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Man, did I forget about this movie. I've only seen it like twice in my life but before the second time, I forgot a whole lot about the whole thing. There are some amazing special effects and action scenes but the whole thing becomes unnecessarily...
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Man, did I forget about this movie. I've only seen it like twice in my life but before the second time, I forgot a whole lot about the whole thing. There are some amazing special effects and action scenes but the whole thing becomes unnecessarily 2 and a half hours long. And the whole thing becomes too much, too long, and very dull.

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Posted aug 20, 2008 12:31 am pt

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this movie was an old concept but wow did they leave behind any ideas that it was same old, same old. The acting was great by everyone and it was more about the people not the events. And, I am sure that a lot of the lines Will had were ad libed...
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this movie was an old concept but wow did they leave behind any ideas that it was same old, same old. The acting was great by everyone and it was more about the people not the events. And, I am sure that a lot of the lines Will had were ad libed which brought character to the movie, that and the special effects. Holy cow the effects were ... this is sad choose of words but... OUT OF THIS WORLD!!

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Posted aug 19, 2008 2:56 pm pt

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Ever you ever wished to see the White House and some famous monments being blown apart into pieces. Independence Day does it all, plus that its just want the American Dream is all about, explosions and everything. Independence Day is a sci-fi...
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Ever you ever wished to see the White House and some famous monments being blown apart into pieces. Independence Day does it all, plus that its just want the American Dream is all about, explosions and everything. Independence Day is a sci-fi action movie.

Independence Day is very resinmencent of War of the Worlds, where the aliens invaded the earth, and every inch of humanity require to repel the invasion of destroying mankind. I really like that plot along with awesome visual effects, its indeed a blast to everyone. It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which when all the special effects blow over, is what Americans like in a monster hit!

Independence Day starts off with the speech when humanity have took a step on moon, claiming in and properousity to all. But a large mothership that boasts 25% of the moon mass coming in close proximity of Earth and deploys dozens of flying saucers on their way to Earth to begin entering the atmosphere. They disrupted the satalights. Once they arrived to Earth, they caused massive havoc and uproar to the streets, worldwide. Then eventually engage the cities of the earth. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day.

The idea of making a sci-fi movie where the struggles of mankind is astounding and its at its own right. Its very similar to War of the Worlds, really. The visual effects and CG effects are absolutely amazing and outstanding. As you experienced explosion after explosion after explosion. The incredible visual effects which make the movie have quite an intriguing and sensational nature which you will never forget. Its just an absolutely alien invades earth spectacular blast and its very thrilling to all audiences.

The casting of this movie seems to be quite good, Jean Hackman,Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, and many more does the stuff right and the excatation is pretty well and does fit. Both Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith teams up in at the end and its pretty well done for those characters. Jean Hackman plays the 4-star general, Will Smith plays Captain Hiller, Jeff Goldblum plays a cable technican, Bill Pullman plays the President of the United States. All these casting character fit very well towards the movie. But the dialogue should improve abit, it sounds pitch-perfect cartoonish.

Overall, Independence Day is a spectacular amazing action-packed movie with explosives. Its a extragadaza blast and its storyline is very intriguing and awesome. The ending was just impressive and well put. Sci-fi fans and people looking for a spectacular blast movie should watch this film. Everything is well put and the excuatation is well done. This is a Recommended Purchase.

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Posted oct 19, 2007 10:59 am pt

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Ever you ever wished to see the White House and some famous monments being blown apart into pieces. Independence Day does it all, plus that its just want the American Dream is all about, explosions and everything. Independence Day is a sci-fi...
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Ever you ever wished to see the White House and some famous monments being blown apart into pieces. Independence Day does it all, plus that its just want the American Dream is all about, explosions and everything. Independence Day is a sci-fi action movie.

Independence Day is very resinmencent of War of the Worlds, where the aliens invaded the earth, and every inch of humanity require to repel the invasion of destroying mankind. I really like that plot along with awesome visual effects, its indeed a blast to everyone. It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which when all the special effects blow over, is what Americans like in a monster hit!

Independence Day starts off with the speech when humanity have took a step on moon, claiming in and properousity to all. But a large mothership that boasts 25% of the moon mass coming in close proximity of Earth and deploys dozens of flying saucers on their way to Earth to begin entering the atmosphere. They disrupted the satalights. Once they arrived to Earth, they caused massive havoc and uproar to the streets, worldwide. Then eventually engage the cities of the earth. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day.

The idea of making a sci-fi movie where the struggles of mankind is astounding and its at its own right. Its very similar to War of the Worlds, really. The visual effects and CG effects are absolutely amazing and outstanding. As you experienced explosion after explosion after explosion. The incredible visual effects which make the movie have quite an intriguing and sensational nature which you will never forget. Its just an absolutely alien invades earth spectacular blast and its very thrilling to all audiences.

The casting of this movie seems to be quite good, Jean Hackman,Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, and many more does the stuff right and the excatation is pretty well and does fit. Both Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith teams up in at the end and its pretty well done for those characters. Jean Hackman plays the 4-star general, Will Smith plays Captain Hiller, Jeff Goldblum plays a cable technican, Bill Pullman plays the President of the United States. All these casting character fit very well towards the movie. But the dialogue should improve abit, it sounds pitch-perfect cartoonish.

Overall, Independence Day is a spectacular amazing action-packed movie with explosives. Its a extragadaza blast and its storyline is very intriguing and awesome. The ending was just impressive and well put. Sci-fi fans and people looking for a spectacular blast movie should watch this film. Everything is well put and the excuatation is well done. This is a Recommended Purchase.

