Independence Day 2 (2016)

[Dai]

[Outkaster]

[mr.negativity]

Director confirms that "Independence Day 2" has two different screenplays depending on whether or not Will Smith gets onboard.

[Outkaster]

Looks like the date is pushed back:

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[Dai]

While I'm not opposed to an ID4 sequel, I don't see what it can do to be anything other than forgettable. The cinematic landscape for SF has changed dramatically since 1996. The movie worked at the time because it tapped into the mid-90s zeitgeist of X-Files-fuelled alien conspiracies and end-of-the-century apocalypse-mongering. It was also among the first movies to obliterate iconic buildings in such convincing fashion, which was perfect trailer-bait. Viewed now, it's just a big, dumb b-movie with an over-inflated ego and a poor sense of humour. It retains some of its spectacle, and the tension of the first act is still pretty effective, but it wouldn't stand out from the crowd among modern tentpole movies the way it did on release.

Since then, we've seen the alien invasion as insidious experiment in Dark City, the alien invasion as cutting satire in Starship Troopers, the alien invasion as disaster survival movie in War of the Worlds, the alien invasion as straight military operation in Battle: Los Angeles (the closest in tone to ID4, and also a movie that failed to set the box office alight), the alien invasion as live-action cartoon spectacle full of beloved characters in The Avengers, and that's just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Unless the new Independence Day can do something to set itself apart (I don't think being laughable will cut it), it's going to flop hard.

[GFan]

[mr.negativity]

The actor has not read the script for 'Independence 2' yet, but he's excited to see what the writers have come up with.

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Dread Central:

[XvGojira]

[DannyBeane]

[jellydonut25]

LOL. Archer is always appropriate.

[XvGojira]

So then this is not only a sequel but a porn parody?

[mr.negativity]

[mr.negativity]

[O.Supreme]

Call me Naïve , but the film looks decent. Do I expect anything more then a dumb fun popcorn flick, no... But for some reason I can suspend my belief more and have fun when bad films involve aliens & monsters rather than end of world catastrophes.

[XvGojira]

I just wonder what the Alien's plans are this time. The new things look like giant city sized tripods (and then the big planet sized mother ship). Maybe mining for resources or Man of Steel like terraforming? Screw city by city destruction they're just going to suck the Earth dry with us still on it.

But yeah, this isn't going to be high art. But if it does the ensemble cast dynamic as well as they did with the first one or even 2012 and the ship fights are just a dogfighty as the first, my ass with be in the theater opening night.

[lhb412]

Basically Macross, right? We reverse-engineer alien technology to make weapons and then the aliens come back and we fight them?

[DannyBeane]

Honestly I think it looks awful, like every other generic scifi alien invasion film to come out over the past 10 years.

[XvGojira]

[Gman2887]

[DannyBeane]