INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) | MOVIE REACTION! | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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Came for a reaction, stayed for historical accuracy.
I remember when aliens attacked us that one year... my brother Jimmy died in one of the major city attacks :( At least we got our revenge on those alien bastards tho :)
It kills me when conspiracy theorists claim this never happened! What happened to teaching history?!
I remember when "Hello boys...I'm baaaack" was inserted as an instant America's greatest quotes in the curriculum
Jokes aside if you want "historical accuracy" you shouldn't watch something produced by americans.
I mean americans blame the entire continent of europe for things like the transatlantic slave trade or things like "stealing land from native americans"
What do you mean this isn't a historical film?
This is based on a true story.
Hah ha ha :D Yes, I remember... Ah, memories.
Exactly, I mean doesn't everyone remember where they were when the aliens arrived?
Just like the 'Historical Documents' in Galaxy Quest!
If you want historical accuracy (but it also applies to modern day of course) , america is the most Rey Cyst nation on earth.
lol
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
It made $800 million dollars against a $75 million dollar budget.
I saw this in theaters with my brother and sister a week after it's release and it blew me away!
I saw the trailer for this when my Mum and Dad took me to see Twister. I was absolutely awe struck. Then, like you say, was blown away when we went to see at the cinema. One of my favourite films when growing up - watched it on VHS about 500 times.
And deserved too. The destruction scene is still unparalleled in my opinion. Just a gorgeously terrifying display of the antagonist's power.
It beat Dragonheart, which made me very sad.
@@Mitheledh To be fair though, Independence Day holds up quite a bit more
Yepp one of these typical entertaining 90s american popcorn blockbuster summertime movie 😁
TODAY. WE CELEBRATE “WATCHING MARY WATCH” OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Thinking she was watching a historically accurate movie!
@@jkhoover or even a realistic movie for that matter...
MERICA! MERICA!
@@CastlesLaw1911 PHUK YEAHHH (I guess)💪🏾🤘😝😎👍🔫🔥🇺🇲😍
About south eastish of Germany that area of Europe anyway
Ps I’m Australian not U.S
That “we will not go quietly into the night” speech is one of the most arousing, epic speeches in cinematic history!
To finish the story you need to watch ID: Resurgence. The children have grown up 20 years later.
I just love how most of us came together and told you to watch THIS Indepedence Day, and not the one from 2016. :D
Protecting Mary from mediocre movies, one movie at the time :D
Haha right!
I didn't even knew there was another one!
@David C Just pretend you still don't know that. Its better that way.
"Medicore"? No, the sequel is utterly trash
Amen brother !
I'll never NOT chuckle when someone from another country watches this for the first time and leads in by saying, "I don't know how historically accurate this will be...."
🤣🤣🤣
Independence Day didn’t just do well in America, it was the or top 3 grossing movies internationally that year
Your added visuals Mary were so funny. The "Who wants to be a millionaire" bit had me laugh a good 10 seconds. Thank you for making this reaction so enjoyable. Chris Rock reference. Hilarious.
Everyone always reacts to the alien in Area 51 with "How can he attack when they just cut him open?". They didn't cut the alien open, they cut his space suit.
Yeah, they clearly say its a bio-suit, but 99% of people seem to miss that detail.
@@rrmenton8016 I think it's more a matter of forgetting about it with all the other information coming, and therefore not being able to make the connection in that moment.
@@fllthdcrb or they have no clue what a Biomechanical SUIT is Dr oken would of said they were wearing a spacesuit and the same people would be lost haha
it is frustrating, when people miss details like this; but, to be fair, how many times have we seen the movie? most of us miss some details, the first time we see a movie
@@rrmenton8016That’s the whole point of the suit. It’s not only to protect the rather small alien, but also psychological warfare against their foes. The suit is much larger and the facial region resembles a skull kind of. The end goal is to give their enemies the idea they are much larger than they really are. A very intimidating sight. But despite how bad the sequel is, it felt satisfying seeing the little fucker squirm when forced out of his bio suit.
soo funny. most people think its a historical movie, and then as soon as they see the aliens/saucer, ... just great.
Not the only RUclipsr I've seen make this mistake!
Next year, try 'The Patriot'
Not as good as when people watch American history x and think it’s about history :D
The fact that she went into this movie completely blind made her reaction to it that much better.
