combatentropy
Veteran
Independence Day: Resurgence made me more miserable than any movie in recent memory. I blame the script. While the lighting, special effects, and even the acting were all decent, I was beyond bored. I was tormented.
There was no central character. Instead there were about a dozen characters who shared equal attention, plus another dozen supporting characters. And that's just on the good-guy side. Actually, the bad-guy side had just one character, besides a lot of soldier drones. The good guys, as expected, are often in peril. A few die or lose loved ones. Yet I found myself just sitting there.
This is unusual for me. I normally willingly let myself get wrapped up in a movie, to the extent that I cannot enjoy a horror movie, for example. This movie reminds me of my experience in Michael Bay's movies, like Armageddon, where characters are crying as they say good-bye to their loved ones, or where the action scene is spectacular, and the music soars desperately in an attempt to pull on my heartstrings --- but I'm just numb. This is quite against my will. I want to get involved in the movie. It's no fun if you don't. I paid a good amount of money to see it.
It's perplexing when it happens in a movie with so much money thrown at it, considering that it seems so easy. At the gym, I can get pulled into an episode of Law and Order, even above the din of the treadmill and even though I missed the first 15 minutes. I am more emotionally involved with a cooking show that my wife has on the TV than I do with the movies of Michael Bay, George Lucas in the 21st century, and Roland Emmerich.
There was no central character. Instead there were about a dozen characters who shared equal attention, plus another dozen supporting characters. And that's just on the good-guy side. Actually, the bad-guy side had just one character, besides a lot of soldier drones. The good guys, as expected, are often in peril. A few die or lose loved ones. Yet I found myself just sitting there.
This is unusual for me. I normally willingly let myself get wrapped up in a movie, to the extent that I cannot enjoy a horror movie, for example. This movie reminds me of my experience in Michael Bay's movies, like Armageddon, where characters are crying as they say good-bye to their loved ones, or where the action scene is spectacular, and the music soars desperately in an attempt to pull on my heartstrings --- but I'm just numb. This is quite against my will. I want to get involved in the movie. It's no fun if you don't. I paid a good amount of money to see it.
It's perplexing when it happens in a movie with so much money thrown at it, considering that it seems so easy. At the gym, I can get pulled into an episode of Law and Order, even above the din of the treadmill and even though I missed the first 15 minutes. I am more emotionally involved with a cooking show that my wife has on the TV than I do with the movies of Michael Bay, George Lucas in the 21st century, and Roland Emmerich.
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