the details to bug me. I guess I was more interested in how the roles had been shifted around. E.g. in the 1970s version one of the women was the epileptic. Here it was the Asian guy. Of course if I had seen it from the beginning I might have picked that up first time around.
At the end though I wondered why the reactor would be open like that. Wouldn’t it be shielded by lead? And, when Ricky Schroeder ended up in it, wouldn’t his fingerprint have been too deformed to work at the end? I mean, the guy who went in after him died pretty quickly, was turning red, etc. And catching the severed thumb when it was thrown…
Still I enjoyed it. Will have to watch from the gitgo to the end and see if I still like it.
I need to stop reading this thread - the more I read here, the more my brain whimpers and begs for the sweet release of never thinking about this movie again.
This is one of my pettest of peeves - sci fi movies with massive plot holes and bad science. Movie and television making people - know your audience! Sci fi geeks KNOW things like formulas for calculating radiation dosing! And then they go to the internet and discuss it with other geeks in case a plot hole got past them! Gosh!
In this version, what was the point of the epilepsy? That it incapacitated the guy for a while? In the book and the first movie, the secret epileptic had a petit mal seizure while scanning the samples and thus missed an important fact. In this one, so what?
Also in the book and first movie, there were automatic dart guns in the maintenance tunnel to shoot any escaped test animals, and that was what caused the injury and death of the people trying to reach the next level. This one was NOT an improvement.
Finally, every time I saw the President and First Lady and First Daughter, I thought, “Oh, no! Not Independence Day again!” At least he didn’t call the kid “Pumpkin,” or “Cupcake,” or whatever it was. And why in the name of anything were the wife & kid tagging along anyway?
This part hardly seems unbelievable to me. He was a decorated fighter pilot, albeit one who hadn’t been in a jet for some time, fighting against enemies flying markedly inferior ships (once you take away the sheilds, the alien attack ships lose their big advantage and on top of that, carry no missiles vs. the human pilots with ranged homing weapons)
Rhythmdvl’s Corollary to Godwin’s Law:
The longer a thread focuses on a movie’s stupidity, the chances of someone mentioning Independence Day grow to one.
Watched it last night, Terrible. Since they lifted a lot of lines from the original I was hoping for the password exchange to get into to Wildfire.
Howdy
Howdy Doody
You got the Time?
My watch stopped at 11:46
Darn Shame
Must be the Heat.
We watched it last night.
The original was much better.
Other than the nagging plot points debated above, has anyone thought about:
a) This is a time travel movie - the original Andromeda strain came from the future, but had to be hidden in the past, so that it could be rediscovered in the future, in order to be sent to the past…
b) It’s a re-hashing of Star Trek 4 (You know, save the whales, I mean bacteria).
c) How did they decontaminate the Wildfire lab?
d) etc, etc.