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He was actually talking to the director about that part in Jurassic Park and they thought it would fit in well there too so they put the voice over in lol
Fun fact: Casse was originally supposed to be rejected at the recruitment, but show up with his biplane and a missile strapped to it when the President asks if anyone has more missiles. This is why nobody seems to know who he is despite clearly participating & communicating earlier in the battle, and also why he needs cover fire with guns despite him being in the same plane. The cockpit shots were done 6 months after shooting, which is why his kids hair is way longer when he waves bye to them in the hangar. The fighter jet in exterior shots was digitally added over the biplane, which is why he appears to be flying so slow, especially during the "hello boys, I'm baaaaack" impact scene.
Would love to see those outtakes, though I'm glad he wasn't rejected in the final cut. But I don't think they would reject him in that situation, the limited number of pilots and newbies who probably never even flew before and Russell with substantial military flying experience from Vietnam and his very heavy log of flight hours in general. The director and producer obviously connected the dots on this and therefore properly included him.🙂
I saw this in the theater with my brother and sister it blew me away! It was a box office success making $890 million dollars against a $70 million dollar budget. It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
to answer your question about how Steve knew where to look for Jasmine...that's very simple. He TOLD her to be there. Jasmine took all the people she found to El Torro Air Force Base and stayed there over night. Steve took his helicopter from Nevada and flew to California.
That dude gave the greatest speech in American history, and is also remembered as the greatest president in American history.😅 Excellent reaction Blue.💙
As a British person we don’t get riled by speeches like Americans always do this intrigues me as to why Also the speech didn’t even get me emotional he’s just an actor reading a script
Spaceman 1251. Yep. Great speech. There are two recent ones that I think are a little better, or just up there on par. Captain’s speech in “Endgame”, and the kid at the end of “The Great Debaters”!
My strongest memory of this movie was back then I was a heavy smoker (Yuck!) and I don't remember ever not having to sneak out during a slow part of a movie for a quick couple of drags🤔 I sat through this entire movie without a single cigarette it never slowed up, and I never did it again until I stopped smoking completely.
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I used to go to my friends and watch this with a few beers and a curry. We've all got kids now and moved, changed jobs. Not seen it for years. Tracy my friend and part of the watching died young we buried her just after her 50th. RIP mate there are still young crazy kids enjoying this!
Roland Emmerich, the director of Independence Day, is famous for his epic disaster films. Not only has he made films like 2012 and Independence Day, he made his own Godzilla movie in 1998. People complained about it not having the "real" Godzilla, but it's still a fun western take on the genre. It starred Mathew Broderick and Jean Reno (Leon The Professional). He also made Stargate, which eventually spawned several TV shows and a novel series. It's an epic sci-fi adventure starring James Spader and Kurt Russell ("Ego" in Guardians Of The Galaxy 2).
At 22:42 when blue say "and no one thought of this" for when they said to release the virus. You got to remember this was 1996 CGI and computer network viruses were not so "usual" stuff. I do not know have you noticed, but there were no mobile phones and only beepers. He only had remote phone because he was tv operator..... average person would not be able to do it.
This wasn't CGI, they used models, puppets and pyrotechnics with compositing. Convincing Computer Generated Imagery was still expensive in the 90s. When someone asked the visual effects team "What software did you use to get the lighting on the plane?" they answered "A flashlight". The shadow on the obelisk was made by backing up a truck onto a model of it. The only CGI is what you actually see on the computer screens themselves. I wish people stop using CGI instead of VFX. That word does not mean what you think it means … The concept of computer viruses was known back then, but the writers ignored that you have to write them specifically for the OS, so Jeff Goldblum doing it in less than a day on a complete alien system is quite a stretch … but being IT myself I'd say he probably just installed Windows 95 on their mainframe …
@@Caseytify yeah, but the majority of of their specialist are already dead, the US military had less then 15% of their forces remaining well before they even get to area 51, that means bases, personnel, etc. They basically have only the more remote posts left this point.
@@Cau_No I knew they used load of practical effects and almost only ones were ones on alien crafts / shields and shooting main lasers. On viruses yea concepts were known but thinking on infecting some unknown OS would be more then a stretch. And Will Smith knowing to fly alien ship instantly (especially with screen on spaceship being couple of lines) BUT that is why we call it fantasy movie.... And people know on OS then very little, especially when I as a kid said friend that we had argument a bit.... to type in in DOS "Format C:" welllll after it we get in argument even more....
