What else is there to do?In an industry that can't stop copying itself and can't seem to do 'serious' without being trite, just embrace their general failure and roll with them in this new self-aware comedy dressed up as a sci-fi action movie called "Independence Day". At one point I asked myself "Why does the Alien hate the school bus so much?" Answer: BECAUSE IT CAN.This is entertainment at a higher level than I'm used to. The first movie was still taking itself seriously and a little cornball but this one frequently deadpans 'yes this is a joke' without flinching. This is both a salute and a slap in the face to its predecessors. Awesome scene This is where Hollywood needs to go more often.
People are saying it's not original but I have never seen an alien as tall as a skyscraper chase around a school bus. This was like actually fun to watch just to see the various cliche's employed.I could be wrong but I think EVERY SINGLE SCENE IS A TIRED Cliché.And that was actually interesting. It is in fact a long sequence of overused cliche's, and yes I believe the filmmakers knew that, and yes I believe it was intentional.This is like a dead pan version of tropic thunder. Yes every single one of them is in this movie. July 4th is their Independence Day.Trot out every movie trope known to mankind in a single film. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own.
On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow.
After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference.
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