I wish I was able to post this last Friday two days before 4th of July BUT as y'all know, I had to finish up the LOTR trilogy! No regrets, of course, but still! Better late than never haha
Jeff goldblum used the same “ faster, must go faster” line when getting chased by the aliens as he did in Jurassic park when getting chased by the dinosaurs
One of my favorite movies. Bill Pullman's speech gives me chills every time. The clouds of fire are what happen to anything entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed
My favorite non action sequence in the film is Will Smith's character not realizing it was a space ship, and just going about the morning til he looks up.
What makes it even better is his girlfriend’s son told him he was “shooting aliens.” Being the adult he is, he passes is off as kids being kids as we all would. But then it turns out he’s actually shooting at a spaceship.
I started really getting into movies in my 20's. When this one hit the theaters, it blew the doors off everything I had seen before. It had EVERYTHING I want in a movie...it was scary, funny, dramatic, and exciting as heck. And 25 years later, it still kicks butt.
In a deleted scene, it's explained that computer technology came from the crashed alien ship, which is why the code worked to sabotage the fleet's shields.
I worked at Fox when this movie came out. They had a screening for employees the day before it was released on July 3, 1996. Seeing it on the big screen was amazing. I still get chills from the speech. So much cheering in the audience during this film. I still love it. :)
This movie is my childhood, I'm talking so much so that I'm holding back tears of nostalgia every time I watch someone react to it. It's one of those movies that despite the concept being stupid, them movie knows how to roll with it in the most charming way.
I was 12 when this movie came out and I went to see it in theaters with my cousins and Aunt and Uncle. it was a packed theater. you can imagine how stupid crazy it was to see this on the big screen that young. My main memory, other than Smith punching the alien. Was when Brent Spiner (the wild hair Dr./scientist came on the screen, me and my 3 cousins all said at the same time. "Hey it's Data!" Because we were all big Star Trek fans. Also never realized how Star-studded this movie is.
I saw it in a packed theater, too. My parents and I had to sit on the front row because we got there too late to get good seats. I’d never sat in the front row before, and that alien jump scare stuff was TERRIFYING to me as a 11YO 🤣
i was thinking about this too. there is an actual movie from wells's book where we see aliens triomphing of human armies but be annihilated by the viruses. and isn't that the way colonisers annihilated all native resistance in every part of the world.
It's insane how a those scenes of the buildings exploding was made with practical effects and miniatures and looks more real than CGI like 25 years later!
I remember when this came out, it is by far the most American movie I've ever seen. The president flying his fighter jet to shoot the aliens, the guy who salutes him after his kick ass speech, the rest of the world covered in about 45 seconds, hilarious. Great reaction from you too
28:20 When she says "liar" right there it still makes me cry. Then the part with his daughter in the hall too. Especially when rewatching this after I was married and had kids. That's enough to wreck me right there.
32:56 The crowd reaction in that scene was actually unplanned. All the extras just exploded into applause and cheers after Bill Pullman's speech and they kept it in.
The scriptwriter Dean Devlin wanted to rewrite the speech at the last minute on the day they were filming it. But by the time he reached the set, they were right in the middle of shooting the scene and Bill Pullman was giving the speech. Turned out, the speech worked a lot better than Devlin thought it would, and they kept it as it was.
I saw this in the theater on opening day with my dad. I remember people in the theater standing up and applauding during the president's speech and when all of the ships went down. Outside of "Rocky Horror," this film really brought out audience participation, albeit accidentally.
*punches Alien out* "Welcome To Earth!" - best part of the movie imo, i laughed so hard at that first time i saw it, even my aunt laughed and she doesnt always laugh at comedy.
The clouds of fire are caused by friction with the air while the ships are entering the atmosphere. It was mesmerizing the first time I watched that, as a kid.
Yes, it's atmospheric friction due to entry, and is likely even more pronounced due to the size of their ships and their shielding, they can just ignore optimal entry angles and such and just brute force their way into the atmosphere.
Is that canon? I thought the fire/smoke was a purposeful disguise to hide their approach. Besides, there wouldn't be giant fireballs traveling that slowly.
