Spoiler Alert for anyone with the fortitude to actually try to watch this thing.
The hostile aliens in Independence Day view the planets they conquer simply as repositories for resources. They move to a planet, crush the resistance, then drill to the planet’s core to suck up what’s available and move on, leaving a hollow husk floating in space.
This is an apt metaphor for how culture is produced today. The impact of Social Justice Warriors and multiculturalism makes it difficult to create anything genuinely new. So filmmakers rely on already established franchises which can be mined and drained until all the nostalgia is gone. Then they move on to something else, leaving a hulk behind.
So it is with Independence Day: Resurgence, the lame sequel to the 1996 summer blockbuster. ...
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