What better way to celebrate Independence Day than kicking some alien invader ass and then eating some BBQ while you watch the remains of the ships crash down from the sky. Mmmm, mmmm. Tasty!
Will Smith is just the person I would trust to beat up some aliens, too. I just don’t think the aliens know how to deal with his kind of humor and skills combined. He is the Fresh Prince, afterall. No one can compete with that and no one can gloat like him either. I love the scene after he has taken down the alien mini-ship and he’s walking towards it talkin’ all kinds of trash. Classic.
Independence Day is one of those classic movies that will always play on July 4 and it will always be good. The action is good once it finally gets started. You have to wait forever for it to get started though, so don’t hold your breath. At least there’s Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Pullman all ready to provide some comic relief, although most of Bill Pullman’s comedy comes in the form of inadvertently humorous delivery of the phrase “My God”. So sit back and enjoy the holiday with some good old fashioned alien action and some BBQ.
Time until Will Smith shows his pretty little face: ~ 22 minutes
Time until real action starts: ~ 47 minutes. I think this wins the award for longest time until action. Man! It takes awhile.
Big Bad Baddies: ALIENS!!!
Best Line: Oh come on! Do you even have to ask! “Welcome to Urf!” Will Smith just delivered it magnificently.
Best Kill: An alien has killed a lot of people trying to cut him open but is contained within a room. The alien makes one fatal mistake, he makes the President fall to his knees in pain. So, Adam Baldwin (a.k.a. Jayne from Serenity) takes out his gun and blows the alien away. He and a few other guys unleash a can of All American whoop ass on the alien. Then, just to make sure the alien is dead, Baldwin pumps three more bullets into the aliens head.
Best Explosion: You know a lot of movies have a scene where the White House explodes but nothing can top the one in Independence Day! The alien ship lasers the White House and it gets decimated. It is such a gorgeous explosion. Yeah, yeah, it’s tragic, but very awesome. Then the explosion continues to take out the whole city and cover your whole screen.
Action Rating: 3 Welcome to Urf’s, out of 5.
Illustration by Alex of Rocket Llama Headquarters.
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I saw this one in Beaufort, SC (Parris Island) when I was still in the Corps, it was like that scene from Gremlins where they are all singing to Snow White, we really loved that film. Pullman’s speech at the end still makes me to want to charge a hill!!!
This is the best thing Roland Emmerich has ever done or will ever do. if you don’t like this movie you are some sort of espresso-sipping beret-wearing commie pinko.
Independence Day is kind of mis-characterized as a science fiction movie.
Isn’t it just one of the largest-scale disaster movies of all time? I mean compare it to a ship getting turned upside-down, an earthquake, or a hotel fire. Independence Day is about as bad as it can get from a disaster standpoint… then humanity’s reaction & getting back in the game.
Blowing up the White House really is a classic for the Fourth 🙂
Actually the filmmakers said they were deliberately approaching alien invasion like a disaster movie, so you’re right.
I freakin love this movie!!!!!
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Actually, the White House isn’t decimated, rather, it is completely destroyed. Thanks for the reminder that, despite it’s many flaws, ID4 is the gold standard of the *perfect* summer movie, especially on this day.
I can’t believe I used the wrong ‘its’ in my previous post. The shame.