Oh gawd I didn’t realize she didn’t know what this is about, this is gonna be great 😂😂😂 I love reading the comments before I watch
I don't know about anyone else but as a American I get goosebumps with the presidents speech. "We will not go quietly into the night!".
Which he stole from a poet, lol
Rage! Rage against the dying of the light!
As an American I am sad to say this country will never have great moments as depicted in this movie because we are so preoccupied with cultures wars and other petty bs.
Also, for those who buy the American exceptionalism propaganda, remember the two industries that made American rich was tobacco and slavery. That was our foundation.
I think what really makes that speech so powerful is that it is NOT targeted solely at Americans, but drives home the point that in a global crisis we realize that we are one species. Country, religion, race, etc don't matter. (OMG, I am channeling John Lennon! :-))
@@Mr-gg8ek ye, there is very little to be proud of for americans. They just keep on telling themselves they are #1...... bit delusional. The only thing they are #1 in is debt. 370+ trillion. Which dwarfs the sum of #2 - #5.
As a Brit, I could definitely point out Belgium on a map. I couldn't necessarily justify why it's there but exist it does!
😂 we don’t get it either, but here we are!
As a Dutch guy I _couldn't_ point out Belgium on a map. I mean, it's not a real country, is it? Flanders is just part of the Netherlands and South of that there's just France, right?
@@MovieswithMary On the bright side, no alien ship blew up Brussels.
@@MovieswithMary I'm American, and I could find it. But I was a really good student.
@@rdevries3852 France?
This movie has one of the greatest speeches of all time!
I mean, sure. But realistically he doesn't have a patch on Captain America. He's pretty good at it you know. Right?
It was a good speech, but I still prefer the speech of Theoden in the Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King.
President: "We will not go quietly into the night!"
Neighbors: "Hey, shut up over there! It's late!"
I don’t imagine Dylan Thomas ever expected that one!
I saw Bill Pullman on stage in London back in 2019. He was excellent. But every so often I'd look up at him and that speech would start playing in my head. . .
So grateful for this historically accurate documentary for showing us the greatest movie speech of all time.
Ha, ha. So much better than Franklin Roosevelt!
I'm grateful too. I hear they're gonna make a movie based on this documentary and the role of the President will be played by Tom Hanks.
The joking and cheery sort of vibes the pilots had were probably more of a coping mechanism. Police do it a lot at crime scenes. Helps with the PTSD issues. And Pullman's speech is pretty much top 3 best movie speeches in history.
It's fun seeing Mary get swerved because she went into the movie assuming it was a historical film but got an alien movie instead. 😄
My favorite part of every Independence Day reaction:
"NOOOOOO! NOT THE DOG!!!"
This is one of the quintessential "popcorn flicks" of the 90s. It's the type of movie that is much more entertaining when you learn to... not... think about things very deeply. hahahaha
Yep, that is exactly how it was sold. A big dumb loud aliens movie. They succeeded and that's why it's still held in high regard. It never pretends to be something its not.
Yep one of these typical entertaining 90s american popcorn blockbuster summertime movies 👍🍿😁
"The Patriot" would be a good movie to react to for American Independence Day. But this was a great watch!
It's total BS though.
God this movie was huge when it first came out. The visuals alone were so good. No one had seen anything like it before. To that scale.
Some films are subtle, deep and full of meaning, others are a shallow, feel good, message movie. This is one of the latter and that doesn't make it a bad film. I've always enjoyed easy to watch films and this is one of the best in class.
Yea, making the reaction to damage done by the aliens more realistic would have made the movie an extremely Dark film. & some action movies in the 90s generally tried to keep what would normally be an extremely dark & scary situation somewhat upbeat & family friendly- Jurassic park, Armageddon, deep impact
This was definitely a good summer, popcorn movie when it came out. Now I see it as a chauvinistic "America saves the world" thing. It's was before the planes flew into the World Trade Center when we felt more secure and all powerful. It was innocent fun.
Yep one of these typical entertaining 90s american popcorn blockbuster summertime movies 👍🍿😁
Yep, this is a big dumb movie done extremely well.
Bombastic explosions, every main character completes an arc (Casse from loser to savior, President from ineffectual fighter to leading the fight, pilot from wanting to go to space to going to space, environmentalist getting to literally save the planet, etc), and one the best speeches on-screen combine to make what should have been a big nothing into a memorable film.
