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@@MandalorianRevan bro your name is so good. I am a massive KOTOR fan. And there is so much KOTOR references and plotlines and scenes in Mando pulled directly from the KOTOR games. On topic though I never knew that this scene was improvised. That's so impressive. I wonder if it was first take. How did you learn that cause I'd love to read or watch it
@@drunkpaulocosta It wasn't in the original script. Everyone was pretty much just standing around one morning and Bill Pullman got on the mic and dropped this speech while they were recording. So I presume this was a single take scene. I don't remember correctly where I heard about this, as it was years ago.
@@MandalorianRevanI thought that him and one of the writers kinda workshopped the basic points to hit that morning and then sent him out there. So still improvised and heavily impressive even if that’s the case, but I’ve also heard it was 100% off the cuff.
One of the greatest 90’s movies ever made, one of the greatest speeches in film history, and one of the coolest ending scenes ever with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum walking with all of the swagger in the world!
My brother had to choose any famous speech in our history of America to recite for his English final. He chose Bill Pullmans speech. 😂 His class didn’t get it but the other teachers there went nuts.
"Hello boys! I'm baaaaaack!" One of my favorite lines in all of cinema. Also, President Whitmore's speech is a masterpiece. Randy Quaid and Bill Pullman did a great job.
Damn, I was away for a couple of weeks and missed a bunch of CS games with my boys. I played last night and didn't use this line when I jumped on Discord... For shame, opportunity lost.
Bill Pullman pulls of a pro trail of the greatest movie president ever, Jeff Goldblum's intellect shines, and Will Smith does everything that we have come to love him for
Imagine a jam packed theater, maybe 200 people, who instantly cheered, whooped, and hollered after the president's speech. Its a moment I'll never forget.
@@bmaster5324 I will always remember being like 12 years old and my family watching ID4 for like the 2nd or 3rd time on video, and my dad rising out of his chair going "oh my god, you know who that is? It's *DATA!* " haha. /familyofnerds
The bit where Will Smith is dragging the alien and yells out what is that smell was unscripted. The smell was very real. It was the smell of the millions of decomposing brine shrimp at the bottom of the salt flats near Utah’s Great Salt Lake, where the scene was filmed. The smell caught Will completely off guard as nobody had warned him about the stench ahead of time.
This is what made Will Smith a household name. Yea he made a name for himself on Fresh Prince but after this movie even people like my dad knew who he was
Fun Fact: The president’s daughter is played by Mae Whitman, who would later play Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Also, in the scene where she asks Bill Pullman if ‘Mommy is sleeping’, she came up with that herself in order to express the proper emotion.
Yall are annoying. She was in the 50’s sitcom “State of Grace” opposite Alicia Showkat in the 90’s. Great actress. The show was in the same vein as Wonder Years. She was also in another show on ABC. The way you talk about her I know you grew up watching Hanna Montana and sweet life of Zack and Cody. SMH
This is the only movie that I've seen in a theatre where people actually clapped and cheered. All of us were so pumped after Bill Pullman's speech. Some people even gave a standing ovation. It was honestly a surreal moment.
@@SlimDaddy9 I mean according to my granddad who was a backseater in Voodoo jets during the 50s-60s, navigator/RIO/WSO are interchangeable terms, but I’m not sure what everyone else thinks.
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. It made $817 million dollars ($1.4 billion dollars today) against a $75 million dollar budget. A sequel was released in 2016, but it was not well received by critics or fans but it was a moderate success at the box office, $390 million dollars against a $165 million dollar budget.
The second one wasn’t great, but it entertained me for a couple hours so I was good with it. I didn’t expect it to be on the same level as the first so I think that’s why I wasn’t as upset as a lot of fans and critics.
When I saw this at the theater, and when the HAL 9000 (from 2001 A Space Odyssey) popped up on Dave's laptop screen and said, "Good morning, Dave." I was the only one in the theater who laughed, getting the joke. then I looked around and wondered how old everyone else was in the building!
Same saw it with a bunch of friends and we lost it. We cracked up. A handful of other guys also caught it amd reacted, but everyone else in a packed theater just didn't get it/react. Took my mom, a massive sci-fi fan who introduced me to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Aliens etc. and she was so thrilled at that.
