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 Independence Day: Resurgence About the movie: Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction alternate history disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Nicholas Wright, James A. Woods and James Vanderbilt. It is the sequel to the 1996 film Independence Day and stars Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Jessie Usher, Maika Monroe, Sela Ward and William Fichtner Releases: June 24 The movie was kinda meh and I saw no one made a post for it yet, lets talk about this new movie. There was a part near the start of the movie and they kept just introducing characters non stop for 30 minutes, in the back of mind I could hear rifftrax going, " yea, lets see them try to keep up with all this". There was another time around the middle of the movie I was like this movie could work. By the end with some cool x com/warhammer 40k large armored enemy lord weapon the movie kinda just fell flat and rehashed and then they went and bumped in the "yea lets take the fight to them, but in a sequel ya!". The movie poster and trailers try to really up the yea they are totally trained up for the aliens and they make all the worst choices ever. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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What is the explanation for there being more aliens? Do they do anything interesting with the aliens (either the captured ones or whatever)?
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Jun 24, 2016 08:27
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zVxTeflon posted:What is the explanation for there being more aliens? Do they do anything interesting with the aliens (either the captured ones or whatever)? Distress signal happened. They have the aliens on the ground with guns cleansing human scum.
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Jun 24, 2016 08:30
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zVxTeflon posted:What is the explanation for there being more aliens? Do they do anything interesting with the aliens (either the captured ones or whatever)? I imagine the entire race was not wiped out in one ship when it blew up in the first movie.
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Jun 24, 2016 08:40
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Wandle Cax posted:I imagine the entire race was not wiped out in one ship when it blew up in the first movie. are you calling President Whitmore a liar?
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Jun 24, 2016 09:56
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This movie was hilarious and stupid but fun. Like in a weird subversive way at times. It started making fun of dumb poo poo the original did which I loved. This movie also hates most of its original main casts and kills off a few in the silliest most ineffective ways. No one cares! I was pretty bored through most of it but the latter half was some fun silly poo poo. I liked it a lot but it was not a good movie. I give it 5 My David's!!!!!
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Jun 24, 2016 10:19
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I'll copy my review from the "Rate the Latest Movie You've Seen" thread: I love the original, it's a campy classic, but this..... ugghhhh. It's so loving bad. The third act in particular is shockingly awful, and the ending is one of the worst quick-tie-ups I've ever seen in a film. The special effects are really inconsistent. There are some really cheap looking shots, especially right near the end. It's almost like they ran out of budget in chronological order of the film's scenes. Interestingly, there's a gay subplot involving one of the secondary characters that would have been quite sweet if it was actually developed, but it's thrown at you out of nowhere for about 6 seconds in the final 15 minutes of the film. Spoiler for who it is, not that it matters, because it's such a throwaway plot: Don't loving see this trash.
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Jun 24, 2016 11:31
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zVxTeflon posted:What is the explanation for there being more aliens? Do they do anything interesting with the aliens (either the captured ones or whatever)? One of the few interesting parts is that in 1996 one of the ships actually landed, in like Uganda or something, and there has been a ground war going on with aliens from the ship for decades, but of course they don't show any of this, just some alien skulls on poles outside a warlord's camp. Probably going to be a tie-in novel about that poo poo at some point. Oh and there's a pretty good mystery in the first half about a bunch of characters having a vision of this circle with a line through it, but the answer to the mystery turns out to be dumb as a motherfuck
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Jun 24, 2016 11:34
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Thanks for the review, looking forward to seeing it.
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Jun 24, 2016 11:52
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Hedrigall posted:
That wasn't really out of nowhere, it was heavily implied the moment he woke from his coma on. I feel like I'm imagining this, but was there a scene where Jeff Goldblum was on the spaceship when it went hyperdrive or whatever, and he let out this ridiculous scream? Like, Emmerich wanted a standard this-thing-is-going-too-fast-for-me scream or something and he just does that, then he and the guy next to him share an awkward look? I'm not sure if it was supposed to be an intentional joke or Goldblum phoning in a stupid moment.