The guy who plays the crazy scientist in Area 51 also plays Data on Star Trek!
Brent Spiner 🖖
channeling his inner Aarik Soong here.
Don't neglect the role he was born to play.
Bob Wheeler on Night Court
The smartest thing you said, "We cannot predict how we would act in this situation." You are right how so many people would say, "well I'd be a hero blah blah blergh 🤢🤮", yet almost EVERY person claiming they would act one way tend to act the exact opposite. I learned this valuable lesson to NEVER claim to know how I would respond to ANY situation I have never before experienced.
Ah yes, the independence day speech. The only speech that can make us all feel like an American 🇺🇸 if only for a minute
As an American, I absolutely love how much fun Mary is having laughing at stereotypical ultra-americanism 😂😂😂
When it comes to finding Belgium on the map, it helps that I have always been interested in military history. The fact that in two world wars, Germany invaded Belgium just to get around French defenses is very memorable.
Same here. Watching the Sabaton History Channel helped too.
WW2 in color
I imagine the big "...frère..." that the French must have given to the Belgians.
France: "I have the biggest defense!"
Germany: "Ah, no worries... we'll just go around it."
France: "Your funeral. Belgium, show them."
Belgium: "Come right this way..."
Germany: "Well, danke!"
France: "Bruh."
Yes, it may be small but it played a pivotal role (if only as a doormat) in two of the largest wars the US has ever been involved in, so more Americans are aware of where it is than you probably would have guessed.
@@hkpew I think doormat is an unfair description of Belgium in either world war. Do to the difference in size and population, it didn't have much of a chance in resisting Germany. Plus, in both wars, Belgium soldiers fought alongside French and/or British forces after their country's defeat and contributed to the war effort.
Area 51 absolutely exists. There are plenty of pictures, signage to not enter, et cetera. And people get arrested all the time for going near it. The question is whether or not foreign tech/life exists within its gates.
In the book, Jasmine survived because of two reasons 1) the maintenance side door closed and, more importantly, 2) there was a water drain vent next to her. As the plasma wave (as explained in the book) went by creating a vacuum, cold air was drawn from underground keeping them cool and supplied with air.
...That explanation is, umm, dodgy. The movie's effects are fine for its time (even prompted colleagues of VFX supervisor Volker Engel to ask him how he did some of it), but I don't know if the novelization of a movie script is anything to go by.
Thats how a carburetor works so the science is valid.
It sounds like you might have been expecting something a bit more historical. I would suggest looking into John Adams sometime. It's a really great HBO miniseries from 2008 about the founding of the US that pretty much swept the Emmys in its category. It also has some wonderful court drama in the first episode that might interest you. 😊
I tried this one but I couldn't go very far. Same with Spielberg's Lincoln (And I love at least 75% of his movies). For some reason, this part of American History seems extremely boring to me. Or maybe because it seems always told with too muchf deference and doesn't feel very real.
For feature films that happen to be musicals, both Hamilton and 1776 are excellent. I also really like the TV movie The Crossing, about the Crossing of the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton, starring Jeff Daniels as Washington. (My 6h great grandfather fought at Trenton, amongst others.)
I came here to say exactly this. The John Adams miniseries is a masterpiece.
Personally I'd skip straight to National Treasure 1 & 2 (2004/2007) :p
I'd highly recommend John Adams too. I watched it on HBO and enjoyed it so much I bought the dvd.
This is one those kind of movies that you enjoy as an adolescent. I loved your reaction. I literally cry from laughing with this commercial with Washington driving like a muscle car... OMG...
What a great reaction, I was laughing the whole time. My grama and I went on opening day. My grama was big on the Bible, especially about the apocalypse. Really blew her mind but she enjoyed it. We got out of the theater and a line of people stretched around the building. It was a great day.
That Independence Day speech gives me goosebumps every. single. damn. time.
Mary, I realize that as a Belgian you may not learn a whole lot of American history in school but this is indeed a historically accurate story of the first Independence Day in the US.
I watched it opening day, July 4th, in a crowded theatre. We all cheered after the president's speech.
I saw this movie on July 4, 1996, the year it came out. In its time, this movie was quite a mind blowing experience.
