Independence Day
June. 25,1996 PG-13On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Just awesome! It still beats many of the current rubbish space movies Hollywood makes right now.
Scientists living in the United States intercept a strange alien "transmission" from outer space that turns out to be a count down. I do not know why the aliens would send any type of "message" that the humans could receive. At zero, the invading aliens propel a laser pulse from positioned destroyer ships that demolishes various major cities on earth including DC, where the President originally is. The idea, I imagine, is to reduce morale and make it easier to kill them all! To prevent their annihilation, while at Area 51, one American scientists proposes a plan to the President who arrived by Air Force One with him to give the alien computer system a virus. This virus will bring down all of the alien shields so that the united human counter-offensive can use some of their own weapons, i.e., a nuclear missile. The Americans discovered previously they were not able to penetrate past them; after the first strike the President ordered the military to launch a nuclear bomb from a grounded armored vehicle that had a visual of one of the destroyers in sight. The missile was not able to pass its shield. The scientist and a soldier commandeer a captured enemy jet stored there, at Area 51, and successfully upload the virus into the mother ship by flying the jet into the mother ship's docking bay and connecting to their computer system. With their shields down, each and every of the invader's ships is taken down. All the humans had to do was remove their shields.
this movie is nothing but a way of saturating understanding-the-need-for-hacking (in a claim of at least counter-measures) ...AMBIGUITIES of necessity , compared to MORE SPECIFIC THINGS.that silly Dan Ackroyd one with him and bill Murray shagging the Russians while a missile's going off, did more for helping people to remember URGENCIES of various tech.this rubbish, is little more than a accept rotting, decaying, RNA-feedback,.. kinds of PRE- bio-tech ATTEMPTS at trying to get people used to certain kinds of invasions of privacy and breaches of law, in the PREMISE of belief, about what will become acceptable one day...or similarly, of a in comic books, necrotic religious gravedigger sort of character, who possesses experience with the para-dimensional, despite being a cyborg... etci.e. , 'we' know, the laws will change, so this is getting people used to it.you supposedly 'need' , to be able to create viruses... etcnothing more.pityful, compared to what the potentials of organic networks have changed in a game-changer sense, even if that was the ONLY thing you used to assess this movie with.combined with watching cowboys versus aliens, these two movies will want to make you throw up, not LEARN ABOUT TECHNOLOGY, especially sciences OUTSIDE YOUR OWN (no, that's not saying you religious lot are failing more, its saying the opposite... that scientists-too, have to go outside their own).Dismal, shallow, unimaginative, and self-important, too.
I know this movie doesn't seem serious now, but I still think it's a very good movie! And I'm not saying this just because Will Smith is my favourite actor... Well, maybe... But still, the movie is good! Yes, there's some scenes that seem to be funny, etc., but I think it's a great movie, it's fun, and entertaining, even tho it's old!