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Independence Day: Resurgence **SPOILERS FROM POST 266 ONWARD**

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  • #2
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Haha. this sounds brilliantly awful. whats the bets the patriotism is ramped up to 11 and some sort of link made between aliens and "terrorists"


  • #3
    ollie1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭ollie1


    Seventeen years since the last Independence Day movie :eek: Man that makes me feel old.


  • #4
    brianregan09
    Registered Users Posts: 8,476 ✭✭✭brianregan09


    The Aliens come back and obliterate everyone this time......Heres hoping anyway ..and no will smyth to save them this time


  • #5
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,992 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    I can't help that they're gonna set up for a disappointment, this time around. What made ID4 so great was its heavy reliance on practical effects (which is why the spaceships, especially when they're about to fire their weapons, still look so good after all these years), and with all the advances in computer graphics and the convenience of it, don't expect them to continue that for the sequel. That being said, the original movie is something that I can just watch over and over again because of how fun it is. At least it's not like Transformers where the non stop action gets all exhausting after a while. ID4 at least has the effort to pace its action properly.


  • #6
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,957 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Make ID2?

    If only they could unmake ID1 !!


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  • #7
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Wow they're running out of ideas


  • #8
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    EoghanIRL wrote: »
    Wow they're running out of ideas

    I think this is a case of Roland Emmerich rehashing his own ideas after covering most disaster scenarios. Expect 'The Day After the Day After Tomorrow' in a few years....


  • #9
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »
    I can't help that they're gonna set up for a disappointment, this time around. What made ID4 so great was its heavy reliance on practical effects (which is why the spaceships, especially when they're about to fire their weapons, still look so good after all these years), and with all the advances in computer graphics and the convenience of it, don't expect them to continue that for the sequel. That being said, the original movie is something that I can just watch over and over again because of how fun it is. At least it's not like Transformers where the non stop action gets all exhausting after a while. ID4 at least has the effort to pace its action properly.

    Id4?


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    No Will smith ?? I dont know how they are going to make this good. I Loved the idea of the dog fights between Earth and the aliens. It made me feel earth was always up against it.


  • #11
    Hope Gifted Tailgate
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ Hope Gifted Tailgate


    Corkfeen wrote: »
    I think this is a case of Roland Emmerich rehashing his own ideas after covering most disaster scenarios. Expect 'The Day After the Day After Tomorrow' in a few years....

    To be fair he has been talking about it for close to 20 years at this stage. I just wish that him and Devlin would kiss and make up so that they could finially make that Stargate sequel.


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  • #12
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 35,941 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    Deleted User wrote: »
    To be fair he has been talking about it for close to 20 years at this stage. I just wish that him and Devlin would kiss and make up so that they could finially make that Stargate sequel.

    Hmmm, considering the film already spawned a pretty successful / popular sequence of TV spin-offs - a few TV movies too - is a direct sequel to the original film needed? Heck, would Emmerich even be allowed get his hands on the franchise; I presume the Sci-Fi channel are the ones holding the rights atm, and Emmerich's style seems at odds with what I understand the Stargate mythology morphed into.


  • #13
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,668 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    They should do it as spoof. The aliens return to Earth to get revenge on McAfee for the terrible Anti-virus software they sold them. Give John McAfee a leading role. Then Jeff Goldblum, using one of the new MacBook Pros, uploads another virus, destroying whatever is left of their civilisation. Oh and Will Smith and Will Smith Jr. show up and stuff explodes for the last 40 minutes.


  • #14
    Apollo Delightful Tether
    Posts: 0 ✭ Apollo Delightful Tether


    If Smith hadn't been in the original Independence Day, then would it have been as good? I haven't seen it in years, but the only bits I can remember involve him and also Bill Pulman's speech.


  • #15
    DoesNotCompute
    Registered Users Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭DoesNotCompute


    Will Smith & son crashland on the alien's homeworld, Will breaks both his legs, and his son has to go get the beacon from the tail of the spacecraft, whilst avoiding aliens that have evolved to kill humans. Big twist at the end: "It was Earth all along :eek:"


  • #16
    krudler
    Registered Users Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    the earth is now full of mutants from all the radioactive alien ships crashing into our atmosphere at the end of the first movie


  • #17
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    Crooked Jack wrote: »
    Id4?

