Independence Day is really dumb, stupid, and pointless!

Rating: 1/10 (8 July 2002)

I had completely forgotten about the AWFUL mess known as Independence Day until I saw Men In Black II and I remembered that Will Smith also starred in this film. Watching parts of it again on the F/X cable channel confirmed my earlier opinions of this film.
Roland Emmerich is a terrible director, (Stargate, Godzilla, and the goofy Mel Gibson film The Patriot amoung his credits) but none are as truly bad as Independence Day was.
This film rips off those cheesy Ed Wood science fiction films so badly I had to leave the theater before it ended.
Goofy special effects, and some of the worst banter ever written! (Can you believe it won an oscar for special effects, even over the terrific work done by ILM on Twister!)
The success of Independence Day is summed up by one word: HYPE, it was the hype, just as in the case of the similarly awful Titanic, that got people into theaters nothing more.
Now that time has passed on both of these films we can call them two things, AWFUL and OVERRATED!
A 1 on a scale of 1-10.