INDEPENDENCE DAY Clips "City Attacks & Dog Fight" (1996) 

Reminds me of a Heavy Metal Magazine storyline. Simple plot, saturated color palette, epic bombastic sci fi action.

@infinitycult lol I meant, since there was no dramatic music playing during the craziest scenes. It almost felt realistic as you watched it. As if you was watching something someone recorded on their phone. Is what I meant lol. It was unique for me to not hear dramatic music at the high point of the movie.

How did the mother, her child and the dog survive in that closet with the wave of fire going over them?

@@scotthayes4135 I always wondered this as well. It’s a mile high fire ball that pulverized everything in its path including buildings. You mean to tell me slipping into a tiny concrete storage room, in a tunnel at that, saved them from all that? Lol

@@scotthayes4135plot armour . They could have at least shown her trying to slam the fire door shut !

Obviously a Goldenstein.

He was on track for that promotion and he wasn’t going to let a little alien annihilation stop him

It was his search history

I remember reading a book written by one of the firefighters in the WTC on 9 11. They were going floor by floor to get everyone out when they came across a guy still sitting at his desk like nothing was happening. They literally had to drag him out of the room. My guess was he was probably taking advantage of the chaos to change some records or some such. People are crazy, they will take any risk even for a few extra bucks.

He won an Oscar for this, I'm not kidding look it up.

looool

El perro ya no volvió a salir, murió lamentablemente pues ya no vuelve a salir ...

I came here today to watch "dog scene Independence Day" 😊

You can rule out god at that point…

Boomer❤

Did you also watch the sequel?

It is a fun, thrilling, spectacular, extremely destructive and explosive, entertaining and action-packed movie. It is also quite silly, ridiculous, and absurd in parts (such as the whole computer virus portion; also, the humans certainly and definitely should have brought-in the nuclear missile-armed forces, after the humans had apparently rendered the aliens' shields down; etc.). But even those parts, segments, and portions make the movie fun and perhaps entertaining, as well.

@@lordyozora234 Yep. Didn't like it.

Did your dad pass away?

​@@lordyozora234We dont talk about that.

People thought I was crazy but I believe whole heartedly the special effects in this movie are way better than it’s sequel

Same for jurassic park, the dinosaurs in the first movie looked way more realistic than the sequels.

Well when most of the destruction scenes, including buildings and spaceships were practical effects. The cg were used to a minimal, and only when really needed. They blew up miniatures in real life to get the effect they wanted. And stop motion for the famous landmarks getting blown up. Real movie making right there. Cant be beaten by some overused cgi. Not even Avatar was more convincing.

Sad but true. It's shocking how a movie almost thirty years old has dramatically better special effects than today.

@eldo59 this was the debut of the THX Tex trailer

I wish they would of showed a scene in judgement day 2016 where like there's a school scene and it's history class and they teach the day that the earth went construction in 1996

I was also 9 years old in '96, but the movie was released in France in September as school year 96-97 just begun! And I remember being a little bit scared by the destruction scenes but one of my older sisters watched it during a school shooting of the movie on VHS! And I remember watching entirely when another of my older sisters bought the VHS during the Summer '98 while Roland Emmerich's Godzilla was already released in U.S. and Canada theaters!

​@@ikura87 in Spain I also saw it in september

Hey I'm also 87 born ... Saw it in the hall too

*practical effects

Haha I was 14 when it came out, and I saw it in the theatre when it was still a new release. And the TV network 10 played the making of special starring Jeff Goldberg. Also in the weeks leading up to the movie release, the 5 MOVIES of the original V were broadcast over a 2 or 3 weeks period. Such an exciting time of my childhood.

I saw it in theaters when it first came out and it was incredible.

Saw it in the theatre that summer, it was pretty amazing for it’s time

It was really insane. The hype was crazy when it released.

I also went to see 'Independence Day' when it first came out in cinemas... l was awestruck by the giant alien space ships, and all the scenes where they blasted their laser beams down onto the Empire State Building and the White House, and blew them up to kingdom come... brilliant movie!

It was. I was 19 and went to the cinema twice ❤

If you have Disney + and 5.1 system turn it up the max. Trust me its something else. Infact true fact after ID4 and a few other films it was agreed to turn down the volume these films made in the flicks for them being so loud.

I agree

I don't.

Couldn’t agree more!!! This was just too good of a film.

I agree too, I missed my chance to see it on the big screen back in 1996. The TV trailer commericial showing the shots of the city destroyers positioning themselves over the cities with the crowds of people running for cover scared the shit out of me and I didnt see it until summer of 1997 when it premiered on HBO. It's become my favorite movie ever since

I wouldn't be surprised by that. The Empire State Building scene was copied and flipped upside down for the climax of the film.

