The “Independence Day: Resurgence” trailer.

I think that my buddy Joe Cunningham sums it up rather well, honestly.

Seriously: it looks like they’ve decided to take advantage of the fact that all the actors are twenty years older by setting the sequel twenty years later, as well. I find this somewhat reassuring; it implies that people took seriously the idea of making this sequel.  That’s not always a given.

Moe Lane

PS: Of course I’m going to go see this film.  I’ve seen the first Independence Day more times than I can count; no way am I going to pass this up. Unless I thought that it would suck; and it doesn’t look guaranteed to suck, based on this trailer.

11 thoughts on “The “Independence Day: Resurgence” trailer.”

  2. I’m thinking William Fichtner and Ben Affleck land on the alien ship, drill a hole 800 feet, and drop a nuke into it.

  4. Sci-fi movies should be strong stories long on pew-pew and KABOOM! and short on sanctimonious moralization…
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    Okay, Hollywood, you may…may… earn my patronage with this movie. But on for this movie.

  5. So, I’m guessing I have to be the one to ask. Do you think the aliens have installed some basic virus protection software?

    1. Parts of the original movie were lots of fun.
      Other parts just about made my eyes roll out of my head.
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      I’m very “meh” about a sequel.

    2. Yes, but like most modern organizations, they rely upon a vendor-supplied solution and trust it utterly, while leaving their employees woefully under-trained on the dangers of simple social engineering.
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      *SCENE: ALIEN SHIP INTERIOR*
      *ALIEN DRONE LOOKS UP AS WORKSTATIONS EMITS “DING”*
      “GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF THE INTERGALACTIC SPACE LORD. I AM OBANA MUWANGO, CROWN PRINCE OF EARTH AND I…”

    3. The Evil Overlord List recommends having your own special OS designed to be completely incompatible with standard hardware and software, but I don’t think the creators of the list understand the practical difficulties with that …

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