Independence Day [Blu-ray]

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20th Century Independence Day [Blu-ray]One of the biggest box office hits of all time delivers the ultimate encounter when mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race. Thespectacle begins when massive spaceships appear in Earth's skies. But wonder turns to terror as theships blast destructive beams of fire down on cities all over the planet. Now the world's only hopelies with a determinded band of survivors unitingfor one last strike against the invaders - beforeit's the end of all mankind.

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In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --Tom Keogh

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Modern PC Stereotypes and Fear of "the other"
No wonder this movie is so popular.It combines state-of-the-art CGI explosions with jingoistic nonsense and modern PC stereotypes. The kids get their explosions, the conservatives get their war on, and the liberals get their modern stereotypes and everyone goes home happy.

Ah conservatives, gird your loins, men, because they are coming, whoever "they" are. Sometimes a "real American" has to fight to save the world from smelly aliens. Being the best country in the world is such a drag ... Read More
Rating: - In Your Pants Day
This is a great film until you get to the part where Will Smith punches the alien and says "Welcome to Earth". And then the wheels come off big style. Lots to like in this film, V-Style giant dustbin lid flying saucers, lots of action, but the gung-ho lameness of the "USA, USA" patriotism is the sort of stuff that has the 5 and three quarter billion people in the world who are not American covering their eyes with embarrassment. It is somehow fitting that the climax to the film involves Randy Quaid ... Read More
Rating: - no plot, no surprise
The scenario (if any) is so predictable, the clichés so evident, it's hard not to fall asleep.
Rating: - Independence Day
This DVD would not play, it appeared to be blank.The replacement DVD did not play either.
Rating: - One of Will Smith best movie
This is the one that started Will Smith movie career.Best movie from Will Smith