TODAY WE CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY (SEQUELS)!!!

I watched this movie in theaters the day before I reported for basic training -- July 3, 1996.

 

That tsunami was complete bullshit. They outran the damn thing on a BMX bike with a fuckin' lawn mower engine rigged to the chain.

The Day after Tomorrow wave was BS, too. Just a city? May as well have been Waikiki.

It took the most ridiculous, over the top movie of all time--2012--for these assholes to break out the real deal. Now THAT'S a fuckin' tsunami for ya!

 

And yet, it gave us JAda Pinkett, before she became all shrill, bony and brittle

 

I'm curious how you thought it was going to be a genre changer in the first half. Seems to me that it wasn't much different from the original War of the Worlds in terms of basic plot - aliens invade, wipe out cities all hope seems lost until the aliens catch a virus (I actually thought that was a clever homage in ID4, even if it seems unlikely the aliens would be running Windows).

Independence Day decided to have Americans "whoop E.T.'s ass" instead of letting our planet's bacteria do the job, but basically ID4 was never anything more than the alien invasion flick with the best special effects of all-time to that point.

It did usher in the era of convincingly destroying iconic landmarks, but other than that it was just meant to be a funny, action-packed thrill ride, and I thought succeeded quite well in that regard.

 

Vivica Fox.

 

All the way to the Appalachian Mountains! That scene is highly underrated in the pantheon of total bullshit.

 

This was crushed, my man. Touch 'em all.

 

In every single one of these disaster movies, human beings are slaughtered by the hundreds of millions, stacked up like cordwood from coast to coast, the air thick with the fluffy ashes of incinerated corpses, yet you'll never see a dog get it.

I was shocked to see the other day in Cool Hand Luke (1967), an appaently dead dog on the screen. Probably the last dead dog to ever appear in American cinema.

Where will we get our "yellow matter custard?"

 

The other bullshit thing about Deep Impact was when everyone was fleeing, and the main characters all met up at the traffic jam. Really? Hundreds of thousands of people running away, and the main people just coincidentally bump into each other. Yeeesh.

 

wolverine

 

I figured the sequel to ID4 would be Labor Day - Aliens v. Unions.

 

Will Smith has to kill his diseased dog in I Am Legend. Otherwise known as the most depressing fucking movie ever made.