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Live Tweet Review: Independence Day
I checked out Independence Day (1996) for the second of the live tweet reviews that you folk voted for. Gotta say, I liked this a whole lot less than the last time I saw it unfortunately. Chime in with your comments on what Roland Emmerich’s best film is below. Also, it’s still technically a ‘live’ tweet if I need to go to sleep for eight hours in the middle yeah?
Enjoying my second straight night of solid cocktail drinking. Seems like as good a time as any to live tweet INDEPENDENCE DAY. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
I recall seeing the poster for this at the terrible Edge Cinema in Katoomba. Never sure it til years later though. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
I was a massively wussy kid actually. So I would have been too scared to see this when it came out. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
July 2! Was sure this film was spread over a lot longer than two days. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Roland Emmerich is a terrible director and this is clearly his best film. But what the hell is his second best? #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
I literally remember none of this. The only thing I can recall about this film are Will Smith and Goldblum rockin stogies #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Goldblum is meant to be playing the exact same character as in Jurassic Park right? #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Randy Quaid… just terrible. Is it him or the roles he gets lumped with? I suspect him. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Both special effects and behind the scenes at the White House sequences have come a looooong way #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
DEFCON 3!!! Shit just got real. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Rapid fire, flitting between storylines that helps make Emmerich films so terrible is highly prevalent here #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Zero sense of atmosphere, danger or stakes set up. Just the occasional cool thing to look at. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
This film is a whole lot worse than I recall #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Bill Pullman is the most rubbish film president in history. Where's David Palmer when you need him? #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Woah. Harry Connick Jr. Tasty! Whatever happened to him? #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Is ID4 like this film's nickname on its weekend football team? What kind of a film has a nickname? #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
The 'Welcome Wagon' getting utterly mashed by the aliens is a pretty great moment. One of few so far. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Tone of this bad boy is all over the place #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Cannot believe how terrible the effects in this film are. Plenty of films from the same vintage have effects much better #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
President Pullman may be one of the top 5 worst written characters in film history. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Even before Will Smith could really act, he was one hell of a smooth, charismatic bastard. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Script of this film is so terrible. The Smith/Connick Jr parts are woeful aside from their performances #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Did I mention Will Smith's charisma? He is so badass he just punched an alien in the face, made a quip and lit up a stogie #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Film is so forced and feeble. Struggling to see how it is 1001 worthy in the slightest. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Quite a slow burn early on. The first massive attack does not occur til like halfway through. Cram in a lot of action late #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Well I'm starting to fall asleep a little. Going to live tweet my nap for the next 7 or so hours, then polish this off. Peace . #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Ok, back after my 7 hour sleep break. Ready to finish this INDEPENDENCE DAY 'live' tweet #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
This is such a terrible film. I may have to re-evaluate my claim that this is Emmerich's best film. 10,000 BC is back in the frame #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
The alien dissection is brilliant. Tis a great model. Need more of that design and less of this script #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Cause you can't have an alien film without taking the action to Area 51. Any reason willl do. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Another issue, among many, with this film is the fact you don't care in the slightest about anyone who dies #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
I hope that that cute kid with the cap on backwards went on to a long and fruitful acting career. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Those were the most cliche brits in film since 1945. Just needed a cup of tea old bean. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
I'm all for the suspension of disbelief in film. But the leaps of logic required for this film's conclusion are just too much. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Anyone watched this recently and enjoyed it? Please tell me this is not how we are going to feel about PACIFIC RIM in a decade #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Things that would have made this film better: more Goldblum screentime of him just adlibbing. More cigar based subplots #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Getting a vague OBLIVION vibe from parts of this ending. Just visually. I'm really not sure how I feel about that film. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
How in the hell did they know that the ship would dock with the mothership like that? #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Just when you assume the script can't get any worse, they hit you with … "if we do, we'll both die virgins" #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
So did any other countries join the counteroffensive or couldn't be fussed in the end? Brits prob got caught up at afternoon tea #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Oh no wait, they did. I just had to wait for the expository dialogue. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
I'm so not seeing the sequel. Unless it consists entirely of Goldblum & Smith as space cops. Chomping on stogies and trading quips #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Oh my god! The Sydney Harbour Bridge! This film really knows how to appeal to us Aussies. #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
No film ending with Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith smoking cigars & walking away from flaming alien wreckage should be this terrible #ID4tweet
— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
Verdict: Schooner of Tooheys New
Progress: 102/1001
2014 progress: 6/101— Tim @ Five Rad Films (@beer_movie) March 15, 2014
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