@@infiad1275People underestimate how intentional that slap was. If you know how to punch (which he does) you know to punch someone you are trying to hurt. You slap someone you are trying to check. I don’t support the slap, but I do know when someone is labeling another person a bitch.
Every character is written with such distinction that none of them feel superfluous. And no matter who is interacting with each other it never feels crowded or awkward. And everything in the film has a purpose, they set all of it up and brought you along
Bill Pullmans speech even the way it begins with his voice crackling at the first good morning and then the emotion is all topped off with the soldiers salute at the end . Chills everytime.
It is my most fervent wish that the movie gets 30th anniversary re-release in theaters so I can see it in theaters for the first time. I love this movie so much.
I was an usher at a movie theater as a teenager when this movie came out. They built this movie up so much leading up. So many cryptic looking posters. Lol
I was 8 when this movie came out and scared the shit outta me! I LOVED IT. An absolute summer blockbuster on July 4th. How many of us on swim team kept saying "Welcome to EARTH!" that summer when we won a race lol lol
Interesting to note: When Independence Day first aired on national TV in 1998, some people mistook the presidential speech Bill Pullman’s character gave as real. As though he was really running for president at the time.
really? thats interesting. what was going on that people felt the independence day was no longer we were going to an american holiday, and that we were fighting together as the world against a threat? also enough people saw the movie, didnt think people would think that.
Independence Day is one of those movies where everything just came together to create the perfect summer blockbuster. The special effects, ensemble cast, great performances, and unforgettable score. I wasn’t old enough to see it in theaters but I remember everyone raving about it.
That moment when Will Smith punched the alien and said "Welcome to Earth" was the exact moment he became a superstar and king of the 4th of July weekend. The applause from the audience in that moment was unreal.
I don’t think I’ve ever cried watching this movie but I cried watching this reaction when the nations started coming together because damn I wish the world was like that today and I don’t know if we would still come together like we may have back in the 90s and I miss that time
This is when Hollywood knew exactly how to make great movies...not re-makes upon re-makes upon re-makes...or reboots upon reboots upon reboots... That's why I like late 90s and early 2000s movies so much... I remember my girlfriend and I went to see this in theaters and it was so packed we only found one seat available next to an aisle so I sat on the floor next to her and we enjoyed the movie so much I never even thought I was sitting on the floor...
I've seen some critics dismiss the speech at the end of the movie because it has a bunch of lines in it ripped out of other famous speeches. My response to that is "so what?" If a really good speech writer has like 10 minutes to write one of the most important speeches in history, of course they're going to do it like this. If anything that makes it even better that the movie doesn't call it out because it means the speech has been put together well enough that it's hard to tell. I say that's a positive of the movie, not a negative.
I always took it as Whitmore giving that speech off the cuff, no speech writer involved, so it would make sense that he would pull from other speeches that he knows. The skill is in using those parts of other speeches and make them pertinent to what you're talking about and be inspiring.
What I've read insists that the speech comes a bit cheesy; but again, I agree with the idea that he would be making it on the fly (we tend to forget once politicians had to be, at least, good improvisers for speeches; oratory used to be a thing in political activity). And, on the other hand, of course it would come a little bit cheesy: it's an speech improvised before a battle with aliens; for american audiences. What were they expecting? Shakesperian introspection?
One of the best quotes I heard about this movie is "we should beam Independence Day in to space and say it was a true story so no aliens start shit" lol
And the cast is super diverse, but it's not diverse for the sake of being diverse and educate the audience. It's just filled with natural characters, very well written.
Even if perhaps Area 51 does not Harbor extraterrestrials, I will be severely disappointed if somewhere in our government we do not have such things and actually have issues with our outrageous military budget.
@@salmahernandez3142Right! But after the congressional hearings, I think it's safe to say, the government has been harboring & bamboozling us since the 40s. Unfortunately, i think it's also safe to say the govt isn't particularly good at handling a budget either.
Actually Andrew Keegan addressed this on Pod Meets World and said they grossly exaggerated his doings and he even filed a defamation case against the news article that originally wrote the story. He did help set up a group in an abandoned hare crishna temple and there were many people who were spiritual involved but it was a far cry from a cult.