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Jun 24, 2016 12:52
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In some of the promotional videos they mentioned they reverse engineered the city destroying weapons and made The tie in novels for the original covered some little details; in a novel sequel they mention the ground war that happened after the city destroyers landed.
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Jun 24, 2016 13:30
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Does Goldblum say "must go faster"? I feel he needs to say it, its been many years since he said "must go faster" in a movie.
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Jun 24, 2016 14:05
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Basebf555 posted:Does Goldblum say "must go faster"? No he doesn't!  There's a perfect opportunity involving a school bus and he just doesn't loving say it!!
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Jun 24, 2016 14:11
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Hedrigall posted:No he doesn't! In that case they will not be getting my money thank you very much.
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Jun 24, 2016 14:23
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Hedrigall posted:No he doesn't! Heh, apparently he didn't even say it in Independence Day! They just copied the clip from Jurassic Park and Spielberg was "miffed". According to this article anyway. https://professionalmoron.com/2015/06/27/jeff-goldblum-must-go-faster-jurassic-park/
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Jun 24, 2016 14:25
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CrimsonAuthor posted:Heh, apparently he didn't even say it in Independence Day! They just copied the clip from Jurassic Park and Spielberg was "miffed". According to this article anyway. That article is so idiotic, the whole point of it seems to be "Were you confused as to the canon explanation for why Goldbum says the same line in both movies? Well be confused no more, the makers of Independence Day just liked the line and wanted to include it in the movie!" No poo poo. Edit: Oh wait is that the whole point of this site? Articles written by a dumb guy? I don't understand the internet anymore. Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Jun 24, 2016 14:28
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I'm confused why the trailers gave away the Brent Spiner reveal so willingly since pretty much everybody thought he died? Oh well, this movie is probably even dumber than the original but I loved the 1993-1997 period in movies where "Jeff Goldblum, summer blockbuster action star" was a reality.
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Jun 24, 2016 14:35
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exquisite tea posted:I'm confused why the trailers gave away the Brent Spiner reveal so willingly since pretty much everybody thought he died? Oh well, this movie is probably even dumber than the original but I loved the 1993-1997 period in movies where "Jeff Goldblum, summer blockbuster action star" was a reality. I was surprised too. Guess they needed him to explain to the audience why the aliens were 
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Jun 24, 2016 15:35
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Wow, I'm embarrassed to admit that I never realized that was Spiner in Independence Day. I mean I was never a big Star Trek fan but I've seen Independence day about 15 times I'd think it would have occurred to me before now.
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Jun 24, 2016 15:37
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Whenever Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman or Brent Spiner was on-screen the movie was passable. Whenever those characters were not on screen I was asking "where are Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Brent Spiner?" Everything else was either wasted (a jungle war between guerillas and aliens in the aftermath of the invasion sounds cool why didn't they just film that?), bland (the young pilots, the spineless bureaucrat) or pointless (Judd Hirsh as much as I love you your plot was lame). I can't really think of anything memorable besides a single shot near the beginning (the giant orb-ship on screen LOOMING over the tiny moonbase as space warps around it). I guess I can't really blame them for that so much since ID1 already used the best shots, and cities get destroyed every time the Avengers go out for coffee. Also I don't like to use the word 'pandering' much because it is basically a meaningless concept but god drat at least pretend you give a poo poo. The Chinese pilot existed to be A Chinese Character, after the moonbase blows up I don't think she had more than ten lines, or do anything besides whatever the hotshot protagonist-pilot told her to do. The old cast keep the movie from being extremely bad, instead it is only deeply average.
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Jun 24, 2016 16:31
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Panfilo posted:In some of the promotional videos they mentioned they reverse engineered the city destroying weapons and made Way to spoil the first 3rd of the movie! .... promotional videos... I hate trailers they make now haha.
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Jun 24, 2016 17:32
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This movie was a straight up comedy. My favorite scene is when the Earth Defense System went up, and they aimed their cannons, all of them at the ship and the ship just single handedly blows them all up like Iron Man. That killed me. Oh and anything Judd Hirsch said. But that was mostly due to listening to the Patrice O'Neal bit on Opie and Anthony.
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Jun 24, 2016 19:30
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I hated the first one, but I am mesmerized whenever Jeff Goldblum starts talking. Decisions, decisions.
