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Will Smith In For Independence Day 2 & 3
bowman9991 writes "If one isn't enough, there are reports that two sequels to Roland Emmerich's 1996 alien invasion blockbuster Independence Day are in the works. Will Smith is back too. Apparently he delayed a sequel earlier by asking for too much money." Other rumors include using an iPad to destroy the alien space ships this time, and letting Obama fly a biplane. Data will have a 5-minute monologue about what it means to be human.
Seriously, why do movies generate so much nerd rage? It's not like it was called "Independence Day: the real life prophecy of the truths to come."
It was a movie, made to entertain the masses. Was it any worse than Men in Black? I happened to have enjoyed both films actually. Queue the continued nerd rage in 3...2...1...
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The 1st Matrix movie was good. I don't see the analogy.
It's a pity they never made any sequels to that movie.
It was really fantastic.
epic film, you've seen them all.
Same emotional highs and lows, same treatment of relationships, same everything.
You'd think a creative person would want to move on and do something different.
The article says,
"If true, this is bad news for the already delayed Asimov Foundation trilogy: it’s likely Roland Emmerich will direct the Independance Day film after his latest film Anonymous about the life of William Shakespeare, delaying the Foundation start date even further."
Bad news? No. They seem to be under the impression that we want him to direct the Foundation Trilogy. Anything bringing the possibility of him not doing it is good news indeed.
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Actually, for the last few years Will Smith has been one of my favourite actors. Have you seen Seven Pounds, The Pursuit of Happyness or Ali for example? All serious movies in which he does a good job, and of course he still does a good job in lighter movies too. The fact that I can take him seriously in the serious movies after watching so much Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as a kid says to me that he's a good actor..
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In these two sequels, it will be the House of Representatives and the Senate buildings that get vaporized. In 3D.
This will shatter all revenue records.
As a trilogy it would no longer be Independence Day. They would have to rename it to Independence Long Weekend.
If for no other reason than the attendant publicity might finally teach the people of the Internet how to correctly spell "independence".
I would also like to see "You, Your and You're", a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Aniston or Sandra Bullock.
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Come on... you forgot Bill Pullman as the kick-ass Fighter Pilot President. His role was so influential, GW Bush actually mimicked the role!
Will Smith seems like one of those actors who is really dependent on good direction. By that I mean someone who doesn't just let him run out of control with a scene. Personally I see that in a lot of comedians - they've got talent, but you need someone who can direct that talent instead of just letting them go on way past the point where the joke was funny or the character was believable.
You know, I rather like Independence Day. I'm not trying to claim it was a work of art or anything, but it was a fun alien invasion movie.
Admittedly I'm a sucker for fight-or-humanity-will-perish speeches...
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In this one, the aliens come back with a different OS, and now running Antivirus!
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Can't find it now, but it was along the lines of:
"Independence Day. Aliens arrive on Earth in giant spaceships and proceed to destroy the White House.
However, they later turn out not top be friendly after all".
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The "1st"?
You speak as if there were Matrix sequels.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Okay. I know I'm about to get into one of those hypothetical nerd arguments that nobody can win, but what the hell. I'm waiting for an utterly inadequate laptop to deploy a shamefully bloated enterprise app to a local instance of Websphere, so I've got 10 minutes to kill.
If we're assuming aliens that can live on Earth the assumption must be that Earth-like planets are common, why would the aliens risk starting interstellar war for resources that are apparently quite common
There is no reason to assume that interstellar travel is fast or inexpensive. Maybe it took the aliens a thousand years and 10 generations to get here, and they haven't got the resources to get to the next closest earth-like planet.
Second, aliens capable of interstellar travel would be capable of wiping us out with little to no effort.
What are you basing this on? Oh yes of course, the idea that "Technology" constitutes a single field, and that advancement in one area automatically means advancement in others. Where did everyone get this idea? If we invent a cure for cancer tomorrow, will we suddenly know how to build a matter teleporter? It is perfectly conceivable that a species could develop interstellar travel without inventing a way to instantly and selectively kill off a particular species on a planet. Saying it is laughable is like being surprised that we can put a man on the moon, but still can't cure the common cold. The two things have nothing to do with one another.
Have to agree with you about Jeff Goldblum -- in a single afternoon -- deciphering the alien equivalent of TCP/IP and hacking up a computer virus capable of running on alien hardware. Beyond ridiculous.
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That was absolutely one of the most cringeworthy aspects of the movie, and they could have fixed it with a single scene.
Data: "But it's strange - despite their formidable technology, their computer and communications networks are extremely straightforward - no encryption at all. We've spent years reverse-engineering the command codes for their systems. We've had a lot of success - for all the good it has done us."
Goldblum: "What - an advanced race like this, and the idea of passwords and encryption didn't occur to them?"
Pullman: "No - they're telepaths. They can't lie or hide anything from each other - and we're the only other advanced civilization they're ever encountered. No other race they've destroyed had computers."
Goldblum: "Give me everything you have on their computer systems and command codes. I have an idea ..."
Sure, it would have still been a stretch, but a lot easier to swallow.