I wish I was able to post this last Friday two days before 4th of July BUT as y'all know, I had to finish up the LOTR trilogy! No regrets, of course, but still! Better late than never haha
Jeff goldblum used the same “ faster, must go faster” line when getting chased by the aliens as he did in Jurassic park when getting chased by the dinosaurs
One of my favorite movies. Bill Pullman's speech gives me chills every time. The clouds of fire are what happen to anything entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed
My favorite non action sequence in the film is Will Smith's character not realizing it was a space ship, and just going about the morning til he looks up.
What makes it even better is his girlfriend’s son told him he was “shooting aliens.” Being the adult he is, he passes is off as kids being kids as we all would. But then it turns out he’s actually shooting at a spaceship.
I started really getting into movies in my 20's. When this one hit the theaters, it blew the doors off everything I had seen before. It had EVERYTHING I want in a movie...it was scary, funny, dramatic, and exciting as heck. And 25 years later, it still kicks butt.
In a deleted scene, it's explained that computer technology came from the crashed alien ship, which is why the code worked to sabotage the fleet's shields.
I worked at Fox when this movie came out. They had a screening for employees the day before it was released on July 3, 1996. Seeing it on the big screen was amazing. I still get chills from the speech. So much cheering in the audience during this film. I still love it. :)
I was 12 when this movie came out and I went to see it in theaters with my cousins and Aunt and Uncle. it was a packed theater. you can imagine how stupid crazy it was to see this on the big screen that young. My main memory, other than Smith punching the alien. Was when Brent Spiner (the wild hair Dr./scientist came on the screen, me and my 3 cousins all said at the same time. "Hey it's Data!" Because we were all big Star Trek fans. Also never realized how Star-studded this movie is.
I saw it in a packed theater, too. My parents and I had to sit on the front row because we got there too late to get good seats. I’d never sat in the front row before, and that alien jump scare stuff was TERRIFYING to me as a 11YO 🤣
I remember when this came out, it is by far the most American movie I've ever seen. The president flying his fighter jet to shoot the aliens, the guy who salutes him after his kick ass speech, the rest of the world covered in about 45 seconds, hilarious. Great reaction from you too
i was thinking about this too. there is an actual movie from wells's book where we see aliens triomphing of human armies but be annihilated by the viruses. and isn't that the way colonisers annihilated all native resistance in every part of the world.
This movie is my childhood, I'm talking so much so that I'm holding back tears of nostalgia every time I watch someone react to it. It's one of those movies that despite the concept being stupid, them movie knows how to roll with it in the most charming way.
28:20 When she says "liar" right there it still makes me cry. Then the part with his daughter in the hall too. Especially when rewatching this after I was married and had kids. That's enough to wreck me right there.
*punches Alien out* "Welcome To Earth!" - best part of the movie imo, i laughed so hard at that first time i saw it, even my aunt laughed and she doesnt always laugh at comedy.
32:56 The crowd reaction in that scene was actually unplanned. All the extras just exploded into applause and cheers after Bill Pullman's speech and they kept it in.
The scriptwriter Dean Devlin wanted to rewrite the speech at the last minute on the day they were filming it. But by the time he reached the set, they were right in the middle of shooting the scene and Bill Pullman was giving the speech. Turned out, the speech worked a lot better than Devlin thought it would, and they kept it as it was.
It's insane how a those scenes of the buildings exploding was made with practical effects and miniatures and looks more real than CGI like 25 years later!
I saw this in the theater on opening day with my dad. I remember people in the theater standing up and applauding during the president's speech and when all of the ships went down. Outside of "Rocky Horror," this film really brought out audience participation, albeit accidentally.
The clouds of fire are caused by friction with the air while the ships are entering the atmosphere. It was mesmerizing the first time I watched that, as a kid.
Yes, it's atmospheric friction due to entry, and is likely even more pronounced due to the size of their ships and their shielding, they can just ignore optimal entry angles and such and just brute force their way into the atmosphere.
Is that canon? I thought the fire/smoke was a purposeful disguise to hide their approach. Besides, there wouldn't be giant fireballs traveling that slowly.
@@rpventure Ever seen a jet plane fly in the sky? It's moving at high speed but slow from our perspective from the ground. There was no need for the aliens to disguise their approach. If anything, the fire actually signals their approach.