The little girl playing the president’s daughter is a young Mae Whitman. She is a voice actor now and has played Tinker Bell, Batgirl, April O’Neil, Katara in Avatar the Last Airbender, and more. She was also in live action movies like The DUFF and Scott Pilgrim.
Fun fact: If you watch closely, you can see that the explosion when Russell blows up the alien laser weapon at the end is the same explosion as the Empire State Building, just flipped upside down and composited into the shot.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time, it inspires hope and promotion to service. My dad served in the Navy, and this movie inspires hope and service to the country. The speech by Bill Pullman inspired hope for generations and honestly is my favorite movie of all time.
A great movie that still holds up well. Great cast, I loved Bill Paxton here 😉 But to be serious: Randy Quaid did great here. He has many fantastic movies on his filmography ("Parents" is a small, but great little Horror comedy). Surely this role here is one he is remembered for. Too bad that he and his wife both went pretty crazy and almost vanished from the public eye. Also Judd Hirsch steals every scene he is in.
Completely unrelated to the movie, but the sign on the moon always reminds me of the quote from Carl Sagan: "For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by president Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: 'We came in peace for all Mankind.' As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
The quintessential blockbuster. Is it silly? Yes. But the movie does a great job building tension of what’s coming, jumping from one character arc to another character arc, and getting invested in each one, and really getting the audience to feel the gravity of the attacks. Everything after successfully brings everything and everyone together in ways that don’t feel forced. Everyone in this movie just crushes it in their respective roles, from Pullman, to Goldblum, and of course Big Willie Style. Also a good portion of the practical effects and puppets still hold up. Classic.
I miss these kinds of popcorn summer blockbusters: Silly, self aware, has humor, lots of actions and over the top scenes in grand scales. Also practical effects on the alien are still top notch.
The first thing I said after leaving the movie theater in 1996 was, “It was Star Wars.” This film was released before ‘The Phantom Menace’, so at that time there hasn’t been a Star Wars space epic since ‘Return of the Jedi’ in 1983. The closest thing, kind of, was ‘Stargate’, also a Roland Emmerich film. ‘Independence Day’ arrived at the theaters at the perfect time… the mid 90s, the best time to be alive as a movie fan.
Your reactions made me soooo happy, this has always been my biggest guilty pleasure movie, the script the practical effects (watch making of independence day clips on youtube its crazy how they did it.) and just the perfect casting and chemistry between the characters
One of the greatest summer blockbusters ever. Meant for a July 3rd release. But then it was pushed back to July 2nd for huge demand. A cast of this size well built for a film this size and the actors they casted were all enjoyable to watch. dir. Emmerich & writer. Devlin, who are producers under the imprint of CENTROPOLIS Entertainment had prior hits (Universal Soldier, Stargate) and this was their biggest one yet. The teaser trailer had everybody losing it. Especially with The White House getting torched. The speech by Bill Pullman as president Whitmore to the last line of defense is one of the great movie speeches ever. The merchandise was crazy. Toys, video games, prequel publications (novel and comic from by Marvel), etc. The cropduster's character was actually abducted as presented in Independence Day #0 from Marvel Comics. No.1 film of 1996 and Academy Award winner for Best Visual Effects. As for the 2016 sequel aka Resurgence........ You'll have to see that for yourself.
I just learned recently that his exclamation "What the hell is that smell!!!" was improv, and he was actually asking a serious question. Something about a horrible stench at the shooting location.
one of my all time favourite movies - and one of the first movies i remember seeing at the cinema as a teen. we all walked out having had the best time. the cast is perfect and the script truly works
I’ve seen this movie so many times, I’ve lost count. It’s so rewatchable, fun, intense, exciting, has great character moments, and solid dialogue throughout. 10/10.
In High School circa 2003 I was in the Drama Club hoping to land a part in the school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by giving a monologue, it didn't have to be from that specific play so I decided to use Whitmore's Speech which I had memorized long before because it was in the official ID4 novelization.
