This version gets high praises for anachronistic reasons...like compared to what? That's the key. This 1996, pre-internet, pre-smartphone, sci-fi wannabe isn't as deserving as the 1953 version of "War of the Worlds". Too many characters in this "Independence Day" verge on slapstick...too much more like satire than sci-fi, in the context of the mid-Nineties. Meanwhile, the recent sequel, 2017's "Independence Day: Resurgence", gets panned on modern standards, yet is much better storytelling...less frivolity, fewer yahoos! While its release-year context for sci-fi suggests the 1996 version was a big deal, a quarter-century later has it aging poorly; it's still entertainment, but some of the acting is crassly corny. Yep, the 2017 sequel suffers from from character carryover, but the modern storytelling is less slapstick.
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The Murders
(2019)
Quite good, in a Canadian way...
7 March 2022
Reading the numerous pretentious quasi-critics among these reviews is more sad than funny. I like Canadian-style writing, particularly in their crime dramas, but I don't confuse them with the US/Hollywood spawn. Canada isn't the US, regardless of what that might or may not mean to the shallow US market, US-Canada are different societies, actually, as another form of diversity. As British drama varies from its US counterpart, Canada has its own style, and different isn't really a basis for better or worse, actually. Some of the best drama streaming on the internet is Canadian...with less chaff among the wheat than the US TV/movie market. It's often more entertaining with less neurosis than British or US counterparts. "The Murders" is quite good within its boundaries. Vancouver, BC, isn't Toronto, or Los Angeles, or New Orleans, which is not a good or bad thing...it's Vancouver and that works for this crime drama.
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