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* [[Deleted Scene]]: A deleted scene early in the movie had David explaining exactly how our satellites were being hijacked by the aliens. At the end of the scene, Harvey Fierstein's character planted an (ad-libbed) kiss on David. Ironically, it was [[Invisible to Gaydar|Roland Emmerich]] himself who decided to cut the scene, lest he incur the wrath of the [[Moral Guardians|MPAA]]. And the kiss in question was at best a platonic kiss, so it wasn't even that close to potentially upsetting the MPAA, especially seeing how [[The Simpsons (animation)|another thing that Fierstein was in]] got away with a similar male-male kiss without it being censored.

* [[Development Hell]]: Two sequels to the film have been planned for several years, and only recently got a release date of July 3rd, 2015.

* [[Fan Dumb]]/[[Hate Dumb]]: Hoo boy. Being a movie that was extremely popular with the "plebes" and also rather blatantly pro-American and America-centric, the movie was destined for this. In general, let's just say that a lot of the problems people harp on endlessly about are 1) either explained in the movie if you pay attention and apply even the slightest bit of critical thinking or 2) [[Tropes Are Tools|simply staples of the genre]] that get little to no notice or focus in other, similar action films.

** Of another sort, there are people that will try to use this movie as a "perfect example" of [[Michael Bay]]'s obsession with explosions, glorifying the American military, and abusing reality for the sake of action. When informed that [[Mis Blamed|this is not a Michael Bay movie]], their general response is to go "Yeah, well... still!"