@@Cau_No - I love a lot of your points, and the little "Princess Bride" reference you slipped in, that was genius man. Personally, I wish that they would tone down a lot of CGI and bring back more Practical Effects, so many people today are constantly getting surprised with "How Good" the older style Special Effects look, and it kind of baffles me, because it's like ... they are using real actual physical objects for their special effects stuff... so of course it looks real ...... because it IS real, not a fake imaginary thing generated on a computer, so it will ALWAYS look very convincing. Don't get me wrong, with modern technological advances in computer tech, a lot of CGI is very good now and can look amazing, but I feel like in many instances, they should TRY to make real physical effects first, and resort only to CGI when it's really necessary to get something done, like space lazers, or death rays etc because CGI can make those really convincing and easily done. But spaceships and monsters ,,, just build models, use latex, makeup and costumes. Peace man, I think that word really doesn't mean what they think it means. ;)
As a kid this movie really stuck with me because the depiction of the alien ships was so awe inspiring and the mood for a lot of the middle part of the movie was so desperate and dark. Overall it's a cheesy action movie, but it does some stuff really well to make it a classic.
Great reactions to the original Independence Day, Blue!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽I hope you had a nice Bulgarian Independence Day!🙂I watch all your reactions, but had to skip "The Exorcist". My older sister took me to see it at a drive-in theater when I was 10 years old, and I haven't watched it since.
Blue the overall theme of this movie is a modern update of H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds in which Martians invade Earth take over but are eventually defeated by a biological virus rather than a computer virus in this movie. There are subtle references to other famous Sci-fi movies. One example is when David's computer on the alien ship says "Good morning Dave" that is a reference to HAL the computer from 2001 A Space Odyssey
@@amazingusername8925 yeah I agree. The “virus” in this movie didn’t kill the aliens here. All it did was drop their shields. Weapons delivered the final blow to the alien ships.
The scene at the end, when our two heroes emerge from the desert, their spaceship aflame behind them, is taken from the movie "The Right Stuff". That amazing film is about the first astronauts chosen by NASA to explore Space, in the Mercury missions of the early 1960s. It is based on the well-researched book of the same title, and shows us all the character flaws and the cool heroism of those chosen men. Above all, it shows us about the one, greatest test pilot of all time, who was Not selected for the Space program. He was Chuck Yeager, WWII air hero and the first man to break the sound barrier, and the coolest damn human to ever live. And by the way, Jeff Goldblum has a small, funny role in "The Right Stuff", early in his career.
Fun fact: On the Behind-the-scenes there is an alternative scene of the last missile being delivered by Mr. Casse. He now flies the crop duster plane. Yes it is ridiculous seeing this slow plane trying to zigzag between fast fighter jets and enemy aircrafts, but its a nice bonus.
3:08 "I remember those big phones". We just called them phones, back in the day. Then they were called landlines once cell phones became popular. Now, most people don't know what one is and have never used one (except maybe if they work in an office) ... and zoomers couldn't operate one if you handed it to them 🙂
There's some *hilarious* YT vids showing teens-&-early-20s folks trying to use an old-style rotary phone ... I watched 4 or 5 of them in a row when I first found 'em. I had to take a break 'cause I was laughing so much that I was gasping for air, and could feel my face getting red! Even after I stopped, I continued chuckling off-&-on for 30 or 40 minutes! If you're in need of a good laugh, check 'em out!
@@ephennell4ever I saw one of those, and laughed too. But then at my age, I can't figure out how to use my smart phone and have to ask my son how to do something.