@@rpventure Ever seen a jet plane fly in the sky? It's moving at high speed but slow from our perspective from the ground. There was no need for the aliens to disguise their approach. If anything, the fire actually signals their approach.
Your brain thought that giving the aliens a cold to kill them is a classic move from War of the Worlds, the radio broadcast from long ago... I never saw the movie but I assume it's the same.
The great thing about that wasn't that we had some great bio-weapon to kill them, but instead they were just killed by what was in the air anyway because they lacked our natural immunities. It was victory by means of evolution.
Yes, the film is the same, they have no immunities to viruses that we naturally do and never think about, so they would die from them. Maybe not instantly, but yeah, it would be fatal. That's why these aliens have the protective suits, it's not just for armor and strength enhancement, it's an isolation suit as well. We would need the same thing on any other planet we went to even if the atmospheric pressure and temperature were livable.
@@lordmortarius538 Bacterial infections might work, but viruses rely entirely on being able to rewrite the DNA of the host cell to make more viruses; it's astronomically unlikely that they'd be able to reproduce in any being that didn't share a common ancestor with life on earth.
The 1990's version of "The War of the Worlds." Unstoppable and powerful alien warships, major cities destroyed, military weapons are useless against their shields... Then they were brought down by a virus. Still love this movie and absolutely love the music soundtrack.
There's another movie about aliens where it turns out their weakness is water. It's like no matter how advanced they are they have some really dumb weakness.
I saw this when it was new in a test screening in CA. Later on when it came out on VHS I saw it again but when it got to the scene of the drunk guy flying into the space ship I was like wait a minute, he's flying a jet, when I saw it in the theater he was flying his crop duster. I was told I was confused, my memory was faulty, it couldn't be. Years later I read somewhere that they had filmed it both ways, and the version I saw before it fully was released was the one without the jet. It was a relief to be vindicated, to be able to tell those who didn't believe me that I wasn't crazy and imagining things.
I didn't even knew of that ending until like last week when I saw someone link to that alternate ending in another reaction's comment, it was a really bad ending to be fair, this is much more believable but I don't know how I went so many years without even knowing about this considering how many times I've watched the movie!
In case it's not clear, the reason they were all waves of fire at first is because they were 15 mile wide giant spaceships coming through Earth's atmosphere. Also fun fact: The sequence with the Welcome Wagon actually got local calls of UFOs from people not having an idea that a movie was being shot.
There are several deleted scenes that are included in the novelization and the Special Edition version of the movie. Most of them develop Russell Casse's character, and how his kids resent him ("You're not my dad. You're just the man that married my mom"). Another has a man in the ruins of Los Angeles preaching "The end has come". But there are a couple that go into further detail about how David was able to hack into the alien technology.
Fun fact: this movie holds a record for number of miniatures used in a movie, because of the city destruction scenes. nobody’s beaten it since everyone uses cgi now
First of all, you're one of the more entertaining reactors in this space. And as a major spoilerphobe, I particularly enjoyed how "spoiler-free" you were... 1:12 I find that kind of stuff refreshing.
Thank you so much! I love doing these and I love that a lot of people enjoy them as well 🥰♥️ Thank you. I always try to stay as spoiler free as possible!
Two other great movies if you find the time: Galaxy Quest Eight Legged Freaks Really good comedies. Eight Legged Freaks uses the classic creature feature (like King Kong and Godzilla) modernized. And Galaxy Quest is a play on Trekie fans with a new twist. The late Alan Rickman plays one of his best performances in this movie.
25:53, the alien is voiced by Frank Welker, whom voiced Megatron in the Transformers Animated Series and some of the films, too. He voiced Dr, Claw, Scooby Doo and Fred Jones, etc.
The actress that plays the First Lady (Mary McDonnell) also plays Donnie Darko's mom. She's one of my favorites. I highly recommend the Battlestar Galactica (2004) tv series that she's a part of, but I've heard it can be difficult to react to because they are hardcore on the copyright.
I had so many freakin Independence Day toys as a kid. In 1st grade I had a rat tail (it was the early 90s gmab) because my brother had one too and my mother bribed me with the big $20 deluxe alien to cut it off one day.