So awesome Mary watched this historically accurate movie about how the US achieved independence!!! Equally awesome she recognized Stand With A Fist. Now she has to see Contact, Deep Impact and Armageddon.
historically accurate? Oh my, well yes, this is the most historically accurate Earth alien invasion movie ever made 🤪
Hi Mary. I live in the U.S., and I am a World War 2 history buff, so I can point out Belgium on a map immediately. (I can even point out your tiny neighbor, Luxembourg.) The history that took place in the Ardennes forest and the town of Bastogne are legendary, and I enjoyed your Band of Brothers reactions immensely. I do like watching this movie on the 4th of July, so I thank you for reacting to this movie and giving me the chance to experience a first time watch from an additional perspective. I am very glad you enjoyed the movie, especially that epic speech by the president. That said, I almost died laughing at the clip you threw in afterwards. Looking forward to your next reaction.
Saw this opening weekend at the Jersey shore on vacation when I was ten. Still remember the whole theater reacting to every funny, sad, and cheering moments. And THE SPEECH by Pullman still gives me goosebumps lol. Such a blast to see on 4th of July weekend in 96! The 90s were a great time for legit and cheesy movies 😊🤘
I served on submarines in the US Navy. We didn't get many port calls overseas, but we did get to spend 4 or 5 days in Belgium one June in the late 1990's. I really didn't know what to expect, but it turned out to be awesome. We docked in Zeebrugge, visited Bruges, and stayed in a beautiful hotel in historic Antwerp. A beautiful country full of friendly people. If anyone is planning a trip to Europe, Belgium would be at the top of my recommendation list. Keep up the reaction videos, Mari. Looking forward to the next!
OH YEAH Marijke, This is 'historically accurate' for sure. When George Washington visits Area 51 to see the status of the previous alien aircraft wreckage Oh for sure NBC and BBC were there with full coverage. I love it. Again great reaction.
the scene when the boy is in the rv banging on the tv because of poor reception he was trying to watch the movie "the day the earth stood still" a sci-fi film from 1951, in black and white. a true classic. you wouldn't be wasting your time watching that movie. DO NOT watch the remake with keeanu reeves....that absolutely sucked!
So glad you were able to get into it and have fun with this one, it's one of my favorite "popcorn flicks" from my childhood. I still love the design of the alien ships, the explosions and the aliens themselves, they scared the crap out of me as a kid lol. Glad to see the effects still hold up well. You should check out the behind the scenes shots on how they filmed the explosions with miniatures and real fire, its very cool.
This movie is still super cheesy, and in my mind, is simultaneously both the most 90s movie and the most American movie ever made, but its still super entertaining. Enjoyed your reaction!
Yep one of these typical entertaining 90s american popcorn blockbuster summertime movies 👍🍿😁
Here in the US WW2 is a subject we spend a good amount of time on throughout our school years, so I think you would be surprised at how many Americans can point to Belgium on a map. But then again I might be the surprised one.
This is totally historically accurate 🤣
I think your channel is one of the best to see reactions of movies/series. But this reaction is super! I always enjoy your comments and reactions, but this is perhaps the funniest of all! The edition of this and the 'historically accurate' hypothesis being destroyed through the movie is amazing!
I love this movie.
So stupid and so good.
Just stupid, lol. Sooooo stupid
Yep one of these typical entertaining 90s american popcorn blockbuster summertime movies 👍🍿😁
The look on your face when you realised it wasn't a historical movie had me in tears of laughter
For what is probably the perfect example of American mentality you should check out Team America World Police (2004).
Also historically accurate.
Fuck yeah
Mari's American impressions are amazing XD And I just about died when she mused, in the beginning, about how perhaps this was going to be a historical movie XD
And, as always, her laugh and accent are the greatest
I could point out Belgium, but then again, I was stationed at Florennes in 1986-1987. Loved the country, the people, and the pommes frites!!!
The president’s speech at the end always makes me emotional. So good
I realize this may sound cheesy and overused, but every time I see this channel I can't help but to think of "In Bruges". It's just a good movie and I'm sure you're tired of hearing it, but Colin Farrell was so entertaining in it.
She watched this, but the soundtrack can't be taken out, so it can't be edited for YT...but you can see it on Patreon!
@@tylerfoster6267 thank you for sharing. I didn't know that. I appreciate it.
