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  independence day movie review, ID4, July 4th, 4th of july.
Its the Fourth of July, the day America celebrates its Indepdence Day and a new power has surfaced hovering overhead the mighty cities of America and the world.
Aliens arrive in many vast spaceships but bring absolute silence with no message or hint of their intentions (quite remiscent of the V television saga from the 80's).
That is until the day that all hell lets loose in Washington DC.
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 Independence Day movie review
I suppose it is too much to hope that a movie featuring aliens attempting to conquer Earth actually achieve their goal.
On July 4th, America's Independence Day, the planet unites to wage war against the seemingly impenetrable alien forces.
What the aliens are attempting to do in the movie is really no different from what humans have been doing to each other for centuries, and what humans will do to other worlds as soon as we milk this world for all its worth.
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  The Movie Cliches List, part 2
All movie mothers will prepare a breakfast, usually consisting of scrambled eggs, bacon, etc. Dad and the kids will invariably arrive at the table 30 seconds before Dad has to leave for the office and the kids have to catch the school bus.
If the movie hero has a sidekick and he mentiones his family in the first two minutes of the film, the sidekick will surely be killed.
The movie hero is (almost) always divorced, but he still has some contact with his ex-wife who tells him that she could not stay married to him because she loves him too much.
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  Movie Monsters - Independence Day review
Independence Day was the summer blockbuster of 1996, the big budget low brow film chucked out to cause a mini-sensation at the time when lots of people feel like seeing a film.
Independence Day is of course not interested in plot or characters, or even credibility because it is relying on its special effects to carry the day.
Independence Day has limited ambitions and just about meets them, it's a shame that the target was set so low because with the good special effects and a plot this could have been a classic.
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  Independence Day
An Independence Day is an annual celebration commemorating the anniversary of a nation's creation as an independent state, usually by ceasing to be a colony of another state.
The Gregorian date for the day in which Israel independence was proclaimed is May 14th.
Panama - November 3, independence from Colombia in 1903.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Independence Day (movie)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction movie about an attempted alien takeover of the earth.
The movie features several scenes of major American landmarks being destroyed by the aliens.
Criticism Whilst a commercial success, it was widely ridiculed by critics for the plot (which involved causing the aliens' high-tech computers to malfunction by infecting them with a simple virus written on an Apple Macintosh), and poor acting.
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 Independence Day (movie) - Wikipedia
Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction movie about an attempted alien takeover of the earth.
The movie features several scenes of major American landmarks being destroyed by the aliens.
Whilst a commercial success, it was widely ridiculed by critics for the plot (which involved causing the aliens' high-tech computers to malfunction by infecting them with a simple virus written on an Apple Macintosh), and poor acting.
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 Independence Day (movie)
Independence Day is a 1996 Americann science fiction movie about an attempted alien takeover of the earth.
The movie features several scenes of major American landmarks being destroyed by the aliens, such as the Empire State Building and the White House.
Whilst a commercial success, it was ridiculed by some critics for the plot (which involved causing the aliens' high-tech computers to malfunction by infecting them with a simple virus written on an Apple Macintosh), and poor acting.
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 Independence Day (movie) - Definition, explanation
Independence Day is an Americann action movie about an attempted alien takeover of the Earth.
The movie features several scenes of major American landmarks being destroyed by the aliens, such as the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, California, the Empire State Building and the White House.
This movie was scheduled for release on Wednesday, July 3, 1996, but due to high level of anticipation for the film, many theaters began showing it on the evening of July 2, the same day the action in the film begins.
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 Movie DVD for Independence Day
His movies have always been summer spectacles, awesome in sight and sound, but often lacking in plot or character development — the kind of movie that is perfect to enjoy over a bucket of popcorn and then not have to think about ever again.
Independence Day is the pinnacle of Emmerich’s achievement.
Of course, the one thing everyone remembers about Independence Day are the special effects, especially the scenes of destruction as the alien ships destroy the cities of New York, Washington, and Los Angeles.