One nasty tidbit that probably wasn't deliberate: Marty tells his mother to go to her sister in Atlanta...which is then mentioned as one of the cities destroyed in the second attack wave.
I remember when this first played on HBO, HBO's lost its signal for whatever reason in the middle of the last battle. When it came back on the air it was at the ending credits. Fortunately I saw the movie in the theater so I knew what happened. But I'm sure there were tons of people upset they missed the end of the movie
Infecting the aliens with the common cold and they die from it? What a ridiculous idea… 😉 - vague spoiler alert - There is a classic science-fiction novel with several movie adaptations that does just that.
It's not so hard ot believe, when the Europeans started moving into the Americas, they killed a LOT of natives through diseases that the natives didn't have immunities to....and they were all human. Imagine throwing an entirely different DNA into the mix. What's a minor inconvenience to us could be deadly to them.
3:18, there is even a comic book prequel Adaptation taking place a year before the events of the movie, explaining that Goldblum's wife divorced him because he thought the president was having an affair.
Thing is when this movie came out Smith and Goldblum weren't THE MAIN STARS they would later become, so when this movie came out everybody in it was like equally famous. No one stuck out the dead one, or the hero one, so when you went in this was one of teh few true 'anybody could die' and each one would hurt movie experiences.
This movie is actually a Fourth of July tradition in my house every year we put it into the DVD player and watch it and if there’s time afterwards, we will watch the sequel as well in my personal opinion the presidential speech in this movie Is the best one I have ever heard
This movie is best seen as the first part of a double feature. The second part should be "Mars Attacks!". I think the winning tactic in MA was more plausible than the one in ID.
Do I know this start to finish? Yes. Would I watch it again outside of RUclips any time soon?..probably not Did I click on this and am watching the entire thing solely to see her reaction to "Welcome to earth!" Absolutely. 👀😊🙌
I am a childhood fan of this movie. You have seen the BEST alien invasion movie ever made. Not many alien invasion films will impress you after seeing this. Independence Day raised the bar for cinema in general. And yes, those alien attack scenes are TERRIFYING. Out of all the grotesque horror films I’ve seen, only the destruction scenes from Independence Day give me nightmares to this day.
I think you would like CONTACT with Jodie Foster (1997). It's an intelligently written story, more dramatic and philosophical than most, and well worth your time.
Considering that Roland Emmerich's Career started at the Time 4 Years ago, with a small B-Movie, no-one expected this. But like Independence Day, Godzilla and more of his Films, that small B-Movie is also a Cult Classic. 😊👌🏻
16:54 "WHERE'S BOOMER?!" LOL I remembering watching this in the cinema and it was dead quiet during this moment when they emerge from the ruined tunnel. There was a few seconds before we saw Boomer and I screamed out: "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PUPPY?!" so loud everyone turned to look at me LMAO Glad I wasn't the only one focused on the good boy!
Those clouds of fire show up because those ships were colliding with Earth's atmosphere. Any object that tries to enter Earth's atmosphere, it creates friction with the air, resulting in heat upon entry.
You need to watch Mars Attacks next, if you already haven't. It takes a hilarious dump on alien invasion movies like this. Almost SPECIFICALLY this movie.
1:48 that’s one thing sooooooo many people over like with that song and phrase… It’s the end of the world….AS WE KNOW IT doesn’t mean the world is gonna come to some drastic shattering cataclysmic end…not like the worlds gonna blow up or anything….just means that there’s gonna be a drastic change Hypothetically, if various governments don’t relinquish all the travel and social restrictions stemming from the current plague…then the world would have undergone a long term shift and change…the world that we knew would have ended, and a different one in its place And the proof of alien existence would be another example…a MASSIVE paradigm and comprehension of the universe shift…the world as a whole would change…thus the end…AS WE KNOW IT…
I might be hearing things but every time I play it I swear she's calling the dog 'Mummer' ... which would be a Will Smith / Philadelphia reference to the Mummers Day Parade every New Years Day
The clouds of fire are because the ships are entering the atmosphere. Things heat up and burn because of the air compression caused when hurtling through the air at high speeds.
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I wish I was able to post this last Friday two days before 4th of July BUT as y'all know, I had to finish up the LOTR trilogy! No regrets, of course, but still! Better late than never haha
Loved it!
