Epic Win: Independence Day
Submitted by Kevin S, who would make a more believable president than Bill Pullman
ABC just aired their remake of V, the original of which clearly inspired Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day, so it seemed appropriate to post today. When it was released, Independence Day became the second highest grossing film of all time, and even for a blockbuster that relies so heavily on special effects, it’s held up remarkably well.
Memorable Will Smith quotes include:
“No, you did NOT shoot that green shit at me!”
“Welcome to Earth, bitch.” (though he pronounces Earth like Urf)
“Parents just don’t understand.”
Okay, maybe not the last one.
V was good last night, BTW
New “V” SUX! All the plot twist in the pilot? really? Seriously?
Yup, which means they can use novel plot twists from now on.
Well, probably most of it’s main audience is people who watched the original mini-series, so drawing it out like that series did would have lost a lot of viewers.
I watched this in 4th grade, hiding at the top of the stairwell while my parents watched it downstairs.
Ah, childhood trauma.
i think you should post one about sosa vs mcgwire
One of only two movies I ever cried during (the other was Life is Beautiful).
Oh, boy. This movie was the very first film that the big theater in my pathetic little town showed with THX surround sound. It was hilarious to see the entire audience duck and cover when the bullet ricocheted around the hangar bay at Area 51. Also, a lot of people jumped up and cheered at the end of the President’s speech…and then sat back down very quickly when they remembered they were in a theater! Ah, memories.
“I coulda been at a barbecue!”
Also, I loved the new “V”, and I have a lot of faith in the writing and directing staff. They’re the same folks that did “The 4400,” and were forced to tell the plot twist within the first season, instead of saving it for the 3rd or 4th, as was originally planned. They know their shit, and it’ll be interesting to see where this goes.
The President’s speech from this movie is the most epic of wins, ever. It still gives me goosebumps!
I always end his speech with “On Saint Crispin’s Day” because I am a geek who has watched Henry V one too many times.
This trailer was good, but not nearly as good as the ad with “It’s the End of the World As We Know It”
And finally, the very end of the movie where Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are strutting across the desert is the best I’ve ever seen Goldblum look in his entire life. For those few seconds, he is HOT.
That mothership nuke was 100% pwn.
Me, Too. And I’m CANADIAN! Can you dig that?
I have GOT to get me one of these!
One of my top ten fav movies. I have the extended edition and watch it at least once a year, and maybe 3 or 4 times a year on cable when I’m channel surfing.
“Now that’s what I call a close encounter.”
“You don’t really think they spend $30,000 for a hammer, $40,000 for a toilet seat, do you?”
Bah, this movie blew goats…no win, epic fail!
“….I’m baaaa-aaack!”
yeah, one of the best presidencial speaches in tv history.
And the overly used, but still working, “must go faster!”
They just don’t make movies like this anymore. Watch this every time I see it while flipping through channels
Thank God!
It was fun to see it in the theater with a rowdy audience, but I don’t want to see it a second time.
Independence Day the day, July 4th, is an epic win. This movie is a giant piece of hollywood blockbuster shit. Just absolute garbage.
“for a blockbuster that relies so heavily on special effects, it’s held up remarkably well.”
What? Those special effects look like crap. People running full-speed in the foreground while explosions and cars flying through the air in the background happen in ultra slo-mo? The effects in Terminator 2 from four years previous hold up better. The effects in Aliens from 10 years previous hold up WAY better. Hell, the effects in any of the original SW films and even Close Encounters hold up better than the cut-and-paste digital mess that is ID4’s effects.
What I always found funny about this film. People outside the US, mainly Europeans hate this film because apparently they do nothing while the world gets destroyed.
Also.
“So the Yanks got a plan? About bloody time!”
Or something to that effect.
totally agree – i’m an american and i was imbarrassed about how they protrayed other cultures. … but, i still loved the movie. I’m a smith and goldbloom fan
“I’m not Jewish.”
“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
Favorite quote, and applicable to several situations.
Don’t compare Alien to this. That’s just blasphemy.
i hate will smith.
One of my all time favorite movies, I actually owned the DVD of this before I even had a DVD player! The “Henry V” speech is fabulous, so many great lines, cool effects, and I love Hillard telling the big guy, “Just tell ‘em I hit you … ” and his look of “Say WHAT?!?”
As for the new V … I’m not even bothering. If it ain’t got Willie, it ain’t worth the time, lol
This is one of my least favorite alien invasion movies. I like Smith, and I like Goldblum, just not in this movie. I remember seeing this in the theatre and hating it. I’m all for suspension of disbelief, and I still like movies that aren’t scientifically/technically correct, but uploading a virus to beat the aliens from a mac; no thanks hollyweird.
“I could’ve been at a barbecue. Instead, I’m dragging your a** through the desert in my parachute, dreadlocks hangin’ out the. And WHAT THE H*** IS THAT SMELL?!”
*kicks alien a few times*
“But I ain’t mad.”
Epic
This flick was a blatant ripoff of War of the Worlds (1953). I liked it when I first saw it then reality set in. Devlin and Emmerich have yet to make a good flick outside of Stargate (and even that they ripped off an Egyptology student). Don’t even get me started on Godzilla…
Stargate? Stargate? I couldn’t get past the commercials for that POS. The tag line went something like, … “(however many) light years into the future”. What? A light year is a measure of distance, you morons. Oh well. I blame scientists for naming it that.