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Jun 24, 2016 19:40
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just bought tickets to see at 6pm today. im loving STOKED i even watched the first one last night!
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Jun 24, 2016 19:41
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CelticPredator posted:This movie also hates most of its original main casts and kills off a few in the silliest most ineffective ways. No one cares! I like a lot of what I'm hearing about this movie, but what the hell is this about? Who the gently caress thought that would be a good idea? I'm starting to appreciate Scream 4 more and more.
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Jun 24, 2016 20:06
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Basebf555 posted:That article is so idiotic, the whole point of it seems to be "Were you confused as to the canon explanation for why Goldbum says the same line in both movies? Well be confused no more, the makers of Independence Day just liked the line and wanted to include it in the movie!" I dunno, I feel like the fact that they just straight up lifted the audio clip from JP (instead of actually having him say it again) is kinda interesting?
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Jun 24, 2016 20:06
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lizardman posted:I like a lot of what I'm hearing about this movie, but what the hell is this about? Who the gently caress thought that would be a good idea? I'm starting to appreciate Scream 4 more and more. Vivca A Fox is now a doctor and she works at a hospital. poo poo starts to go down and her and a pregnant woman wait on the building for a helicopter. The pregnant woman gets on, but the building collapses as Fox plummets to her death. Her kid watches in his plane. It wasn't really brought up again. And then Bill Pullman wants to sacrifice himself and blow up the ship and everything, which he does...but the Alien Queen is still alive rendering his act completely and utterly pointless. Which made me laugh.
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Jun 24, 2016 20:43
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Do the aliens blow up traffic jams again?
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Jun 24, 2016 21:05
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Do the aliens blow up traffic jams again? I guess it wouldn't be independance day if that didn't happen.
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Jun 24, 2016 21:10
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Does Old Jewish Man die?
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Jun 24, 2016 22:12
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:Do the aliens blow up traffic jams again? They sure do! And they don't even do it intentionally - the giant ship has it's own gravitational pull which drags the traffic jam up and away as it passes overhead I thought the movie was dumb fun, but it was both too long and not long enough if that makes sense. A lot of plotlines that don't go anywhere, they should have kept it simple. Also, IMPLICITLY TRUST THE ORB. THE ORB IS YOUR FRIEND nexus6 fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Jun 24, 2016 22:31
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zVxTeflon posted:Does Old Jewish Man die? Nope! He lives to see HIS DAVID!!!
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Jun 24, 2016 22:33
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CelticPredator posted:but the Alien Queen is still alive rendering his act completely and utterly pointless. Which made me laugh. It's not entirely pointless. Taking out her ship with its weaponry and shielding was better than, ya know, not. I wish we saw a glimpse of the side of the moon just cut away from the ship.
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Jun 24, 2016 22:47
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CelticPredator posted:Nope! He lives to see HIS DAVID!!! Well im sold
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Jun 24, 2016 22:58
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MisterBibs posted:It's not entirely pointless. Taking out her ship with its weaponry and shielding was better than, ya know, not. Yeah but the Aliens were still alive.
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Jun 24, 2016 23:20
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This movie was camping as hell and I loved it. I don't know if it was ID4 quality but it was a something else entirely. The most Emmerich scene was a bus full of school children getting chased by the giant Queen plus they have to save the dog why not?!
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Jun 25, 2016 00:12
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Saw it last night, movie was fun and dumb in the best way possible, gently caress the haters
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Jun 25, 2016 00:24
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The friendly alien sphere had some weird voicing. It felt stilted and rushed, and for some reason whoever put the voice filter in didn't remove the little noises of the voice actor drawing breath between lines, so it just sounds like an random person on a tinny radio reading off bad cue cards.
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Jun 25, 2016 00:44
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:This movie was camping as hell and I loved it. I don't know if it was ID4 quality but it was a something else entirely. The most Emmerich scene was a bus full of school children getting chased by the giant Queen plus they have to save the dog why not?! The dog in the last movie was much better. Had his own badass explosion jump and everything.
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The whole civilization moves from planet to planet. That doesn't necessarily they're all at the same planet at the same time.
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