@@jdomed0880 thank you bb 🥰♥️
@Gus BSB c’mon! Everyone uses Unix 🤣
@@di3486 If only Goldblum said "It's a Unix system" for another JP throwback
There’s a very famous alien invasion film where the aliens, at least in the book and in the 50’s movie, were taken down by “a cold”.
Jeff goldblum used the same “ faster, must go faster” line when getting chased by the aliens as he did in Jurassic park when getting chased by the dinosaurs
I just read something where he actually said that that line was a nod to Jurassic Park.
Now imagine him a doing that in a sex scene....
@@optimusprowse6448 does this belong in cursed comments, maybe?
@@ruthdeckman9781 Would fit in there pretty well I think :D
@@optimusprowse6448 now that I think about it more, yes, it certainly does! Lol
One of my favorite movies. Bill Pullman's speech gives me chills every time. The clouds of fire are what happen to anything entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed
Ooooo I didn't think about that! Thank you!
Me too.
My first time voting was when this came out. I've been writing in president Whitmore every election for the presidency.
@@markcain9312 I need to start doing that. lol
My favorite non action sequence in the film is Will Smith's character not realizing it was a space ship, and just going about the morning til he looks up.
"Honey, the neighbors are moving out."
What makes it even better is his girlfriend’s son told him he was “shooting aliens.”
Being the adult he is, he passes is off as kids being kids as we all would. But then it turns out he’s actually shooting at a spaceship.
I started really getting into movies in my 20's. When this one hit the theaters, it blew the doors off everything I had seen before. It had EVERYTHING I want in a movie...it was scary, funny, dramatic, and exciting as heck. And 25 years later, it still kicks butt.
In a deleted scene, it's explained that computer technology came from the crashed alien ship, which is why the code worked to sabotage the fleet's shields.
Their computers being binary based was the point everything else worked off of.
I've seen this movie so many times and I didn't know that. Thank you for the information
@@gordon020958 I miss XP. *sniffle*
@@deirdrestatham5730 best operating system ever!
thats why they could crash their system with windows 95?
I worked at Fox when this movie came out. They had a screening for employees the day before it was released on July 3, 1996. Seeing it on the big screen was amazing. I still get chills from the speech. So much cheering in the audience during this film. I still love it. :)
This movie is my childhood, I'm talking so much so that I'm holding back tears of nostalgia every time I watch someone react to it. It's one of those movies that despite the concept being stupid, them movie knows how to roll with it in the most charming way.
I was 12 when this movie came out and I went to see it in theaters with my cousins and Aunt and Uncle. it was a packed theater. you can imagine how stupid crazy it was to see this on the big screen that young.
My main memory, other than Smith punching the alien. Was when Brent Spiner (the wild hair Dr./scientist came on the screen, me and my 3 cousins all said at the same time. "Hey it's Data!" Because we were all big Star Trek fans.
Also never realized how Star-studded this movie is.
I saw it in a packed theater, too. My parents and I had to sit on the front row because we got there too late to get good seats. I’d never sat in the front row before, and that alien jump scare stuff was TERRIFYING to me as a 11YO 🤣
29:23 - "Is he going to give the aliens a cold, and they die from it?"
Haha, I know, how absurd (don't tell H. G. Wells).
i was thinking about this too. there is an actual movie from wells's book where we see aliens triomphing of human armies but be annihilated by the viruses. and isn't that the way colonisers annihilated all native resistance in every part of the world.
It's insane how a those scenes of the buildings exploding was made with practical effects and miniatures and looks more real than CGI like 25 years later!
I love how u just understand every joke and read between the lines and u just get it ... Feels like I´m watching with my best friend. 😊👌🏻
The clouds of fire are probably caused by the friction of Earth's atmosphere against the exterior of the alien ships.
I remember when this came out, it is by far the most American movie I've ever seen. The president flying his fighter jet to shoot the aliens, the guy who salutes him after his kick ass speech, the rest of the world covered in about 45 seconds, hilarious. Great reaction from you too
Thanks so much! This is definitely an American sorta film 🤣
@@OGBReacts Have you seen ....'Mars Attacks!'......an all-star packed comedy by Tim Burton?
