Independence Day - Resurgence

[Venardhi]

Plopping Pullman's speech from the first movie onto that trailer is a pretty clear sign that they have nothing new to bring to the table.

I don't expect they do, but that is a pretty recognizable line and natural to use in the build-up here. SW:TFA used a line from RotJ in one of its first teasers too. Injects a little jolt of "remember this?!" into the trailer for the casual viewers.

 

[Timby]

SW:TFA used a line from RotJ in one of its first teasers too.

No, it didn't.

 

[DEWLine]

Yes, it did. "The Force runs strong in my family..."

 

[JWPlatt]

Ooooooooo, good comeback! And no hand-waving Jedi trick, such as what Timby attempted, was involved.

 

[kirk55555]

That trailer looked very good. The first movie was a lot of stupid fun, and the sequel looks like it will be just as entertaining.

 

[Saga]

i imagine they used Pullman's speech to, hopefully, evoke fond memories of the first film and get you excited.

 

[Samurai8472]

I think the reason it's cutoff is that the next wave of aliens heard it.

I wonder if they'll play it at the beginning of the movie.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Looks like fun! I'll definitely be seeing this one in the theater.

And yes, I particularly enjoyed The President's Speech in the trailer.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

They should've got Jay Pharaoh doing Will Smith for this one. https://screen.yahoo.com/weekend-smith-000000207.html

I guess we're going to see more and more Chinese characters in movies like these as that audience becomes larger and larger. Seems pretty reasonable storywise at least. The pilot in this one is named Rain and played by someone named Angelababy(!) so what's not to love?

 

[RandyS]

Too bad David Arnold isn't doing the soundtrack for this one. I still love the music from the first one. Oh well. Hopefully whatever they come up with will be just as good.

 

[JD]

The first one is one of my favorite movies, and this looks like a great followup. I loved the use of the speech from the original, and the way they it off was kind of creepy. I didn't realize Angelababy was going to be in it. I've seen her in the Chinese Tai Chi Zero and Young Detective Dee, so it'll be cool to see her in an American movie now.

 

[Trekker4747]

The movie actually looks entertaining and promising. Be interested to see how humans utilized the recovered alien tech. (And even got it to work without the benefit of the mothership.)

Ok, the viral website has to be clumsiest damn website to operate that I've encountered in a long damn time. What? Are simple menus and regular links just too common and intuitive?

 

[DEWLine]

Mildly disappointed by the lack of content tied to each of the cities tagged as attacked.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Plopping Pullman's speech from the first movie onto that trailer is a pretty clear sign that they have nothing new to bring to the table.

All it tells me that using narration or clips from previous installments in a film series (or other source or historical material) is a pretty common technique in teasers and trailers in order to increase nostalgia, especially if there's a long gap between originals and sequels.

ST09 Teaser (historical spaceflight and Spock narration)
STVI Teaser (TV show and movie clips)
Star Wars: TFA (Luke narration)
SW: Rogue One (Obi-Wan narration)
Superman Returns (Brando Jor-El narration)
Man of Steel (Crowe Jor-El quotes dialogue directly from the comics)
Interstellar teaser (historical spaceflight narration)

Anyway, the trailer looked good. Very dark and ominous.

Though I see they didn't learn from the commentary on the previous film that the mere presence of a ship 1/4 the mass of the Moon in near Earth orbit would wreak more havoc than the city destroyers would, or that the air displacement alone from the city destroyers would flatten everything beneath them without them having to fire a shot. Because now they've got something much bigger than the mothership in the first film hovering directly over the surface of the Earth with cities still intact beneath it. I don't expect hard science from Independence Day films, but c'mon, even a layman should know you can't just park something half the mass of the Moon over the surface of the Earth without massive geological and tidal upheaval.

 

[sojourner]

Maybe it's just one big helium balloon?

 

[Greylock Crescent]

What, do you mean the aliens are just clowns here to amuse you?

 

[JRS]

I guess we're going to see more and more Chinese characters in movies like these as that audience becomes larger and larger. Seems pretty reasonable storywise at least. The pilot in this one is named Rain and played by someone named Angelababy(!) so what's not to love?

It is nice indeed that we see more variety in the sequel, in terms of nationalities and characters, the first movie being very US centered.
I have seen Angelababy only in one movie so far, so cant say I know her that much yet. I do know she is celebrity in China though and so forth.

I did enjoy the first movie..and judging from the trailer the sequel might be much better than I hoped for, so I look forward of seeing this one

 

[Venardhi]

Plopping Pullman's speech from the first movie onto that trailer is a pretty clear sign that they have nothing new to bring to the table.

All it tells me that using narration or clips from previous installments in a film series (or other source or historical material) is a pretty common technique in teasers and trailers in order to increase nostalgia, especially if there's a long gap between originals and sequels.

ST09 Teaser (historical spaceflight and Spock narration)
STVI Teaser (TV show and movie clips)
Star Wars: TFA (Luke narration)
SW: Rogue One (Obi-Wan narration)
Superman Returns (Brando Jor-El narration)
Man of Steel (Crowe Jor-El quotes dialogue directly from the comics)
Interstellar teaser (historical spaceflight narration)

Anyway, the trailer looked good. Very dark and ominous.

Though I see they didn't learn from the commentary on the previous film that the mere presence of a ship 1/4 the mass of the Moon in near Earth orbit would wreak more havoc than the city destroyers would, or that the air displacement alone from the city destroyers would flatten everything beneath them without them having to fire a shot. Because now they've got something much bigger than the mothership in the first film hovering directly over the surface of the Earth with cities still intact beneath it. I don't expect hard science from Independence Day films, but c'mon, even a layman should know you can't just park something half the mass of the Moon over the surface of the Earth without massive geological and tidal upheaval.

Just assume their shields create a gravitational bubble. This is the sequel to a movie where a macbook hacked an alien network and infected it with a computer virus to bring down their entire fleet.

 

[wonderstoat]

Well, considering how long it took to rebuild the World Trade Center (aka The Freedom Tower), I'd say that total rebuild of any one of those cities would be impossible. Even if you had every construction crew in the country with no political red tape to get in the way, it would be hard to rebuild even just half of Manhattan.

They rebuilt Europe and Japan in that time after WW2. I don't think WTC is an equivalent - as tragic as it was, it (amazingly) didn't seem to have the resonance required to make people come together in the long run. However, if the entirety of Manhattan had been flattened you bet your a** that it would be rebuilt within 20 years.

 

[bigdaddy]

It looks so good! Moon base and it looks like a Saturn base by the episode.