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(- 1996 -)

Original Title Independence Day Director Roland Emmerich Genre Action, Sci-Fi Released 1996-07-2 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for sci-fi destruction and violence. Rated 6

Plot Summary

On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. 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...

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Bill Pullman as President Thomas J. Whitmore , Mary McDonnell as First Lady Marilyn Whitmore , Jeff Goldblum as David Levinson , Judd Hirsch as Julius Levinson , Margaret Colin as Constance Spano , Will Smith as Captain Steven 'Steve' Hiller , Vivica A. Fox as Jasmine Dubrow , Randy Quaid as Russell Casse , Robert Loggia as General William M Grey , James Rebhorn as Albert Nimziki , Harvey Fierstein as Marty Gilbert , Adam Baldwin as Major Mitchell , Brent Spiner as Dr. Brackish Okun , James Duval as Miguel Casse , Lisa Jakub as Alicia Casse

IMDB User Comments

We have only ourselves to blame I paid to see this in a cinema, too. In my own small way I contributed to its financial success. Forgive me. Forgive all of us. This is the kind of movie we, the audience, have created. Certainly I can't detect any creativity on the part of the writers. Parts are symptomatic of the whole: so I will practise restraint and mention just ONE glaring stupidity. Just one. Longer (but incomplete) lists of idiocies may be found elsewhere - the last time I looked there was a decent list on the IMDb itself. Okay, here it is: The aliens take over our satellites and no-one knows why. With the same creative reasoning he displayed in "Jurassic Park" when he deduced a revolt of the dinosaurs from the movement of a water droplet, Jeff Goldblum works out that the aliens are using our satellites to communicate with each other so that they will be able to co-ordinate their attack. "That's IT!" everyone shouts. One wonders how the Allies managed in the Second World War. Did they use German satellites - or did they simply synchronise their watches? Here's a hot piece of technology we can sell to the aliens: the WATCH! It's a little device that enables one to TELL THE TIME! Everyone can have ONE EACH and then EVERYONE will know what time it is! My point is not that this is a stupid weakness in the plot. I mean, it is, but that's not my point. My point is that we REALISE just how stupid this is, almost before the words have left Goldblum's lips. We aren't given a chance to be charitable about it. A hundred weaknesses will make themselves apparent while you watch, however low you set the relevant dials in your brain (some people can go as low as "dribbling moron", but most of us can't). The movie just stumbles from stupidity to stupidity via bridge passages of stupidity. There's a bit of purported excitement here and there to distract us from all the stupidity but it's so perfunctorily done that it just doesn't work. Aliens taking over the Earth: it's a grand theme, but there's little grandeur in the treatment. There is, however, an awful lot of stupidity. To make matters worse there's some offensive nationalism. The aliens are threatening the ENTIRE EARTH - patriotism under the circumstances is a good thing, but it's the Earth (or humanity) as a whole that the tub-thumping ought to serve; not the USA in particular. I've heard a rumour - probably false - I don't want to alarm anyone - that there will be a sequel. What will they call it? Bastille Day?

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