- You know I have a secret that in actuality I share with many people all the time, it's wonderful, and it still shocks me how it feels like I'm the only one to make this conclusion. I have a cell, and a landline - however I never tell anyone really my cell number or even that I have one (It's for a very select few people who are "on the list" of my VIP), and I only ever share my landline number. It gives me the single most advantageous ability. If I don't want to talk to someone, especially like if your Boss calls on your day off, I can just ignore the call, and if someone later was like "Hey, I tried to call, but you didn't answer" I can just say "Oh, I was out, didn't get your call until later when i got back home" and NO ONE can argue it, because that's how landlines work, it's fantastic, and I'll never do any different, if you only have mobile phones, and you don't want to answer, people will get all mad and say "Oh, thanks for ignoring my call jerk" - my method lets me do what I want, but only when i want, and can't be made guilty for not answering calls. Also, why do people say "Such Big Phones" ??? they're literally just normal phone sized, always have been from like the invention of phones until now : ear thing is at the ear, mouthpiece is by the mouth, the handset fits on the base properly.... there is no "Big" involved, it's just phone sized stuff. the only reason people think of them (incorrectly) as "Big" is because electronics have always always been pushing for miniaturization, make things smaller, as a sales angle, a way to convince buyers "Look, it's so compact, so convenient, weighs less, so much better. Buy yours today" They really should push for "So Fragile, so flimsy, so easy to lose, so hard to find. Don't get one, buy a real phone today." At least that would be honest advertising. And then, they charge MORE for a product that uses less materials to make. And they can't really use that B.S. line about how "Harder" it is to make smaller things, labor costs go up, etc etc B.S. There isn't anything "Hard" about an automated assembly machine making 50K new phones a day, there is just the one guy watching the terminal making sure the machine actually doing the work keeps functioning. It literally would take the same amount of time to make a regular sized cell as it takes to make the new "Slimfit" ones, the parts would be smaller, but the assembly time would be pretty much identical. If they still did stuff like this by hand, they might have a point, but yeah, that excuse don't fly, they just use it as an excuse to artificially inflate prices to enable them to buy another new sports car to impress their paid G/F with front end implants.
Same basic plot, but a completely different approach is Tim Burton's 'Mars Attacks!'. Stars Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Michael J Fox, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DiVito, Natalie Portman, Lisa Marie, Jack Black, Annette Bening, and more.
When this came out they had a fake news broadcast where they pretended alien spaceships really were landing... we had my little brother totally fooled 🤣
“Not all countries celebrate Independence Day at the same time…” Not all countries HAVE an Independence Day lol Thats like when I got confused about why no one seemed to know what Guy Fawkes night was when I was watching V for Vendetta reactions 😅🤣
When the first missile hit the flying saucer for the first time, in the theater it was like a sports time, pop corn flying and cursing and clapping... I never experienced anything similar after that.
The notion of city-sized alien spaceships, hovering above all of Earth's major cities, was originated by Arthur C. Clarke in his 1953 novel, "Childhood's End". Clarke is best-known for his novel version of "2001: A Space Odyssey", on which he collaborated with filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, for four years. Arthur C. Clarke was a physicist as well as an S.F. author and popularizer of Science for young people. In 1945 he wrote a short paper that proposed using manned satellites in geosynchronous orbit, to make possible planet-wide coverage of radio signals. This concept is used today for all communications, except our satellites are unmanned. The concept is illustrated in "Independence Day" by Jeff Goldblum's character, in his drawing of three satellites having uninterrupted comms.
This movie has a very special place in my heart as it was the first movie I saw in theaters after completing Basic Training for the Navy(Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois, April to June of 1996). I was 25 at the time. Twenty-six years later and I still never get tired of watching this movie.
To be fair, the government barely had time to get their bums out of harm's way before their visitors set everything ablaze. Everyone was so busy with damage control that there was no time to think about countermeasures.
16:00 that line and kicking was completely improvised by Will Smith. The location was actually at the salt flats of Utah in the U.S. Nobody warned him about the horrible smell of billions of dead brine shrimp that comes from around that area.
If you'd like to see a more "realistic" version of culture clash with aliens -- along with a VERY strong social message (lol), I highly recommend District 9.
In case you’re wondering~ The first attack went down like this: the aliens position their destroyer crafts above the target cities, using our satellites to maintain efficient communications as well as locate the exact positions of these cities. The destroyer’s primary weapon opens fire upon the city from its highest point; the resulting blast sends a wall of hellfire in all directions within a diameter of 15 miles - the exact width of the ships themselves. This blast wave annihilates literally everything in its path, and it’s only fast enough for humans to be unable to outrun. It’s a slow and painful death. The reason Russel Casse’s kamikaze attack was so effective was because he hit the destroyer craft’s weapon the exact second it fired. So the same hellfire you saw annihilate the major cities also annihilated the destroyers. Sweet revenge.~
Great reaction, Trixy! Also enjoyed your reaction to Top Gun: Maverick not long ago. You might be interested to know that in that film the character named "Bob" is played by Lewis Pullman, the real-life son of Bill Pullman, who plays the U.S. president in this film.
