They never mentioned her anywhere in this film I don't get it?(Unless I missed the reference) how do they completely ignore that he had a wife in the first film.......... they could've resolved that by easily saying "She died about 7 years ago" or something to that effect?
See this is exactly why her absence should have been explained because no that's not what happened. The prequel novel Independence Day: Crucible that bridges the gap between the first film and this crummy ass sequel explains that David and Connie remarried, Connie became Senator of Nevada in 1999 and she died in a car crash in 2009. When you leave out important details like this in films people start making *beep* up. One of so many things wrong with this movie.
I agree, sweetheart. But when they also had to cover the fact that Will Smith's character had been killed off, maybe they thought that explaining the death of Goldblum's wife was too much exposition.
After all, exposition wasn't something this movie was very good at. The central lurrvv triangle never made a lot of sense (and I chuckled that there seemed to be more chemistry between the two guys than between either one of them and the woefully wooden President's daughter!), and the movie seemed to keep dropping hints about Hemsworth's charcater's parentage that were never resolved either.
In the end, I watched the movie not caring about any of them. Not a whit. They all could have died horribly and I wouldn't have been fussed, though clearly we were meant to care whether they got to bonk each others' brains out or not. And it looks, from the preliminary poster for the third film, that the story is going to revolve around these same hormone-fuelled dunderheads being part of the interplanetary task force -- and I couldn't be less excited.
But I would have liked to be told what happened to Goldblum's hard-won wife.
You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.
The Charlotte Gainsbourg character was the kind of flimsy female characterization I've seen in some Michael Bay films.
With her voice, she sounds like an air-headed Noomi Rapace, let alone she treats the possible death of her parents, sounding like it was an afterthought like: "...oh yeah...my parents, lived in London."
At the end when she's about to kiss David, I was like, "Why? I've seen nothing to make him seem deserving of your affection."
Plus, I so wanted to MSt3K the end:
Julius: David never mentioned a beautiful woman in his life. Me: Hell, whatever happened to that other beautiful woman in his life? Oy, who knows!?
They really should have cast someone else to play this horrible Connie replacement because both the prequel novel and the movie try to say that Catharine is supposed to be so beautiful and yet they cast a hideous actress like Charlotte Gainsbourg to play her. Evey time they called her beautiful I was shaking my head and thinking "ew". Connie was beautiful and they should have brought her back instead of bringing in this boring hag.
I had wondered about that myself. Also, the explanation for what had happened to Steven Hillier just insulting.
Steven was able to fly an alien ship with little training for that particular aircraft, successfully pilot into the alien mothership, upload a deadly virus, AND get back out alive was killed during a test flight for the reversed engineered fighter vehicle? Really?