Originally Posted by Thrudd
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At this point I’m getting the strong sense that my original mistaken impression—a bad studio rehash of Forever War—would actually have been much better than what this actually is.

Originally Posted Rodin
Independence Day…knows exactly what genre it is and manages to be awesome regardless.
So true. One of those movies you have to experience in the theater for the full effect of the large-scale, slam-bang goofiness of it all.

Originally Posted by Rodin
It combined the mass destruction of a disaster movie with awesome action sequences and the action comedy chops of Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum in their prime.
And let’s not forget Brent Spiner, as the gloriously cheesy almost-mad scientist.