You should watch 1776, it is a musical done in the early 70s, but still worth it. They did an excellent job with the cast, Franklin is spot on.
@@M11969 I was in a drama class in high school back then.....and we went on a field trip to San Francisco to see the stage play 'live'.
28:20 When she says "liar" right there it still makes me cry. Then the part with his daughter in the hall too. Especially when rewatching this after I was married and had kids. That's enough to wreck me right there.
32:56 The crowd reaction in that scene was actually unplanned. All the extras just exploded into applause and cheers after Bill Pullman's speech and they kept it in.
The scriptwriter Dean Devlin wanted to rewrite the speech at the last minute on the day they were filming it. But by the time he reached the set, they were right in the middle of shooting the scene and Bill Pullman was giving the speech. Turned out, the speech worked a lot better than Devlin thought it would, and they kept it as it was.
I saw this in the theater on opening day with my dad. I remember people in the theater standing up and applauding during the president's speech and when all of the ships went down.
Outside of "Rocky Horror," this film really brought out audience participation, albeit accidentally.
*punches Alien out* "Welcome To Earth!" - best part of the movie imo, i laughed so hard at that first time i saw it, even my aunt laughed and she doesnt always laugh at comedy.
That line was in the previews lol.
Crazy hippie scientist is played by Brent Spiner... (DATA from Star Trek )
The clouds of fire are caused by friction with the air while the ships are entering the atmosphere. It was mesmerizing the first time I watched that, as a kid.
...See yknow, this is why I stick with what I'm good at, editing and making content, BECAUSE I DO NOT KNOW BASIC SCIENCEY STUFF! lmao
Yes, it's atmospheric friction due to entry, and is likely even more pronounced due to the size of their ships and their shielding, they can just ignore optimal entry angles and such and just brute force their way into the atmosphere.
Is that canon? I thought the fire/smoke was a purposeful disguise to hide their approach. Besides, there wouldn't be giant fireballs traveling that slowly.
@@rpventure Ever seen a jet plane fly in the sky? It's moving at high speed but slow from our perspective from the ground. There was no need for the aliens to disguise their approach. If anything, the fire actually signals their approach.
Your brain thought that giving the aliens a cold to kill them is a classic move from War of the Worlds, the radio broadcast from long ago... I never saw the movie but I assume it's the same.
The great thing about that wasn't that we had some great bio-weapon to kill them, but instead they were just killed by what was in the air anyway because they lacked our natural immunities. It was victory by means of evolution.
Yes, the film is the same, they have no immunities to viruses that we naturally do and never think about, so they would die from them. Maybe not instantly, but yeah, it would be fatal. That's why these aliens have the protective suits, it's not just for armor and strength enhancement, it's an isolation suit as well. We would need the same thing on any other planet we went to even if the atmospheric pressure and temperature were livable.
@@lordmortarius538 Bacterial infections might work, but viruses rely entirely on being able to rewrite the DNA of the host cell to make more viruses; it's astronomically unlikely that they'd be able to reproduce in any being that didn't share a common ancestor with life on earth.
War of worlds is SO BAAAAD!
@@Michael75579 Unless they develop one using Gain of function tech 😏
The 1990's version of "The War of the Worlds." Unstoppable and powerful alien warships, major cities destroyed, military weapons are useless against their shields... Then they were brought down by a virus. Still love this movie and absolutely love the music soundtrack.
There's another movie about aliens where it turns out their weakness is water. It's like no matter how advanced they are they have some really dumb weakness.
This was a fun movie, and it's got Jeff Goldblum (everything's better with some Jeff Goldblum).
Imagine a prequel we’re Russ escapes the mother ship from being tested on and makes it back to earth.
I saw this when it was new in a test screening in CA. Later on when it came out on VHS I saw it again but when it got to the scene of the drunk guy flying into the space ship I was like wait a minute, he's flying a jet, when I saw it in the theater he was flying his crop duster. I was told I was confused, my memory was faulty, it couldn't be. Years later I read somewhere that they had filmed it both ways, and the version I saw before it fully was released was the one without the jet. It was a relief to be vindicated, to be able to tell those who didn't believe me that I wasn't crazy and imagining things.
