(07-05-2016 10:58 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  Independence Day Resurgence/ theater
--ehhh....it was a cash grab based on the prior movie. I did like the way they played out the advancement of tech based on the events of the first movie's scenario. While the first one definitely had its hokey moments the newer one had more and felt more "forced."

Well, the first movie was certainly a cash grab. If you want to point to patient zero in Hollywood's trend of movies that put all their time, energy and money into effects in lieu of plot and dialog, it's Independence Day. Never before that movie was there so much simultaneous praise of special effects and derision of story. I think cynicism has always been a component of the movie industry but it sure seems like ID was its coming out party. Would we have had the Michael Bay Transformers movies without ID?