Incredibly, all three of these were once a Hollywood possibility in the mid-90s, before Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin followed up Independence Day with their much-maligned 1998 take on the iconic ...

Set aside 1998’s overly goofy tone, unrecognizable monster and cheesy dialogue and pay attention to five things Emmerich’s version did better than the product Warner Bros. distributed in 2014. See ...