I didn't even knew of that ending until like last week when I saw someone link to that alternate ending in another reaction's comment, it was a really bad ending to be fair, this is much more believable but I don't know how I went so many years without even knowing about this considering how many times I've watched the movie!
Jimmy (Captain Hiller's wingman) was played by Harry Connick, Jr, noted singer, pianist & composer.
Harvey Fierstein is great, i get happy every time i hear his gravelly voice
I saw this in the theater on July 4th. Classic.
TheOGBojangles was disgusted by aliens' looks? Hey everybody! Let's make her watch The Thing! :D
Or the amorphous/cloud-shrouded aliens of "Arrival" (2016).
Nah...give her "The Fly" to give her Jeff Goldblum AND amazing body horror....
Classic 90s action movie, so many good sayings. WELCOME TO EARTH!
"BUT WHAT ABOUT BOOMER!"
"BOOMER WILL LIVE!"
"YAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The dog must live 😤
@@OGBReacts for the reference: ruclips.net/video/YOcDhyhZO5g/видео.html&ab_channel=Doomvalley64
Nostalgia Critic fan (me too)
@@OGBReacts Always, can't watch if a dog dies, just can't.
We had an Akita named Boomer.. He has to survive!!!
I remember watching this in Italy, in a theatre holding 1200 seats... on "welcome to earth" the whole place blew up
Harvey Fierstein was so prolific in the 90s. OH MY GAWD!! OH MY GAWD!!
As an avid fan of the movie I am so happy you have watched the extended version! Its more well rounded!
Fun Fact: The aliens only came to Earth to purchase a copy of Norton's Anti-virus that was on sale for July 4th.
That Fourth of July monologue is legit heartwarming, and I'm not even American.
I saw this as a child, my father owned a vhs copy, and I loved it. Watched it recently and didn't realize how good this movie was. 10/10
Great video, that speech by Pullman always hits the soul everytime I hear it.
I feel like that was probably one of the best in-movie speeches, honestly
Independence Day is such a fun, utterly _stupid_ popcorn movie and I fucking adore it. It's like the most _American_ movie ever made.😂
In case it's not clear, the reason they were all waves of fire at first is because they were 15 mile wide giant spaceships coming through Earth's atmosphere.
Also fun fact: The sequence with the Welcome Wagon actually got local calls of UFOs from people not having an idea that a movie was being shot.
Aliens being defeated by the common cold was how they died in War of the Worlds…the original Alien SciFi epic.
Dr. Brakish Okun of Area 51 who got grabed by the alien is Brent Spiner who played Data on Star Trek:The Next Generation
Your reactions are just as entertaining as the movies themselves!
With my brother we decided this huge ship is full of office furniture. They must be bureaucrats.
There are several deleted scenes that are included in the novelization and the Special Edition version of the movie. Most of them develop Russell Casse's character, and how his kids resent him ("You're not my dad. You're just the man that married my mom"). Another has a man in the ruins of Los Angeles preaching "The end has come". But there are a couple that go into further detail about how David was able to hack into the alien technology.
Fun fact: this movie holds a record for number of miniatures used in a movie, because of the city destruction scenes. nobody’s beaten it since everyone uses cgi now
42:56 “Yeah. This is happening. Aliens. Yeah. We’re fucked.” 🤣🤣🤣 They should have put that in the trailer in 1996.
First of all, you're one of the more entertaining reactors in this space. And as a major spoilerphobe, I particularly enjoyed how "spoiler-free" you were... 1:12 I find that kind of stuff refreshing.
Thank you so much! I love doing these and I love that a lot of people enjoy them as well 🥰♥️ Thank you. I always try to stay as spoiler free as possible!
Two other great movies if you find the time:
Galaxy Quest
Eight Legged Freaks
Really good comedies. Eight Legged Freaks uses the classic creature feature (like King Kong and Godzilla) modernized.
And Galaxy Quest is a play on Trekie fans with a new twist. The late Alan Rickman plays one of his best performances in this movie.
Galaxy Quest - one of the best movies ever made (much like this one!)
