Jesus, 'Independence Day' Could Have Been 99% Less Dumb With 0% Extra Effort

Independence Day is the shittiest of uber-shitty flicks, but jesus, they coulda made it way less fucking stupid so gods-damned easily.  Indeed, the movie was an incompetent rip-off of about a billion other works and was always gonna be cliche-ridden filth, but the few fun bits would have been so much neater if the dumb was dialed back.  It musta been obvious in the script stage, and it's too bad nobody with a thimbleful of talent couldn't have given that fucking thing an inspired Rolfing.