Independence Day: An American Disaster

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In 1996 Roland Emmerich made a pretty neat film. It was about aliens. It was all downhill from there.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
03:30 Independence Day 1
08:34 The Aliens
10:33 The Silly Stuff
14:35 The Cast
19:06 Independence Day 2
23:20 Wasted Potential
27:10 A Nothing Sequel
33:52 The Cast (Part 2)
39:22 The End

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39 thoughts on “Independence Day: An American Disaster”

  2. I watched it for will smith. And plus it’s a feel good movie… will felt like a star at that time. Even if this was him building his star (a bad movie that people watch for mostly for him still works to that end) I remember just waiting for his scenes

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  5. I don't think ID is a "it sucks but I like it" type movie… because it really doesn't suck. It's pure cheese, trashy fast food movie making at its finest, suck not included.

    I'm a 90s kid and I love it too, it really does encompass the 'feel' of the 90s. That optimistic time after the Cold War and before everything went to hell in the 2000s, conveniently coinciding with my innocent childhood years when I wasn't saddled with ten thousand worries. It's loaded with American patriotism (I'm not American), but it's from a time when that meant something else, it didn't come across as jingoistic, imperialistic, or sinister.

    There was no sequel. There. Was. No. Sequel.

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  10. Thank you, Cody, for every video, but thank you ESPECIALLY for that amazing Venn diagram distilling ironic and unironic enjoyment into the mystical zone of overlap appropriately named: “it sucks, but I like it anyway.” Surely, you have gifted us an entry into cultural lexicon that I personally believe (and hope) has real staying power.

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  12. The original was fun, patriotic, and absurdly campy. Resurgence was a cash grab for the 20-year anniversary of the first, which was also a victim of the "young adult" genre trend of the 2010's.

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  13. I loved two things about the sequel: The idea that they raised a generation to believe that they could fight off the aliens if they returned, but did so knowing they couldn’t be sure of that (but now wanted to try to live up to that lie). I also loved the idea of an isolated African nation fighting the aliens alone for years. They’d have been better off doing a movie about that second idea, to lead into this one, though.

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  14. I find it frustratingly naive when people (or movies) predict that a utopian future can be achieved once we get sufficiently advanced technology, as if though the world sucks so much right now simply because our tech isn't futuristic enough. Man, if only we had sustainable energy supplies, abundant food production, and AI-enabled automation, then surely the world would be a paradise. Once we figure out technologies like those, surely everything will get better.

    Hey wait a minute-

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  19. What really sucks about the second movie is that most of the lore about the post war was in the movie site. I remember reading it for hours, it was really clever and nice and then the movie came up and destroyed all of it.

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