In Bruges : Mad-Eye Moody calls Voldemort a C*** 6 times to his face! .... One of the greatest scenes in movie history!
This must be the most American movie indeed...
... made by Germans. Well, German director, co-writer, and cinematographer at least. :)
Dean Devlin is also German?
@@grogu9698 No. Which is why I said "co-writer" as Roland Emmerich directed, co-wrote the movie with Dean Devlin, and the cinematographer is Karl Walter Lindenlaub.
@@weepingscorpion8739 Ah, ok.
The president's speech before the battle is still one of the most epic moments. I still get goosebumps every time I watch it. Great reaction.
There is a somewhat historically accurate film about the 4th of July called "1776". It came out in 1972 and is highly unusual because it is a musical. It deals with the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, their personalities and failings. I am patriotic and watch it every year because it shows that our founding fathers were "great" in their accomplishment, but not gods to be revered. Our failure with slavery is not hidden in the film. It is shown that they tried and failed.
It’s also historically accurate in depicting how awful summer in Philadelphia is.
“Piddle, twiddle, and resolve,
Nothing’s ever solved in
Foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia!”
But seriously, “Molasses to Rum” is one of the greatest “villain songs” to ever appear on Broadway - in large part because it’s supposed to hit hard with the Northern delegates in Congress. They may have pointed the finger at the South on slavery, but their own hands were not clean in the least.
I love 1776. This is definitely a go-to if you want something sort of historical. (It even uses a lot of actual passages from John Adams's letters.)
I actually came here to recommend this to her! Glad I’m not the only one. She should react to it.
There’s also a really good TV movie starring Jeff Daniels as George Washington called “The Crossing”, about the crossing of the Delaware River.
I doubt many of the Founding Fathers were that good at singing, but other than that, pretty accurate.
I watch it on the 4th every year. Good recommendation!
I was hoping for Team America, but this isn't bad either
At least they put in that one clip.😆
@@mikethemotormouth It did have video with it
@@mikethemotormouth BFD, it had the theme song!
@@mikethemotormouth 🙄 You just said “soundbite” You did NOT mention theme song.
@@mikethemotormouth I guess we’re both black.
Had my first big laugh 1 minute into your intro when you said you weren't sure how historically accurate it is.
I'm afraid to tell you that they took some liberties with the story. For example, during the real life alien invasion, the character Jeff Goldblum plays represents an amalgamation of several different people. Sort of like Jeff Goldblum himself.
And to defeat the aliens in real life they didn't use a virus. They just signed the Mothership up to a rewards card and the spam that followed crashed every system on the ship.
Damn it, you’re not supposed to be so funny.
One of the best reactions yet, glad you managed to get into it and realised the tone of the film. Enjoyed watching with you.
This American knows where Belgium is! I visited there when visiting a friend in The Netherlands. Ghent became my favorite city, it's spectacularly Gothic.
Chris Rock was the actor wearing the alien suit that Will Smith punched and said "Welcome to America". 🇺🇸 👽 LOL
I can find Belgium on a map. Also, this movie is historically accurate. Everything happened exactly the way it did in the film.
Actually, David and his father were playing checkers in the park, not chess. Hollywood always wants to sensationalize everything.
Brilliant comment. Lol. Not sure I can find Belgium either. I mean, probably, but if I screw up and pick The Netherlands… well, I’d definitely be close. Just like the historical accuracy of this film.
R.I.P. Russell Casse, you will not be forgotten
Hi, Mary! Not only can I point out Belgium on a map but I've been there. In 2016 my daughter, who was living in Germany at the time, bought tickets to a Band of Brothers actors reunion in Bastogne. They have an Italian restaurant there that serves a delicious pizza Bologanese.
That part with the speech kills me.29:38 As an American, I can promise you 3 things; we are dumb, we are smart, and we are optimists. To put it another way, I'll quote Winston Churchill; " Americans always do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other options." We are slow, but we always get there.😉
The First Lady was played by the same actress who was Stands with Fist in Dances With Wolves
And "Liz" in _Sneakers._
And Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica 2003.
@@rebeccaclementz3756 Point taken but Mary reacted to Dances with Wolves but not Battlestar Galactica so she would not have known the character you mentioned.
