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Being a huge fan of the original Independence Day movie I had to see the 20 year sequel, so I drove down to the local theater, bought my tickets, my 8 dollar popcorn and settled in, first things first, the pre-movie ads for upcoming films, there's an upcoming movie starring both Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick in leading roles, so you can expect that review in a few weeks, now on to Independence day
Some observations I had,
While President Hillary Clinton (and I'm not joking, this woman if she were blonde would have been a dead ringer for HRC 20 years ago, even has the same voice) is practicing her speech at the beginning of the movie she references that all the world has come together and no more national boundaries exist, and humanity is all working together, and blah blah blah.
literally 5 minutes into the movie from here, Jeff Goldblum is having to negotiate entering a landed alien spaceship with this really mean looking congolese war lord who's guys are the stereotypical african militia, I mean we got child soldiers, starving guys with AKs, beat up 1985 Toyota pickup trucks. the whole thing, WTF man?! We aren't they in prosperity flying around in their hovercopters?
The alien foot soldiers are all over the map, like in the movie the one they killed was taken down easily with 9mm pistols, but some of them just take dozens of shots from alien blaster rifles.
Just like in the movie, the military authorities constantly underestimate the enemy they're dealing with. like in the 1996 film they send F/A-18s against a ship described as 15 miles wide, and in this they send the space fighters in a desperate plan against a ship covering a 5th of the planet and then are shocked it has point defense systems.
Patricia Whitmore, the 6 year old first daughter in the original film is now a white house staffer who apparently flies fighter jets on the weekend? I mean it's alluded she was in training and dropped out, but in this film she's flying the space fighter with superb proficency and executing complicated manuvers. Like she must have gotten to advance level of training which makes it all the more weird she's basically filing papers at the White House when the film begins. While we're on Patricia, she's hot.
A glaring lack of victory dance cigars, why no victory dance cigars?
thoughts?
Some observations I had,
While President Hillary Clinton (and I'm not joking, this woman if she were blonde would have been a dead ringer for HRC 20 years ago, even has the same voice) is practicing her speech at the beginning of the movie she references that all the world has come together and no more national boundaries exist, and humanity is all working together, and blah blah blah.
literally 5 minutes into the movie from here, Jeff Goldblum is having to negotiate entering a landed alien spaceship with this really mean looking congolese war lord who's guys are the stereotypical african militia, I mean we got child soldiers, starving guys with AKs, beat up 1985 Toyota pickup trucks. the whole thing, WTF man?! We aren't they in prosperity flying around in their hovercopters?
The alien foot soldiers are all over the map, like in the movie the one they killed was taken down easily with 9mm pistols, but some of them just take dozens of shots from alien blaster rifles.
Just like in the movie, the military authorities constantly underestimate the enemy they're dealing with. like in the 1996 film they send F/A-18s against a ship described as 15 miles wide, and in this they send the space fighters in a desperate plan against a ship covering a 5th of the planet and then are shocked it has point defense systems.
Patricia Whitmore, the 6 year old first daughter in the original film is now a white house staffer who apparently flies fighter jets on the weekend? I mean it's alluded she was in training and dropped out, but in this film she's flying the space fighter with superb proficency and executing complicated manuvers. Like she must have gotten to advance level of training which makes it all the more weird she's basically filing papers at the White House when the film begins. While we're on Patricia, she's hot.
A glaring lack of victory dance cigars, why no victory dance cigars?
thoughts?
