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NC: (as someone playing on his phone) Wow, your phone gets really good reception! (as someone else) Thank you. NC (vo): I really love even 20 years later, they never gave these things a name. Lanford: The fusion of human and alien technology. (A shot of a made-up Twitter account is shown, from someone named Outrage McGee, with a tweet reading: "STOP THE THINGS I DON'T LIKE!!!", followed by a reply tweet from "The World" reading, "Okay.") NC: (as Lanford) And ironically, we have Twitter to thank for all that. Nations have put their petty differences aside. President Lanford (Sela Ward): For 20 years, the world has seen no armed conflict. NC (vo): The film opens, clarifying that Thanos was kind of right, as wiping out half the population resulted in immediate world peace and utilizing the alien technology to grow a united utopia. NC: Let's see why this resurgence was anything but. So, why couldn't Emmerich recreate the same success after years of trying to recreate the same success? Well, we're gonna take a closer look. So why would you think doing the same thing, minus half the original cast and no huge names replacing the rest, would you think we would find this exciting and new? While Independence Day: Resurgence made its money back globally, it bombed pretty hard domestically.
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On a surface level, I totally understand. Everybody could relate to the excitement of aliens arriving, people having different reactions, seeing them destroy everything we could imagine being destroyed, and the world putting aside their differences to fight back. It was the first time this B-movie scenario of aliens blowing up the world was attempted with state-of-the-art CG effects, it had a lot of charming actors we recognized, and everyone knew it was stupid, but it was simple. If you've seen my review of Independence Day, you know it's not a favorite of mine, but I understand why people like it. NC (vo): There's something particularly sad, though, about going back to your most successful of these repeated attempts after 20 years of doing the exact same thing, simply to do.the exact same thing. (Footage focuses on Independence Day: Resurgence )
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even a year can somehow blow everything up. (A shot of the title for 2012 is shown, followed by a clip of that movie) It honestly doesn't matter what the disaster is: aliens, Godzilla, war. NC (vo): Writer-director Roland Emmerich really likes to think outside the box, in that he's constantly pondering, "How do I get back inside the box?" The box, in this case, is proud but quirky people who don't think they're prone to survival, thrown into the biggest fight of their lives, where the environment around them is destroyed. Then we cut to the title for this movie, followed by footage of it and other movies by its director, Roland Emmerich) Then he holds up a release of Independence Day: Resurgence, while new text pops up: "BUT SO IS INDEPENDENCE DAY". (He smiles nervously and holds out his hands as the word "ALIENS" pops up, followed by "THIS MEME IS OLD AND TIRED". (The Channel Awesome logo is shown, followed by the NC title sequence)