Indepedence Day 2

[TigerClaw]

IGN has a review of the movie, and it's possitive, they gave it an 8.0
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06/...urgence-review

[snake]

Tiger Claw, dude, how much do they pay you for viral marketing? Like what's the average pay per post? Can you get me a job?

[Vicky82]

There some critic reviews already, mostly UK ones. It's getting mixed reviews.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ind...ay_resurgence/

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Vicky82

There some critic reviews already, mostly UK ones. It's getting mixed reviews.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ind...ay_resurgence/

It's got a 57% now, a few hours ago it was 50%

[ZariusTwo]

Just got back from it

It's a bit rocky at the beginning, and almost all the character seem a bit void of emotion and act all robotic regarding the situation (except for Bret Spiner, who just owns it with his sidekick), there are interesting moments of conflict that are raised, but are dropped very quickly when the aliens invade.

Spoiler:

A couple of characters, new and old, die, along with the usual civilian casualty list for these sort of movies, but for the most part a great deal get through the adventure unscathed.

Will Smith's son is wasted here, they tease some friction between him and the hothead, but once he loses his mother there's a scene where the hothead tells him how sorry he is and that's sort of dropped.

Despite a lot of deaths, not a whole lot of them happen on-screen either, not even for two of the three Presidents that are in this one.

I did enjoy the bit where the cocky pilot pissed on the ship while giving the aliens the finger.

The third act is the part that really got me feeling like a kid of the 90s again, with the Queen attacking Area 51 and chasing down a school bus. Implausible goofy ****, but something that would come right out my generation's kind of blockbuster.

The sphere reminded me of Marvin the paranoid android from the Hitchkiker's movie, only without a body. I imagined every line in the info dump sequence being spoken in Alan Rickman's voice. The sphere doesn't really talk all that much after it says what it needs to say, which was odd.

So the next film, assuming there is one, will see humanity take the fight into enemy territory, sort of US giving THEM their own Independence Day. Nice pro-active idea.

Take a while to get going, but that last act really saves it for me. Sheer nonsense, but a decent sequel.

[Vicky82]

I saw this today and it was good, not as good as the original but it does open a door for a sequel. I loved that they used the original score from the 1st movie for this movie. I thought funny moments were a bit forced.

I loved Brent Spinner's character, he was awesome.

There was no mention of what happened to Margaret Colin's character.

Spoiler:

A couple of the original characters die in this movie.

Spoiler:

Bill Pullman. Vivica A. Fox, (her cameo was pointless she was only in the movie for about 5 mins and then gets killed off). Also Dr Okun assistant (I think he was in the original movie) also dies.

Spoiler:

The new president doesn't do much in this movie apart from blowing up the sphere's spaceship which was meant to save everyone but the President and the council thought it was evil and destroy it but anyway she gets killed off later (and all her followers) in her high tech secret bunker by the aliens and Eric Sacks I mean William Fichtner takes over as the new President

[ZariusTwo]

Jeremy Jahns review. He did'nt really like it and found it forgettable.



One other thing about Spiner

Spoiler:

They revealed his character is gay, but his partner dies at the end

[Andrew NDB]

Looking forward to seeing this one this weekend.

[ZariusTwo]

[Andrew NDB]

One of the things I've read is that the music score in this one is decidedly very weak. One of the strongest aspects that really helped carry the first one to me was the very powerful, memorable score, so that's kind of sad.

[TigerClaw]

The movie made 4 million on Thursday night.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4200&p=.htm

[TheSkeletonMan939]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

One of the things I've read is that the music score in this one is decidedly very weak. One of the strongest aspects that really helped carry the first one to me was the very powerful, memorable score, so that's kind of sad.

I've heard similar sentiments from others.

The composer for the original film, David Arnold, was not even asked to return. Instead, Harold Kloser and the unfortunately-named Thomas Wanker wrote the score. Arnold at least was hopeful the duo would use his themes. I wonder if they did; I haven't listened to the score to either film yet.

[Cure]

I don't even remember the music, except for the part where Boomer runs through the tunnel.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TheSkeletonMan939

I've heard similar sentiments from others.

The composer for the original film, David Arnold, was not even asked to return. Instead, Harold Kloser and the unfortunately-named Thomas Wanker wrote the score. Arnold at least was hopeful the duo would use his themes. I wonder if they did; I haven't listened to the score to either film yet.

I've heard there's some "callbacks" to the original score (of which the consensus seems that those are regarded to be the best part of the score) within the new one, but that's it.

[TigerClaw]

You can listen to samples from the soundtrack here.
https://www.amazon.com/Independence-.../dp/B01EXYW5TC

If you listen to track 24 called ID4 Reprise, You can hear bits of the original theme.

[NinjaPug]

Pretty disappointing opening box office:

Gitesh Pandya‏ @GiteshPandya
$16.8M FRI for #IndependenceDayResurgence going to about $43M wknd. Won't match debut of 1st pic from 20yrs ago when tix cost half as much.

[TheSkeletonMan939]

First Looking Glass, then X-Men, then OotS, and now this. Maybe the studios are realizing that audiences are tired of half-baked sequels. It's about effin' time.

[Vicky82]

This what happens when you release a potentially big movie a week after Finding Dory.

They should have spread out the movie release dates more not release them so close together or on the same day.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Vicky82

This what happens when you release a potentially big movie a week after Finding Dory.

They should have spread out the movie release dates more not release them so close together or on the same day.

They should've released on the week of the 4th of July.

Anyways, gonna see it tomorrow.

[NinjaPug]

Originally Posted by Vicky82

This what happens when you release a potentially big movie a week after Finding Dory.

They should have spread out the movie release dates more not release them so close together or on the same day.

Or maybe they should make a good movie more people want to see