Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers
23,028
edits
Independence Day/WMG: Difference between revisions
m
Fixing links to disambiguation pages
m (Mass update links) |
Derivative (talk | contribs) m (Fixing links to disambiguation pages) |
||
Line 5:
== The aliens are the ones from [[Watchmen]]. ==
{{spoiler|Veidt}} made his creations [[Gone Horribly Right|too well,]] and they punched a hole in space time and came to an Earth without superheroes (save a few with [[Charles Atlas Superpower
Lucky for us, he was right about humanity uniting in the face of an incomprehensible evil, and the day was saved, mostly. (The fallout from the
== The "peace" created by this event didn't last. ==
Line 24:
Why did the aliens use such unreasonably gigantic spacecraft to cart around wimpy beam weapons that packed about as much punch as a pile of nuclear bombs that could fit in a modest-sized human aircraft? Why did the city killers burn so readily when shot with tiny little anti-aircraft missiles once their invulnerable energy shields were down? Why did the wrecked city killer hovering over Area 51 drift gently away to crash far off in the distance? How could they hover without Newton's third law crushing everything on the ground beneath them?
* Newton's third law: the ships were supporting themselves with some sort of technobabble graviton beam system that interacted with the earth itself, spreading out the forces through the rock underneath, rather than propelling material downwards. (Which still relies on technobabble and impossible as far as we know technology, but a lot of the physics issues people spot in the movie may work like this.)
Line 71:
== After the end of the movie the remains of the city ships become prime thrill-seeker territory. ==
* The 15 mile wide spacecraft leave ruins which judging by the movie are ''at least''
== Secretary of State Nimzicky was on the alien's side, feeding them information. ==
Line 87:
== The movie is actually intended as delivering a [[Green Aesop]]. ==
* The mother ship contained the aliens' ''[[Last of His Kind|entire]]'' population. Thus, like so many times before, humanity is once again responsible for the [[What the Hell, Hero?|total extinction]] of an unique form of life. [[Humans Are
** Meh... [[Aliens Are Bastards|They had it coming.]]
* Alternatively, after making psychic contact with the apprehended alien, President Whitmore relays their method of invading a planet and stripping it clean of resources before moving on. This can be seen as a message against unchecked environmental consumption… [[Space Whale Aesop|since if you don’t regulate the use of your resources better, you will eventually use up your planet, be forced to wander space and destroy other worlds until the inhabitants of one of them finally fight back and wipe you out]].
| |||