itt post things Bill Pullman says in Independence Day

Gentlemen, let's PLOW THE ROAD.

we're being EXTERMINATED

we WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT

DOESN'T ANYONE HAVE ANY MISSILES LEFT

PILOT, YOU ARMED?!

All the bad little girls, they run straight to hell! And I'm following

maybe not playing the exact rules

"You dropped your shoe"

yeah ok so that was in Malice.

NUKEM. LET'S NUKE THE BASTARDS

Yeah, Mommy is sleeping now.

So...it's an organic lifeform

I'm a combat pilot, Will. I belong in the air.

AN EDITOR'S DESK FOR THE STAR REPORTER!

Sorry, I was thinking of things Bill Pullman sings in Newsies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbduDRH2m2M

fuck me i'm gonna get midnight tickets

Brent Spiner is in this? I thought his character was killed.

Judd Hirsch barely looks a day older from the last movie, he looks younger than Bill Paxton

is he the crazy scientist? xp

looks boring

xxl Bill Pullman, don't make me get up

oops I posted the wrong bill, always get them 2 mixed up, they both did 90's noir that I liked at the time - One False Move/The Last Seduction

only thing that kept me finishing the trailer was wondering if they were going to use the entirety of that quote from the last movie.

yawn.

Haha, Will Smith's character was apparently killed off-screen: http://io9.com/independence-day-resurgence-has-an-excuse-for-its-lack-1747884652

https://keithroysdon.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/poochie-slide.jpg

hahahahaha

would be willing to bet that if they ever make a third one, smith comes back for a huge paycheck and it's revealed that his death was faked as part of a coverup so deep it never even comes up in the course of this movie.

i know you were waiting for a 0-star review.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/independence-day-resurgence

at least Judd Hirsch is still going strong.

"Judd Hirsch doing his obnoxious “old Jewish man” routine, which reaches its nadir when his character says something along the lines of “What? It takes an alien invasion to get you to visit your father?”

there's a scene where a huge-assed alien pursues a schoolbus full of kids

this wasn't bad, I wasn't bored, the visuals were dope, none of the characters mattered worth a shit, it was pathos-by-numbers, but hey a lot of shit looked awesome blowing up.

Walter Chaw:

About a third of the way through the slog of Independence Day: Resurgence (hereafter ID4.2), the hopelessly-misguided and bellicose POTUS (Sela Ward), dressed smartly in a pantsuit with her hair pulled back in a severe-but-sensible bun, makes the first of a couple of really, really stupid mistakes before being executed off-screen by the alien scourge. And good riddance, for in her place rises man-of-action legacy POTUS Whitmore (Bill Pullman), suffering from some kind of alien-inflicted dementia but, you know, a man who hears voices and occasionally lapses into a coma is still better than a woman, amiright 'murica? High five. There's also a younger, less-demented POTUS on standby, Adams (William Fichtner), who is also obviously preferable to a woman. (High five.)

no idea what the "4" was ever doing in the abbrev of this inbred dumbass movie

I was kind of surprised that there is enough latent nostalgia for the original for there to be a reboot or whatever these are called now.

Like I remember it seeming kinda cool when I saw it at the time but it wasn't something that stayed with me.

no nostalgia involved, it made a shitload of cash, gotta go back

well, there was a toyline.

plus, what are we going to do, try to float some kind of...new movie franchise? with aliens?

will probably never occasion to see this but I am going to choose to believe that beach boys "4th of july" plays over the end credits/montage of dead-ass aliens in famous american landmarks with a stinger in the middle teasing the return of a hybrid robot/alien harry connick jr.

appears to be a box office disappointment

man.... this was trash!

