Independence Day: Resurgence - May Be The Dumbest Movie Ever Made

guilty pleasures we all have things that we know are bad for us but we just can't help it, like when tatiana takes my and sticks the cheese grater in, make sure it goes all the way to the top, i don't want to have that backwards though, when it comes to

movie

s, one of my guiltiest guilty pleasures is Independence Day, a mid-'90s action blockbuster about America saving the world from an alien invasion that succeeded with a potent cocktail of flashy special effects, big unabashedly enthusiastic explosions. Hello, patriotism will take seriously Smith's crazy charisma and his very vague understanding of computer viruses.

If you have a virus that can override a completely foreign operating system, why bother messing with shields? Why not just order the ships to self-destruct or open fire? at each other or flying straight into the sun, no, who cares when you have moments like this? Today we celebrate our Independence Day, yes, USA, USA, the point is that Independence Day truly was the epitome of the star-studded summer blockbuster that it was. It wasn't cl

ever

and it definitely wasn't complex, but it was a fun, exciting ride that looked great,

made

enough sense for you to understand what was happening, and offered enough emotional payoffs to keep you interested in the kind of

movie

that knew exactly what it was about. you wanted of it and was happy to give it to you as if it were tatsuyana, but then, 20 years later, long after the hype, excitement and relevance of

independence

day had faded from memory, director roland emmerich woke up a day and decided that what the world really needed was a sequel, believe me, it wasn't.

What we really got was one of the most ridiculous brain-dead incoherent movie disasters in living memory that somehow managed to amplify

ever

ything bad about the original while expertly eliminating virtually everything that

made

it fun and entertaining. It's really quite. It's remarkable when you think about it and it's basically a masterclass in how not to make an effective sequel, so naturally I thought it deserved a closer look. Let me explain to you. The Independence Day revival begins 20 years after the original film. Humanity has mostly recovered from the alien. The war that wiped out half the planets, cities have been rebuilt, nations have learned to work together, and reverse-engineered recovered alien technology to develop advanced weapons, space fighters, and bases on the moon and Mars.

Good job guys but all is not well, President Whitmore is kind of a crazy old man, now he has PTSD from his mind melding with the aliens and he keeps blacking out and drawing strange symbols on the wall and he is not the only one who remembers facts from the first film by tearing off pieces of the scenery because Brent Spiner finally had the opportunity to show real emotions. He remembers how he was possessed by an alien and then brutally murdered by a combination of strangulation and bullets. I mean, I'm not a doctor or anything, but he looks pretty dead here, but the script says no.

He'll be fine and we'll find out that he's been in a coma for the past 20 years. Well, that was convenient, but what's even more convenient is that he wakes up and starts drawing the same symbol as Whitmore. Whatever it is, could it mean anything? It turns out that this All of this is included simply to create the idea that there is some kind of clever mystery plot to this movie when in reality it is just silly and also how exactly is he able to get up and move like nothing is happening when his muscles are certainly would have atrophied after decades of inactivity, wouldn't you be horrified to know that you have lost two decades of your life?

Wouldn't you have questions about what's been happening in the world, not to mention his friends, family, and loved ones? No, who cares? even a cameo from robert logia as general grey, in fact this was his last role in the film because he died before the film came out and while it's nice that they were able to bring him back it's pretty clear that it didn't take long in this. Earth Jeff Goldblum is also in this movie playing the same basic character he's been playing for the last 20 years, a comically over-the-top Jeff Goldblum. Anyway, he's now the best scientist in the world, so he goes to Africa to investigate the only alien ship from the last war that I actually landed on, I love how this scene plays out, this is the first time he's been around. here buddy you've been 20 years old you're seriously telling me you've never bothered to research one of the most important artifacts of the last war until now anyway this ship was trying to drill to the core of the earth for some reason and managed to send a distress signal before it exploded.

I wonder if this will soon turn out to be extremely significant, but of course. It wouldn't be a modern sequel without a bloated additional cast of bland young actors playing equally bland characters and, for good measure, some shameless pandering to the Chinese market. I love how Chinese government officials are portrayed as highly trained, efficient, and of course, deeply concerned about protecting. human lives there is discount chris hemsworth a cocky airman who is reprimanded by his efficient chinese superior for being too good at his job or something his partner charlie who is charlie who is interested in the efficient daughter of a chinese superior who is so forgettable that i I can't even remember his name and I'm too lazy to look him up, but the situation gets complicated with the arrival of Discount Will Smith because the real Will Smith wanted nothing to do with this idiot.

