Augie March
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If ever there was a sign that Hollywood is running low on creative juices, it's when they start producing sequels to disaster films.
Oh my fucking lord, they are making Independence Day 2!!!
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If ever there was a sign that Hollywood is running low on creative juices, it's when they start producing sequels to disaster films.
invisibleplanet
porter des cornes
Isn't this a really nasty anti-alien film story that could be paralleled with ol' american fundy christian whitey's fear of non-christian dark-skinned people/cultures?
Me too. America is the only country in the world that can pull off that sort of shit with a straight face and not look insanely ridiculous. Imagine us doing it...be well crap. Probably get the Alien Rights Act invoked at us or something and we'd have to offer all the aliens free palatial council homes or something! Honestly, it's political correctness gone mad, getting hold of a samurai sword and running up and down the high street randomly slicing people's faces off for six hours before being taken down with a tranq dart.
lol. Great timing.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Starship Troopers predicts just about the whole neo-con/Bush foreign policy era - a work of near genius.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
It could if you wanted to get all head-up-your-arse about bangy-crashy SF B-movies, yes. It'd still be shit criticism tho.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
'post 9/11 sci fi'
kained&able
Here for the football.
I don't remember the darkies(or sand darkies or whatever) blowing up the white house or wanting them to destory all life nick the natural resources of the planet and then move on.
To be honest.
dave
To be honest.
dave
invisibleplanet
porter des cornes
I'd say it's been a feature since the Roswell/ 1950s. Post-9/11, these voices have had more traction in the media.
Funny how the anti-alien mythos is often mixed up with white supremacist/right-wing patriot bullshit, ain't it.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
well there was a lull in the 80s/90's which gave rise to what could be termed pinko-hippy stuff like Cocoon, close encounters, to an extent Star Trek. (TNG)
A lot of american sci fi is traditionally about fear of the other though ennit.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
I hope they destroy Paris - again - I always enjoy seeing Paris destroyed 
kained&able
Here for the football.
whats with the post 9/11 stuff? independence day was out in like 97 or something wasn't it?
dave
dave
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
yeah, that's true. post cold war then 
Definitely a clinton era film, yeah.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
invisibleplanet
porter des cornes
I hope they destroy Paris - again - I always enjoy seeing Paris destroyed
D'yall want fries with your freedom?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
1996.
That's me, making full use of my film degree in the wider world
IMDB makes all ilm degrees worthless
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
All American Sci Fi films destroy Paris. One of the small meteors in Armageddon destroys Paris landing just outside the city. Do you want the odds on that happening?
strung out
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28 weeks later destroys paris too doesn't it?
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Ken. Wait have you not seen Independence Day or Starship Troopers.
If you've not seen Independence day have you just spent the last decade doing a phenominal impression of a 12th century hermit. And dude if you've not seen Starship Troopers. Well. My entire class went to a press screening at 10pm. It's got to be the only screening of the film where whenever a massive bug got killed ten guys ran to the front of the cinema took off our shirts and waved them over their heads.
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
I think at the end of the film they killed Europe. Aside from Ireland. Preen.
It's my effing thread, matey!
I have seen bits and bobs of ST but not all the way through - total failing on my part, I know...I heard it was pretty nazi when it came out and let that put me off. I'll get on it asap.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
IMDB makes all ilm degrees worthless
I was about to argue the point (as a force of habit) and mock your spelling mistake, but then I realised you're right and it depressed me a little bit.
On the other hand I did spend 3 years getting pissed and watching films for a degree, so swings and roundabouts innit?
8den
No I'm pretty sure that was 8ball...
Ah, yeah, 16 or so year olds in Romf don't really get satire.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
same director as Robocop (another satire). Used the Hienlen book as source material but skewed it to be mocking.
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