Independence Day sequels

[Darth Snoopy]

But you're definitely correct about movies being picked apart by millennials. They never lived in a world where you go to a movie, enjoy it, and then talk about it with a like-minded friend or two. They only know the culture of watching a film that the world has already commented on and then going out and trying to gain relevance by having their criticisms be more entertaining than everyone else's.

You hit the nail square on the head with this statement, Khev. +1

 

[crows]

the 90s gave us jurassic park, se7en, silence of the lambs, matrix, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Terminator 2, Dumb and Dumber, From Dusk till Dawn,
Interview with the Vampire, Men in Black, Con Air

bretty good (some of those are my all time favorites )

 

[a-dev]

the 90s gave us .......
Interview with the Vampire

Always wished they'd made another one with Cruise, Pitt and Banderas. Alas way too late now.

 

[crows]

I guess we can hope for a really good tv show, thats my wish. not a movie, I always hope HBO or something takes it.

 

[a-dev]

I guess we can hope for a really good tv show, thats my wish. not a movie, I always hope HBO or something takes it.

Nah, at this point there's been vampire oversaturation on TV and in films. I'd find it hard to care about a cast that isn't Cruise, Pitt and Banderas.

 

[karamazov80]

the 90s gave us jurassic park, se7en, silence of the lambs, matrix, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Terminator 2, Dumb and Dumber, From Dusk till Dawn,
Interview with the Vampire, Men in Black, Con Air

bretty good (some of those are my all time favorites )

https://youtu.be/FClGhto1vIg

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[crows]

https://youtu.be/FClGhto1vIg

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but... WHICH one??

 

[Python]

the 90s gave us jurassic park, se7en, silence of the lambs, matrix, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Terminator 2, Dumb and Dumber, From Dusk till Dawn,
Interview with the Vampire, Men in Black, Con Air

bretty good (some of those are my all time favorites )

Add Starship troopers to the list, another awesome movie in the same vein as ID4.

 

[Khev]

Guess I was a Millennial before their time

I waked out of ID4 at 25 years of age and thought it was awful. All those great serious trailers and then we end up with this....

I still think it's bad but I have found that it has a cheesy fun innocence to it that I appreciate more now then I did then.

Yep. And for me (I was 22 and was watching it opening day in the massive Seattle Cinerama with 3 or 4 college buddies, we were PUMPED!) it was that damn dog that killed it. The movie *seemed* to be more or less continuing in the vein of the serious trailers other than a few slightly distracting "humorous" moments here and there but when that damn dog survived, with the horribly cheesy and awful compositing of him jumping out of the fire like he was effing John McClane or something my mouth dropped and my heart sank. The film never recovered from that moment, and as hard as I tried to stay into it from that point on there were just too many stupid moments that followed.

As if the Fresh Prince (because that's all he was at that time) delivering stupid and out of place one-liners in the midst of battle wasn't enough the FINALE had to feature Cousin Eddy reciting even lamers one-liners? Cousin Eddy. PLAYING Cousin Eddy. In an "epic" interstellar war film. The movie couldn't have been any worse if they added Pauly Shore, Carrot Top, and Gilbert Godfried to the roster of fighter pilots saving the Earth.

 

[jnmx2000]

I just rewatched the first one last night, man I forgot how much I freaking love that movie. There were even a few parts that made me tear up lol Pretty much everything about the first one I love. I was supposed to see the second one today but that's not happening now.

 

[a-dev]

Yep. And for me (I was 22 and was watching it opening day in the massive Seattle Cinerama with 3 or 4 college buddies, we were PUMPED!) it was that damn dog that killed it. The movie *seemed* to be more or less continuing in the vein of the serious trailers other than a few slightly distracting "humorous" moments here and there but when that damn dog survived, with the horribly cheesy and awful compositing of him jumping out of the fire like he was effing John McClane or something my mouth dropped and my heart sank. The film never recovered from that moment, and as hard as I tried to stay into it from that point on there were just too many stupid moments that followed.

As if the Fresh Prince (because that's all he was at that time) delivering stupid and out of place one-liners in the midst of battle wasn't enough the FINALE had to feature Cousin Eddy reciting even lamers one-liners? Cousin Eddy. PLAYING Cousin Eddy. In an "epic" interstellar war film. The movie couldn't have been any worse if they added Pauly Shore, Carrot Top, and Gilbert Godfried to the roster of fighter pilots saving the Earth.

....Well, so much for ID4 being retroactively improved by Resurgence. Which it should be really, if silliness is OK in the sequel it should be OK in the original.

Anyway, I have to watch these misleading trailers again to figure out why it let you and JAWS down so much.

 

[Khev]

....Well, so much for ID4 being retroactively improved by Resurgence.

It might, I haven't revisited the original since Resurgence. Now that karamazov tricked me into watching "We Are Still Here" I'm not in a very charitable mood at the moment.

Anyway, I have to watch these misleading trailers again to figure out why it let you and JAWS down so much.

They were bad ass, especially that second one with the Crimson Tide music. They also threw in a little bit of the scores from Predator and Terminator 2. I mean come on!

 

[a-dev]

Yep, those are trailers for the film I saw.

 

[GasparZizou]

I have to agree with a-dev.

 

[karamazov80]

It might, I haven't revisited the original since Resurgence. Now that karamazov tricked me into watching "We Are Still Here" I'm not in a very charitable mood at the moment.

[emoji38] I genuinely thought that one was great.

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[Khev]

Yep, those are trailers for the film I saw.

Unfortunately I totally missed the parts in the trailers where they showed Cousin Eddy saving the day, people acting goofy and cracking jokes AFTER millions of people died screaming, the stupid ass dog getting a big "hero moment," etc. I just saw aliens attacking and everyone being all bad ass in response.

 

[a-dev]

I saw Will Smith being Will Smith and F-18s attacking giant city-sized spaceships though...

 

[Khev]

I saw Will Smith being Will Smith and F-18s attacking giant city-sized spaceships though...

I actually do remember cringing at Will Smith's "close encounter" line in the trailer but I thought that it might just be a quick little "Hasta la vista baby" moment that wasn't indicative of the entire film. I mean if we got two hours of "Crimson Tide vs. Aliens" how could it, right? Right??? Sigh...

 

[Khev]

[emoji38] I genuinely thought that one was great.

Yeah I weighed in on that little chestnut in the Rate The Last Movie You Saw thread.

 

[GasparZizou]

I just rewatched the first one last night, man I forgot how much I freaking love that movie. There were even a few parts that made me tear up lol Pretty much everything about the first one I love. I was supposed to see the second one today but that's not happening now.

Yup, the characters in there are so fleshed out and well grounded, that the interactions they have that are supposed to be meaningful, actually come across that way.

I don't see how a couple of badass cheesy one liners are a problem when people laugh and clap at straight up quips and jokes in modern movies.

The one dude I still find annoying... DAVID! DAVID! OH I GOTTA CALL MY MOTHER! I don't feel bad when he dies.