I already know that I'm going to love this reaction from Tara and Aaron! 😊 I love this movie so much!!! It's always a must-watch movie for me in the upcoming days leading up to and on July 4th. The cast including Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Will Smith, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Mary McDonnell, Randy Quaid, and Margaret Collin is absolutely stellar. And the special effects are spectacular. No to mention there's so many great quotable lines in this. The President's speech is by far my top favorite moment in this movie. And Bill Pullman's President Whitmore is one of my favorite movie Presidents. The spaceships in this movie always reminds me of the sci-fi mini-series "V: The Mini-Series" & its sequel "V:The Final Battle"(which I very highly recommend). I do highly recommend the 2016 sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence". Looking forward to the next reaction. 😊
This movie used to air SO MUCH here in Brazil and somehow we'd always watch it, but the only thing I remember is will smith and a parachute??? Anyway if there is a 'MURICA🦅 movie, this is it.
I was able to sneak out of my office and buy tickets for about 20 coworkers on the day this came out in Westwood in L.A. (where a lot of premieres for movies used to be). It was BANANAS to see a "popcorn" movie in a theater that large with a VERY enthusiastic audience... that somehow managed to exceed expectations.
Fun fact about one of your favorite characters - they used makeup to age up Judd Hirsch. He's only about 15 years older than Jeff Goldblum. And I might be misremembering this, but I think Bill Pullman has talked about the speech he gave as being only a draft insert that they planned on changing before shooting.
"Hello boys, im back!" is one of the coldest lines in an alien movie ever. Probably my all time favorite scenes in this movie. Now yall gotta watch the second on
Godzilla. A casual subplot with miscast actors, but an agile, redesigned Godzilla roaming the streets looks just incredible. Especially, when the lizard comes ashore.
Fun Fact: The “Primary Weapon” fireball blast that destroyed the city has an interesting way that it was filmed. They made a giant miniature model of the city, then turned it on its side so that the camera is looking down, finally they created the fireball and filmed it rising towards the camera.
Hey, as you can imagine, everybody and their mother has reacted to this movie on the 4th of July over the past few years. Just wanted to say you guys have had one of the most enjoyable reactions I’ve seen, as well as one of the best edits of the film. You gained a subscriber today. Looking forward to more.
Fun Fact: In a deleted scene, which is still featured in the novelization of the film, the reason why a computer virus from Earth works on alien technology is due to the the ship the humans have that they recovered from Roswell. The alien tech was reverse engineered, meaning that all Earth computer tech was based on it. That is how David's laptop was able to connect with the alien mothership and infect it and the smaller ships.
Every time I see the Pullman speech, all I can think about is Orny Adams doing the speech just before a lacrosse game as the Coach in the show TEEN WOLF. 🤣
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Most Will smith movies hit like this.
Great reaction.
World saving movies . Nobody does it like will.
Aladdin he was good to .
First will smith movie gross A Billion dollars. More to come.
There is a sequel as well with them coming back with a bigger ship
I’ll never forget going to see this opening weekend
Bill Pullman gives genuinely one of the most inspirational speech moments ever. I would fight beside him with no question
What's even more impressive is the fact that it was completely improvised.
@@MandalorianRevan bro your name is so good. I am a massive KOTOR fan. And there is so much KOTOR references and plotlines and scenes in Mando pulled directly from the KOTOR games.
On topic though I never knew that this scene was improvised. That's so impressive. I wonder if it was first take.
How did you learn that cause I'd love to read or watch it
@@drunkpaulocosta It wasn't in the original script. Everyone was pretty much just standing around one morning and Bill Pullman got on the mic and dropped this speech while they were recording. So I presume this was a single take scene.
I don't remember correctly where I heard about this, as it was years ago.
@@MandalorianRevanI thought that him and one of the writers kinda workshopped the basic points to hit that morning and then sent him out there. So still improvised and heavily impressive even if that’s the case, but I’ve also heard it was 100% off the cuff.
One of the greatest 90’s movies ever made, one of the greatest speeches in film history, and one of the coolest ending scenes ever with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum walking with all of the swagger in the world!
Yes
Hello boys, I'm BACK!
Agreed
Agreed
AGREED!!!!
The Fresh Prince and The Fly!
@@twist58 the fresh & fly.
My brother had to choose any famous speech in our history of America to recite for his English final. He chose Bill Pullmans speech. 😂 His class didn’t get it but the other teachers there went nuts.
