re: Overanalyzing Independence Day - Russell Kay

For a little more levity:
Bob Dole debates Incumbent President Whitmore

Is there any way to verify what cities were hit by the aliens and which weren't, so we can estimate the death toll?

I think we can assume the following based on info from the movie:
DC, NYC, LA, Houston, Philadelphia, Paris, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Beijing, Colorado Springs (NORAD)

We know the following were spared:
Cairo, Sydney

Any others that can be confirmed?

Have we brought up yet that they hacked super advanced alien technology with a fricking Mac?

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You guys should overanalyze something else. Armageddon...? Twister...?

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We should do Home Alone.

ok but if the goal was to actually have the nuke disable the shields of all the ships by destroying the mother ship. What was the point of the virus and launching the attack?

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but I would think blowing the mother ship up would accomplish both?

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Blowing up the mother ship wouldn't necessarily disable the shields without the virus. Somehow managing to upload the virus without blowing up the mother-ship would result in several issues:
1. They would still have a massive foot soldier army to deal with which was preparing for a land invasion
2. Communication between crafts and the mother ship would likely have been restored in time to get the shields back up and counter the working human strategy before all alien capital ships are destroyed.

The virus got rid of the shields
The bomb made shield loss permanent, severed command/control structure, and destroyed all reinforcements and ground forces.

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This thread is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.

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In "Son In Law", when Crawl starts up the combine the sound of a gasoline engine is clearly heard. The combine is obviously a diesel. This movie is COMPLETE bullshite!

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Is there any way to verify what cities were hit by the aliens and which weren't, so we can estimate the death toll? I think we can assume the following based on info from the movie: DC, NYC, LA, Houston, Philadelphia, Paris, Moscow, London, Tokyo, Beijing, Colorado Springs (NORAD) We know the following were spared: Cairo, Sydney Any others that can be confirmed?

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I recall Whitmore looking at some map when he was being told about the worldwide destruction of every major city. "We're being exterminated." On that map, it looked like every major city in the US that had a significant population.