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11/06/09
11/06/09
Goldblum will be the top science advisor/Secretary of Alien Tech Stuff; Pullman as the former prez will be another adviser, or maybe head of the United Nations after his awesome work on blowing up the aliens. He'd be the first UN prez everyone respected or at least stfu and listened to. #independenceday
11/06/09
July 4th really is just another day. It has no meaning for anybody else. Nor do I want most of the rest of the world blown up so Americans can swoop in and save the day, thereby making July 4th some kind of weird, Manifest Destiny global celebration. I do not want your figurehead leader as my king, thankyouverymuch.
Between this and his comments about religion, Emmerich should really go crawl back under a rock or something. #independenceday
11/06/09
The thing is... most American entertainment is going to be centered on America and how awesome we are. Maybe your country can make it's own movie about how awesome they are so that you can enjoy something too. #independenceday
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America probably could do a lot of good in the world if it wasn't such a net negative influence. Thanks again for training Bin Laden and leaving everybody else's soldiers to die trying to find him while you guys ran off to Iraq to whip another one of the lackeys you put in power to begin with.
And that's kind of what made ID4 so disturbing. You just know that what's happening there is that the Americans have swept into the global power gap caused by the alien invasion. Independence Day doesn't become a spontaneous global celebration. It's imposed by fiat from the only intact government, who are incidentally the only people who know how to use all this super-advanced alien technology.
But yeah, it is just a movie and I'm reading too much into it. I'm sure that Emmerich occupies the same fictionalized head space that actually believes that America wouldn't ever hurt anybody or do anything bad. #independenceday
11/06/09
Obama: We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.
Aliens: ...
Moments later.
*World gets obliterated by Alien orbital death rays* #independenceday
11/06/09
Presumably the Earth is in moderately bad shape, with most of the major cities destroyed.
Exactly what condition is Earth in, 15 years later?
11/06/09
In the case of ID4, nope, no mention of Canadian cities being attacked, so we made it through just fine thank you. #independenceday
11/06/09
Right up until about 5 minutes after I left the theater and said, "Waitasec." #independenceday
11/07/09
The funny thing about Emmerich's comments is that a sequel would be so far into alternative history territory that real world events are pretty much irrelevant. ID4/2 would be 15 years after the equivalent of a major nuclear war. Given onscreen dialogue about how fast the ships are killing cities, a good fraction of the ~200 population centers over 2 million are smoldering craters and the world's changed beyond recognition. Even the first strike we see probably took out the Top 20 and nearly half a billion people. It's a good dose of Fridge Logic with a side order of Inferred Holocaust.
Fortunately, Canada escaped unscathed! #independenceday
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by the way, anyone else notice that Jeff Goldblum actually is a scientist? think about it: A) he always plays himself. B) he always plays a scientist. therefore, Jeff Goldblum is a scientist. #independenceday
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cheers #independenceday
11/13/09
...never saw the big chill, does he play a scientist, or himself? HA! trick question hot shot! #independenceday
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#calendar
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11/06/09
I know Clinton was not a fighter pilot, but both the fictional and real presidents had a wife and one daughter, were ruggedly handsome and were good leaders.
It's kinda stupid to compare the way they acted when they face totally different situations.
I mean, most of the aliens Clinton had to deal with were slave labour smuggled into the country. #independenceday
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Would they just kill him off? Did he retire and start his own private foundation? #independenceday
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I think you've spent too much time in pretend world. #independenceday
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So if he did want to bash Bush on the screen and not just in print, by that logic he should have made ID42 at some point. The president could have been opposite of Bush and presumably people would eat that up.
I think he just needs some $$$ and is going back to his signature movie after his (relative) disaster porn failures.
And remember Bush w/ the bullhorn after 9/11? That was a kingly moment, easily the high point of his terms in my book. Give a decent actor that sort of scene and it would rock in a summer movie. #independenceday
11/06/09
And, uh--wasn't Independence Day made during the Clinton administration? And if, after the first one, if they'd spent 2 years monkeying around with a sequel script and then 2 years making the movie, and released it 4 years after the 1st one...well, then it would have come out in July of 2000. Still during the Clinton administration. His reasoning doesn't make sense.
Besides, the ID president was nothing like incumbent Bill Clinton. If he wanted the movie president to resonate with the real-life President, well, he never would have made Independence Day in the first place. I call shenanigans. It's more about money than "waiting for the right president." #independenceday
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