Stilly - Yeah, well, I'm crazy about Indians and that movie has more Indian stuff in it than most... :-) Some people seem to hate everything Kevin Costner is in, but I like some of his movies a lot. Ones I didn't like were "Bodyguard" and "The Postman". "Robin Hood" was so-so.

What really annoyed me to the max in Independence Day was that idiot fighter pilot (obnoxious black actor whose name I have forgotten at the moment) and the nonsense about the guy flying his cropduster into the alien ship's portal and the other nonsense with the guys smoking cigars whilst cunningly defeating the alien technology, and...Oh, god...where do I stop? Besides, I like space aliens. I automatically take offense at pretty well any movie that casts them as vicious, ugly, destroying monsters bent on conquering the Earth. If they wanted to conquer this little planet they could've done it a long time ago, in my opinion, and not even worked up a sweat. Just because people are treacherous and dangerous doesn't mean that everyone else is too.

But you're right...it's a matter of taste, that's all.

- LH