Will Smith is angry about the discount. Chris Hemsworth because, naturally. they have a difficult history together oh no I'm so intrigued by this fascinating and dynamic character Jesus this cast is bigger than Game of Thrones and I haven't even mentioned the African veteran of the first alien war or the generic president of the United States . States or the angry general who oversees Earth's defense forces or Jasmine gave up stripping to become a doctor for some reason or Jeff Goldblum's love interest they brought in with no explanation because they couldn't get the original actress back or Judd Hirsch making a a bunch of things that are totally irrelevant, they basically brought back all the actors from the first movie who were still alive and needed a quick paycheck, that's great if you want to milk the nostalgia teats for all it's worth, but the problem is that Independence Day had a pretty big cast to begin with and trying to bring the public up to speed on what they've been up to for the last 20 years rightly takes a long time.

This problem is magnified when the script attempts to introduce an entire movie's worth of new characters at once, the result being a confusing spaghetti of super people and subplots from around the world, most of whom have nothing meaningful to do for most of it. part of the movie and they quickly become forgettable distractions anyway. I guess it's time for things to start exploding so a wormhole opens up on the surface of the moon because I guess that's what can happen now and a spaceship flies out of it naturally humans assume which is another alien invasion, so they explode and the remains land on the surface of the moon and if this all sounds a bit random and irrelevant, well, it's the real action that begins shortly after.

Remember the big alien mothership from the first movie that was like a hundred miles wide. This new one is so big that it covers half the world and explodes. through the world's space defenses effortlessly because they take about two hours to charge and open fire, seriously guys, you didn't think this was some kind of design flaw, it's also so big and dense that its attraction is apparently strong enough to get up. objects from the ground and even uprooting skyscrapers wait how is this happening, wouldn't the ship have to be many times heavier than the Earth itself to overcome the planet's gravity?

Also, wouldn't its own weight cause it to pass through the planet's gravity? The crust sucks the atmosphere from the surface and kills all living things on Earth within minutes. I would really love to see a real physicist's reaction to watching this movie. In fact, you can imagine the writing room when they had to come up with this. Damn, in the first movie every major American landmark was blown up, what can we do to top that? I know we'll just pick them up and throw them at each other, that'll be more impressive anyway, so land and start drilling. towards the Earth's crust and we discover that aliens apparently want to steal our planetary core to power their ships.

I would like to point out that basically every terrestrial planet in the galaxy has a molten core, so there are literally billions of worlds that they could harvest without any difficulty or resistance so that they would never have to spend massive amounts of military resources invading populated worlds. with advanced civilizations, I don't know, maybe they just like to fight or maybe they just are, or maybe the writers didn't think Naturally, the humans need to put an end to this before the aliens can reach the core. Fortunately, the entire alien force is basically one giant hive mind that is being controlled by a single queen.

If they can kill her, she will shut down all drones and ships under her orders, good luck, the alien's entire command structure is based on a single individual with no backups or contingencies of any kind, as if this queen were to get sick and die or be killed in accident or drank too many drinks of hygienic duck. Until she choked to death on her own vomit, the tens of millions of drones under her command would become instantly useless. If so, why does the queen have to be physically here? I mean, she's basically in the middle of an active war zone which would be like Churchill and Roosevelt landing the troops on D-Day, wouldn't it make more sense for her to run things from the other side of the solar system just in case?

Furthermore, there was nothing to suggest that these creatures operated like a hive. Mind you in the first movie, this one was able to function perfectly on its own, so why couldn't the others? No, whether it's because we need to replicate iconic scenes from the first movie, it's time for another massive attack of fighters, considering what happened 20 years ago. You'd think they'd be a little worried about the aliens anticipating an attack like this, but they say no, it'll be fine, but it turns out it won't be fine after fighting their way through heavy resistance and getting inside. the alien ship, all the combatants are disabled by a magical emp, which begs the question why the aliens didn't use that to begin with, if they were close to man, these aliens really are naturally discounted, chris hemsworth, discount, will smith and the forgettable Chinese actress. everyone remember to wear your pull-up armor so you're totally fine and these guys don't care about this situation at all.

Look, he's urinating in front of aliens to show how much he doesn't care what a legend is. Meanwhile, at Area 51, the discount data activates a giant testicle in the blank space which makes the alien queen very angry, so she boards a smaller ship and heads out to destroy it. Wait, why couldn't she just send an army of drones to do this? Why would she do it? She literally put the most valuable member of her entire species in danger for a mission like this, why is she so determined to destroy the giant blank testicle? I don't know, so the humans sent out a fake signal to attract the alien queen.

