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[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

One of the most terrible movies on my list is "Independence Day"

For starters, I can't stand Smith in any film, but his smarmy attitude in the movie put it over the top, the writing is terrible, acting worse and the concept on victory is ludicrous. A window's based virus bringing down the aliens?

Why bother with one on one air battles with the mere humans and their primitive flying machines. The concept of endangering the President of the United States by him flying into combat is also moronic.

Perhaps entertainment for the simple mind, and it does have some amusing moments, but overall...a bad film.

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(From Star Gazer) -

I totally Agree with you on this one. I hated the movie. First of all they would not let the Pres go into battle, and two why would they allow any civilians fly the fighter jets with no experence. There were so many things I found wrong with this film that I just had to laugh. But leave it to Hollywood to make it all happen.

[NatureDevil]

Okay, how large and massive was that damn mothership? They said it was about a quarter the soze of the moon. Being that big, with that much mass, and being closer to the Earth, all they had to do to take over the planet was fly around it a few times.

The gravitational disasters would include everything from tectonic shifts to massive tsunamis. Just being that massive and that close to us would have caused enough natural disasters to fight their battle for them. And those secondary ships that floated above everything - with the kind of pressue those things had to be putting out to just hover there, they would have crushed anything below it. Not to mention the extreme heat caused by all that pressure.

Besides, how did we get our computers to infect their computers? We can't get an IBM to share programs with an Apple. We probably would have had a better chance of just uploading their war schematics with pop up ads.

The aliens could have taken over the planet and killed off human life without even entering our atmosphere.

NatureDevil

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

Good points there...Here are some more:

[/li][li]The Big build up of the main weapon of the Battle ships did no more damage than a conventional nuclear blast would. One would think that such an advanced technology would have destroyed a much larger area and scrubbed the surface clean.

[/li][li]How in the hell could Goldsmith and Smith pilot the scout ship so well, with all the alien controls - including environmental, weapons, navigation etc...And how do they know where do pilot the Ship while inside the craft? And how does the earthling computer communicate with the alien computer? Interstellar wi-fi Bluetooth? And just a coincidence that both operate on the binary system.

[/li][li]Smith's woman just happens to run into the Presidents wife....ok.

[/li][li]The mother ship could have easily sent an energy beam of some sorts to destroy the Earth from orbit, and probably from quite a distance away.

[/li][li]I do like Randy Quaid's character in the movie..."I'm Baaack!"

[/li][li]Tapping into Earth's satellites. Suppose we were in pre-space age...what then...use our telegraph system?

[/li][li]I'll stop here.....Did I mention I hate this movie?


Here is a link on a guy who can't stand it either and has listed many errors: www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Bungalow/2201/Dsc_IndependenceDay.html

Enjoy