That’s an interesting point. It may actually be a more enjoyable movie because of the technical flaws.
Sorry, but I just have to join the pile on.
Them: Mastered interstellar space travel and have huge fleets of high speed ships.
Us: Been sending stuff into space for 40 years (as of 1996).
What do they do when they get here? They hijack our comsats for communication.
Right.
I also rolled my eyes at the rest of the world sitting on their butt waiting for the Americans to come up with a solution. What did the Brit say? “About bloody time!” :rolleyes:
And how come the Prez gave up after launching one nuke attack which didn’t work, but when his initial missile attack didn’t work, he cocked his head to the side and said, “Let me try that again?”
Still, the movie does blow up a bunch of stuff. 
Independence. That’s one of the words that Americans really should know how to spell.
Oh yeah, and it was a stupid movie. Roland Emmerich has been involved in several prominent stupid movies – Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow – all of which could have been good if a competent science fiction writer had worked on the screenplay. Why do we get $100 million movies with stupid half-baked scripts?
I just thought of a work around for the Mac OS interfacing with the mothership to transmit the virus. Didn’t Brent Spiner say that some of the alien technology had been analyzed? Obviously the Mac is based on alien computer systems, so there was no compatability issues, ipso facto.
Of all the silly things about this movie, the thing that bugs me the most is the flight path of the swarms of alien fighters – they’re all moving randomly at incredibly high speed, with no attempt at anything like formations. If it wasn’t CGI, the invasion would’ve failed due to massive mid-air collisions.
But the film is almost worth watching, for Will Smith’s dogfight, and his “got you and your raggedy ship/welcome to earth” rant.
Boxofficemojo.com reports that the movie made $306 million domestically and $511 million overseas.
A terrible, terrible film.
I did get a kick out of the moment the army guy orders “Fire at will”. And then of course the next thing we see is Will Smith in his fighter jet.
I’m usually someone who really HATES big budget sappy jingoistic dumb movies. I got yelled at for laughing during tender moments of both Armageddon and The Patriot. But, for whatever reason, I was able to enjoy Independence Day as just mindless silly fun. You don’t get the feeling that the people making the movie take it any more seriously than you do. And the white house exploding, and similar scenes, were REALLY amazing visuals, at the time.
well, I like ID4 for one reason, and one reason only. I have found that watching it and then Mars Attacks immediately after makes Mars Attacks infinitely more funny.
Other than that, there are a few enjoyable scenes, but on the whole it’s worthless crap.
Don’t forget that the dog survived by turning right, into the doorway, just as the fireball moved past. Because, if you remember from your science class, heat always flows IN A STRAIGHT LINE.
I love a movie that has the balls to do that.
I’ve seen ID4 several times and even bought the DVD (used, I admit). I admit to all its stupid flaws, yet it still works for me.
Undeniably, unequivicably, inarguably, unrelentingly:
Worst. Movie. Ever.
No movie that does not feature an appearance by Martin Lawrence, Will Ferrell or Rob Schneider can possibly hold that claim.
Obviously, you haven’t watch Battlefield Earth yet.
Watch “House Of The Dead” and “Freddy Got Fingered”, and get back to us.
No, fighting words would be, “Cue Saving Private Ryan hijack.”
[sub]Not that Cervaise doesn’t have a point about Gump…[/sub]
I saw this movie on a DVD I borrowed for free. And I still got ripped off.
It did have some fine scenes of people outrunning fireball-explosions.
As awful as this movie was, what bothered me the most was the computer animated fighter jet scenes. The F-18 is a wonderful aircraft, but it can not turn on a dime. Airplanes have mass and momentum, and it takes a bit of space to turn one around mid-flight. I guess the animators thought it looked “kewl” but it was distracting.
Maybe being distraced from a peice of crap movie like this isn’t all bad, though.
It’s funny, out of all the problems in this movie, the thing that bothered me most was that Will Smith was able to find his wife when he stole that helipcopter.
Why should the movie be any different from real life?