Desert and President Whitmore enter the queen's ship and use a nuclear bomb to blow it up, but the queen escapes the wreckage because she apparently has a shield around her own body, where and how is she strong enough to resist? a nuclear explosion at any given moment? blank range idk, this is pretty much where the movie drops all pretenses of even trying to make sense, the queen is on a rampage trying to get to the giant blank space testicle and the combatants are trying to blow her up and others aliens have gotten in. loose inside area 51 to attack the giant blank space testicle and the mothership has almost reached the earth's core and then judd hurst shows up in a school explosion for some reason and everyone could think how ridiculous this thing looks when you see it in general.

Daylight, I love this girl's reaction when she sees it's zero, anyway, the queen grabs the testicle andshe tries to run away so chris hemsworth discount and discount will shoot her in the ass and then she just dies that's how it was. It's kind of anticlimactic, so the drone shuts down and the drilling stops at the last second and the mothership just takes off and goes. How could this happen when the queen is not there to control it? I don't know, just don't stop. about the devastating environmental damage or the unsold billions of people who were crushed to death when this landed, the most pressing question here is how does this girl manage to make her boobs jiggle like that seriously, if there are any ladies watching who can verify this shipment.

Anyway, your video evidence, discount date is very excited because the giant blank space testicle has agreed to share new weapons and technology with them so they can fight the aliens in a sequel that will never be made. Let's kick some. serious alien ass somehow I don't think you get any facts so that's it, it's as dumb as a bag of Ryan Johnson's plot for Independence Day regurgitation, what can I say about this movie? Honestly, I left the theater without having the slightest idea what I just saw and to be honest I'm still not sure, even now, the obvious temptation with sequels is to make them bigger and grander than the original and often , this comes at the expense of the quality of the writing, but when the original was already one of the biggest

dumbest

blockbusters of all time, where can you go with that, the answer is nowhere, especially if you don't If you have a lick of imagination, all you can really do is recycle the exact same plot beats, except dial everything up to 11 and hope no one notices the problem.

The novelty and spectacle are completely gone now, seeing giant spaceships crashing into the atmosphere is no longer unique. That photo of the white house exploding was iconic because we'd never seen anything like it before, but in the decades since that shit, done hundreds of times, including by Roland Emmerich himself, even the characters in this movie don't seem impressed. Much of the charm of the first film came from a cast of talented actors who played it straight enough to keep you invested in what it was. Walking by and watching Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum go head-to-head was really fun because they really look like they're having fun, but now, what do we have on sale?

Will Smith has all the charisma of a two-person act with Brie Larson and Sophie Turner. The Chinese actress adds absolutely nothing to this film and even dismisses Chris Hemsworth, who delivers as best he can and cannot rescue the film. Bill Pullman seems a little embarrassed to be here and who can blame him, no wonder he hides behind it. beard for most of the movie, you're better than this bill, on the other hand, watching jeff goldblum in this movie is like watching jeff goldblum being played by nick cage on acid, the only guy who really seems to have fun is Discount Data, sorry Brent.

Spiner, on the other hand, isn't exactly busy these days, so maybe he was just glad to be working again. The point is that this entire movie feels like something that was made out of necessity rather than any kind of artistic impulse. They saw the opportunity to release another shared film. universe that could ride the coattails of the mcu, so they dusted off a 20-year-old IP that still had a hint of nostalgia, created a script that was coherent enough to work, and used hefty paydays to tempt most of the original cast. To the extent possible, the intention was clearly to launch an entirely new franchise of sequels, prequels and spin-offs from the ending hinting at an alliance with other species to the prospect of fighting the enemy on their home world and even prequels like the guerilla war against aliens in the 90s, there is a whole world of possibilities that this movie tries to open up, but it all depends on one thing: the revival is actually good and well, it is not, in fact, it is possibly the

dumbest

of dumb sequels.

A hastily concocted disaster that desperately tries to capitalize on the nostalgia of the original while shamelessly pandering to foreign markets and churning out sequels that no one is interested in seeing and, worst of all, losing the charm, energy, excitement and likability of the first movie, which ultimately gives us no reason. Staying on Independence Day might have been a guilty pleasure, but the

resurgence

is just guilty, guilty of being anyway, that's all I have for today, leave now.