Roland Emmerich Shares Some New INDEPENDENCE DAY 2 Details

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INDEPENDENCE DAY 2:
RISE OF RAMADAN

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Don't get it. It comes on TV a lot. See it then.

It's funny how everyone who say "it's a shit film!" Are probably praised it when it first came out and loved it. I know these people would have been younger then and had simpler tastes but no need to slate it because your tastes have matured.
I loved it when it came out and now my taste in movies have matured I still think its pretty decent. it's on my top 50 movie to show my kids to teach them about culture.

Independence day is a [frick]ing awful film. Emmerich should be ashamed.

I wonder of Emmerich, Bay, and Snyder are all secretly hive-minded......

Anyhow, Another pointless sequel being made like 20 years later. What's the point?

And yeah, I remember a lot of people getting hyped for this stupid film when it came out and the boost it got from having the Star Wars special edition trailer at the beginning.

I also remember a lot of people realizing how stupid the movie was on repeat viewing once they bought the DVD. The nonsensical Aliens travelling light years to invade simply blowing up every major city and then sitting around enjoying the view from their ships instead of doing any actual invading. The ridiculous notion that a ex-NASA cable-guy can make his Macbook deliver a virus to an alien computer in the age when you couldn't get a Mac to talk to a PC! The 1950's version of an alien ship outrunning a 1997 version X?. Will Smith being strong enough to punch an alien wearing a containment suit and knock him out...? Random survivors in a caravan park getting a speech from the president somehow managing to have more than enough people trained in how to fly a fighter jet to make a squad for the final battle. Africans taking down motherships with nothing but spears and shields as their weapons????

God this film was embarrassing to sit thorough and listening to anyone trying to defend it just reminds me how dumb people can really swallow their entertainment.

One of those movies you can watch every few weeks it doesn't need a sequel.

I can see where a sequel would go but there's no need.

I was in the 6th grade when Independence day came out. At the time I thought it was a pretty bad ass action film. The more you watch and think about it, the more you realize it has a lot of faults. But who gives a damn? It's a movie for funk sake. Just sit back and enjoy the white house being blown to shit. And be happy they decided to go with the Empire state building and not the twin towers or this movie would be banned from existance.

As I recall, Independence Day was scripted in about 2 weeks. With the tone he is painting and also how films have changed since, I think this will be a stinker.

Independence Day was always a dumb movie. If you like visuals without a care about the script or acting, I'm sure it was great. Otherwise, it was pretty ridiculously stupid.

And no, I didn't like the movie when it first came out. I've always felt this way about it.

Despite that, I'll still probably watch the sequel. :P I can't help but be curious! Whether I'll finish watching it or not is the question. :)

The core idea is already flawed as hell. I can already hear Honest Trailers and others having fun with it.

20 years later Earth forgets and assumes the Aliens aren't coming back?

It's been only 13 years since 9/11 and no one seems to have even begun to have forgotten. And these guys think 20 little years would make Earth forget or let its guard down after ID4?

1st you have a Planet full of people with psychological problems in the aftermath. After such an incident the culture of Earth would be drastically changed. We would have a phenomenon of mass paranoia and mental depression across the planet. Hundreds of Millions would suffer from PTSD. Not simply because of the Alien attack but from outbreaks of riots and total lawlessness that would spread from a lack of Governments, Military and Law enforcement. There would be millions of suicides and millions reduced to insanity and drug and alcohol use would be even worse than now as people use them to cope.

People born afterward would be shaped in many ways by a different perspective of reality than we have.

Bunkers would be everywhere.

Every politician would add promises of a better plan to defend ourselves from Aliens to their list of promises.

Such an incident would change religions and possible create new ones. Every time we would have a Quake people would fear it was the rumble of an attack somewhere.

Then you have the cleanup and rebuilding. At the end of ID4 we had giant ships as large as Cities crashing into the Earth. Not only would we have to clean up our cities and rebuild but we would have those to contend with. And 13 years later we still haven't rebuilt towers at ground zero.

Emmerich said "They won't fall for that again". Why? All the Aliens in the ship were destroyed so how would other Aliens elsewhere even know about the virus?

The premise is so greatly flawed its like it has been attacked by a virus as well.

But considering the enormous amount of money Shit-Films made in 2013 maybe making films that suck is the right thing to do after all. Why even try to make a film good when Iron Man 3 makes 1.3 Billion?

I'm guessing that ID4II will come out on July 1st 2016

I don't care what anyone says, I thought this was a great movie.

My dad liked this movie when it came out. I never cared for it. Literally every character is overplayed and unbearable for me to watch. Pullman as President is sappy. Quaid is ridiculous. Will is too arrogant. Even a hotshot pilot would sh*t himself if Aliens invaded. Goldblum does his usual autistic impression, again.

Aliens with advanced technology, masters of interstellar travel, fall victim to a 1990's earth computer virus!!! WTF. Sneaking inside the mothership was cool, but to download a virus... did they still have a USB 1.0 port just in case an alien wanted to access his old college porn collection. Will the sequel have a wif-fi transmitted virus? And of course those same adavanced aliens would want all their ships linked to a single ship so potentially one well placed attack disables all your forces leaving you even more defenseless... Apparently Whedon liked that idea too.. since it was used in the Avengers.

This movie was so cheesy. Will and Goldblum together was funny though... it's only saving grace.

When was the last time Earth lost to aliens? Aren't these movies like the Titanic? Predictable outcome. Except that Earth would never win against an Alien invasion. The power source required for interstellar travel alone could be used to obliterate us. We barely land troops on foreign soil to win wars anymore. So why would aliens land troops on earth to fight 7 billion people? They'd annihilate us using our own tactics; air superiority. We'd be vaporized from space. An Alien invasion would go something like this: We'd detect something in space moving towards Earth. Flash of light. Humans seize to exist. End. Oddly, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is the most realistic when it comes to this.

Spare us the sequels.

I was young when ID4 came out, so I loved it. I had the toy alien ship that made noises and lit up, and the action figure alien with the head that split open to reveal the mini alien inside. Sure, the movie doesn't really hold up these days, but it was a fun movie.

And don't expect Will Smith to show up for the sequel unless he can get another chance to shove his son down our throats. Your son is NOT a superstar, Will, DEAL WITH IT!!

Soooo 20 years after the original movie we may have a sequel? I really don't give a frick anymore. The original was good for its time but now....really?