I must be the one from another planet!

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 1999)

In all my many years of going to see films, of all the multifarious offerings that I have witnessed in that time, - here it is!  The nadir, the pits, the utter abomination of all my film-going history. Independence Day has to be the most puerile, incompetent excuse for a film that I can throw an adjective at!
There are many, -too many, things wrong here to even begin to outline them. Even the respectable special effects are tainted by the context they try hard to enhance. How you wish that the dog had died, that the alien had not been devised by some ten year-old kid, that the stereotypes would stop coming, that maybe something would happen to make one of your neurones twitch. Alas
Speaking rationally, I think I found it all the more incredible, because the audience around me were enormously enthusiastic and proceeded to break into applause whenever the drivel demanded it of them. - I simply cannot remember a time when I felt so detached from the rest of mankind as we know it. But enough of all this! I must look on the bright side. The only way is up!

Will things ever be this bad again? Sadly I'm afraid probably yes. Anyhow, I'm going to have a lie down now and try to rid myself of the horrible memory of that speech! Aaargh! 3/10 (For effects only).