Damn straight
Bill Pullman gives the greatest movie speech ever.
“WE’RE GOING TO LIVE ON!! WE’RE GOING TO SURVIVE!! TODAY WE CELEBRATE OUT INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!!”
🫡
He's the Captain America for me before i knew about Captain America.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
I love his speech, but i love it even more hearing it come from Sean Schemmel as King Kai from DBZ lmao
@@pablom-f8762 Every time I hear that poem, I think of Rodney Dangerfield in "Back to School".
"Hello boys! I'm baaaaaack!" One of my favorite lines in all of cinema. Also, President Whitmore's speech is a masterpiece. Randy Quaid and Bill Pullman did a great job.
Love it!
Complete with a high-pitched James Brown scream the moment the primary weapon explodes.
Randy Quaid's best acting in his life :)
Damn, I was away for a couple of weeks and missed a bunch of CS games with my boys. I played last night and didn't use this line when I jumped on Discord... For shame, opportunity lost.
1:04:25-1:04:28 me too.
Bill Pullman pulls of a pro trail of the greatest movie president ever, Jeff Goldblum's intellect shines, and Will Smith does everything that we have come to love him for
Indeed, this was the film where that began where he's concerned.
I still cry during the President's speech. My whole entire heart. I love this movie so much!
I currently have tears on my face just from hearing bits of it here 😂
@@bloodyneptuneI think it comes from the hope Humanity unifies
It smokes every other speech in every other movie! Goosebumps, tears, and pride! 💯
These comments are cringe afff
Me too!!! Teary eyed each time I watch it.
"Now that's how you get a second term."
Hell no Aaron did not just say that 🤣🤣
That was a really good one lmao
Imagine a jam packed theater, maybe 200 people, who instantly cheered, whooped, and hollered after the president's speech. Its a moment I'll never forget.
Imagine being in Will Smiths shoes, waking up in the morning, going outside and seeing that shit in the sky!
one day....
He would slap so hard
My birthday is the 4th of July, 1998. Which means this movie has been on cable for my birthday literally for my entire life.
Still slaps.
That’s fucking awesome happy bday
@@nameless1692 Thank you!
Data from Star Trek as the scientist always made me giggle
I knew I recognized him
@@bmaster5324 I will always remember being like 12 years old and my family watching ID4 for like the 2nd or 3rd time on video, and my dad rising out of his chair going "oh my god, you know who that is? It's *DATA!* " haha. /familyofnerds
I'm always waiting for someone else to recognize him...😅
Lesser known is that he played the husband hillbilly hick in the t.v. Series Night Court.
@@jerodastBrent Spiner
The bit where Will Smith is dragging the alien and yells out what is that smell was unscripted.
The smell was very real. It was the smell of the millions of decomposing brine shrimp at the bottom of the salt flats near Utah’s Great Salt Lake, where the scene was filmed. The smell caught Will completely off guard as nobody had warned him about the stench ahead of time.
This would've been cool trivia if I hadn't already heard it read word for word at the end of the video.
This is what made Will Smith a household name. Yea he made a name for himself on Fresh Prince but after this movie even people like my dad knew who he was
Fun Fact: The president’s daughter is played by Mae Whitman, who would later play Katara in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Also, in the scene where she asks Bill Pullman if ‘Mommy is sleeping’, she came up with that herself in order to express the proper emotion.
they had the “her?” edit in there😂
Fun fact she's been in a lot more than just the voice of Katara in Avatar 😊
I picked up on that little Easter "Egg" 🥚@@WHADATBOYNAMEIS
Yall are annoying. She was in the 50’s sitcom “State of Grace” opposite Alicia Showkat in the 90’s. Great actress. The show was in the same vein as Wonder Years. She was also in another show on ABC. The way you talk about her I know you grew up watching Hanna Montana and sweet life of Zack and Cody. SMH
@@Traveler89_89 she was great in scott pilgrim too but her most iconic roll is arrested development fosho
This is the only movie that I've seen in a theatre where people actually clapped and cheered. All of us were so pumped after Bill Pullman's speech. Some people even gave a standing ovation. It was honestly a surreal moment.
