This is a really stupid movie. It's not original in any way, a bad montage of tired science fiction and action comedy cliches that make the movie both highly predictable and completely unexiting. The epitome of special effects without sensible plot. Even the talented actors in here go to waste with foolish lines, impossible physics, over the top action sequences, the movie is just bad in every way possible. It's interesting how the high minded science fiction with the cheesy special effects in the 1960s (Star Trek envisioned a future where we somehow cured poverty and racism), and the feel-good triumph of good over evil (Star Wars made us all cheer) of the 70's, gave way to the explosions for the short attention span audiences at the close of the 20th Century. To enjoy any science fiction movie, you have to buy into the fictional science of the movie, it has to seem realistic. Well that wasn't too hard in Alien, because we can all relate to being scared of something we don't really know or understand. Here's a typical problem in Independence Day. You ever rent a car, and find you can't just pull out of the airport parking lot because you can't figure out how the unfamiliar car starts up, gets into gear, where the headlights are, the wipers, the seat controls? And yet, in this movie, you can apparently hop right into an alien flying vehicle and not just take for a spin, but save the planet. The only time I saw this horrendous movie, I saw the "I sure picked the wrong day to give up drinking" line coming from a mile off, and the fact that the script writers would try to pull this off years AFTER "Airplane," well it really makes it clear that Hollywood doesn't think very highly of the typical American moviegoer.