Does this count?

A great comic book wink would be if he wore it throughout the series without mocking it.

I think the only people who care about a 37-year-old franchise are those die-hard fans, and they don’t want anything new or reimagined.

Ghostbusters 2 was a great movie, and at times more entertaining than the first. Yes, it was goofier than its predecessor, but from start to finish it’s actually an entertaining movie. I’ve grown up a fan of Ghostbusters since it originally came out. It was my first “favorite” movie as a kid, and I’ve seen both the…

I mean, heartily disagree. It was good, it just wasn't the first movie. “Hot garbage” is a massive overstatement imo, but to each their own.

I’m trying to remember the last really original movie I watched, that wasn’t a sequel or a remake or a part of a series.

On the other, it’s a sequel to two of the most beloved sci-fi comedies in film history.

by comparisons, journalists who work for many (most) major publications belong to a Writers Guild that protects their interests when articles they have written and published are adapted into other media. There is no such equivalent union for comics writers

This is hilarious because Instagram regularly forces images of strangers’ children into my feed because their idiot algorithm sees that my friends post pictures of their children and decides that’s what it should show me more of. I keep flagging that I’m not interested in this topic, but Facebook can’t help itself…

It’s definitely from an era when you had to cram as much story into a two-hour film as possible, because unless there was a sequel you didn’t have the luxury to delve into the characters’ backstories or expanded universe lore.

I’d agree, though Twister came out almost two months earlier and was more like “Jaws, but with tornadoes” than a disaster film one (even if it was about actual natural disasters).

Like I said up top, I love the movie, but yeah, Germain is dead wrong here. The movie is entirely of the “America, fuck yeah” type. It’s a more positive/constructive brand of such sentiment than one can see in stuff like the “...has fallen” series, sure, but it is still very much a jingoistic celebration of all things…

In hindsight, Independence Day was also the harbinger of a revival of the disaster movie that occured from 96 to 98. In short succession, we got Twister, Daylight, Deep Impact, Armaggedon, Volcano, Dante’s Peak and, of course, Titanic. And Emmerich of course tried his hand a few more times at the genre with Day After…

There was a (relatively recent) Simpsons gag where the camera was zooming through the Springfield Elementary air vents and there’s a pile of discarded books with a note that says “50s textbooks - too racist” and another pile with a note saying “90s textbooks - not racist enough.”

I think there’s a lot of truth to that; popular culture retrenched dramatically after 9/11 and in the ‘00s you saw a boom in fantasy and SF-themed blockbusters that centered almost entirely on white people. Even the non-franchise blockbusters like Signs or The Island had principal casts that were almost entirely…

The thing about Independence Day is that while it was pitched as a “Star Wars for the ‘90s” at heart it’s a throwback to 1970s disaster movies like the Airport series, Towering Inferno, and Earthquake, where you have multiple characters from diverse backgrounds and their respective plotlines converging against the…

I fully agree with all of this recap, and the aerial dogfights still look fantastic 25 years later, no small feat at all. Definitely hit on the biggest strengths of the movie, in that painting this entire canvas of characters and doling them out in just the right amount of doses, and the L after L the characters take…

After rewatching the film after a space of... well, a bunch of years, I never really noticed how drunk everyone seems to be while on set. Listen to the Big Speech and tell me Bill Pullman isn’t hammered off his ass while delivering it.

I was a Brit working in America at the time, so I went to see Independence Day in the cinema there. When the aliens died everyone whooped, cheered and clapped. One man yelled “god bless America”.