Good Thing, Bad Thing

[Raven]

Name a good thing and a bad thing about the film. 

Good thing: Randy Quaid is hilarious.
Bad Thing:  Will Smith is not. not that he ever has been. 

[Rattrap007]

Good Thing: Explosions
Bad thing: everything else

[Bob]

Good thing:   Alien guards routinely fail to notice 50 year old space ships pulling up to dock so we should be able to kick their ass in any war.
Bad thing:      The fate of the world depends upon Jeff Goldblum.

[bettertomorrowamy]

Yeah, I would really like to know what was going on in that Alien's mind in between the part where they are trying to break away from the docking arm holding the ship, and where the alien opens up the cockpit window and they hide and then they pop up.

Either they have really bad sensors on the mothership with no radiological alarms, or the alien guy is cousins to the head alien and is doing a job with little skill requirements.

Good Thing:  The White House gets blowed up.
Bad Thing:  Brent Spiner destroys his non-Star Trek acting career with that shitty performance.

[Principal_Skin-trade]

Good Thing: Brent Spiner is strangled to death
Bad Thing: The Aliens themselves suck ass

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Good Thing:  They made an honest attempt at "re-imagining" The War of the Worlds - and did pretty well.

Bad Thing:  It gave them the idea that they could "re-imagine" Gorjia/Godzilla just as well.   

[Principal_Skin-trade]

Good Thing:  They made an honest attempt at "re-imagining" The War of the Worlds - and did pretty well.

I will remember you said that in case I need to blackmail you later.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Good Thing:  They made an honest attempt at "re-imagining" The War of the Worlds - and did pretty well.

I will remember you said that in case I need to blackmail you later.

Still rather watch ID4 than the Tom Cruise debacle.   

And Brent Spiner still claims that Okum wasn't killed - that he's been promised that if/when they do a sequel, he'll be in it.

[bettertomorrowamy]

Good Thing:  They made an honest attempt at "re-imagining" The War of the Worlds - and did pretty well.

I will remember you said that in case I need to blackmail you later.

Still rather watch ID4 than the Tom Cruise debacle.   

The Tom Cruise one was less than fantastic, but come on.  Independence Day is just crap.  It's not Sci-Fi.  It feels like a made for tv movie like "V".

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

It feels like a made for tv movie like "V".

Tell me you did not just diss "V - the Miniseries"......   

[Principal_Skin-trade]

I don't know... they(Tom Cruise and Independence Day) are both pretty bad on many levels. I would dare say they are both on par in terms of awfulness. Is awfulness a word?

[bettertomorrowamy]

"V" sucked.  I'm sorry.  I watched it as a kid and liked it, but then a few years ago I watched it and I almost smacked myself.

Bad acting, poor story development, and the plot made no sense.

Just like ID4.  Terrible dialog in it. 

[Principal_Skin-trade]

Well, at least V was made in the 1980's. 1980's cheesy is much more tolerable than 90's cheesy.

[Junkyard]

Hmmm.... Was there something wrong with ID4? It's not Casablanca, but it's a pretty solid movie.

Good Thing: The fun parts.
Bad Thing: The "funny" parts.

[Principal_Skin-trade]

I said this before, but I must bitch and gripe again
Good Thing: The film eventually ends
Bad Thing: Nothing happens for 46 minutes, and then when something finally does happen, you will wish for those 46 minutes back.