7. Give The Aliens Some New Toys
The most memorable scene in Independence Day is almost certainly when the alien ships deploy their city destroying ray for the first time. It was jaw dropping how unexpectedly quick three of America’s most prominent cities were annihilated. When I think back to the first time (of several) that I saw Independence Day in theaters, that scene never ceased to amaze and excite me. I imagine most of the audience felt the same way.
But outside of that, the alien weapons in the first film were rather conventional. Force fields? Seen them before. Mini ships to dogfight with our airplanes? Not that original. In the sequel, the invaders need to have some new tricks up their sleeves. Some new form of weaponry or attack method that will inspire that same jaw dropping awe. They should, of course, keep the death ray; it wouldn’t be Independence Day without at least one of those being fired. But give the aliens some new toys to shock and surprise us along with their familiar arsenal.
And on the subject of aliens doing new things…
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11. Don’t make it so damn US-centric, which can also be said for any ‘on-the-slate sequels to his movies such as The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla. In all cases the chaos all seems to occur in America (actually primarily New York), which is a little arrogant considering it was a global crisis;
12. Have Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum suffering from severe bronchitis as a warning to tobacco usage;
13. Don’t bother.
Got to agree with the other comment, Mostly everything was based in America. If they are going to do, Id have it that Brent Spiners character is just in a coma and not dead and he wakes up when the aliens are close. Shouting theyre here
um jeff goldblums character didnt have kids, he had a wife…maybe youre thinkin of ian malcolm and since jeff played them very similar, you can be forgiven for this oversight lol
good catch. i actually meant bill pullman’s little girl, my bad. but we might as well throw in the girl from Lost World as well at this point
The only way to make such a snooze-fest not suck is to take it away from Emmerich’s incompetent plagiarist hands.
If you are going to do after twenty years, the aliens that survived the ships crashing in underdeveloped parts of the world should have formed outposts with which humanity has been at war with while rebuilding. Then they call for some backup.
Make it a freaking massive war with all the big countries teamed up to fight the aliens, possibly with North Korea as the leader of the gang.
The twist is, when they defeated the aliens and everyone is celebrating and hugging each other, it turns out everything was a Will Smith’s dream. The film ends with Willie wakes up all alone on his bed, spins his tractricoid on a table while looking regretfully at an abandoned and nearly destroyed planet from a spaceship.
How about casting Steve Buscemi in some kind of peripheral role relating to intelligence and The Pentagon, but then reveal him as being an alien the whole time who was conspiring against the humans and revealing critical information that will weaken earth’s defence network?
Or would it be too obvious because most of humanity already suspect something extraterrestrial about Buscemi?
sorry。japanes please。
Great picture for point number ten