What the heck is the point of this awful film, independence day?

Rating: 1/10 (4 March 2009)

I saw this film back in 1996, amid a bunch of hype, and I hated it.
Most of the critics rightfully trashed this film, based on 1970's bad disaster films, and ridiculous characters to boot.
Then years later, I caught this film on television, hoping that my bad memories of this awful film had vanished. They did not, in fact this film was worse than I remember it.
This film has some of the most awful dialog I have ever heard in a film. "Welcome to Earth" (What the heck?) Who actually says this garbage? Then the ending of the film is one of the most prosperous events in movie history (A cable employee destroys the aliens with a laptop computer) PLEASE!
I only wish this film was on the all top bottom 250 films of all time!
I guess with good marketing even garbage can smell great to unsuspecting audiences!
Will Smith proves he can play in equally bad movies after this one!
The president is as big a caricature as the 43rd idiotic president.
Independence Day gets my vote for one of the worst movies of the 1990s.