If you describe this movie to someone who's never seen it it would sound like an unimaginative, formulaic B-Movie with a big budget, and while it kind of is all of those things it is still one of the most entertaining movies ever.
This is such an important movie to my family. My dad says that David has the same career as he does, a video engineer. I think he recognized some of the terminology. He also picks up on a lot of the sci-fi gags.
I love "Independence Day" so much that when the sequel sucked as badly as it did, I was actually INSULTED. Like: "How dare you make such a crappy sequel to a CULT CLASSIC?!!?"
The scene where Will Smith drags the alien across the desert was not filmed at the Great Salt Lake, but on the Bonneville Salt Flats west of the Great Salt Lake. I lived there for many years including when Independence Day was filmed.
The ghostwriter of many movies is from Logan Utah. Star Wars, BTTF, E.T., Indiana Jones and hundreds more. Borg Drive in Sandy Utah is where his aunt used to live. STTNG.
Well, the positive side of the story is that you could enjoy a whole room on your own, without people talking or watching their mobiles every 10min. with the screen brightness at 1000%
That introduction is simply fantastic. It gets me the same feels as the actual one in the movie. Also congratulations for making me finally comment on a video for the first time ever!
Still hoping for a return as 3D printing is getting more widespread. That allows them to use the same 3D models for both the miniature effects and the CGI, which should let them get the best ouf of both worlds, you'd think.
The dialogue "Must go faster" isn't just a nod to Goldblum in Jurassic Park, it is actually the same audio, lifted from JP. Also, Dean Devlin was in Real Genius, which always blows my mind.
Brandon Murphy I absolutely LOVE Real Genius, but I didn’t know about Dean Devlin being in it, lol! I will have to check that out. “Kent, stop playing with yourself.” “It really IS God.” 😂😂😂
I have seen Independence Day over 100 times and will watch it 1000 times more. It was a great day in American when Jeff Golbum and Will smith teamed up to save the world.
21: At one point the studio wanted to change the name of the movie, but Roland Emmerich wasn't having it. So he decided to include the words "Independence Day" in the iconic speech to ensure that the name stayed.
I’m pretty sure H.G.Wells didn’t include El Toro US Airforce base in “his story”, being set about 100 years earlier than ID4 and all. The US movie version, yes...Wells original story, definitely not
I mean, we all knew what he meant. He was showing clips, after all, of the original "War of the Worlds" film, that aired in 1956. Seemed pretty obvious to me he was really referring to that. Or has "Social Distancing" truly made us this nitpicky?
Independence Day remains one of my favorite sci-fi movies to this very day (John Carpenter's The Thing is my absolute favorite though). Clearly the thought and efforts put into this flick by the cast, crew and writers really paid off nicely. Too bad the same care was not executed in the lame sequel.
Also: there were no airplanes, let alone an air station, in H.G. Well's book. The book was written in 1898, and the most modern thing was a machine gun in the book.
Indeed. El Toro is where the doomed Marines in the George Pal film are from, but there is no mention in the actual book. That line actually bothered me more than it should.
I love this movie. I've loved it hundreds of times. Thanks for pointing out new stuff. I think I need to watch it in higher definition on a bigger screen. You've made some electronics dealer very happy.
It was the first time I ever walked out of the theater part way through. I tried to prepare myself for disappointment but it wasn't enough. Such a let down.
No. The air force base in this movie is not the same one used in HG Wells's War of the Worlds. How do i know? Because Wells's story in set in the time and place it was written, ie Victorian England. Not too many US air force bases back then I think. The 1950s movie of the same name had very little to do with Wells's story, but the air force base comes from that movie.
They just cannot pay attention to what they are talking about half the time. One second he is talking about the original movie, then instead of saying it was the same air force base as that, they go to the original story, which as you say, was certainly not set at any kind of non existant at the time air force base. But this is also a bunch of guys who mention the toy fire engine being the only model used in that scene as all the other cars were hollowed out stunt cars, then later says pretty much all the cars in the film were scale models.
He said “story” instead of movie. Clearly it was simply slip of the tongue. That Air Force base was in fact the one used in both MOVIES. The base was built in 1943 and decommissioned a few years after ID4 was wrapped up. So yes, it did exist during the time period of the Wells story and movie. You guys all took a little mistake and ran with it like he has no idea what he’s talking about. Y’all are basic af lol
When I saw this in the theater when it first came out the scene of David opening his laptop and Hal saying good morning and I began laughing then realized I was the only one in that very full theater that caught the joke.
I didnt watch this movie untill ten years after it came out. For one reason i worked in a video rental shop when it came out on VHS and we had a whole wall in the shop with the new releases for rental and it was filled with copies of Independence Day well i had to clean and dust all the boxes at the weekends and i slipped on the step ladder while cleaning and ended up on the floor with a pile of VHS boxes ontop of me as i had taken one of the wall displays down with me. And well i hated this movie for years after that😂
Saw this movie three times in theatres alone. Because, as a teenager, I just LOVED violent sci-fi movies, and never bothered to question the logic behind them.
I knew all of these facts and more. But for the everyday people this may come as a surprise! Thanks Adam. Are you related to that singer named Alex ? He sings that jam from 2011 Too Close!
Actually I caught the Hal reference & the "virus kills invading aliens just like in War of Worlds" reference the 1st time I saw the movie. A couple of others I noticed later, but the rest I never knew, mostly because I didn't look that hard & was just enjoying the story.
Fun fact in case you didn't know Kevin Spacey was suppose to be President Whitmore. He was going to be a Richard Nixon type of President till the end when he becomes a hero.
IDK why it took me so long to finally see this video, but you guys pointing out the bad dub job is one of those things I just happened to catch the first time I saw it in theaters and could never UNsee it after that.
This video is so good in the beginning and then gets progressively worse, with "things you missed" slowly becoming "things you can't possibly miss". Maybe I'd give it a like anyway, but I have a rule never to like any video with "nukelar" instead of "nuclear" in it, so there.
very true - he makes up some random point about the "thinking cap", wondering out loud why it is that this person would simulate putting on a cap from the front rather than grabbing the brim of some jaunty gentleman's hat, completely forgetting the cultural background of both the characters and the actors on screen in that scene. Apparently the entire staff of WhatCulture really hasn't heard of culture, as most of the rest of us know what a yarmulke/kippah is, and how they don't have brims to grab onto. :D
Why is it in every film franchise featuring an Alien species they always are in the image of having Digits/Fingers that are not capable of constructing and flying spacecraft?
The scene with Mother ship at the begining, is the same as the opening scene in Star Wars- The New Hope, and you see the kid character Dylan Dubrow is playing with King Ghidorah toy from the Godzilla franchise.
9:06 This one is incorrect. It is the same Air Force base as in the the 1953 movie, Well's story takes place in 1890's England where there was nary an Air Force base to be found.
Cool fun facts!! (although I thought the virus reference to War of the Worlds was obvious) Otherwise most of these were new to me. One of my all time favorite movies! Thanks for sharing! 👽