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 Independence Day Movie Review
Independence Day is an expensive film with ominous production design, and while I was rooting for this movie to tear the roof off the multiplex, nothing that happens on screen ever really gels.
This is perhaps the year's most ambitious movie, and it's almost hard to imagine that anyone in Hollywood has been doing anything but post-production work on this behemoth of a summer movie for the last three or four months.
Independence Day is a little more than two hours long, but not nearly long enough to properly contain all of its own ideas.
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 Independence Day
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness.
Independence Days are pretty rare in Europe generally, unless you count things like the Queen's Birthday and St Patrick's day.
I didn't mean that all of those were on the same day, just that people from all over feel pride in, and celebrate, their independence (from whomever) and the birth of their nation.
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 Independence Day DVD Movie Review by AceGamez
Independence Day, despite often slammed for being far too 'Hollywood', is still to my mind one of the finest sci-fi epics ever made.
The opening scene for Independence Day is unusual, because rather than hiding the alien spaceship for as long as possible, we get to see it straight away, as it overshadows the moon.
Independence Day is one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made, it's a gripping, action-packed, roller coaster of a movie with huge scale special effects backed up by likeable heroes.
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 Independence Day - Movie Reviews, Photos & Videos, Layouts & Wallpapers, Fan Club - Flixster
I used to be a real movie snob and would rather eat my own arm than sit through this pop corn fodder.
This movie was really sweet when I saw it at age 13.
I've seen this a few times, and the more I do I realise how this is really a glorification of pax americana and the assumption that the US is the one and only country to possible save and protect mankind.
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 Evaluating the Impact of The Day After Tomorrow: Can a Blockbuster Film Can Shape the Public's Understanding of a ...
In his statements, Gore has said that he finds the science of the movie over-the-top, but also considers the movie important since it focuses attention on the fact that global warming is a real problem, and that the Bush administration is doing nothing to stop it, a message repeated in MoveOn.org's movie theater fliers.
In many movies, scientists are portrayed as evil, socially irresponsible, and mentally unstable, a reflection of the famous Dr. Frankenstein character.
The Day After Tomorrow hammers home an image of a fragile global environment, vulnerable to irrevocable change through human consumption and industrial development unless the urgent warnings of scientists are heeded by politicians.
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 Amazon.com: Independence Day (Single Disc Widescreen Edition): DVD: Will Smith,Bill Pullman,Jeff Goldblum,Mary ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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.
Independence Day has stood the test of time for me: it's one of only a handful of movies that I own, and I never tire of repeated viewings.
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 Independence Day Movie Review
In 1996, a movie was released that blew the minds of practically everyone who saw it.
The movie was Independence Day, the science fiction classic of our generation, which solidified Will Smith’s place as a film actor.
Independence Day has almost all of the staples needed in a great science fiction movie.
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 "Independence Day" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Independence Day is a blast - reminiscent of some of the spectacular films of days gone by.
While I enjoyed the mindless entertainment of the movie, the proliferation of alien movies and TV shows may be a subtle plot to undermine the Christian Church.
This is the kind of movie that makes you sick when you think that ET was the top grossing movie of all time when there are movies like this in the world.
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 INDEPENDENCE DAY
The hype paid off well: Independence Day is the sort of movie it seem everybody has seen.
Independence Day (like Stargate) is a pastiche of several movies and ideas.
Maybe the attraction (as many commentators have never tired of pointing out) lies in having adversaries that's truly evil (especially in the shortage of bad guys that followed the end of the Cold War) and audiences like things in fl and white, but that's probably not it.
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 Event Movies -- Independence Day   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In "Independence Day", the outcome is hanging on the events of two distinct sequences.
As is befitting of a movie that is as close to perfection as "Independence Day" is, there are numerous memorable moments to mention (try saying that ten times really fast!).
But while "Independence Day" has created a new-found notoriety for Devlin and Emmerich, it has also created lofty expectations for any future projects that they are involved in.
