Beastie Boys scene killed it for me
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tolarrattler-imdb — 9 years ago(December 07, 2016 06:13 AM)
Yeah, the idea was that it would disrupt the fleet's ability to coordinate their movement and stop them from moving as one. No where was there any kind of reason to believe that the music would cause them to blow up. Someone might argue that they started running into each other and that caused the explosion but McCoy bumped around quite a bit and his craft did not explode.
What happened is the writers created an enemy too powerful to stop. So they just made up something stupid as a "weakness". -
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ScrystaLz — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 09:30 AM)
Well I gotta agree with you thereas much as I love STB overall, but that part was 1 of the very few moments in the movie when I went "WTF?!"
I thought that part was silly, I hate that awful Beasties songif they insisted on playing a song during that scene, I would've preferred a different song -
tjlamb0518 — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 09:56 AM)
Considering I'd seen (or heard) the song used in the trailer and reacted to by characters, I was kind of dreading where it would turn up. While it was contrived and unnecessary, at least it wasn't as bad as I was dreading. Besides, some of the reactions (Chekov toe tapping, Sulu head-bopping and McCoy/Spock asking about classical music) were fun. Seriously? In the pantheon of things I've had to grit my teeth and bare it through in Trek moviesthis won't even make the top 5.
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coiloftears — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 10:11 AM)
Sorry but this was one of the most cringe worthy things I've seen in a movie theater, been going to the movies since the 70's. It was horrible and just literally capped off the crappy part of the movie. Horrible cringe and face palms all around
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AdmiralTugBenson — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 11:02 PM)
Yeah, it kind of made me cringe, didn't kill the movie for me or anything. If they'd just stuck to the context of it being played through the speakers I don't think it would have been all that bad, but actually making it the soundtrack of the scene was kind of jarring. But to me it also seemed like a kind of classic Trek solution, besides the choice of music it seemed like a pretty typical pulled-out-of-their-butts Star Trek plan that saves the day. Only instead of Beastie Boys it would probably be some resonating frequency or some such technobabble. So it was very Trek-like and also not very Trek-like at the same time.
"Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. Would you like a cookie son?" -
P-K-One — 9 years ago(August 17, 2016 11:06 AM)
I was sitting in the cinema. I saw this coming about a minute before it actually played out and started laughing.
It was, without a doubt, the most stupid "kill the Aliens with a trick" scene in the history of cinema. From this moment forward nobody may ever complain about the computer virus in "independence day" again.
Generally I was very underwhelmed by this movie. The plot felt thin and was riddled with holes. It seemed they were more interested in getting from one action sequence to the next. And that Beastie Boys scene was the last straw. They could literally have stopped the movie at that point and cut in a scene of the director and writing team appearing on screen and stating that they did not take anything about this movie seriously and it would not have been any clearer. -
psdhart — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 01:31 AM)
It was, without a doubt, the most stupid "kill the Aliens with a trick" scene in the history of cinema. From this moment forward nobody may ever complain about the computer virus in "independence day" again.
Generally I was very underwhelmed by this movie. The plot felt thin and was riddled with holes. It seemed they were more interested in getting from one action sequence to the next. And that Beastie Boys scene was the last straw.
They could literally have stopped the movie at that point and cut in a scene of the director and writing team appearing on screen and stating that they did not take anything about this movie seriously and it would not have been any clearer.
I agree, I am curious what they will say about that scene in the director's commentary
