They’ve installed AVG Pro.
Thus we know the ending now, the aliens will be defeated by their own defenses. 
I always thought the film should be ID5 (Hey makes as much sense as ID4) We Take the Fight to Them.
Well, heck! Quaid and his wife are currently living a couple towns over as we converse here.
Want me to pop down to the General Store and ask if he would rather have had his character resurrected? 
Truth be told, the Quaids do in fact seem to be settled in here and generally left at peace. Word has it that Randy is interested in joining the local volunteer fire department. They seem inclined to let him, so far as has been reported locally.
But only if he agrees to play Santa this Christmas for the town.
Not kidding - you can’t make this stuff up…
ETA: Regarding the OP, I’ll probably wait and watch at home. Enjoyed the first as fluffy, somewhat campy sci-fi fun. Own a copy.
Had no idea a new one was in the works…
I watched the first movie when I was pregnant with my son. I enjoyed it, and so did he, judging from the kicks. I’m definitely going to watch the new one, and if I can convince my son to be seen with me in public (teenagers, man), I’d love to watch it with him.
I’m fascinated by the original. It’s really a terrible cheesy ridiculous thing, yet I watch it every chance I get, which is pretty often as it’s on TV a lot. I don’t know why I do it, and I don’t do it for other bad movies. It must hit the perfect combination of guilty pleasure buttons.
That’ll be the 3rd of the trilogy. It will be gleefully genocidal!
I’m waiting on
ID10T - The Aliens Strike Back: Again: Requiem
Maybe it’s my monitor resolution but what was it that Jeff Goldblum saw in the first sequence of the trailer that causes him to OMG?
The link to the War of 1996 has a still from that
Apparently there are alien survivors in Africa, being hunted down and whacked by the locals.
Oh come on, smartphones came from alien technology being studied at Area 51.
:rolleyes:
Somebody NOT recycling an aluminum can.
Or worse: it was Mountain Dew.
The first one was one of the most insultingly stupid pieces of shit I’ve ever seen in my life. Same as every Emmerich-Deavlin crapfest (2012, Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla, Stargate etc.) If you’re over the age of 14 and you admit to liking it, well, let’s just say you’re satisfied with less, movies-wise. It was so bad a real filmmaker, Tim Burton, did an entire film just to make fun of it. Even nice-guy Spielberg mocked it in his War of the Worlds with Dakota Fanning’s line, “No, it’s nothing like the fourth of July…”
In keeping with that, why does Bill Pullman’s character now look like he’s in his 70s?! Because we’re supposed to believe he was in his 50s in the original, even though he looked ridiculously too young to be the President…
You do realize that Mars Attacks is based on a comic, came out the same year as Independence Day, and was in production well before ID4 came out, right?
Talk about a crapfest – Mars Attacks is even more of one than Independence Day.
Well yeah, talk about a crapfest… When I first saw Spielberg’s “War Of The Worlds”, I just couldn’t comprehend that this piece of crap was his work, such an unbelievably stupid stinker, butchering a classic story to boot. From Emmerich, I expect stupidity, but Independence Day is still kind of entertaining.
Btw., I kinda like Mars Attacks. It’s no masterpiece and not one of Burton’s best, but it has its charms.
It was a comedy, dude. “We are your friends!” ZAP!
No, Mars Attacks was based on a series of bubble gum cards. My brother and I had the whole set, and there is a book on them with all reproduced.
The cards end with humans attacking Mars.