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Independence Day [1996] (1 disc) ... |  | |
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Length: | 153 minutes (2 hours 33 minutes) | MPAA Rating: | PG-13 | Suggested Event Use: | Independence Day | Sorting Category: | SciFi | Sorting Tub: | India |
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| Classifications: | - Action
- Sci-Fi
- Puppets
- Drama
- Suspense / Horror
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Synopsis: As July 4th draws near, the world receives undeniable proof that they're not alone in the galaxy, though they may wish they were.
Reaction: A bit overblown, but not terrible. There are several clichés used, but also some cool scenes unique to this movie.
Personal Rating: 7/10 |
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Random Trivia For This Title: - The orientation of the bent street lamps and overturned cars as seen through the tank's night vision makes them resemble the Martian spaceships from the 1953 version of War Of The Worlds.
- Producer Dean DevlinDean Devlin said that well over half of the dialogue in the scenes Jeff GoldblumJeff Goldblum shared with Judd HirschJudd Hirsch and Will SmithWill Smith was improvised.
- Production designer Patrick TatopoulosPatrick Tatopoulos presented director Roland EmmerichRoland Emmerich with two concepts for the aliens. Since Emmerich liked both designs so much he came up with the idea to use one design as the actual alien and the other to be a bio-mechanical suit the aliens could wear.
- When Will SmithWill Smith accidentally backs into a wall with the spacecraft and says, "Oops," Jeff GoldblumJeff Goldblum responds with, "Oops? I know what I've done when I've said oops, now what did you do, saying 'oops' there?" This is a quote from one of Bill CosbyBill Cosby's first recorded stand-up routines, I Started Out As A Child.
- In the Special Edition, during the scenes where David is searching for his wife's telephone number, his computer screen displays humorous street names such as "Heresheis Avenue."
- {Everybody Wants To Rule The World} by Tears for Fears was originally picked to play during the film's introduction before it was replaced by R.E.M.'s {It's the End of the World As We Know It}.
- Will SmithWill Smith's squadron were stationed at El Toro air base. This is the same name as the air base from which the Flying Wing Bomber flew out of to drop the A-bomb on the Martians in the 1953 movie The War Of The Worlds.
- When escaping the mother ship, Levinson (Jeff GoldblumJeff Goldblum) says "Faster, must go faster", a line which Goldblum's character said in Jurassic Park when being chased by the T-rex.
- When David Levinson opens his laptop computer (an Apple Macintosh PowerBook) it greets him with the message, "Good Morning Dave." - a reference to the talking computer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- [?] James Brown's distinctive scream was used as a sound effect for the alien energy beam backfiring as Russell's plane crashes into the giant ray gun.
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