This is my ritual birthday movie. Every 4th of July, I have a slice of pizza, and I watch this movie. Ever since 1997 when it came out on VHS. Saw it in theaters in 1996. Good stuff. This is a classic popcorn movie, in my view.
4:55 Space is big, and back in the 90s, only a few nations had Aeronautic capability, or the capacity to actually observe near Earth activity. You wouldn't just see that thing.... Especially if the aliens were purposely approaching without radio activity until they were near the Earth. Also when you see the large mothership later on... No light. It's dark. Meaning its probably not very reflective, which means it wouldn't be easily detected by anyone on Earth. There's a quote from a disaster movie that came out just a couple years after this where a NASA scientist says to the president in that movie "With all due respect sir its a big ass sky, and we only have budget to observe about 10% of it at a time."
23:21 The government had no idea. By the time anyone had come up with anything, knowing what to look for as David did, it was already a half hour before the first strike. There was just no time.
Blue, When this movie came out in 1996 around USA's Independence Day on July 4, country celebrated its then 220th Birthday. Now, USA is 246 years old in 2022
This was such a blockbuster hit I love this movie lol 12:17 the crowd cheered at that part in the theaters from what I heard lol 15:57 all that was improved lol 25:44 I can't believe you cut one of the best speeches in movie history lol
This movie was my one of best childhood memories and when I see this film, I had lots of emotion because I see awesome actions and see humanity fought back against aliens. What a brilliant ride. 😊🎉
"He is very confident for someone that doesn't know what is happening." Funny thing about pilots, especially fighter pilots, is that they're all kinda like that.
The ship taking time to shoot the primary weapon is a recurrent and valid criticism of the final act. My explanation to that is the fact the ship is firing on the move, so it must take longer to gather the energy necessary for the shot. Mind that they took a few hours to position themselves before destroying the cities during the first wave. It's just my way of seeing it though.
@@justindenney-hall5875 That did sound like it didn't it. I was meaning she had many different reactions while watching this movie, happy, sad, and excited. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the reply.
The best thing about the movie for me now is that the President of the U.S. is in an F-18. Just like his son is in an F-18 in Top Gun Maverick. 😀 Bill Pullman plays the President and his son Lewis Pullman plays Bob in Maverick. 😀
I don't know if you've watched any of the Star Trek movies, but if you have, it may interest you to know that Brent Spiner, who played Dr. Oaken, also played Lieutenant Commander Data.
This is one of the best classic action movies of the 90s, and the speech of the president Withmore was becoming in one of the most iconic quotes in Hollywood of all time.
1. Hiller is a USMC Captain he knows his holiday off is over. That's why he didn't even have to wait to be called in. His squeeze should know that. 2. In the theater I was in the people in there actually stood up and cheered when the White House and the Capitol Building blew up. 3. In my top 10 reasons out of thousands to NOT live in a Metropolis. Getting the hell out. 4. Lisa Jakub/Alicia is FINE! fine fine😍😋 5. Brent Spiner/Dr. Okum played Data in Star Trek TNG. It's nice to see him with emotions. 6. Goof: The president said he sent up an AWAC. It's AWACS= Airborne Warning And Control SYSTEM. 7. Hiller clearly failed his parashoot landing training 🙄
In the middle there, you kept saying, "The government must have a team to handle this." Reminded me of a other movie with a similar quote- "Armagaddeon" with Bruce Willis. If you like sci-fi "end of the Earth" films, you should watch it.
5:12. I had an old pickup when I was a kid that I wanted to paint this kind of explosion pattern on. As with everything I wanted to do as a kid, it never happened.
