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[yendi]

I can be like a pitbull when it comes to certain things. Annoy me, and I never let it go.

Which reminds me that it's been a long time since I griped about this particular topic:

How the fuck does "Independence Day" lead to the acronym "ID4?" I mean, if the producers assault us with three sequels to one of the vilest wastes of film to ever hit the screen, I could see it. But not for the first flick.

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[tarpo.livejournal.com]

You have to admit.. it looked GREAT on a poster..

That movie had some of the best teasers and trailers and buildup that I have EVER seen.. and as a sheer popcorn movie.. it kicked ass.. I think the hell out of movies so its a little harder for me to really say I liked it.. but for what it was I thought it worked..

Still.. ID4 doesn't make an ounce of sense.. never has..

[yendi]

There were moments that worked for me, but for the most part, I hated every second. Aside from the fact that the Aliens used Macs, which made me respect them, of course. :-)

[tarpo.livejournal.com]

ahh yes.. Aliens use macs.. that explains so much.. I'm guessing the ones in signs used macs too

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

How the fuck does "Independence Day" lead to the acronym "ID4?"

Two words: Marketing Morons.

But I liked the movie. Just watched it last week, in fact. Does that make me a Bad Person?

[yendi]

No, just a good person with a lapse in taste. :-)

[mightywombat.livejournal.com]

Okay, uhm... Keeping in mind the fact that I'm not really one for movie pablum, I really liked Independence Day... I could understand a true conoisseur of SciFi finding it crappy, though.

[yendi]

I'm not sure I'm a true conoisseur. Just someone who wants a decent flick. I just felt that it failed on a pablum level as well.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I just get annoyed with that movie for missing the chance to use a dylan thomas quote instead of setting it all up for that and then ducking out on it. And really, there are so many other reasons to get annoyed at that movie that the acronym is way down on the list. how about saving the dog. Or not dying when the tunnel caught on fire. Or the Mac compatible alien computers? See? So many other things to get upset about it. Now hush and go watch the world's best hitman movie, "The Big Hit" and let us all get on with our lives. (I will allow substitution of either of the worlds best sf movies there: "Gattaca" or "The fifth element," but really, it calls for "The Big Hit.")

[mightywombat.livejournal.com]

I'd have to agree with you on The Big Hit. That's a crazy freakin' movie... My othe rvote for best hitman movie would have to be The Professional.

And they saved the dog because of the audience reaction. The crowd in my theater went wild when the dog made it into that little closet safely... Marketing morons.

[yendi]

The Big Hit is one of the all-time greats. And you're right about the two best sf flicks.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Your Dylan Thomas remark reminded me of the prof who had us dig up parallels to Shakespeare in pop culture, so I brought in that scene to parallel Henry V's speech at Agincourt. I was cringing, but my prof really liked it.

It's a bad event movie, but I find it one of the more entertaining bad event movies.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I really didn't like that movie. If not for Will Smith, I wouldn't have even finished it.

It was better than "Mars Attacks!", though (which had such potential).

Of course, in my opinion, Independence Day, Mars Attacks!, and Armageddon were better than "Signs." *gdr*

[yendi]

Mars Attacks was easily the best of the movies you listed!

And there hasn't been a worse movie than Armageddon. Ever.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Deep Impact? "here kids, take the baby and head for the hills"?

[yendi]

Never saw it. Not sure I want to.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

You probably don't want ot. At least not without alcohol.

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Barton Fink.

[yendi]

*sigh*. You know, your taste in so many things is great, but when it comes to Western Cinema, you really drop the ball. :-P

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[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sorry. It's one of my least favorite movies ever.

I can't imagine reading "Bartleby the Scrivener" and thinking "Gee, that would make a TERRIFIC films!" *G*

I'm sure we can find *something* to agree on. Let's see...

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

*LAUGH* Dammit, Yendi! Almost made me snarf my turkey burger!

But yeah, it looks good on a poster, and sounds good when you say it. Maybe the marketeers had just seen CB3 or something. It's cool, it's hip, yadda yadda.

I'm guessing they're the same folks who did MIIB.

[yendi]

sorry about that. I'll post a warning next time.

Yeah, I'd forgotten about MIIB.

[chelona.livejournal.com]

I don't actually _know_ anything, but I guess I had always assumed that it was I_ndependence D_{ay (July)} 4.

[yendi]

Hmm. It's a better explananation that any other one I'd heard, at least.

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[chelona.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have no idea if it is True or not, but it is what I have always assumed.

[ariedana.livejournal.com]

I like to watch the movie because it supports my premise that, indeed, Apple computers will save the world. :)

Plus it makes for the best drinking game ever. Just take a drink everytime something totally improbable happens, and you'll be almost dead of alcohol poisoning by the end.

[yendi]

Um. I'd be dead of alocohol poisoning by the time the dog avoids being killed. :-)

And I much prefer the Mission: Impossible approach on computing -- good guys use Macs, scum use Windows.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Reminds me of my Demi Moore Scarlet Letter Drinking Game:

If something differs from the book, drink.
If something historically impossible happens, drink twice.
If the red bird shows up to Announce a Metaphor, drink three times.

[crowyhead.livejournal.com]

"Battlefield Earth" is great for that, too, although I prefer to take a drink every time someone uses a really stupid hyphenated word. If you drink every time something improbable happens, you'll end up in the hospital, if all the pointlessly dutched camera angles don't get you puking first.

[yendi]

Battfield Earth is a movie I don't think you could pay me enough to see. Unless I was really drunk to begin with. Which would defeat the purpose of the drinking game.