    ID4 was the shorthand for Independence Day.

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  • #18
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    Apollo Delightful Tether wrote: »
    If Smith hadn't been in the original Independence Day, then would it have been as good? I haven't seen it in years, but the only bits I can remember involve him and also Bill Pulman's speech.

    I love that speech :D

    Not sure if I'll go see the sequel though. I'm just a bit iffy about it.


  • #19
    Apollo Delightful Tether
    Posts: 0 ✭ Apollo Delightful Tether


    x Purple Pawprints x wrote: »
    I love that speech :D

    Not sure if I'll go see the sequel though. I'm just a bit iffy about it.

    A good few years ago with a lot of difficulty using Sound Recorder, my brothers and I did a very funny version where we spliced random Pinky and the Brain noises within the speech, so it'd sound something like -
    Good morning. Good morning. Point In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, narf and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. fjord Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today fjord point narf

    It came out pretty funny.


  • #20
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    Hahaha that would be hilarious! :)


  • #21
    Apollo Delightful Tether
    Posts: 0 ✭ Apollo Delightful Tether


    Was the only video I could find of the speech - apologies for the terrible quality ... and generally because I have nothing better to do today.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSg0F2jgkPo


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  • #22
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,848 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum are returning, Will Smith wants to much cash apparently
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #23
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I am ridiculously excited about this. Shame there's no Will Smith. Don't care in the slightest about Bill Pullman. We got Jeff Goldblum and that's all that matters. I mostly hope we get Robert Loggia back.


  • #24
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,848 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Zillah wrote: »
    I am ridiculously excited about this. Shame there's no Will Smith. Don't care in the slightest about Bill Pullman. We got Jeff Goldblum and that's all that matters. I mostly hope we get Robert Loggia back.

    And Judd Hirsch
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  • #25
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Ha, I was thinking that too!

    "You punched the President?!"


  • #26
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Adam Baldwin needs to be back


  • #27
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,848 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Might as well get Randy Quaid back as an alien :P
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  • #28
    x Purple Pawprints x
    Registered Users Posts: 40,401 ✭✭✭✭x Purple Pawprints x


    No Will Smith? Awh. Pity.

    I loved Randy Quaid's character :D


  • #29
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,969 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    So long as Goldblum is in, I'll be happy because after such a long time you can't expect all the originals to be on board. Tbh I had given up on this becoming a reality. When the Day After Tomorrow came out there was hype about a possible ID4-2, but the door was shut on the idea.
    What made ID4 so great was its heavy reliance on practical effects (which is why the spaceships, especially when they're about to fire their weapons, still look so good after all these years), and with all the advances in computer graphics and the convenience of it, don't expect them to continue that for the sequel. That being said, the original movie is something that I can just watch over and over again because of how fun it is. At least it's not like Transformers where the non stop action gets all exhausting after a while. ID4 at least has the effort to pace its action properly.

    Looking back at movies of that era, it was a great time for special effects. JP in 1995, ID4 in 1996, JP2 in 1997, Armageddon in 1998, and then boom, CGI took over with the likes of Star Wars Episode 1. Could we hope for a ID4++ to not be CGI?


  • #30
    Elessar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,237 ✭✭✭Elessar


    ID4 was like, the movie of my childhood. Amazing when it came out and I remember the hype around it. It was everything a young boy could want in a movie! Can't believe it's been 17 years...Personally, I'll want to see this. But it won't touch the original from what I'm reading about the plot.

    Honest Trailers did their work on ID4 only a few days ago :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YtvsxB9xQY


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  • #31
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Deleted User wrote: »
    To be fair he has been talking about it for close to 20 years at this stage. I just wish that him and Devlin would kiss and make up so that they could finially make that Stargate sequel.

    I liked Stargate but never realised he directed, as a direct result he has risen in my estimates. :D


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