I personally liked Independence Day, I think the reason I liked it is that it’s really homage to prior Sci-Fi flicks rather than a stand-alone film. Think about it, there’s nothing you haven’t seen before.
The huge city size ships are right out of “V”
The alien fighters are nearly identical to the ships in the original War of the Worlds.
The aliens in Bio Suits resemble Predator, out side a vague resemblance to ET
The helicopter scene in Washington was right out of Close Encounters
The scene where Smith and Goldbloom take of for the mother ship is reminiscent of the Viper launches in the original Battlestar Galactica
Even Brent Spiner’s character was a tip of the hat to Star Trek. Data = Alien Android Nerd studying Humans; Dr Okum = Nerdy Human studying Aliens.
Earth saved by virus as mentioned also from WotW
There are more but you get the idea. . That’s my take on it anyway, though I could swear I heard exactly that when it was originally released.
I made my husband watch it because I wanted him to suffer like I had suffered.
I wouldn’t call it the worst movie ever, but from someone who will watch almost anything simply because it’s sci-fi, I give it two thumbs way down. It’s not even sci-fi - it’s a pure action film that has 0.05% sci-fi in it. This is my constant gripe with Hollywood - using phasers instead of guns doesn’t make a movie sci-fi, dammit.
And they almost always have a Japanese guy looking in the camera and making a quick and decisive military pronouncement. The President’s speech was well done. But after the speech… GOOD GRIEF! they showed this uniformed pilot give the most ridiculously over-the-top salute I have ever seen.
You guys keep talking about how great the speech was - um, no. It wasn’t. It was sad. And not sad in the good way. Sad in the “Holy crap, I can’t believe they’re trying to pass this chichéd schlock off as dramatic” way. I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or roll my eyes at how over-the-top it was.
It is said that NASCAR is so popular because it makes lots of noise and consumes lots of resources, which Americans love to do. So those would be high priorities on any American plan.
Good morning. In less than one hour movie studios from here and Dollywood will be reminded of the largest pile of crap in the history of mankind. Crap. The word has new meaning for all of us now. We are reminded not of our petty box office takes but of Godzilla, The Patriot and the Day After Tomorrow. Perhaps it’s fate that today, August 30th, we will once again be reminded of just how shitty Roland Emmerich’s films really are. They will not vanish without a fight. They will live on. We will survive.
The more interesting question is, what do they want with us? What could WE possibly have in the way of natural resources that they can’t get from a hundred thousand worlds? It sure isn’t high tech.
I’ve thought it throuh for stories on my own, and the only reason an FTL civilization would attack us would be that they are psychotic by our standards and do it just because that’s what and who they are. We literally aren’t worth the bullets it would take to kill us, to someone that advanced.
