Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
*sigh* As you all can tell from my favorites list, I was really looking forward to this movie (or was hoping it was going to be good after the bad word of mouth got out pretty early) but it was sadly everything I was afraid it was gonna be. Now it wasn't a complete pile of ****, there is some good stuff (
"They like to get the landmarks" lol). The first ID isn't universally loved by any means either but it was still an entertaining movie and I loved it and so did many other people. This movie tries to capture the magic and nostalgia of the first movie, but in all the wrong ways, its way too cheesy for its own good, even cheesier than the first movie which is a cheesefest as well but was the good type of cheese if that makes sense. First off, this movie had way too many side stories (more than the first movie) and I didn't give a damn about any of them. Granted most of the side stories from the first movie I didn't care for either, aside from Russell Casse's who also is nodded to at the beginning of this movie which I really appreciated.
WARNING: "spoilers, sort of" spoilers below
They also tried to recapture the Casse moment at the end of this movie, and it just didn't work.
They also tried to recapture the Casse moment at the end of this movie, and it just didn't work.
I felt no emotional connection with ANY of the characters (aside from Jeff Goldblum's David but that is just because I care about Goldblum in everything he is in because he is Jeff ****ing Goldblum, a god among men). Half the returning cast mailed in their performances so hard (especially Bill Pullman, he gives a few speeches but none of them come close to his speech from the first movie, and they were kind of cringeworthy)
This movie also had a huge hole in it, and its name is WILL SMITH. Liam Hemsworth was obviously suppose to be the Will Smith replacement seeing as he had many lines that reminded me of Smith's character from the first movie, but Liam Hemsworth just doesn't have the charm, wit, or personality to fill that role in my opinion and most of his stuff fell flat and lifeless to me, and don't even get me started on his sidekick who was annoying as hell, and there are plenty of other annoying and unneeded characters in this movie (coughnicolascoughwright). Too many to mention them all. One I did like was Deobia Oparei's character though. All the sci-fi aspects of the movie I did like a lot actually and the African Warlords battling aliens leftover from the war of 1996 was actually an interesting premise they didn't go too into detail with, but his character I found fascinating. There were a couple of other things the movie sort of scratched the surface of that they could of delved way deeper into to get actual good character moments.
WARNING: "character backgrounds, spoilers" spoilers below
The fact that there are so many orphans now because literally billions of people's parents were wiped out in seconds during the attack of 1996, Liam Hemsworth's character being one of them and his friend also being an orphan because of the attack as well, this is probably why they bonded and became good friend, it was stuff like this that could of kept my attention but alas they address this in just one scene then they trade this out for some ****** side story of his sidekick getting the hots for this female Asian fighter pilot who's name I didn't care to remember *snooze*
The fact that there are so many orphans now because literally billions of people's parents were wiped out in seconds during the attack of 1996, Liam Hemsworth's character being one of them and his friend also being an orphan because of the attack as well, this is probably why they bonded and became good friend, it was stuff like this that could of kept my attention but alas they address this in just one scene then they trade this out for some ****** side story of his sidekick getting the hots for this female Asian fighter pilot who's name I didn't care to remember *snooze*
There was one character that I surprisingly got a lot of laughs out of being brought back, even though I was sure he was dead in the first movie. I'm obviously referring to Okun here and its no spoiler that he is back in this movie as he is in the trailer, one of the best lines in the movie that was generally a funny line to me was Okun's first line spoken if you've seen the movie you know what i'm talking about. This movies first 30 minutes or so is actually not bad because it is mostly setting up what life is like now in the post alien invasion world and it was actually looking interesting (there are a few of the character moments which I found to be dull and uninteresting though) it's just the last half where everything goes bad pretty fast,
WARNING: "spoilers" spoilers below
also I get that Smith's character still being alive but not being involved in the events of this movie would make no sense, but it still pains me that they just killed off his character. They could of easily come up with another reason for him not to be there.
also I get that Smith's character still being alive but not being involved in the events of this movie would make no sense, but it still pains me that they just killed off his character. They could of easily come up with another reason for him not to be there.
This movie had so much potential but it fell flat in many different ways, it is nowhere near as good as ID1, but they also set this up for a sequel, with what they've set up I'd be interested to see where it goes but I wouldn't be surprised if a sequel to this isn't happening, and nor would I be sad if it didn't get one either.
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my top 5 and planning a full write-up this weekend.