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Posted oct 19, 2007 10:58 am pt

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Independence Day is a great movie for anyone who loves Sci-fi and UFO movies. The movie begins with a large mothership that boasts 25% of the moons mass coming in close proximity of Earth that deploys many 15 mile wide flying saucers on their way...
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Independence Day is a great movie for anyone who loves Sci-fi and UFO movies. The movie begins with a large mothership that boasts 25% of the moons mass coming in close proximity of Earth that deploys many 15 mile wide flying saucers on their way to Earth to begin entering the atmosphere. Once they arrived on Earth they then cause massive panic worldwide and then eventually engage the cities of the Earth. The action in the movie is not lacking and has incredible visual effects which make the movie have quite an impressive and sensational nature which you will never forget. The ships are the finest and most spectacular looking sights you will ever see in a UFO or Sci-fi movie and an awesome showdown in the end which you must see for yourself to appreciate. Independence Day is one of the most spectacular and exciting movies you'll ever watch.

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Posted oct 18, 2007 6:00 pm pt

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On the big screen this movie kicked you know what. I still watch it from time to time and my 6 year old loves it. Never gets old, Smith and Goldblum make a great team. A must see for Sci Freaks and non alike.

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Posted jun 15, 2007 10:08 am pt

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This movie keeps you shaking allmost all the time. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum is just amazing, and the script is great.
One of the best sci-fi movies ever.

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Posted mar 17, 2007 10:01 pm pt

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"Independence Day" was really a cool science-fiction movie starring Will Smith. This movie may have been one of the catalysts that boosted Will Smith into the class of actors that he's with today. The special effects in this movie, at...
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"Independence Day" was really a cool science-fiction movie starring Will Smith. This movie may have been one of the catalysts that boosted Will Smith into the class of actors that he's with today. The special effects in this movie, at the time, were second to none. The only downfall was that the story was just so-so.

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Posted mar 14, 2007 2:52 am pt

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This is just a fun sci-fi film with a feel good ending and it doesn't matter if the cheese factor is high, or the acting is stiff, or the screen play is hokey or any other reason that critics against the film may spout.

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This is just a fun sci-fi film with a feel good ending and it doesn't matter if the cheese factor is high, or the acting is stiff, or the screen play is hokey or any other reason that critics against the film may spout.

Old plot: Aliens are about to invade the earth and they don't car about the current occupants. They are bigger and much badder than we are and their technology is light years ahead of us. But like typical Americans, we aren't going to take annihilation laying down. The casting is excellent and the screenplay is actually pretty good, for this type of movie. Robert Loggia, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Will Smith, Harry Connick, Jr. and Randy Quaid all put in fine performances in this latter day updating of War Of The Worlds, only without Tom Cruise (thank goodness!!!).

If for some reason you haven't seen the film, and you like good science fiction, then this is the movie to rent for a campy evening at home with family and friends and lot's of buttered popcorn!

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Posted mar 10, 2007 4:45 am pt

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A good Scf-i movie with a lot of great sorytelling and action. one of Will Smiths best movies

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Posted mar 5, 2007 1:11 pm pt

• [+] Empire
  
  100
  Like "2001," "Star Wars" and "Jurassic Park," it ups the special effects stakes and gets closer to putting on screen the images you've had in your mind while reading epic sci-fi.

  by Kim Newman | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  The alien attack, taking place in several cities at once, is breathtaking...All the same, Independence Day is consistently funny.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  88
  A rousing state-of-the-art cartoon capped by an aerial-combat climax that, to its credit, isn't anti-climactic. [2 July 1996, p.D1]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  83
  It's the first futuristic disaster movie that's as cute as a button. Which, when all the special effects blow over, is what we Americans like in a monster hit.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  Cities engulfed by rolling walls of flame, sinister aquamarine power blasts turning beloved national monuments to toast, even the roiling clouds the spaceships appear out of, they are all disturbing, unsettling and completely convincing.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  80
  Two reasons it's impossible to resist "Independence Day": because of its pitch-perfect cartoonish dialogue ("Now you're never gonna get to fly the space shuttle if you marry a stripper!") and because the Captain, like Indiana Jones, is so unflappably tough.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  The aliens, meanwhile, are a fabulously nasty lot of slimy, tentacled, malevolent telepaths, but all their superior technology is no match for our red, white and blue ingenuity. Take that, space bullies!

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
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  Fans of sci-fi, special effects, big explosions, panicky crowd scenes and theater sound systems cranked up way beyond the capacity of the human ear to hear comfortably will love this movie. I am not among you.

  by Barbara Shulgasser | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  For all of its huge budget, Independence Day is a timid movie when it comes to imagination. The aliens, when we finally see them, are a serious disappointment.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
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  With its hackneyed plot, feeble attempts at characterization, and predictable finale, the second half of Independence Day becomes an extremely dull and lifeless affair.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  50
  The dialogue is tacky, the characters stock and the special effects no improvement on anything George Lucas did 20 years ago.

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  50
  The cutting-edge perfection of effects in Cameron and Spielberg films is replaced here by work that looks more homemade, particularly toward the end in some faintly cheesy composite shots.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
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  Once you get past the admittedly breathtaking shots of our national landmarks being turned into kindling, the rest of the film is a tired and empty two hours of feel-good patriotism and oddly cast characters.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  Cruises to an upbeat ending but furnishes no more of the wicked thrills of the initial hour. Particularly disappointing is the human contrivance employed in the defeat of the vastly superior enemy.

  by Kevin McManus | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
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  The action is fast, furious, and loaded with explosive effects, but the theme is a regrettable return to the us-against-them paranoia that dominated much science fiction in the cold-war era.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »