(07-06-2016 09:55 AM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  

(07-06-2016 01:59 AM)Brookes Owl Wrote:  

(07-05-2016 10:58 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  Independence Day Resurgence/ theater
--ehhh....it was a cash grab based on the prior movie. I did like the way they played out the advancement of tech based on the events of the first movie's scenario. While the first one definitely had its hokey moments the newer one had more and felt more "forced."

Well, the first movie was certainly a cash grab. If you want to point to patient zero in Hollywood's trend of movies that put all their time, energy and money into effects in lieu of plot and dialog, it's Independence Day. Never before that movie was there so much simultaneous praise of special effects and derision of story. I think cynicism has always been a component of the movie industry but it sure seems like ID was its coming out party. Would we have had the Michael Bay Transformers movies without ID?

The first one was not 100% effects driven although I could see where you say that as the promos for it were all about the white house taking a big laser to the roof. Transformers already had its movie in 1986 (or 87) but it was animated and didn't perform well. Michael Bay has always done big action scene movies and if he got the rights to do a live action Transformers movie it would be in his wheel house. The biggest downfall of his first three movies was force feeding the love story angle.

I liked ID4 (the original) - alien and Area 51 themes were big in general during that time, and I loved the X Files so the movie was right up my alley. Some hokey Hollywood stuff and cliches throughout, but still thought it was well done. And I'm not normally into BigCGI summer movies.