Will Smith In For Independence Day 2 & 3 464
bowman9991 writes "If one isn't enough, there are reports that two sequels to Roland Emmerich's 1996 alien invasion blockbuster Independence Day are in the works. Will Smith is back too. Apparently he delayed a sequel earlier by asking for too much money." Other rumors include using an iPad to destroy the alien space ships this time, and letting Obama fly a biplane. Data will have a 5-minute monologue about what it means to be human.
Oh dear lord. (Score:2, Interesting)
What the Matrix sequels should have been (Score:4, Interesting)
It's a pity they never made any sequels to that movie.
It was really fantastic.
Matrix 2: A complete re-telling of the first story, this time told as a documentary with dramatic re-enactments, produced by a mainstream media infopinionewstainment law enforcement/most wanted show, colluding with the government of the Matrix world. Morpheus and Neo demonized and shown to be degenerate, immoral, psychopaths, and terrorists. By allegory this would show what our own culture does to radicals. The film ends with Neo being captured, the cliffhanger being his arraignment. Albino milli vanilli twins are conspicuously absent, and there is no goth night club anywhere.
Matrix 3: The trial of Neo. Rather than using kung fu, he has to use legal fu to get out of his predicament. The trial is mostly a show trial, the charges are bogus, well, ok the charges are legitimate but the order that Neo was trying to bring down was anything but... and somehow Neo's got to be able to take the stand in order to expose the truth of what the Matrix is to the virtual public.
That would have made the trilogy completely awesome.
meh (Score:3, Interesting)
could live without both smith and emmerich. would like to see goldblum though. but hey, since we're dreaming, how about a sequel to buckaroo bonzai there bigboot?
bigboo tay
- js.
Why do people complain... (Score:3, Interesting)
I really hate the complaints over the ending of Independence Day.
-It was already established that the aliens were using our computer systems, at the very least our satellite networking to communicate, it isn't a stretch
-The ending is a nod to War of the Worlds where a virus stopped and killed them.
-It's an EFF'ING MOVIE. It's supposed to be entertaining and it's a movie about aliens, it's already asking you to suspend belief about the world around us.
Re:Crap (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Why? (Score:5, Interesting)
Independence Day 2:
The aliens were the ships. What we thought were the aliens were the ship's parasites. Having discovered a planet that cleans them of parasites, the aliens come en masse to be cleaned. The earth fight endless "alien" hordes, never understanding we've become a galactic "spa" for the aliens.
Independence Day 3:
The aliens finally aknowledge the existance of the parasite cleaners who call themselves "hunams". They decide that the "hunams" are Earth's parasites and, fearing contagion, declare the solar system a bio-hazard zone and nuke it from galactical orbit.
Re:Will Smith asking for too much money? (Score:3, Interesting)
Will Smith is a fine actor. Look at any film that is about a character, and not about action.
Early in his career, Will Smith decided to do Sci-Fi films bacause 8 of the top 10 grossing movies are Sci-Fi. Not a bad career decsion, but that means most of his movies are about themes outside the character.
Watch Ali. The man can act.
Re:Will Smith asking for too much money? (Score:3, Interesting)
Which brings up a very good point, why do the major networks hate Sci-Fi so much? Is it because Sci-Fi works well for a feature length movie but not for a serial production show with a much smaller per-hour budget?