Same here when I saw it in theaters only I hear a lot more relieved sighs than any movie I’ve seen.

This movie was Will Smith’s big break in blockbuster movies

Practical effects are still the best.

*Scene cuts to alien getting thrown out of bel air house by uncle Phil

So The USA🇺🇸President Airplane ✈️

@@vozdetrueno5239 That's because Joe Biden tripped a few times on the stairs on his way leading up to Air Force One.

That’s my favorite scene from the movie lol😂

There's actually quite a bit of CGI used in the film, it's just hard to spot due to the way it was blended in with the practical effects. But one example is the wife shot showing the dogfight over the Destroyer, that is a 100% CG sequence. Done by using a program that would simulate an air battle. The same program would be used again in "Flyboys", just with fewer "actors"

What? There's tons, and while it's not bad for the time, it's certainly not great and very noticeable.

*Realistic would be our species getting wiped out in a matter of minutes by an alien invasion. We're like ants to them (if this scenario were to occur). This is cheesy Hollywood crap.*

2012

@@TheLordofHistoryTV no where near close.

@@Phillyhippie215 the scene of the destruction of California isn't nearby? Let's face it, both Independence Day and 2012 are my favorite destruction movies. Subjectively for me they are equal

@@TheLordofHistoryTV I definitely respect those two being your favorite. So therefore I’m not gonna try to convince you otherwise. However in my opinion, 2012 has more of a “transformers” feel to it. Far too action/adventure jokes, family adventure vibes, than an actual disaster scene. Way too much CGI and unrealistic moments, especially in the limo. It looked like they were prepping for a universal studios ride rollout right after. All of that took away from the seriousness of the scenes. Where as Independence Day, these scenes were terrifying and jaw dropping. Like I had nightmares after watching it as a teen lol.

They probably weren’t aware of that. I feel that they weren’t given word of mouth that the 2 helicopters were shot down.

You do not shoot first to a un know enemy. Thats the rule. David hidde sígnal was the proof of there something suspicious to happen.

Well, first of all, it’s reasonable to say that many many people might not have seen it. When the Washington DC destroyer shot the welcome wagon helicopters out of the sky, the transmission signal that was broadcasting their activities to live TV was lost. I think that unlike Los Angeles and New York City, just about all of Washington DC had been evacuated by that point. It’s a smaller city than either of the two aforementioned (even though it’s our capital). So, there might not have been many if any people at all on the ground to have seen the choppers go down. And people in Washington DC were actually smart and trusted their gut intuition knowing they were in mortal danger from the moment the ships first appeared out of the sky. But by the time the aliens shot down those helicopters in DC, it was far too late to relay to the rest of the country (and by extension, the world) that everyone must leave the cities as soon and as quickly as possible. The signal was almost up, and as we see, the US President and his administration only just BARELY escaped with their lives.

There was a deleted scene where a news broadcast did address the declaration of war, but by that point, the streets were already jammed up. Also, a helicopter is circling the group of yahoos repeatedly telling them to evacuate the area.

they were. right after that they started evacuating. unless u meant the citizens. that was in dc i think. so ppl in la and ny didn 't know.

I dont think so. With shields in their planes armor its easy to be good. In the final, they dont have a clue to fight without the shields and they were crushed.

@@christianortiz9370 ^ But we were exceptionally lucky. If we had taken any longer whilst their shields were down and they then went back up, we'd have been toast. Doomed.

@@christianortiz9370 It is an echo of the classic 1953 War of the Worlds film when Dr Clayton Forester said that mankind can't beat the aliens' superior war machines and technology but they have got to take fight to the invaders themselves.

Yet they got taken down by a virus created on a Mac by a civilisation many tens of thousands of years less technologically advanced than them. Moral of the story: Always install software updates.

​@@christianortiz9370 exactly, aliens were using godmode cheats and when we brought their cheat engine down they got pwned

If you're united and have a common purpose, it's not impossible. Especially if you can scavenge alien power sources.

Worst of all, they even build places in ID:Resurgence that should have never happened in THEIR world (post alien attack universe) but happened in real life, like the Burj Khalifa. The second movie was a waste of a huge potential in world building.

​@@DomWeasel exactly, humanity recovered so well because it copied the alien tech

@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor Germany was levelled in WW2. Ten years later, the people of West Germany had a higher standard of living than those in the UK and East Germany was the most prosperous of the Warsaw Pact nations. Because East or West, Germans were united in rebuilding their home.

