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Independence Day [1996] [DVD]

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3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
  • Directors: Roland Emmerich
  • Writers: Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin
  • Producers: Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Peter Winther, Ute Emmerich, William Fay
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 17 May 2004
  • Run Time: 139 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00028491G
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,817 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --Tom Keogh


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In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. -- Tom Keogh
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Guess what? Obnoxious Americans save the world (again!), 11 Jan 2009
I made the mistake of buying this film when it first came out on video before I had watched it at the cinema or before its first showing on T.V. (something I never usually do), because everyone seemed to be raving over it and it did do well at the box-office. So, naturally, I thought, it must be a good film and I do like Sci-Fis.

I have only watched it twice since buying it, once myself and the other time, a friend wanted to watch it.

Normally, as I said, I like Sci-Fi and I enjoyed the idea that the Area 51 thing was supposed to be true. I also enjoyed seeing the aliens and inside the mothership, but that was about it!

The rest of the film was just corny, cheesy, all-American-hero type stuff.

Jeff Goldblum or "Mr Wonderful" as I like to call him, can't act (as usual) and plays the same goofy, patronizing character he always plays and look at my lovely hairy chest, while you're at it.

I couldn't stand Will Smiths egotistical "I'm the man" and "don't mess with me" character. I got to thinking whether Mr Wonderful and Mr Big-Headed Smith are really like that in real life. I hope not!

The rest of the cast were humdrum; but it was refreshing to see Brent Spiner (who usually plays Data in Star Trek) in a different role as the eccentric "I don't get out much" scientist. In my opinion, he was the best actor in it!

This film is jingoistic, pretentious, predictable and superficial tosh! I have never again made the mistake of buying an overrated film that I haven't watched first and I do not know why it did so well at the box office? Were we really so gullible back then?
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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A great story but ok film, 26 Nov 2006
By SJ SMART "Smartie" (London) - See all my reviews
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I read the book version before seeing the film and was quite impressed but the film changed a lot and not to the films credit. Firstly, the biggest change was the Independence Day speech part before the final attack above Area 51. In the book the Americans have gathered together anything that can fly, from P-51 Mustangs, Phantoms, Starfighters, Sabres, Harriers, F 111s, F 14s, Migs, etc and these are to be used on a suicide run to distract the Aliens from the main attack of the F 18s. Most of these pilots are very depressed and fatalistic so the US President gives them his great Independence day speech to give them courage and hope and it works. But in the film it just comes across as a bit of over the top jingoistic spin and then swarms of F 18 go in to the attack.

Secondly it lacked something, perhaps a ground element, I think the film would have been ten times better with Alien AFVs (armoured fighting vehicles) attacking the base on the ground, pushing back the human defenders: USAF men, Police, Soldiers, civilians, Marines, National Guard, Secret Service, etc being pushed back in to the base but fighting fiercely. (See 55 Days in Peking to see what I mean). These AFVs could have been stopped ultimately by the computer virus too.

Also, what is with all the Ground controllers shouting frantically and loudly in to their radios at the pilots?? I am sure the last thing a pilot travelling at 500mph+ in a dog fight needs is a ground controller shouting down his ear! The director should have re-watched Star Wars, remember when the X wings and Y Wings are attacking the Death Star and the ground controllers are quietly waiting and watching? You could feel the tension.

This director writer team has a gift of getting a great idea and making it ok, remember Stargate?

Great special effects, great cast, good story but poor direction and realisation. Watch and enjoy but dont expect a lot!
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Switch off your brain and enjoy the action, 3 Jul 2007
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This film is not for those looking for something deep and meaningfull it is very predictable and shallow but the action and effects are very good.

There is not a great deal can be said about this film, it is fun to watch and the acting is ok.

This film has one main drawback to anyone outside USA - it has a bit too much 'God bless America' in it. The film implies that the rest of the world is completely helpless until the 'mighty' US of A comes to the rescue of us all! however if you can ignore this then the film becomes an ok summer blockbuster action film but is never more than that!

Overall this is very average and i would only recomend this to fans of the Genre or Will Smith
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1.0 out of 5 stars idiotic day
sci/fi or comedy ?
although indowed with spectacular efects, this brainless garbage, plays out more as a slapstick comedy than true sci/fi. Read more
Published 2 months ago by film buff

2.0 out of 5 stars Spectacular visuals, poor story
`Independence Day' is one of those films that I use to love as a kid but feel it is now rather poor and it is doubtful I would have bought it if it hadn't been so cheap. Read more
Published 3 months ago by T. R. Alexander

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Old film now but still has the humour, and tension that it had when it first came out.
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. S. Fisher

4.0 out of 5 stars It is what it is
Mindless Hollywood action/sci-fi movie that cemented Will Smith's A-list status and didn't do Goldblum any harm either. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Barney McGrew

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny as well very entertaining
Saw this movie years ago and my son who is now 11 watched it a while back and really, really enjoyed and so I bought this DVD for him as he is mega fan of all things scientific as... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Ms. P. M. Martin

1.0 out of 5 stars It's a bird... It's a plane... NO its AMERICA... YEAH!!!
I'm almost embarrassed that I thought it was good when I was a kid. Because I was too young to understand the bad points and let's face it, we don't have high demands of quality... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Darth_DuMas

4.0 out of 5 stars the aliens are coming
With a great story lined up and an A list cast all included, Independence Day broke records when released in 96, and now 12 years on it still hasn't lost any of its magic... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Stampy

4.0 out of 5 stars The logic of the signifier
Reviews of this film are pretty split and rightly so, it is a film that provokes many reactions. Many of the negative ones falling on the side of anti-Americanism. Read more
Published 17 months ago by D. C. Simpson

1.0 out of 5 stars God bless America
Well thank god the Yanks know how to whoop some ass!!! Oh yeah!! give me five !!
A film so bad I was cheering on the Aliens until it turned out with all their technology... Read more
Published 19 months ago by C. A. Hack

1.0 out of 5 stars Hey ain't it great to be American?
Moronic tosh of the first order. Jingoistic, crass and absurdly over patriotic. The tragedy here is that it was a box office smash on both sides of the Atlantic. Read more
Published 21 months ago by A. Goodall

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