Will Smith’s friend is the famous singer Harry Connick Jr,
Which was originally offered to matthew perry but he couldn't get out of filming friends to film it
I came here just to say exactly that ‼️🤣
“Don’t make plans for August” is such a 90s tagline 💀
Jeff Goldlum "Must go faster."
-Jurassic Park and Independence Day
Hell yeah 💯💯💯
I came here just to say that ‼️🤣
I say it every morning in the shower.
"In the words of my generation. UP YOURS!"
That line has stuck with me since 1996
A fun fact- Bill Pullman’s son, Lewis Pullman was in Top Gun: Maverick and was ALSO flying in an F-18, albeit as the navigator and not the pilot.
Yes, BOB!
I thought he was a wizzo/WSO, meaning Weapons System Officer. He said so in the bar at the pool table.
@@SlimDaddy9 I mean according to my granddad who was a backseater in Voodoo jets during the 50s-60s, navigator/RIO/WSO are interchangeable terms, but I’m not sure what everyone else thinks.
It won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
It made $817 million dollars ($1.4 billion dollars today) against a $75 million dollar budget.
A sequel was released in 2016, but it was not well received by critics or fans but it was a moderate success at the box office, $390 million dollars against a $165 million dollar budget.
It is definitely not as memorable, however, it does have a great Cliffhanger I'm still waiting for it
The second one wasn’t great, but it entertained me for a couple hours so I was good with it. I didn’t expect it to be on the same level as the first so I think that’s why I wasn’t as upset as a lot of fans and critics.
As a general rule sequels and remakes suck.
I actually liked the sequel alot more than i thought i would
Was Liam Hemsworth in it? I might be thinking of something else tho
When I saw this at the theater, and when the HAL 9000 (from 2001 A Space Odyssey) popped up on Dave's laptop screen and said, "Good morning, Dave." I was the only one in the theater who laughed, getting the joke. then I looked around and wondered how old everyone else was in the building!
Same saw it with a bunch of friends and we lost it. We cracked up. A handful of other guys also caught it amd reacted, but everyone else in a packed theater just didn't get it/react.
Took my mom, a massive sci-fi fan who introduced me to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, Aliens etc. and she was so thrilled at that.
41:50 I can still remember how that jump scare made the entire theater shit themselves 😂
My sister spilled red soda on me 🤦🏾♀️
I love how Will Smith does not act he just shows us what he would do if this happened to him lol
Fr
Hes human he shows hiw wed all react lol
Actually he punched the alien and didn't slap him.
@@infiad1275People underestimate how intentional that slap was. If you know how to punch (which he does) you know to punch someone you are trying to hurt. You slap someone you are trying to check. I don’t support the slap, but I do know when someone is labeling another person a bitch.
@@infiad1275yassssss😳😂😂😂😂
Every character is written with such distinction that none of them feel superfluous. And no matter who is interacting with each other it never feels crowded or awkward. And everything in the film has a purpose, they set all of it up and brought you along
Props to Tony award-winning Harvey Fierstein as Jeff Goldblum’s co-worker. He’s so multi-talented!
Bill Pullmans speech even the way it begins with his voice crackling at the first good morning and then the emotion is all topped off with the soldiers salute at the end . Chills everytime.
It is my most fervent wish that the movie gets 30th anniversary re-release in theaters so I can see it in theaters for the first time. I love this movie so much.
I was an usher at a movie theater as a teenager when this movie came out. They built this movie up so much leading up. So many cryptic looking posters. Lol
I was 8 when this movie came out and scared the shit outta me! I LOVED IT. An absolute summer blockbuster on July 4th. How many of us on swim team kept saying "Welcome to EARTH!" that summer when we won a race lol lol
Same I was 8, which was a really good age for this movie! Also bought it on vhs and my brother and I watched it often
I was 8 too! It was one of my favorite movies growing up
I was lucky enough to watch this in the theaters on opening weekend. It was one of my favorite movie experiences of the 90s.
Interesting to note: When Independence Day first aired on national TV in 1998, some people mistook the presidential speech Bill Pullman’s character gave as real. As though he was really running for president at the time.