the leads (outside of returning characters of course) were all completely devoid of personality. it felt like they were side stories in their own movie. there were times when the film reveled in some badmovie fun, like Jeff Goldblum driving around a schoolbus full of kids while a giant alien chases them, that kind of silliness was alright. and the scene on the French research vessel of course had everyone drinking wine, listening to accordion music, AND someone wearing a fucking beret, how cartoonish can you get? the pandering to the Chinese market was so unsubtle, at one point the Chinese character happens to be standing in front of two people holding up a giant flag of China. from the start of the film it's obvious this is going to be a hack job with them replaying the titular inspirational speech in some mass of techno computer graphics like some discarded DVD menu loop. Data got a lot of play and i guess turned into a blood-hungry maniac or something, and everyone in this is so shoot-first-ask-questions-never it's worse than a Michael Bay film. of course there are no consequences even though they try to destroy some other aliens that are helping them. oh yeah and at the very end with like 2 minutes to go they remember they have to set up more films and it's this tacked on open-ended ending teasing future movies that comes across more as a threat than anything. it's all so dumb, dumb, dumb. at least it isn't pretending to be something that it isn't. it knows it is mindless crap and it's happy rolling around in it.

It was a really dumb movie (kind of like the first one), but it was kind of missing the knowing b-movie aesthetic that made that one good. The pathos of the mad scientist guy in the last scene was ridiculous. but the visuals were really cool so I still kinda had a good time? not a stunning endorsement for a film, but I've seen worse popcorn flicks.

Still, the scene where Judd Hirsch is driving a schoolbus full of a kids away from a pursuing alien is the funniest memory of this film to me (which I've already forgotten).

at one point Jeff Goldblum says "they like to go for the landmarks" i thought that was pretty funny

also fitting that the female President barely gets to survive halfway through the movie. Because of course she's weak compared to Pullman rite?

xpost yeah this thing was really missing out on great one-liners. "I know you didn't just shoot that green shit at me" from ID4 is all-time.

yes! "kick the tires and light the fires". the original had a lot of b-movie charm

yeah, this one tried to fight above its weight-class too much, and, say what you will about Will Smith, but his presence is missed here. movie needed a wise-cracking hero instead of some pencil-dick.

it's also kind of funny how, yet again the film seems to treat millions-billions of people peacing out in a matter of hours as nbd. At least in the first one, it was alluded to by showing the public panic during initial invasion, and by some of Pullman's comments, chastising the doctor for being flippant while people were dying.

Here they take the "out of sight, out of mind" approach, so you don't feel guilty when you're enjoying the laser show.

"Judd Hirsch doing his obnoxious “old Jewish man” routine, which reaches its nadir when his character says something along the lines of “What? It takes an alien invasion to get you to visit your father?”

it's not as on-the-nose but "Holy Moses, why did I ever buy this boat?!!" really deserves to enter the pantheon of horrible lines of movie dialogue (though i'm probably getting the exact wording wrong)

and the scene on the French research vessel of course had everyone drinking wine, listening to accordion music, AND someone wearing a fucking beret

this is fascinating to me because i watched this on a flight back from scotland and i would swear to you that this was a Scottish research vessel with guys drinking whiskey. more localization leverage? at this point roland emmerich's movies are just gigantic kits of reshufflable parts anyway. kind of weird to be watching a narrative and simultaneously saying to yourself "hmm, i'm sure this character gets more screentime and makes some kind of sense in the Chinese version of this movie." so okay this is Independence Day: 2012 which is better than say Independence Day: 10,000 B.C. but omg this mix-and-match jumble of stuff makes for a weird combination of staggeringly expensive and utterly incompetent. it has the pacing of the zanier sort of MST3k movie... nothing gets set up, nothing builds, all but two or three scenes have a comic relief beat deflating any possible ramping-up of tension, every single crisis is introduced and resolved in basically the same scene, and many scenes are thirty seconds or less in order to cram everything in. god damned mess from top to bottom.

nadir of the casual handling of mass death has to be goldblum and hemsworth launching into a discussion of pants-pissing moments after witnessing (and barely surviving) the total annihilation of london. tens of millions are dead, and emmerich mainly cares that you see the buildings blow up, and laugh regularly.

btw for future googling since it hasn't been named in-thread, this is all in re the 2016 schlockbuster Independence Day: Resurgence