25:53, the alien is voiced by Frank Welker, whom voiced Megatron in the Transformers Animated Series and some of the films, too. He voiced Dr, Claw, Scooby Doo and Fred Jones, etc.
The actress that plays the First Lady (Mary McDonnell) also plays Donnie Darko's mom. She's one of my favorites.
I highly recommend the Battlestar Galactica (2004) tv series that she's a part of, but I've heard it can be difficult to react to because they are hardcore on the copyright.
I had so many freakin Independence Day toys as a kid. In 1st grade I had a rat tail (it was the early 90s gmab) because my brother had one too and my mother bribed me with the big $20 deluxe alien to cut it off one day.
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One nasty tidbit that probably wasn't deliberate: Marty tells his mother to go to her sister in Atlanta...which is then mentioned as one of the cities destroyed in the second attack wave.
...... Oh noooooo
One can hope she got stuck in traffic en route and never made it there.......
29:21, "I gave it a cold. I gave it a virus, a computer virus." Lol!
29:22 That's a spoiler for a DIFFERENT SciFi Alien invasion movie :D
I remember when this first played on HBO, HBO's lost its signal for whatever reason in the middle of the last battle. When it came back on the air it was at the ending credits. Fortunately I saw the movie in the theater so I knew what happened. But I'm sure there were tons of people upset they missed the end of the movie
Infecting the aliens with the common cold and they die from it? What a ridiculous idea… 😉
- vague spoiler alert -
There is a classic science-fiction novel with several movie adaptations that does just that.
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Coincidently that is what this film was referencing by killing them all using a virus.
It's not so hard ot believe, when the Europeans started moving into the Americas, they killed a LOT of natives through diseases that the natives didn't have immunities to....and they were all human. Imagine throwing an entirely different DNA into the mix. What's a minor inconvenience to us could be deadly to them.
Several *extremely loose* movie adaptations, but a fantastic disco musical.
It’s a shame Hollywood can only make garbage. I’d love to see a period accurate War of Worlds. HMS Thunderchild taking on tripods in 4K imax! Oh yes.
Alot of people miss who the crazy scientist is it's Brent Spiner aka Data from Star trek the next generation.
3:18, there is even a comic book prequel Adaptation taking place a year before the events of the movie, explaining that Goldblum's wife divorced him because he thought the president was having an affair.
16:14 Even in the theater, I always pictured her having to stub out the dog's tail, like a cigar butt, after that hop.
Thing is when this movie came out Smith and Goldblum weren't THE MAIN STARS they would later become, so when this movie came out everybody in it was like equally famous. No one stuck out the dead one, or the hero one, so when you went in this was one of teh few true 'anybody could die' and each one would hurt movie experiences.
Giving the aliens a cold was the plot of war of the worlds
This movie is actually a Fourth of July tradition in my house every year we put it into the DVD player and watch it and if there’s time afterwards, we will watch the sequel as well in my personal opinion the presidential speech in this movie Is the best one I have ever heard
Moral of the story: Smoking is cool, kids! 😉
I saw this opening weekend and that Alien attack scene was the coolest shit I'd ever seen in my life.
This movie is best seen as the first part of a double feature. The second part should be "Mars Attacks!". I think the winning tactic in MA was more plausible than the one in ID.
Everyone goes crazy about Area 51 like there isn't 50 other "Areas"
Sounds like the Aliens are just like us with the ability to actually move from planet to planet instead of trying conservation tactics
That flat white desert is called Salt Flats, Utah. Coming close to Vegas on interstate 15 N, the edge of the salt flats can be seen.
Dr. Oaken, also known as Lt. Commander Data.
Do I know this start to finish? Yes.
Would I watch it again outside of RUclips any time soon?..probably not
Did I click on this and am watching the entire thing solely to see her reaction to
"Welcome to earth!"
Absolutely. 👀😊🙌
Yesssss 🤣 Hope you enjoyed!
This movie is a PSA about being environmentally friendly disguised as an alien war movie!
I am a childhood fan of this movie.
You have seen the BEST alien invasion movie ever made. Not many alien invasion films will impress you after seeing this. Independence Day raised the bar for cinema in general.
