content: It's truly amazing to look at this "film" now and marvel that it's one of the top grossing motion pictures of all time. Basically, it's a marvel of marketing. Emmerich and Devlin have "borrowed" ideas from really great films and clumsily placed them in their movie. They even swipe the ending of their previous effort, STARGATE (which appeared prior to that in ALIENS and the obscure MOONTRAP). And when they're not lifting other filmmakers' ideas, they're putting in some of the most illogical concepts seen (ie, an alien computer can instantly download a program from an Apple).