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Independence Day: Resurgence is one of those films. Fans like myself waited over twenty years for a sequel to Independence Day and I felt like we were given an utter piece of crap. No wonder Will Smith didn’t want to have anything to do with the sequel! The guy knew it was going to be shit. The goal of /r/Movies is to provide an inclusive place for discussions and news about films with major releases. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just to entertain readers. Read our extensive list of rules for more information on other types of posts like fan-art and self-promotion, or message the moderators if you have any questions. The Roland Emmerich sequel to 1996's classic action blockbuster Independence Day, Resurgence takes everything fun about the original and promptly dumps it, replacing it with an incoherent plot LET’S face it, this year’s Independence Day sequel was a dog. Now an ‘honest trailer’ pokes fun at a film that was “so bad Will Smith did Suicide Squad instead.” While it's unlikely that one failure to recast tanked the box office for Independence Day: Resurgence, it's probably fair to say it bummed out fans and reduced the likelihood the film would in 1996, Humanity would come into contact with a species that was not here in peace, but hellbent on the destruction of the planet and any species that had c A big reason why Independence Day: Resurgence ended up the way it did was because it was rushed at the writing stage. In 2013, it was reported that there were two versions of the script to Independence Day 2 in development - one with Will Smith's character Steven Hiller and one without, but it was nonetheless hoped that Smith would return. Former president Thomas Whitmore (Bill Pullman) has just snuck onto the stage, craggly-bearded and shaky in his suit. Maybe *he *has something inspiring to say? Is Independence Day unequivocally one of the best Sci-Fi films ever made? Or did it suck then and still suck now?#fourthofjuly #independenceday #america #wil Critics and fans of the original alike lambasted the movie as a disappointment, but does that mean it's deserving of an overall bad reputation? Let's look at where the movie succeeds in relation to where it failed the most to see if it is or isn't truly as bad as people say that it is. What the hell happened with Independence Day: Resurgence? I just watched the original and wanted to brush through the sequel to at least see the action, and I forgot how awful this movie is. The writing, the pacing, jokes, sideplots, characters, etc. It's all so bad. There were some interesting ideas to start, but it all melted away into mush. Here’s what went wrong with “Independence Day: Resurgence” stateside: 1. Will Smith wasn’t in it. The lead from the original 1996 hit did not return for its sequel two decades later. This movie was directed by the same guy who directed the first Independence Day and somehow it sucked. They did some interesting world-building but My review of the newly released Independence Day: Resurgence, an incredible disappointment for fans who have been waiting 20 years for a follow-up sequel to Though 2016's Independence Day: Resurgence had a ton of problems from a creative standpoint, the real sticking point for many fans was the absence of Will Smith's original protagonist Steven Independence Day: Resurgence sold Jeff Goldblum intoning that the alien ship was bigger than the last one and that the aliens were still picking off landmarks. Sadly, that was truth in
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