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  Independence Day (spoilers)

   • k******d@d*****i.com
     07/07/1996 00:00:000 UTC

     All--

     So have you seen Idependence Day yet?

     As a shoot-'em up comic book style summer movie it really is very good!

     It's funny and has great special effects. Very good casting. Will Smith
     was

     excellent as was Bill Pullman. It held my interest despite being over 2
     hours

     long.

     As a science fiction film it kinda sucks. As Perianne pointed out,
     there's

     hardly an original thought in the whole flick: bits from every sci-fi
     movie

     from the last thirty years are cut like broadcloth and woven into the
     plot

     (i.e. the "Dr. Strangelove" Slim Pickens ploy or the modified "War of
     the

     Worlds" defense, not to mention liberal dashes of "Star Wars").
     Impausible

     plot points abound (Attack a 15 mile diameter alien starship with
     fighters?!

     _GOOD_ idea lord! I guess the world's arsenal of missles was out at the

     cleaners that week.). The depiction of the head scientist at Area 51 was

     awful. The character had his head so far up his ass that he hadn't a
     clue as

     to what was going on around him. He's really smart and therefore has no

     compassion for his fellow human beings. Great _thank you_ - that kind of

     'mad scientist' crap is best left to the 1950s where it belongs.

     It's definitely fun and worth going to see on the big screen, just check
     your

     disbelief at the door!

     --Doc