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How is this a 5.6 out of 10? It's dreadful!

posted 8 years ago by laurel-tree
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Worth no more than a 3.

The 6's and 7's and higher, must be from either

a) Little Liam Hemsworth fangirls

b) People who are verrrry easily pleased

or

c) People who never saw the first one and didn't see that this is a horrible carbon copy of it.

From the piss-poor 'space ships fighting' scene that looks like a naff 80s video game, to Jeff Goldblum's usual bumbling character that he always plays, to the poor movie score, to the fact the first movie is copied verrrrrrry badly in this one, (because apparently no-one had any new ideas,) to the annoying predictable bratty kids acting all smart, to the president who had a breakdown, suddenly becoming a super leader again.

AWFUL!

[–] enyala 8 years ago

Usually I like to ignore reviews and make up my own mind by watching the films/playing the games........but general feedback is overwhelmingly bad. Not gonna waste 15gb of download quota to watch fugly horse-face Hemsworth for 2 hours.

[–] thunderztorm 8 years ago

I enjoyed it.

It's wonderful, silly over-the-top 90s sci-fi going more and more bizarre and wild.

What's not to like?

There are movies you take seriously, and then there are movies where you just lean back and enjoy the crazy. ID:Resurgence is one of the latter ones.

[–] FantasticFearOfMisterBobo 8 years ago

It's wonderful, silly over-the-top 90s sci-fi going more and more bizarre and wild.

In all honesty, that's the reason why this film is universally hated because it failed to be what what you saw it as. To most this was a horrific CG fest that barely capitalised on the original's fun and soul. This one was so empty and seriously lacked the enjoyable and innovative popcorn action of the first. It was just boring.

[–] dileas 8 years ago

It took in double it's production budget at the box office, so I would say that your assessment is immaterial. While it's certainly no masterpiece, it is faithful to the original, and is an enjoyable film in it's own right.

[–] carrion-667-473333 8 years ago

Gotta disagree. It felt pretty much exactly like the first one except without Will Smith, who always adds a very specific flavor to action movies. Also it was a little more army centric, with less of humanity coming together to overcome.

To me this was basically The Force Awakens for ID4. Spiritually the same plot with younger versions of the original characters and some minor role swapping. It was pretty middle of the road for me but I don't regret watching it.

[–] torndownunit 8 years ago

People seem to have a really glamorized view of the first film. It was fun at the time, but hasn't really aged well and was far from a good movie. When I see people talk about the 'soul' of the first film in these threads I have to laugh. Yes, I enjoy watching it for fun but it was far from a good movie. This one is worse, but I still didn't mind watching it. I really wasn't expecting much more.

[–] ID_Resurgence_will_flop 8 years ago

5.6 is actually a bad score on IMDb. You have to remember that a lot of fanboys overrate films here, so scores that seem too good are actually not good at all.

[–] moondawg_32304 8 years ago

Some of the action sequences were cool but the dialogue and plot execution was terrible...

[–] cold_sky 8 years ago

I almost gave it a 3 and decided on 4 because I don't know why. It was so bad.

[–] KeenanDX 8 years ago

I remember the original Independence day floated around the 5.9 rating for a couple years. Now its almost at a 7 rating. There's a whole generation of teens and young adults who watch these films so things change. I can see Resurgence getting at minimum 6.0 rating.