Worst movie that made a ton of money

Rating: 4/10 (24 July 2009)

Independence Day, regardless of its box office rank, does not qualify as even a respectable film. For a number of reasons, primarily the poor script, poor plot, and just plan lack of originality.
I mean come on, do you really believe an alien species that is hundreds of millennia more sophisticated then us, is going to be so vulnerable to destruction that a mere suicide attack from a jet plane could render their entire invasion a failure? Not to mention that an alien species cannot possibly have an aggressive mentality for by the time they reach this state of intelligence they would have destroyed themselves, hundreds of times over.
And if they are this intelligent they would have nanobots to recycle their own waste. And they could simply have gathered the resources of their neighboring planets rather than travel hundreds of light years just to destroy a potential form of entertainment.
The script is cliché 1990's, it incorporates many of the variables that are reminiscent of that decade, particularly nonsensical war-cries that do little to improve the movie watching experience and serves only to give the film an additional aura of ridiculousness. I cannot help but imagine the entertainment potential this film had, if only it were let's saymore serious- a sort of "War of the Worlds" type of film, although that was also a very inaccurate assessment of alien intelligence.