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New Independence Day: Resurgence trailer out! Looks fantastic!
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CassidyIzABeast
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I'm banking on Will being abducted for maximum sequel megaton.
Okay yeah, I'm in. It won't be as good as the original and the lack of Will Smith is huge but this still looks pretty fun.
Lets take another moment to appreciate the greatest presidential speech in history
Lets take another moment to appreciate the greatest presidential speech in history
ElectricBlanketFire
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I think he looks really good for 20 years later.
Dash_Riprock
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Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
Emerson's Essentia
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Spiral Insanity
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This looks like a lot of fun. The new president sounds like Hillary.
Ricky Ricardo
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In, in, IN.
Dumb summer fun that doesn't look like it takes itself too seriously. Sold.
Dumb summer fun that doesn't look like it takes itself too seriously. Sold.
I thought White House Down was decently entertaining.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Independence Day was stupid as hell too.
Its being the right kind of stupid that matters.
Its being the right kind of stupid that matters.
The line delivery from the new actors, yikes.
I don't mind stupid but I think this film is 17 years too late.
No Will, but heey, at least they got Randy Quaid back amirite
You mean Kurt Russel
starchild excalibur
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Whoever Will Smith's son's actor is seems like a terrible actor.
I wonder if - like with Man of Steel - this will end with the vast majority of the Earth being destroyed before they can take down the aliens and declare it a victory. Looks like a lotta shit got fucked up in that trailer alone.
I wonder if - like with Man of Steel - this will end with the vast majority of the Earth being destroyed before they can take down the aliens and declare it a victory. Looks like a lotta shit got fucked up in that trailer alone.
PeregrinSe7en
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Im soo in
looking forward to seeing this in imax
looking forward to seeing this in imax
I think they're just implying that the ship is so big that its gravity is enough to pull buildings towards it. Which is probably garbage science considering that the earth is right there and fucking huge.
No Will, but heey, at least they got Randy Quaid back amirite
I honest to God thought for a few seconds when Pullman first came on that they had gone and gotten Randy Quaid back.
I was like "no wai"
legacyzero
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Yeah, rewatching that trailer, the speech he gives seems pretty weak. I hope it's not meant to be the replacement for Pullman's speech.
Oh, so it's perhaps just a beneficial side effect for the aliens? I really wonder what their exact plan is with landing that giant ship
Bobby Roberts
Banned
It's absolutely way too late, so it has to ride the line between self-aware yet over-indulgent.
It can't just be regular-indulgent. It has to be over.
Honestly, a large part of why ID4 worked as well as it did in 1996 is that the marketing managed to make it look like a Fun-With-Boys-In-Space Adventure film when it wasn't just disaster disaster disaster raining from the skies.
This sequel seems to be stepping heavy on the idea that you're supposed to take this seriously. Even the stuff you were supposed to take seriously in 1996, you weren't really taking seriously. Blowing up the White House didn't make people go "Oh God," it made 'em go "Fuck Yeah."
That movie spoke to a weird tone that existed only in the mid-late '90s. I don't know if 2016 has managed to recycle that shit yet. We'll find out, I guess.
Macho Madness
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The original in HD is $1 on Google Play for the next few days: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Independence_Day?id=V7IuQtzGmRM&hl=en
Have you seen what 8 years does to the average American president? Also, the big grey beard helps. Also, it's a movie, they can him look like whatever they need
Bobby Roberts
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Goldblum has inherited the Shatnerian mantle.
Cindi Mayweather
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I didn't think they could do it but this is Independence Day. Day one.
TheClimaxan
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I'm way fucking in.
BotoxAgent
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Liam Helmsworth!? ugh, dude has the charisma of a paper bag
He takes it an artistic absurd level. Love it!
Yep. Right now this is looking like the right kind. Maybe?
If nothing else, it's got Pullman and Goldblum. That gets my butt in the seat.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I think it's possible. Although if the only character puncturing the self-importance is Goldblum, that's not a good sign.
But at least there's Goldblum, who will be commenting on the absurdity of this shit as we go, which will definitely help.
It does also step hard on that "boys-with-toys-on-adventures!" tone the last few looks at this movie didn't have.
But then again, in 1996, we hadn't seen a Star Wars film for like, 13 years. We just got one a few months ago. So the novelty of atmospheric dogfights might not be enough to carry us.
Cindi Mayweather
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I don't get how you could realistically convince yourself that the original ID4 wasn't a typical summer blockbuster movie with cheese slathered across the screen. Were you alive in 1996? Also a lot of this fully expands upon things that were in the original. While the original was a generic Hollywood summer blockbuster, it practically created the bar that modern ones try to the emulate, particularly in terms of special effects. If there's one Hollywood film that deserves some slack about this in the year of our lord 2016, it's a sequel to Independence Day.
Also, there's the fact that we had 1996 tech and jets versus alien ships. That's one appeal taken away as well because we've been developing more advances ships.
AuthenticM
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This movie might have the most special effects ever, lol. It looks crazy.
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