The 1990's version of "The War of the Worlds." Unstoppable and powerful alien warships, major cities destroyed, military weapons are useless against their shields... Then they were brought down by a virus. Still love this movie and absolutely love the music soundtrack.
There's another movie about aliens where it turns out their weakness is water. It's like no matter how advanced they are they have some really dumb weakness.
Your brain thought that giving the aliens a cold to kill them is a classic move from War of the Worlds, the radio broadcast from long ago... I never saw the movie but I assume it's the same.
The great thing about that wasn't that we had some great bio-weapon to kill them, but instead they were just killed by what was in the air anyway because they lacked our natural immunities. It was victory by means of evolution.
Yes, the film is the same, they have no immunities to viruses that we naturally do and never think about, so they would die from them. Maybe not instantly, but yeah, it would be fatal. That's why these aliens have the protective suits, it's not just for armor and strength enhancement, it's an isolation suit as well. We would need the same thing on any other planet we went to even if the atmospheric pressure and temperature were livable.
@@lordmortarius538 Bacterial infections might work, but viruses rely entirely on being able to rewrite the DNA of the host cell to make more viruses; it's astronomically unlikely that they'd be able to reproduce in any being that didn't share a common ancestor with life on earth.
I saw this when it was new in a test screening in CA. Later on when it came out on VHS I saw it again but when it got to the scene of the drunk guy flying into the space ship I was like wait a minute, he's flying a jet, when I saw it in the theater he was flying his crop duster. I was told I was confused, my memory was faulty, it couldn't be. Years later I read somewhere that they had filmed it both ways, and the version I saw before it fully was released was the one without the jet. It was a relief to be vindicated, to be able to tell those who didn't believe me that I wasn't crazy and imagining things.
I didn't even knew of that ending until like last week when I saw someone link to that alternate ending in another reaction's comment, it was a really bad ending to be fair, this is much more believable but I don't know how I went so many years without even knowing about this considering how many times I've watched the movie!
In case it's not clear, the reason they were all waves of fire at first is because they were 15 mile wide giant spaceships coming through Earth's atmosphere. Also fun fact: The sequence with the Welcome Wagon actually got local calls of UFOs from people not having an idea that a movie was being shot.
First of all, you're one of the more entertaining reactors in this space. And as a major spoilerphobe, I particularly enjoyed how "spoiler-free" you were... 1:12 I find that kind of stuff refreshing.
Thank you so much! I love doing these and I love that a lot of people enjoy them as well 🥰♥️ Thank you. I always try to stay as spoiler free as possible!
One nasty tidbit that probably wasn't deliberate: Marty tells his mother to go to her sister in Atlanta...which is then mentioned as one of the cities destroyed in the second attack wave.
There are several deleted scenes that are included in the novelization and the Special Edition version of the movie. Most of them develop Russell Casse's character, and how his kids resent him ("You're not my dad. You're just the man that married my mom"). Another has a man in the ruins of Los Angeles preaching "The end has come". But there are a couple that go into further detail about how David was able to hack into the alien technology.
The actress that plays the First Lady (Mary McDonnell) also plays Donnie Darko's mom. She's one of my favorites. I highly recommend the Battlestar Galactica (2004) tv series that she's a part of, but I've heard it can be difficult to react to because they are hardcore on the copyright.
Thing is when this movie came out Smith and Goldblum weren't THE MAIN STARS they would later become, so when this movie came out everybody in it was like equally famous. No one stuck out the dead one, or the hero one, so when you went in this was one of teh few true 'anybody could die' and each one would hurt movie experiences.
I think you would like CONTACT with Jodie Foster (1997). It's an intelligently written story, more dramatic and philosophical than most, and well worth your time.
Infecting the aliens with the common cold and they die from it? What a ridiculous idea… 😉 - vague spoiler alert - There is a classic science-fiction novel with several movie adaptations that does just that.
It's not so hard ot believe, when the Europeans started moving into the Americas, they killed a LOT of natives through diseases that the natives didn't have immunities to....and they were all human. Imagine throwing an entirely different DNA into the mix. What's a minor inconvenience to us could be deadly to them.
Two other great movies if you find the time: Galaxy Quest Eight Legged Freaks Really good comedies. Eight Legged Freaks uses the classic creature feature (like King Kong and Godzilla) modernized. And Galaxy Quest is a play on Trekie fans with a new twist. The late Alan Rickman plays one of his best performances in this movie.
