Back in the magical year of 1996; a small, independent movie captured the hearts of millions and went on to gross “butt-loads” of money. That movie is, of course, INDEPENDANCE DAY by Roland Emmerich. It starred Will Smith as a hot-shot fighter pilot, Bill Pullman as a hot-shot United States President and Jeff Goldblum as a hot-shot nerd. They join forces with the entirety of the U.S. military to combat some alien invaders who have already destroyed a bunch of our stuff using lasers.
Because more is always better, Emmerich has told MTV that he is working on, not one, but two sequels to ID4 (ID4 was the stupid acronym that was designed for this movie because people couldn’t be bothered with syllables). In a fit of genius, Emmerich said that he is considering the title ID4: EVER for one of the sequels. Does anyone else hear golf-claps?
I am not opposed to an INDEPENDENCE DAY sequel; the aliens were pretty cool looking and had nice gimmicks like telepathy and STAR TREK shields. I don’t think they’d be as good as the first because a lot of the appeal of the original was the shock of seeing all those monuments and stuff explode. That was their whole ad campaign actually. So without that shock all we’re left with are the aliens and I don’t know if they can carry a movie by themselves. And really, we’ve already beaten these aliens, are we just going to rumble with another group of them? After a while you’d think they’d start looking elsewhere for oil and wood to power their spaceships.
