confession time: I actually like the movie Independence Day

[Dis]

Originally posted by Donegeal
I think I can top Dis:

Not only did I like the movie Starship Troopers, its one of my favorite movies of all time!

Starship Troopers was amusing. it's not a movie I have any desire to watch. If i'm flipping through the channels and it's on, I'd probably find something better to watch.

It would especially be bad on regular tv where you don't get the tittie scenes. The only thing that made that movie watchable. The humour was pretty cool though. I loved the fascist stuff. I didn't care for the action scenes.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Arrian
I'll admit that I enjoyed parts of Independence Day. Other parts were cringe-worthy.

Definitely not the worse movie ever. Not even close.

Have we really forgotten about Battlefield Earth?

-Arrian

I was smart enough not to watch that film.

[Dis]

It's fun to analyze stupid movies. Granted they had no idea a techie with a mac could bring down their shield, so they had not reason to attack the military bases first. But if they had, there would be no planes to take their ships down.

And yes I feel like they stole from War of the Worlds. A virus killed the aliens in both.

It's basically a sci fi movie dumbed down for the masses. But I like this movie better than a lot of other dumbed down movies. Some movies are just too dumbed down.

So the aliens use the resources and move on. So perhaps that was their reason for not sending ateroids in. They don't specify which resources. Cities of course, are crap. No reason not to destroy them. It gets rid of a lot of humans (and nuisance) so they can go about their work of stripping the landscape. I'd imagine it involves strip mining, and getting what they can out of the atmosphere before they leave. They might need vegetation as well for drugs and chemicals, so that's why asteroids are out.

[Wycoff]

I like both Independence Day and Starship Troopers.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Maquiladora

Yeah, I just assumed they'd already decided our best weapons were **** and couldn't do any damage, so they just went straight for wiping out our pop.

Although it doesn't explain why they sent some of their fighters out to die needlessly, when we couldn't break their shields (with weapons) on any of the big ships.

They were using a pirated version of their OS, so MegaSoft updates for security wouldn't work. Therefore they had to wipe out our ability to fight before someone thought of emailing them a virus that would crash all their computers and make them defenceless.

[Drake Tungsten]

Unless you think men can normally rip telephone booths out from the ground with someone inside and flip it upside down, or tear a car seat out from the car frame, or kill hundreds of people single handedly.

I can. I don't know about you.

[Whoha]

Re: Re: confession time: I actually like the movie Independence Day

Originally posted by dudemanjack


Commando was a comedy?

Yes among other things it was.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Unless you think men can normally rip telephone booths out from the ground with someone inside and flip it upside down, or tear a car seat out from the car frame, or kill hundreds of people single handedly.

I can. I don't know about you.

You're French. He was talking about normal men.

[Sparrowhawk]

I liked the movie Independance Day, but what I really didn't like it was after world communications were knocked out and finally through Morse Code the nations were able to communicate with each other the universal response was "Finally the Americans are going to save us". I nearly gagged then and still gag now, just thinking about it. Without that line the movie would be ranked higher in my books. Typical American BS propaganda, where would the world be without us?

/me

[Drake Tungsten]

You're French. He was talking about normal men.

You know, it would be harder to lift a telephone booth with your average fat American in it than it would be to lift the same telephone booth with the average Frenchman in it. Maybe I'm not as awesome as I seem...

Typical American BS propaganda, where would the world be without us?

The Americans have by far the most powerful military on earth. As such, they would be the natural leaders of any resistance to an alien invasion.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
The Americans have by far the most powerful military on earth.

Is it painful for a "Frenchman" to admit that?

[Drake Tungsten]

Not particularly. I suspect I get more benefit out of the money we spend on our top-notch healthcare system then you get out of the money ya'll spend on your top-notch military.

[DinoDoc]

Benefit? You're the sick man of Europe.

[Wiglaf]

the french are now sympathetic to america and want to make america happy

[Dis]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
I liked the movie Independance Day, but what I really didn't like it was after world communications were knocked out and finally through Morse Code the nations were able to communicate with each other the universal response was "Finally the Americans are going to save us". I nearly gagged then and still gag now, just thinking about it. Without that line the movie would be ranked higher in my books. Typical American BS propaganda, where would the world be without us?

* Sparrowhawk

yeah I admit I cringed on that line. And the cheesy speech given by the president.