Can ha be a write in now?
really? thats interesting. what was going on that people felt the independence day was no longer we were going to an american holiday, and that we were fighting together as the world against a threat? also enough people saw the movie, didnt think people would think that.
Independence Day is one of those movies where everything just came together to create the perfect summer blockbuster. The special effects, ensemble cast, great performances, and unforgettable score. I wasn’t old enough to see it in theaters but I remember everyone raving about it.
That moment when Will Smith punched the alien and said "Welcome to Earth" was the exact moment he became a superstar and king of the 4th of July weekend. The applause from the audience in that moment was unreal.
I remember seeing this when it came out. How that punch was the first actual hope I felt in the movie. It was our first win.
"That's how you win a second term!" Dying laughing. Awesome job reacting to this magnificent film!
I don’t think I’ve ever cried watching this movie but I cried watching this reaction when the nations started coming together because damn I wish the world was like that today and I don’t know if we would still come together like we may have back in the 90s and I miss that time
I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy...
This is when Hollywood knew exactly how to make great movies...not re-makes upon re-makes upon re-makes...or reboots upon reboots upon reboots...
That's why I like late 90s and early 2000s movies so much...
I remember my girlfriend and I went to see this in theaters and it was so packed we only found one seat available next to an aisle so I sat on the floor next to her and we enjoyed the movie so much I never even thought I was sitting on the floor...
I've seen some critics dismiss the speech at the end of the movie because it has a bunch of lines in it ripped out of other famous speeches. My response to that is "so what?" If a really good speech writer has like 10 minutes to write one of the most important speeches in history, of course they're going to do it like this. If anything that makes it even better that the movie doesn't call it out because it means the speech has been put together well enough that it's hard to tell. I say that's a positive of the movie, not a negative.
I always took it as Whitmore giving that speech off the cuff, no speech writer involved, so it would make sense that he would pull from other speeches that he knows. The skill is in using those parts of other speeches and make them pertinent to what you're talking about and be inspiring.
What I've read insists that the speech comes a bit cheesy; but again, I agree with the idea that he would be making it on the fly (we tend to forget once politicians had to be, at least, good improvisers for speeches; oratory used to be a thing in political activity).
And, on the other hand, of course it would come a little bit cheesy: it's an speech improvised before a battle with aliens; for american audiences. What were they expecting? Shakesperian introspection?
Dad brought my bro and I on opening night. Miss you pop's 🥲
One of the best quotes I heard about this movie is "we should beam Independence Day in to space and say it was a true story so no aliens start shit" lol
One of my favorites, the speech still gives goosebumps.
And the cast is super diverse, but it's not diverse for the sake of being diverse and educate the audience. It's just filled with natural characters, very well written.
The military refused to help with the movie because they wouldn’t remove references to Area 51
Even if perhaps Area 51 does not Harbor extraterrestrials, I will be severely disappointed if somewhere in our government we do not have such things and actually have issues with our outrageous military budget.
@@salmahernandez3142Right! But after the congressional hearings, I think it's safe to say, the government has been harboring & bamboozling us since the 40s.
Unfortunately, i think it's also safe to say the govt isn't particularly good at handling a budget either.
Yup, these movies will never be replicated again... such a charming year of movies for the big screen
Fun Fact, the kid in the truck that was trying to so-called: "Get some Juice" started his own Cult in real life.
He was also in 10 things I hate about you
@@michaelmitchell2143 Yes he was. Also known as the late 90s version of The Taming of the Shrew.
Actually Andrew Keegan addressed this on Pod Meets World and said they grossly exaggerated his doings and he even filed a defamation case against the news article that originally wrote the story. He did help set up a group in an abandoned hare crishna temple and there were many people who were spiritual involved but it was a far cry from a cult.
The little girl playing the president’s daughter is a young Mae Whitman. She is a voice actor now and has played Tinker Bell, Batgirl, April O’Neil, Katara in Avatar the Last Airbender, and more. She was also in live action movies like The DUFF and Scott Pilgrim.
Her?
@@samgradyfilm yeah, you remember Anne?
@@samgradyfilm You can look her up. She’s in a lot of stuff.
I will be using "trying to get some juice" for the foreseeable future...
Thanks Tara!!!