^ I’m sad that they don’t make any effort anymore to be authentic in thriller/disaster/horror movies anymore. The fire truck in question here was actually a miniature model or toy fire truck simply superimposed on this background. The monuments that are blown up by the aliens’ high-energy blasters were miniature models constructed specifically for this movie. They didn’t rely on cheap CGI for everything, taking the easy way.

@@rominn2184 CGI was never the easy way, it is a heavily time consuming process that requires the most expensive (more then often not aviable for public use) equipment just to make it somewhat realistic. One of the main reasons for the studios abusing CGI relates to the fact that Practical Effects require at minimum a year of pre-production just for experimenting with the building materials, mostly because there are new techniques to be invented and tested, specialy on makeups. While CGI itself only requires the hardware and then you are ready to create stuff, even to edit it on the go without any extra costs. While I do appreciate more Practical Effects than CGI, I do understand than more than often, BAD CGI in films exist because the studio executives force the artists into an impossible deadline wich switches them into "crunch mode" with the end result of a horrible job that ages quickly. And as a foot note: For every modern movie that has Practical Effects on it, the original 1 year of required pre-production for experimentation has been shortened into (at best) 3 to 5 months, wich forbids the proper tests and developments of new techniques on the go, with the end result that the evolution on puppets and miniatures gets capped pretty heavily.

​@Romin N or maybe the technology just wasn't there yet?

Yeah he made his last siren

That scene always irritated me like bruh I don’t care how fast a 747 flies that fireball was moving just as fast and the heat alone would’ve blown that plane up

@@brizzle3903 The fireball speed seems quite inconsistent, in the plane takeoff scene it's comfortably keeping up with something travelling about 250-300km ph, but in some of the other scenes it seems to be travelling much more slowly.

@@edsuniqueusername6768 exactly! They should’ve made that more realistic by having the White House already evacuated it would’ve been better to just show the Washington DC area getting destroyed without the inconsistencies

not even lasers, just some green plasma (lasers go at light speed) shooting missiles and bullets can be considered a waste of resources by a species that travels interstellar to stock up on essentials.

Don't need them when they have force field technology

It's solely for script purposes so the primitive jets have a chance. If they modeled these after the real aliens flying around on Earth they would just toy with them and their engines/radars shut down when getting close due to EM interference.

"Not gonna let some stupid earthlings out fly us!" They may be aliens, but they still have egos :P

The aliens objectives were simple for their invasion. 1. Send the 36 city destroyers to annihilate all economic and industrial centers (Cities) 2. Wipeout all planetary defense installations and command-and-control structures. 3. Send in ground troops to seize all planet's natural resources and mop up any human stragglers who survived the initial attack waves That third objective was obviously disrupted when they disabled their fleet shields via the mothership with the computer virus by piggybacking off of their communications.

I always thought the laser was a powerful heat vacuum and spread through out the city. Just like how you would pour water out a bottle onto the table. It falls and spreads out.

@@Phillyhippie215 i think it's more than just heat vacuum. several stuff is generally non explosive. for the sake of fictional stuff of this movie, i assume that alien laser energy makes matter very unstable to the point it explodes stuff as it spreads over the city like wildfire

I'm just guessing here too. The Laser is simply a focussing channel for an energised pulse of a volatile substance which detonates upon impact. Kinda like a missile guidance system.

I agree with this assessment I wonder how much energy it would take to charge that kind of weapon up

Zero point energy

"I've got you covered, Big Daddy." - Jimmy (shoots alien fighter; impact merely bounces it off-course) "Damn! They got shields, too!" - Jimmy (I have forgotten his last name)

I Hate that quote !

He did well as a combo-mutation (Brundle-Fly), a mathematician (Ian Malcol), and a leader of another world (Grandmaster)

He was also in Earth Girls are Easy with Gina Davis and Julie Brown.

He owned the Disco in "Thank God It's Friday"

^ It has stood the test of time. It came out when I was 9 or 10 and I absolutely loved it then, and now I’m 35 and I absolutely love it now.

Let's agree to disagree... Is the movie good? Yes.... Is it the best movie since its release? No

@@badouplus1304 kill joy....

If Loki and the Chitauri invaded Earth just like the aliens in Independence Day, how the hell would the Avengers handle them in battle?

and the Justice League Even Godzilla

Nobody cares about your super hero movies. There is no argument you can make that ties super hero movies to real life action movies. Apples to oranges

Pretty much Toby Stark would make sure the alien ship's shield useless and leave the rest to Hulk and Strange.

The method in this movie is much less efficient and far smaller in scope, but more cinematic.

By congress 😂

Wrong movie, still works. That's saying something.