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Lifer
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BrokenVisage said:
But.. The Force Awakens and Hunger Games (and surely Ghostbusters will do fine)
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I think Ghostbusters will get panned and flop like a mofo. I guess it'll probably make back its costs, cause even shit movies do usually, but I think it'll be considered a failure.
 
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Pardus

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Top 5 things i learned from Independence Day (1996)

1. The only way to defeat the alien ship is to have a pilot fly straight into the energy beam, kamikaze style and kill himself to save everyone else.
2. In the event of the major fireball engulfing the city, you can just duck into a maintenance shaft and you won't get burned, not even a little.
3. To defeat the alien mother ship, use a ship that crash landed 50-years ago, they won't notice is a very old ship and allow you to dock with them without any issue.
4. When a alien ship floats over your city, climb to the roof of a very tall building with a sign that says "welcome home"
5. To defeat aliens with advanced technology, use an Apple Powerbook 5300 to upload a virus.

If this happened in real life people wouldn't run they would pull out their i-phones and take pictures.
 
HomerJS

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Lifer
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Pardus said:
Top 5 things i learned from Independence Day (1996)

1. The only way to defeat the alien ship is to have a pilot fly straight into the energy beam, kamikaze style and kill himself to save everyone else.
2. In the event of the major fireball engulfing the city, you can just duck into a maintenance shaft and you won't get burned, not even a little.
3. To defeat the alien mother ship, use a ship that crash landed 50-years ago, they won't notice is a very old ship and allow you to dock with them without any issue.
4. When a alien ship floats over your city, climb to the roof of a very tall building with a sign that says "welcome home"
5. To defeat aliens with advanced technology, use an Apple Powerbook 5300 to upload a virus.

If this happened in real life people wouldn't run they would pull out their i-phones and take pictures.
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6. Secret Service dropped the ball allowing POTUS to fly fighter squadron vs aliens.
7. That view of the Empire State Building cannot be seen from the ground
8. Environmentally conscious nerd smokes?

BTW - Harry Connick imitation of Jesse Jackson was pretty good
 
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ID4 is an average (at best) invasion movie with the one of the most stupid methods of defeating the aliens that only was successful because people gave it a pass for having nice 'splosions.

Maybe on cable if I am too drunk or stoned to change the channel or turn off the t.v.


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GagHalfrunt

GagHalfrunt

Lifer
Apr 19, 2001
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Define "going to see".

Am I going to the movies to see it? No, movie theaters suck.

Am I going to see it when it becomes available on BluRay? Yes, most definitely
 
Blue_Max

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Will definitely see but I'd rather spend the same movie fee on owning BluRay, etc.
 
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Pardus

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Received free screening tickets to see this movie and it was a huge disappointment. Why it took them 20-years to make a sequel is beyond me. If you like CGI movies with bad acting and predictable results, go see it. The trailer on YouTube pretty much shows all the good parts. Would rate this as a D-.
 
Charmonium

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Pardus said:
Received free screening tickets to see this movie and it was a huge disappointment. Why it took them 20-years to make a sequel is beyond me. If you like CGI movies with bad acting and predictable results, go see it. The trailer on YouTube pretty much shows all the good parts. Would rate this as a D-.
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I hate movies where all of the good stuff is in the trailers. But on the other hand, I do luvs me some good CGI. I guess I'll still go see it.
 
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Pardus

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Mayne said:
this movie has no wil smith. that really pisses me off.
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Will Smith decided to do Suicide Squad instead, he said he doesn't like sequels, this coming from someone who did Bad Boys 1,2 and now 3 and 4. Not to mention Men in Black 1,2 and 3. Maybe someone can answer this, if an alien ship is attacking a planet and sends out a distress call for help. Does it take 20 freaking years for them to respond. That's like calling AAA for a flat tire and they tell you we will be there in about 6 weeks, so please stand by.
 
Mayne

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Pardus this shit upsets me more than i'm comfortable with.
 
MongGrel

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Lifer
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Pardus said:
Received free screening tickets to see this movie and it was a huge disappointment. Why it took them 20-years to make a sequel is beyond me. If you like CGI movies with bad acting and predictable results, go see it. The trailer on YouTube pretty much shows all the good parts. Would rate this as a D-.
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Figured about as much.

Mayne said:
this movie has no wil smith. that really pisses me off.
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Everything pisses you off.

You're trashed all ready it appears, go eat a potato, and slur into your pillow.
 
JSt0rm

JSt0rm

Lifer
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Pardus said:
Will Smith decided to do Suicide Squad instead, he said he doesn't like sequels, this coming from someone who did Bad Boys 1,2 and now 3 and 4. Not to mention Men in Black 1,2 and 3. Maybe someone can answer this, if an alien ship is attacking a planet and sends out a distress call for help. Does it take 20 freaking years for them to respond. That's like calling AAA for a flat tire and they tell you we will be there in about 6 weeks, so please stand by.
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well honestly that part makes sense because space is big.
 
Imp

Imp

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You'd think that after those aliens genocided Earth, they would have tried to fine out where the aliens lived and sent every nuke on Earth over there.

Oh shit, is that a spoiler for a 20 year old movie?
 
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Pardus

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Independence Day 2 is out today, ratings are down to 6.1 on IMDB and 41% on RT. The text on there IMDB page for me is really hard to see, all black. Post your comments after you've seen it. Rumor has it there is going to be ID3.

Review: Independence Day: Resurgence is the summer’s worst movie — and its most boring
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/24/12023166/independence-day-2-review-resurgence-spoilers
 
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GasX

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This was a horrible movie.

"Stay behind the yellow line, dad!"

That was the best line in the movie and it was lame...
 
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I will see it if my wifes wants to see it since we normally go see something on July 4th weekend and Ive seen too many transformers movies then so this cant be worse than that.
 
Linux23

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