Second one got really good in the second half of the movie and also included the actors from The Raid.  

I’m tempted to watch the second one o my because it has Frank Grillo. Honestly I thought the first Skyline was pretty terrible, and only interesting because it was a showcase on what a couple of dudes could achieve with CGI on a small budget. 

This quote is hilarious when Thor 3, a tentpole movie with a fuck ton of humor and Jeff Goldblum, made close to a billion dollars the next year.

But it was always and still is A FUN FILM!

So, in the original sequel idea, did Will Smith stand there and read the phonebook? What was the plot?

Devil’s Advocate: I indeed did not want to watch Jeff Goldblum. I wanted to watch David, his character for Independence Day. I liked that character. But in the sequel, it was just standard-issue Jeff Goldblum. I did not believe it was the same character at all, and that was a problem with me.

It was also had a great ensemble cast, of which Will Smith was only part of.

Although the original movie did have a good tongue-in-cheek synopsis: “Aliens come to Earth in sixteen-mile-wide spaceships and blow up the White House, but later prove to be hostile.”

I mean there’s no denying Bad Boys, Independence Day, Men In Black, Enemy of the State all in a row was the height of Smith’s box office success, but it seems a bit weirdly revisionist to say it was “all downhill from there”. I mean, he kind of did it again with Ali, Bad Boys 2, Men in Black 2 a few years later, and…

This is the problem with so many sequels. The execs all think “just add young people,” and it should work while completely missing what made the original entertaining.

It’s just nostalgia. The first move was also a flaming pile of too stupid for words garbage, but when you're 14, it's cool. It was never a good film. 

The original Independence Day didn’t get a sequel with Smith because Hollywood does not exist in a vacuum. It only did well at the box office because of the visual effects, but was otherwise forgettable and poorly written.

Welp, then damn. I shall remove Buggar from the vocab list. The go to for me would be calling someone a Pompous Swine...wait don’t tell me that has racist origins to.

Now if you really wanna kill some someone, calling them a Scruffy Headed Nerf Herder should do the job.

Jeep driver’s hubris in yelling racial slurs while driving in Oakland(out of all places) is pure stupidity. Had he come across the wrong(or rather, right) people, he would have been filled with holes, and then crashed.

We’ll see about Flash. Last two movie outings there were very loud groans from my audience when the trailer hit. I think Ezra’s reputation REALLY hurt casual audiences’ interest even with BatKeaton. 

Sometimes leaving water around is a good thing...

While I’m confident it will be a fun movie, and possibly the second or third best Indiana Jones movie, when I read a Twitter review from some dude calling it “Not just another Indy film, it’s one of the best movies ever!”, my bullshit detector immediately goes off.

Hoping it’s good. I’m really hoping it doesn’t get destroyed by the flash which I think will have strong word of mouth. That said they’re two weeks apart so hopefully it does well.

The correct term is “leach” and not leech.