And yes, those alien attack scenes are TERRIFYING. Out of all the grotesque horror films I’ve seen, only the destruction scenes from Independence Day give me nightmares to this day.
This movie has so much nostalgia for me....great young teen summer....love your reactions yo!!!
Thank you!!
I think you would like CONTACT with Jodie Foster (1997). It's an intelligently written story, more dramatic and philosophical than most, and well worth your time.
I've heard good things about Contact!
Great movie!
@@OGBReacts My biggest problem with CONTACT is how close to reality it probably is.
Contact was written by Carl Sagan, one of the most highly regarded "celebrity" scientists. Almost everything Carl did was fantastic.
Love *Contact!* Probably closer to what an actual alien contact would be like.
Considering that Roland Emmerich's Career started at the Time 4 Years ago, with a small B-Movie, no-one expected this. But like Independence Day, Godzilla and more of his Films, that small B-Movie is also a Cult Classic. 😊👌🏻
The "giving it a cold" (before saying computer virus) references the classic legendary scifi film "War of the Worlds".
28:55 that would be a more realistic way to take the aliens down than a computer virus.
16:54 "WHERE'S BOOMER?!" LOL I remembering watching this in the cinema and it was dead quiet during this moment when they emerge from the ruined tunnel. There was a few seconds before we saw Boomer and I screamed out: "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PUPPY?!" so loud everyone turned to look at me LMAO Glad I wasn't the only one focused on the good boy!
Fun Fact: The president's daughter is played by a young Mae Whitman, the voice of Katara from Avatar the Last Airbender.
W H A T 😳
YESSSSSSSS
the original ending had Randy Quaid strap a bomb to his biplane and fly that into the final battle. It was deemed too ridiculous even for this.
I've never been this early. I hope you're having a wonderful summer.
Thank you so much!! I hope you are too!
7:38 its because its entering the atmosphere like when a meteor comes it burns up.
"In space meteor is piece of rock .. in atmosphere it's in fire. Cause of speed->friction and oxygen."
"Yeah mr. White, science!"
You beat yourself about the virus thing but the very famous radio show turned movie had exactly that resolution.
The producers and the director didn't think Will Smith was right for this movie but Jeff Goldbloom said he wouldn't do it without Will.
To quote the Nostalgia Critic: "BOOMER WILL LIVE!!!!!"
Clouds of fire are from them entering earth’s atmosphere
16:54 "where is Boomer...wait..." Kind of sound like Jenna marbles there LOL
Those clouds of fire show up because those ships were colliding with Earth's atmosphere. Any object that tries to enter Earth's atmosphere, it creates friction with the air, resulting in heat upon entry.
One of my all time favourite movies.
You need to watch Mars Attacks next, if you already haven't. It takes a hilarious dump on alien invasion movies like this.
Almost SPECIFICALLY this movie.
1:48 that’s one thing sooooooo many people over like with that song and phrase…
It’s the end of the world….AS WE KNOW IT
doesn’t mean the world is gonna come to some drastic shattering cataclysmic end…not like the worlds gonna blow up or anything….just means that there’s gonna be a drastic change
Hypothetically, if various governments don’t relinquish all the travel and social restrictions stemming from the current plague…then the world would have undergone a long term shift and change…the world that we knew would have ended, and a different one in its place
And the proof of alien existence would be another example…a MASSIVE paradigm and comprehension of the universe shift…the world as a whole would change…thus the end…AS WE KNOW IT…
To give you an idea of the destruction area... Andrews AFB (where air force one took off from) is about 13 miles from the White House
3:10, Jeff Goldblum, Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park!
I might be hearing things but every time I play it I swear she's calling the dog 'Mummer' ... which would be a Will Smith / Philadelphia reference to the Mummers Day Parade every New Years Day
I love the geeky Brent Spiner character.
The clouds of fire are because the ships are entering the atmosphere. Things heat up and burn because of the air compression caused when hurtling through the air at high speeds.
Will Smith may be more well known but my favorite is Jeff Goldblum who never fails to deliver.
I was out grocery shopping when I got this notification, and I made the same face as the thumbnail! Stoked for this one! 🙌💜
Right! The build up was them finding a way to defeat them.