That's interesting. I'd never heard that. Makes sense though. I especially agree with your last paragraph. Forgot to add: Friday Night Lights – I would have followed the book to a tee. The book was pure greatness, so why mess with it by throwing in all those predictable football movie clichés? And the final game was a defensive struggle that went down to the wire, not the 2nd half comeback they portrayed in the movie. Permian was actually ahead at halftime 9-7 but lost 14-9 on a late (controversial) TD. Why do movies based on true stories always have to take so many UNNECESSARY liberties with the plot?
The movie came out when virus scanning software wasn't widely used. I understand that it would be awesome to create a darker alien movie, but it seems like changing Independence Day into that fundamentally undermines what the movie was trying to be and what it was trying to accomplish. That movie still defines "summer blockbuster" to me. Ridiculously awesome plot, amazing special effects, action scenes that actually had a level of tension and suspense instead of just being thrown in there for eye candy, and some elements of humor interspersed throughout (albeit with some cheesy jokes). I also thought the movie did a lot of the dramatic parts really well (e.g. the president "speaking" to the capture alien, the president's wife dying).
Also, pretty much any modern day comedy ever that starts out hilarious for the first hour and then just goes to **** when the cheesy plot line unfolds.
I always thought the idea of giving the aliens computer system a virus was pretty clever. It's like the idea that if some virus from 2 million years ago was released during an archeological dig it could kill millions of people because the human immune system had never developed defenses against it. So, within the context of the movie I had no problem suspending my disbelief for this plot point.
I enjoy movies where the subject matter is made hilarious, not where funny people in funny situations all the sudden have to fall in love and learn life lessons. A dramedy is fine (Knocked up, Adventureland), but there needs to be a line in the sand. I mean I love Billy Madison but come on, compare Sandler's character at the beginning to his character at the end. Its a tragedy.
OMG that movie's HILARIOUS!! But! a little nudity from Jaime pressly or brittany daniels would have made it even more "E... wait for it... PIC".
Transformers: Re-do the robots. People paid money to see giant robots kick arse. Instead we get giant pieces of scrap metal that bare no resemblance to the original designs. The fan concepts were much better:
I assumed that was a shout-out to War of the Worlds. It could've been worse. The aliens could've been defeated by water or something like that.
OMG, I forgot about that. That was so stupid. Aliens come to take over a world that is 70% water... and water kills then. lawlz
I almost said that, but I don't know how much better you could make it. I really wish Sam didn't die. Edit: I also wish Will Smith had lived, but Sam didn't deserve to die after saving his his life.
