In which I rant about Independence Day
(the movie is more than ten years old. I am so not doing a cut-text)
Let it be known that I love Bill Pullman and that the movie Independence Day will forever have a place in my heart as one of my most beloved movies of all time. However, as much as I adore it, there is always one little clip in there that bugs me to no end. I may have ranted about this before, so forgive me if I'm repeating myself, but there is no way in *HELL* that anyone with even an iota of military or governing power would let President Whitmore into that fighter jet toward the end of the movie. The Vice President and all the joint chiefs - anyone in the top ten of presidential succession - was fried in the first attack, *AND* the First Lady was also lost. Whitmore was the only one left - if he died in the final attack, the entire US Government would be tossed into the utmost chaos, and the military would be forced to declare martial law.
However, that isn't what annoys me most. What annoyed me most was the fact that his wife just died, and that if he had the misfortune of getting blown up in the final battle, his daughter would've ended up losing *both* her parents within a twenty-four hour period. And that just ain't right. It doesn't matter that he didn't, in fact, die and leave her all by her lonesome; it matters that he *could* have - sacrificed his daughter and the future of his country just so he could go out there and blow up aliens. Grrraarrr.
Yes, I am aware that this is a movie, and in movies, people do all sorts of stupid stuff for the sake of heroism and ratings and all that good stuff, but that scene still bugs the hell out of me.
Let it be known that I love Bill Pullman and that the movie Independence Day will forever have a place in my heart as one of my most beloved movies of all time. However, as much as I adore it, there is always one little clip in there that bugs me to no end. I may have ranted about this before, so forgive me if I'm repeating myself, but there is no way in *HELL* that anyone with even an iota of military or governing power would let President Whitmore into that fighter jet toward the end of the movie. The Vice President and all the joint chiefs - anyone in the top ten of presidential succession - was fried in the first attack, *AND* the First Lady was also lost. Whitmore was the only one left - if he died in the final attack, the entire US Government would be tossed into the utmost chaos, and the military would be forced to declare martial law.
However, that isn't what annoys me most. What annoyed me most was the fact that his wife just died, and that if he had the misfortune of getting blown up in the final battle, his daughter would've ended up losing *both* her parents within a twenty-four hour period. And that just ain't right. It doesn't matter that he didn't, in fact, die and leave her all by her lonesome; it matters that he *could* have - sacrificed his daughter and the future of his country just so he could go out there and blow up aliens. Grrraarrr.
Yes, I am aware that this is a movie, and in movies, people do all sorts of stupid stuff for the sake of heroism and ratings and all that good stuff, but that scene still bugs the hell out of me.