@@brucenelson4332 I only mentioned it because someone said that she was also in "Sneakers".
Hi Mary. Would love to see you react to Braveheart and The Patriot. Both star Mel Gibson. Also, The Men in Black movies starring will Smith are a lot of fun!
I can find Belgium on a map, both because one of my grandparents was Flemish, and because I'm a little obsessed with maps.
I don’t know if Mary edits her own videos, but having watched MANY of her videos, she may have one of the best editors ever.
If you want history, watch "The Patriot" and "Glory." Glory is a masterpiece to watch.
Both those options are great. But for me Glory is on a whole different level of great. Glory is an amazing film I love rewatching.
Two good movies
I agree Glory would be an excellent movie for her to watch. 90% accurate and very well acted.
Ive never seen glory, but Ive heard the The Patriot is about as inaccurate as Braveheart. Must be a Mel thing.
@@rrmenton8016 The patriot isn’t horribly inaccurate. It takes bits and pieces of true stories and real people and puts them all together to happen to one person. Not real but not exactly made up either.
Sounds like The Patriot is more like the movie you had expected to watch. There are reaction videos on it, too.
It’s a very bad movie.
“Can I sit next to you?”
“It’s a free country. Or it soon will be.”
Puke.
@@DeltaAssaultGaming It's certainly a polarizing movie -- many hate it, many love it. It does have a 7.2 rating, with 272k votes on IMDb, which puts it solidly in the "good movie" category to viewers, on average.
Thanks for letting us know where you are , been wondering. Yes I can point it out on a map . love your reactions.
Good times Mary!!! Fun fact: When the President in the movie takes command of the air strike, he isn't actually changing jobs. The POTUS (President of the United States) is the commander-in-chief of the US Military. The US Constitution was written in an era when having the head of state take direct command of the Army in the field wasn't unusual. Both Charles XII of Sweeden before the birth of the US and Napoleon afterwards did so. George Washington, after being elected President lead the US Army on horseback during the Whiskey Rebellion. Also LBJ was supposedly directing small unit troop movements (at times) from the oval office during the Vietnam War in the 1960's.
A good compare and contrast movie is Mars Attacks! Which came out the same year and has a similar plot, but is much funnier.
Talk about "over the top"! 🤦♂️
I saw this at the cinema when it was first released in the UK & even then it was classed more as a comedy.
MY favourite chic flick (only I think that way, every 1 else calls it a horror) is Brandon Lee’s The Crow. The Crow makes me cry for 3 reasons; the beautiful love story, what happened to Brandon Lee during the making & the number it must have done on Michael Massee’s mental health.
FIRE IT UP!
FIRE IT UP!
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"Mother" is the name of God on children's lips. Your daughter needs you. Heroin is poison.
The Crow isn't horror, it's a comic book movie. A fantastic one but definitely not horror
@@caseyh8386 sorry, I knew it was a comic but as I’ve been calling the film “MY” go to chick flick since 1995, I wasn’t sure which genre to put it under.
Hey Mary, I can definitely point out where Belgium is on the map. It's in Europe, right where it says "Belgium". XD
I love the subdued "Highway to the Danger Zone" -- props to your editor ;)
So many times I just wish I could have looked over to you during the viewing and just quietly said, "Mary, this is not a good movie. But it is a movie that a lot of people like." I think that would have cleared up most of the confusion.
Since a movie is designed to entertain and "a lot of people like" it, then it achieved it's goal, thus making it a good movie.
I wish I could have leaned over and said, "This is not a good comment. The commenter thinks it makes him sound intelligent and elitist, but it just makes him sound douchey."
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😁
This movie practically invented the summer blockbuster. It was the first movie I ever saw twice in the theaters. We drove 3 hours into another state for the second showing.
Dogs always survive disaster movies. It's the one thing you can count on, along with broken marriages getting mended, the destruction of major landmarks, and quirky scientists figuring everything out before everyone else does.
This movie is equal parts “cheesy” and “awesome.”
My gosh Mary. Your "America, woo! We did it!" vibes were EVERYTHING lol. I just love watching you react to movies that you wouldn't even think twice about watching them and in the end you enjoyed it. I would love to suggest some movies for you. I understand you have ALOT of movies already lined up to watch but there are a couple I would like for you to put on your list. Maybe they're already on your list. But it turns out, I enjoy watching you stress out lol. They're Sci-Fi, end-of-the-world, disaster type of movies:
- Signs (2002) with Mel Gibson.