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 theVoiceofReason.com, Independence Day, Spoof Movie Review
Dogs will pull their sleeping basket over to the television when this movie is on, then will carefully bring over their water bowl, improbably balanced on their nose without spilling a drop; they will then sit slurping from the water bowl throughout the whole movie chuckling occasionally in a deep Scooby Doo voice.
A great movie to have on when you are writing a letter to someone or when you are on the internet.
The whole movie is a load of puff, although the special effects are memorable and were really the whole point of the movie in the first place.
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 Independence Day Movie Review at Hollywood Video   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Independence Day succeeds as mainstream entertainment; a grand spectacle in the tradition of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, not to mention more recent entries like Armageddon.
In their joint audio commentary, they say that they wanted the movie to be about a wide range of characters uniting to fight a common threat.
In the movie's signature White House explosion shot, for example, both the alien ship and the White House itself are models, and the fireball is a real explosion ripping through the miniature mansion — a shot they made sure to get right on the first take.
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 Independence Day
Independence Day is an action-packed science fiction thriller about aliens trying to wipe out the human race during Fourth of July weekend.
In addition, the final third of the movie deserves praise for its celebration of parent-child relationships, the institution of marriage and a kindly Jewish man's rediscovery of faith.
Independence Day packs quite a punch, but it's one many families may prefer to dodge.
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 Aldebaran Technologies, LLC: Movie Review: Independence Day
This has got to be one of the most awe-inspiring movies of all time.
Okay, so to conclude, Independence Day is deserving of the hundreds of millions of box-office dollars it's likely to gross.
After I read his review of Independence Day, I was left with a feeling of "Did you even watch the movie?" So therefore, here I have the negative points he made, followed by my explanation of them.
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 Independence Day (1996)
In Independence Day, the planet is faced with destruction when a number of seemingly impenetrable alien spaceships begins an assault on the world's major metropolitan areas.
Parent Previews gave Independence Day a C+ grade.
See a history of all the movies you've rated
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 Independence Day (1996)
Cliche Day, but it works, 24 June 2000
The special effects were great, the chase between the F-18 and alien ship in the canyons was edge-of-the-seat stuff, and much of the humour worked well.
Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for Independence Day (1996)
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 The Movie Cliches List
People always put large comic icepacks on their heads and stagger around the apartment being churlishly funny to sunny, happy people, when in reality they would be serial vomiting for hours until they were happy to be down to the last of their stomach bile.
Why is it after a mad night out on the beer that nobody arrives home with vomit down the front of their shirts or at least some dirt on their clothes as they would have surly fallen on their way home.
In movies people with problems always go and drive a car with an open beer can in their hand.
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 Movie - Independence Day
Not a great movie but it does what it says on the tin and entertains.
Many people seem to have missed the joke in the plot, that the story is lifted from H. Well’s War of the Worlds, with his theme that the aliens have no natural resistance to Earth’s native viruses and so before they can kill everyone, they all die.
The director and writers of Independence Day updated this theme giving it a twist by changing it from organic viruses to computer viruses with a similar last minute reprieve when all seems lost.
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 Independence Day - Movie Rental Review
This might be a good opportunity for parents and teens to discuss stereotypes associated with action-disaster movies as well as how race, class, and gender is represented in the film.
INDEPENDENCE DAY follows the plotline of several previous Hollywood sci-fi disaster movies.
INDEPENDENCE DAY harkens back to the classic alien invasion movies of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the disaster movies of the 1970s.
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 USATODAY.com - 'Day After' promises new kind of fireworks   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But we're talking movies here, and by the time Day After is released for Memorial Day weekend, everyone will be comparing the two disaster movies.
But though movie fans have clamored for a sequel to Independence Day, this movie isn't it, Emmerich says.
And so, in The Day After Tomorrow, tornadoes rip apart Los Angeles; a snowstorm buries New Delhi; hail the size of grapefruit batters Tokyo; and in New York City, the temperature swings from sweltering to freezing in one day.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2004-01-15-day-after_x.htm   (417 words)

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