Josh's Hatred of Independence Day (and by proxy, America)

[Josh]

When you're talking about fiction, where laws of physics are replaced with literary devices of convenience, self-sufficient logic has no place. The more you explain it the more obvious the not-reality becomes. It's the incredibly vague sci-fi gobbledegook that makes the best stories, cuz the axiom "less is more" rules supreme.

Independence Day was vague, and it was still crap movie.

[Rem-13]

Independence Day was vague, and it was still crap movie.

Aw, hell naw

[Josh]

Aw, hell naw

The movie could not suspend my disbelief, it was terrible.

[Jack]

What do you mean "suspend my disbelief"?

[Kaden]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief

You continue to amaze, Jax.

[Jack]

Didn't think to Google. My assumption was spot on, though.

[Pinky]

Independence Day was vague, and it was still crap movie.

the movie was fine until they uploaded a virus to an interplanetary alien supership. that crossed the line

[Jack]

The movie was raping so much face, at such a high speed of face-raping, that they had no choice but to conclude it so half-assed and abrupt. Like pulling off a band-aid. An exploding, space band-aid.

[Josh]

the movie was fine until they uploaded a virus to an interplanetary alien supership. that crossed the line

No, it was stupid the moment the aliens motive was revealed.

[Pinky]

It's no worse than every other alien invasion movie ever made. The only thing that sets our planet apart from the rest of the hellworlds out there is the miraculous environment.

The movie was raping so much face, at such a high speed of face-raping, that they had no choice but to conclude it so half-assed and abrupt. Like pulling off a band-aid. An exploding, space band-aid.

[Josh]

It's no worse than every other alien invasion movie ever made. The only thing that sets our planet apart from the rest of the hellworlds out there is the miraculous environment.

The M.O. of the aliens was also retarded.

The aliens weren't going to live on earth, they were going to rape the resources and leave. But the thing is it would take infinitely less energy to just mine asteroids that are rich in pretty much every element on earth and then some that don't exist here.

About the only thing they wouldn't be able to find naturally are some of the biological material on earth, but they could easily reproduce those chemicals with the abundance of raw material they could get from asteroids, and other planets.

Not only that but they blow up major cities? Is that even necessary. With their technology they could have just released a biological weapon to erase mankind in a couple days.

[Jack]

But then Will Smith wouldn't have been able to pilot that alien spacecraft to their mothership so Jeff Goldblum could hax their shit and save the universe duh

srsly: There's hard sci-fi, and then there's Independence Day.

[Kaden]

[Pinky]

The M.O. of the aliens was also retarded.

The aliens weren't going to live on earth, they were going to rape the resources and leave. But the thing is it would take infinitely less energy to just mine asteroids that are rich in pretty much every element on earth and then some that don't exist here.

About the only thing they wouldn't be able to find naturally are some of the biological material on earth, but they could easily reproduce those chemicals with the abundance of raw material they could get from asteroids, and other planets.

Not only that but they blow up major cities? Is that even necessary. With their technology they could have just released a biological weapon to erase mankind in a couple days.

that wouldn't make much of a movie.

[Kaden]

It would make a good MMO, though.

Oh... wait...

[Josh]

that wouldn't make much of a movie.

No but saying that Humans created a complex chemical in their brain that the aliens used as a narcotic would fit better. It would explain why they don't just wipe them out right off the bat, and why they would even bother with earth.

It would be easier suspend my disbelief in that situation.

[Vad]

So the aliens want to harvest the chemicals released during an orgasm?

Edit: Acetylcholine, Dopamine and Serotonin, plus the sexual hormone.

[Pinky]

No but saying that Humans created a complex chemical in their brain that the aliens used as a narcotic would fit better. It would explain why they don't just wipe them out right off the bat, and why they would even bother with earth.

It would be easier suspend my disbelief in that situation.

somehow, getting high on humans is an even worse plot than intergalactic enviro slobs.

[Josh]

somehow, getting high on humans is an even worse plot than intergalactic enviro slobs.

no not really, envrio slobs requires too many variables where as human drugs is simpler.

[Pinky]

no not really, envrio slobs requires too many variables where as human drugs is simpler.

it's a movie. it's assumed that reality takes a back seat to entertainment. srsly, your idea of a good plot is aliens farming space minerals ala WOW, the world's most boring part of the world's most boring videogame genre. :[