- War of the Worlds (2005) with Tom Cruise.
- Cloverfield (2008) with Lizzy Caplan.
- Deep Impact (1998) with Elijah Wood.
- Greenland (2020) with Gerard Butler.
- 2012 (2009) with John Cusack.
- Dante's Peak (1997) with Pierce Brosnan.
I know exactly where Belgium is on the map because we talk about it while studying history we reference the Maginot Line.
Germany went through Belgium in both World Wars, which somehow the French could not predict lol
"Area 51" is a military installation in the Nevada desert. It has long airstrips and underground/covered hangers. It has been used to test military aircraft in development like the F/A-117 Stealth fighter and the B-2 Stealth bomber. Its remote location and covered facilities make spying on it more difficult, even by satellite. It has also been used to test captured/acquired enemy aircraft during the Cold War. Many believe it is being used to develop the successor to the SR-71 spy plane.
This is such a good reaction..
Independence Day is definitely not a great movie, but it's a damn near perfect blockbuster, if that makes sense.
This film might be cheesy as hell and dumb as a rock but it easily remains one of my favorite action movies. Glad you enjoyed it.
I had a family member who was an amazing man who worked for NATO and was stationed in Belgium. Everyone who knew him was blown away by his character, strength, and compassion. Everyone who knew him was improved because they knew him.
He wasn't an American, like me, but independence is the dream of every person. Not just Americans. It's the ubiquitous dream of liberty and justice for all.
He has passed away but many of us, in our small family, still remember him fondly.
So yeah, I can find Belgium on a map.
My favorite German joke is about Belgium. It goes "If Belgium didn't want us to invade them, then why are they in front of France?"
American action movies from the 90s pretty much all had this kind of vibe. Undeniably dumb and cheesy, but a lot more fun than the gritty realism that we mostly get these days.
And it wasn’t woke. Much better.
Yep one of these typical entertaining 90s american popcorn blockbuster summertime movies 👍🍿😁
If you want historical, watch 1776. 100% historically accurate, right down to the singing and dancing.
I'm an American that knows where Belgium is on the map. I would love to visit Belgium - if the political situation here in the US doesn't improve, I may try moving to Belgium.
I love this film, it came out when there was a run of just amazing summer blockbusters and I was at Uni so I saw them all. This one is a pleasure that I watch every couple of years. I love Bill Pullman's speech as a non American it makes you all rah rah as well.
I'm a U.S. native... but I visited Belgium (back in late-1999/early-2000). Brussels was gorgeous. 🇧🇪 I couldn't celebrate "independence" this year since half our states recently restricted bodily autonomy for those with ovaries. I hope enough of our fair-minded citizens will get off their rumps on Election Day. #VoteBlue 🗳️ As for this movie, I enjoyed it very much back in 1996 (Mr. Smith's recent unfortunate violent display, notwithstanding). 🛸 Thanks, as always, Mary!
Released in 1996, at the height of Will Smiths box office career and Ronald Emmerich directing. This is one of those Major Summer popcorn movies released at the time. The director is known for his Big budget "disaster " movies. Not to be taken seriously but a great adventure disaster movie. That speech towards the end, cherry on top.
Glad you enjoyed this 100% accurate American history film!
Of course I know about Belgium.
It’s the place the French and Brits went to while the German army cut through the Ardennes in WWII.
My newlywed husband and I went to see this movie on July 3rd, 1996. It was the predicted summer blockbuster and it didn't disappoint. We left the theater feeling super American! 😁😂
Very cool reactions Mary. As you said the movie did what movies are meant to do, entertain. Your prospective from Belgium was cool. Thanks for being open and then enjoying it. We love how cool you are at reacting.
Jumping into this movie thinking it's historical fiction is fucking hilarious
ok, like SO many others have commented, the 'historical accuracy' party of this reaction absolutely cracked me the FUCK up! I laughed about that the WHOLE video. I had intended to do the watch along on patreon but my cash got messed up this month so my donations didn't go through. They will be back to normal next month, come hell or high water. I am SO glad you watched this and SO glad that you enjoyed it. I remember going to see this back when it came out with a HUGE group of friends.