This one is like the fable about the Emperor and his new clothes. He didn't have any, and the Blair Witch doesn't have any. This thing was awful, I wanted to like it, I expected to like it, I tried to like it, I came away hating it. I saw this thing three times, and while it's got a great idea, and it's not terrible for a student film say, it's far far too long and boring for the one trick it's got to pull, I simply am at a loss as to how so many people can allegedly have loved this thing.
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Independence Day
(1996)
A huge pile of steaming dreck
25 February 2001
I hated this movie, it was a nice idea, but the execution was simply awful. This movie stole all the wrong bits from all the classic B movies from the past, and somehow failed to respect any of them. In addition to it's mangling of fifties B movie cliches, and implausible plot filled with insipid action sequences this movie tried, and failed to hold a light tone through a sequence where the world is nearly destroyed. Millions are slaughtered needlessly and then we're supposed to laugh just a few minutes later, I just couldn't buy any of that. Will Smith is the only bright spot in an otherwise dreadful waste of a hundred million dollars.
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