In the original version, when Russell Casse said "I'm a pilot," they rejected him because he was so obviously drunk, so he didn't get an F/A-18 to fly. At the climax, when the president asked "doesn't anyone have any missiles left?" and Casse answered, he was flying his biplane with a missile duct taped to the side. Skipping the defective launch bit, the rest of the scene was the same. Test audiences didn't react well as they didn't like the implication that he planned his suicide from the start. They re-shot the scene so he was in a jet, and his decision was an unplanned sacrifice instead. All they did was re-shoot a couple close up scenes of Quaid in a jet cockpit. If you watch the scene again the Hornet flies oddly, the movement was originally matched to his biplane, and they didn't change that. All they did was stick another plane in. Isn't CGI wonderful?
A bit off topic, but the game you mentioned at the start reminded me of a book (more a collection of illustrations). "Film in Five Seconds" by Matteo Civasch I'd recommend it even to people that (usually) don't read books; as mentioned, it's a book of very few words. And it makes for a nice present for everybody with some Interrest in movies.
If you haven't already, you should watch a parody pitch meeting for the making of Independence Day. Just search on YTube using the following exact words to find it - 'Independence Day pitch meeting'. It's on a channel called Screen Rant.
- OMG .... I used to catch a few "Night Court" re-runs now and then, I may now have to go back and check, because I never remembered Brent Spiner as being on that show. I remember the guy who played the Judge, the African American lady who was a Bailiff, and the tall bald guy who played 'Bull' another Bailiff... that's about all I remember :/
@@Arthaius "Dan" Fielding and Christine Sullivan, the lawyer characters speed running the cases. Brent being the Appalachian character with crazy weird luck that kept showing up with the oddest tales to what broke the law this time. Just about every episode there be something weird but Brent always going for something silly or something you wouldn't expect when he does show up.
@@jayeisenhardt1337 OMG yeah I remember Dan Fielding - there was one episode where he was like doing an infomercial so over and over in the middle of a court case he would turn to the camera and say "Dan Fielding - Attorney at Law" or something like that, one of the funniest moments in that show for me.
Friendly reminder: Independence Day was from 1996. The Star Wars Prequels didn't come up til 1999. So George Lucas copied Independence Day. **wink** But yeah, many felt this was a Star Wars vibe film. Turned out it's better than the Star Wars Prequels. It was a long interim between 1983 (Return of the Jedi) til 1999 (The Phantom Menace). Independence Day helped the hype of Star Wars Episode 1. Fans were itching for a new Star Wars movie.
This was the first film I sneaked out to see in a theater after having joined the Amish. I managed to stay away from movies for years until this film came out! Please watch Jeff Goldblum starring in David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986). Jasmine went to El Toro to find Steve. Steve went to El Toro because he'd told her to go there. That was the first place to look for her--but his biggest worry was that she'd been killed there when El Toro was destroyed. Anyway, that's how he "found" her. He went right to where she was expected to be.
Blue I believed that you are correct about the reference to Star Wars. Both Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are Star Wars' fans. With Alien ships with doomsday laser (Death Star) and fighters (Tie Fighters).
Star Wars, Star trek, 2001 , a space oddesy, Firefly [TV series, 1 season] Close encounter: "Close encounters of the Third Kind", just to name a few by sight and sound.
Trixie can be so dense sometimes, it's an American movie whos events falls on July 4th, again it's an American movie what else would it be called but Independence Day 😂😂😂
Only someone who doesn't know the definition of Independence would ask why a double entendre has two meanings. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ or do you not know what a double entendre is?
The F/A-18 Hornets that the pilots are flying are operated by the US Navy, not the Air Force as shown in the film, and these are SEVERELY under-armed. A Hornet can carry 12 ATA missiles, not four, and also has a 20mm rotary cannon. The reason there is so much fire as the ships enter our atmosphere is precisely because their technology allows them to ignore things we need to be cognizant of, such as entry angles and friction mitigation. They literally just dropped their ships into the atmosphere which caused so much friction that it set the air on fire, but their shields are protecting them :P That weapon of theirs on the City Destroyer ships is most likely a plasma cannon (it's just called an 'energy weapon' in the notes), but for destruction of that magnitude a laser wouldn't cut it. Plasma is ionized gas and can be fired as a weapon via a magnetic containment field. This would set fire to everything around it, including the air, whereas a laser would be used for more precise, targeted attacks on weapon emplacements and ship subsystems.