This movie is best seen as the first part of a double feature. The second part should be "Mars Attacks!". I think the winning tactic in MA was more plausible than the one in ID.
I am a childhood fan of this movie. You have seen the BEST alien invasion movie ever made. Not many alien invasion films will impress you after seeing this. Independence Day raised the bar for cinema in general. And yes, those alien attack scenes are TERRIFYING. Out of all the grotesque horror films I’ve seen, only the destruction scenes from Independence Day give me nightmares to this day.
25:53, the alien is voiced by Frank Welker, whom voiced Megatron in the Transformers Animated Series and some of the films, too. He voiced Dr, Claw, Scooby Doo and Fred Jones, etc.
Do I know this start to finish? Yes. Would I watch it again outside of RU-vid any time soon?..probably not Did I click on this and am watching the entire thing solely to see her reaction to "Welcome to earth!" Absolutely. 👀😊🙌
3:18, there is even a comic book prequel Adaptation taking place a year before the events of the movie, explaining that Goldblum's wife divorced him because he thought the president was having an affair.
Fun fact: this movie holds a record for number of miniatures used in a movie, because of the city destruction scenes. nobody’s beaten it since everyone uses cgi now
This movie is actually a Fourth of July tradition in my house every year we put it into the DVD player and watch it and if there’s time afterwards, we will watch the sequel as well in my personal opinion the presidential speech in this movie Is the best one I have ever heard
I remember when this first played on HBO, HBO's lost its signal for whatever reason in the middle of the last battle. When it came back on the air it was at the ending credits. Fortunately I saw the movie in the theater so I knew what happened. But I'm sure there were tons of people upset they missed the end of the movie
I had so many freakin Independence Day toys as a kid. In 1st grade I had a rat tail (it was the early 90s gmab) because my brother had one too and my mother bribed me with the big $20 deluxe alien to cut it off one day.
A deleted scene explains that earthlings got computer technology from the crashed alien ship in the 50s. Since the alien tech presumably functions on binary, properly compiled code would be compatible with the aliens' tech. It's not that the aliens run on Windows 95.
1:48 that’s one thing sooooooo many people over like with that song and phrase… It’s the end of the world….AS WE KNOW IT doesn’t mean the world is gonna come to some drastic shattering cataclysmic end…not like the worlds gonna blow up or anything….just means that there’s gonna be a drastic change Hypothetically, if various governments don’t relinquish all the travel and social restrictions stemming from the current plague…then the world would have undergone a long term shift and change…the world that we knew would have ended, and a different one in its place And the proof of alien existence would be another example…a MASSIVE paradigm and comprehension of the universe shift…the world as a whole would change…thus the end…AS WE KNOW IT…
Considering that Roland Emmerich's Career started at the Time 4 Years ago, with a small B-Movie, no-one expected this. But like Independence Day, Godzilla and more of his Films, that small B-Movie is also a Cult Classic. 😊👌🏻
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I always assumed something like, water vapor condensing from the coldness of the ship from outer space, or possibly fire from the friction of the ship flying through the atmosphere, or something else.
High speed entry would certainly explain a fireball, but they were not falling through the atmosphere, they were flying. Flying slowly wouldn't produce high enough friction for a fireball (like driving a car) but the coldness of a ship from outer space might condense water vapor into clouds.
Oh my goodness!! Well welcome on in and enjoy the reaction! I wish I was able to post this last Friday but I had to finish up the LOTR trilogy! No regrets, of course, but still! Better late than never haha
You need to watch Mars Attacks next, if you already haven't. It takes a hilarious dump on alien invasion movies like this. Almost SPECIFICALLY this movie.
Actually your answer to the problem, giving the aliens our germs, is alot more realistic than their technology being compatible with ours to the point where we could actually give them a computer virus. Love this movie though I do, that's the hardest thing to swallow.
16:54 "WHERE'S BOOMER?!" LOL I remembering watching this in the cinema and it was dead quiet during this moment when they emerge from the ruined tunnel. There was a few seconds before we saw Boomer and I screamed out: "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PUPPY?!" so loud everyone turned to look at me LMAO Glad I wasn't the only one focused on the good boy!
