Independence Day Again? Yeah or nay?

[xboxtravis7992]

Now that Captain America: Civil War has come and gone, I find myself not to hyped for other films coming this summer. But then it occurred to me we are getting a sequel to the 1990's film Independence Day.

As a kid I rather enjoyed the original film. Americans dogfighting space aliens. Will Smith punching a space alien and declaring "WELCOME TO EARTH!" The fact the filming location of "Area 51" in the film was located an hour and a half drive from my hometown. And oh yeah, humans nuking a mother ship, all while using a dial up computer. Yeah.

But despite that nostalgia I just can't get hyped for the new film. The trailers make it seem in 20 years the humans made a quantum jump in technology... okay, maybe a little rushed. But apparently the resource starved aliens made a technology jump to? (They must have learned a lot studying captured Windows 94 computers they found on earth

[Ceroknight]

I think you got the synopsis a bit wrong

This is the premise from wikipedia

Twenty years after the events of the first film, the international community recovers and the United Nations creates the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a united global defense program that serves as Earth's early warning system and the main defense force using technology salvaged from remains of the alien forces, with some military forces assembled on the Moon, Mars and Rhea.^{[citation needed]} However, the aliens were able to send a distress signal to their other battalions before their final defeat while others went into hiding elsewhere around the world. The aliens in deep space received the signal and sent a larger and more powerful battle fleet, threatening the human race once more.

[legoguy1984]

Doesn't sound too bad. Will still wait for dvd.

[Oky]

They must have learned a lot studying captured Windows 94 computers they found on earth ������

To be fair, Windows 94 was still better than Windows 8 and 10 combined.

As Ceroknight pointed out, you clearly didn't do a lot of research on the film before you started this topic (which I guess proves your disinterest in it) as most of your questions can be answered with a quick google search. They explain away Will Smith's absence by saying his character died while testing one of those new alien technology fighters or some rubbish like that. And the jump in technology is not that far fetched considering that in 20 years we have gone from those clunky dial up computers to everyone carrying a tiny super computer with an HD camera in their pocket and that in the movie's universe humanity had alien technology that they could reverse engineer. That said, of course this is a very forced sequel, so you will have to stretch your suspension of disbelief a bit, but as you said yourself, the first one didn't exactly make a lot of sense either.

So are you overthinking this? Yes. Is it a shameless nostalgia cash grab? Absolutely. Why should you go see it? Haven't you seen the trailers? The mothership is bigger this time!!!!!!! *oh2* (It worked for Star Wars, didn't it?)

But seriously, if you could see past the plot holes and not-so-subtle propaganda of the first one and enjoy it for the mindless VFX spectacle that it was, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't be able to do the same with the sequel. At least that's my reasoning for why I will probably go see it, even though it will be harder to sit through without the charisma of 90's Will Smith carrying the film.

[xboxtravis7992]

Good point I didn't dig up to much on the plot. I sorta saw the trailer and was to busy thinking "Why does Independence Day 2 look like a prequel to Ender's Game now?"