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Independence Day sequels. Two parts.

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Genx87

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A mac of all things! A mid 90's mac laptop, something that wasent compatible with shit down here on earth but works fine with alien motherships :awe:

I think it proves Steve Jobs was of alien technology. He didnt die, he jumped on a passing comet and is coming back to erradicate us silly earthlings by turning our iPhones,iPads, and iPods on us. Kind of a cross between Maximum Overdrive and War of the Worlds.
 

DAPUNISHER

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I thought the original story was this was their entire alien civilization and they just moved planet to planet taking all resources to survive.

How could humans expect them to return with more? Maybe I am remember wrong, but I thought that was the gist of it.
How about POTUS saw more than one swarm of locust when the alien was mind fucking him? We have more than one swarm here on earth. And it is a big damned universe, why would they put all their proverbial eggs in one basket.

This stuff ain't hard to write guys. That is the beauty of science fiction; anything is possible, even probable.
 

rudder

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funny how these aliens have all this power to travel across the galaxy and technology far far beyond what we have today, yet Jeff Goldblum was able to plant a virus on the "mother ship" with an old laptop and was able take them all down thanks to a ship that crash landed on earth 20-years ago and even more amazing how the aliens didn't notice it was an old/retired ship.

everything is always just perfect in movies.

Maybe the alien government was as dysfunctional as ours. Newer ships were ordered but sequestration hit... and the shield software had known bugs but the contractor stopped all work when the government refused to increase funds over bid levels and it just never got fixed. A newer version was supposed to be implemented but after spending 20 quatrillion rubarbs, the newer system crashed more than the old one.
 

Cheesemoo

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It's funny when nerds just can't be content with entertainment. They have to pick it apart like and seemingly are too stupid to realize it's FICTION. Get over yourself and learn to just have fun sometimes.

Sheldon: You know that scene was rife with scientific inaccuracy?
Penny: Yes, I know men can't fly...
Sheldon: No, no, let's assume that they can... Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of 32 feet per second per second... Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel... Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately 120 miles an hour, hits them and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces...
 

rh71

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didn't realize it was a serious-enough movie to do sequels. I mean it was entertaining for what it was... but.
 

ViperXX

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Sheldon: You know that scene was rife with scientific inaccuracy?
Penny: Yes, I know men can't fly...
Sheldon: No, no, let's assume that they can... Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of 32 feet per second per second... Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel... Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately 120 miles an hour, hits them and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces...

You ever catch a water ballon? Did you just stick out your hands and catch it or did you match it's falling speed with your hands and then catch it.
 

EliteRetard

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I have a feeling this is going to be as horrific as the new Star Trek time travel redo shit.

Stop trying to destroy great shows you bastards!
 

ViperXX

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I think it deserves a sequel. It was good movie. There's more story to tell. You think the aliens only have one 'aircraft carrier'.
 

blankslate

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It's funny when nerds just can't be content with entertainment. They have to pick it apart like and seemingly are too stupid to realize it's FICTION. Get over yourself and learn to just have fun sometimes.

There's fiction that's dumb, but fun. Then there's fiction that's so godawfully fucktarded that you wish someone punched the screenwriter's mother in the stomach while she was pregnant and did the world a favor.

People came out stupider for having watched it and most didn't realize it.
 
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EliteRetard

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There's fiction that's dumb, but fun. Then there's fiction that's so godawfully fucktarded that you wish someone punched the screenwriter's mother in the stomach while she was pregnant and did the world a favor.

People came out stupider for having watched it and most didn't realize it.

I realized it.
And appreciated it.

YAY!!!!!!

Really it's kinda like saying the original Star Trek was cheesy and dumb.

NO DUH.

But who didn't enjoy watching it? Star Trek and pizza each weak, YUM. Damn I'm old.

How about Star Wars 4-5-6? Cheesy and dumb. AND AWESOME.

I could keep going.
 

blankslate

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Really it's kinda like saying the original Star Trek was cheesy and dumb.

Oringinal Star Trek was nowhere near as stupid as IDFUCK.

Original Star Wars played with hero archetypes in a cool way. IDFUCK actually played with them in stupid harmful ways.
 

Maximilian

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I think it deserves a sequel. It was good movie. There's more story to tell. You think the aliens only have one 'aircraft carrier'.

I kinda thought they did tbh. Mothership was 1/4 the size of the moon, the president saying he saw the aliens thoughts and "theyre like locusts, their whole civilization moving from planet to planet, once they consume every natural resource they move on".

Just rewatched it ^_^