“Just tell ‘em I hit you.” One of the greatest lines 😂
Fun fact: If you watch closely, you can see that the explosion when Russell blows up the alien laser weapon at the end is the same explosion as the Empire State Building, just flipped upside down and composited into the shot.
That base (who's name can't be said in the comments, apparently) exists, we just don't know what's actually in it.
RUclips censored yoyr original comment eh? They love doing that
I clicked on this SO FAST! Such a fun movie! Had it on vhs and watched it frequently in 90s
Bill Pullman is like the best & youngest president we’ve had for like the last 20 years. 😂
This is one of my favorite movies of all time, it inspires hope and promotion to service. My dad served in the Navy, and this movie inspires hope and service to the country. The speech by Bill Pullman inspired hope for generations and honestly is my favorite movie of all time.
A great movie that still holds up well. Great cast, I loved Bill Paxton here 😉 But to be serious: Randy Quaid did great here. He has many fantastic movies on his filmography ("Parents" is a small, but great little Horror comedy). Surely this role here is one he is remembered for. Too bad that he and his wife both went pretty crazy and almost vanished from the public eye. Also Judd Hirsch steals every scene he is in.
I live in the same VT town as Randy, and his wife (and dog) are indeed crazy lol He’s not so bad
Not Bill Paxton. Bill PULLMAN. (Bill Paxton was Twister)
Wrong Bill.
The actor that plays the president is Bill Pullman not Bill Paxton. 👍
I've seen this movie at least 20 times, and the "is mommy sleeping" part still makes me cry like a baby.
The part where he says, "that's what I call a close encounter" with the cigar in his mouth… Made that entire scene just plain epic😂
Completely unrelated to the movie, but the sign on the moon always reminds me of the quote from Carl Sagan:
"For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by president Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads:
'We came in peace for all Mankind.'
As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."
Man I love Harry Connick Jr...
The president speech tears me up every time.
The quintessential blockbuster. Is it silly? Yes. But the movie does a great job building tension of what’s coming, jumping from one character arc to another character arc, and getting invested in each one, and really getting the audience to feel the gravity of the attacks. Everything after successfully brings everything and everyone together in ways that don’t feel forced. Everyone in this movie just crushes it in their respective roles, from Pullman, to Goldblum, and of course Big Willie Style. Also a good portion of the practical effects and puppets still hold up. Classic.
Aaron: Happy 4th Of July Tara 😊
Tara: Happy 4th Of July Munchkin 👩
😂
Tara is such a hottie, I love her ... Lolz
This is in my top 3 Will Smith movies. Great speech by Bill Pullman and great redemption by Russ, sacrificing himself and taking out the ships weapon
I miss these kinds of popcorn summer blockbusters: Silly, self aware, has humor, lots of actions and over the top scenes in grand scales. Also practical effects on the alien are still top notch.
The first thing I said after leaving the movie theater in 1996 was, “It was Star Wars.” This film was released before ‘The Phantom Menace’, so at that time there hasn’t been a Star Wars space epic since ‘Return of the Jedi’ in 1983. The closest thing, kind of, was ‘Stargate’, also a Roland Emmerich film. ‘Independence Day’ arrived at the theaters at the perfect time… the mid 90s, the best time to be alive as a movie fan.
Your reactions made me soooo happy, this has always been my biggest guilty pleasure movie, the script the practical effects (watch making of independence day clips on youtube its crazy how they did it.) and just the perfect casting and chemistry between the characters
One of the greatest summer blockbusters ever.
Meant for a July 3rd release.
But then it was pushed back to July 2nd for huge demand.
A cast of this size well built for a film this size and the actors they casted
were all enjoyable to watch.
dir. Emmerich & writer. Devlin, who are producers under the imprint of CENTROPOLIS Entertainment had prior hits (Universal Soldier, Stargate) and this was their biggest one yet.
The teaser trailer had everybody losing it.
Especially with The White House getting torched.
The speech by Bill Pullman as president Whitmore to the last line of defense is one of the great movie speeches ever.
The merchandise was crazy.
Toys, video games, prequel publications (novel and comic from by Marvel), etc.
The cropduster's character was actually abducted as presented in
Independence Day #0 from Marvel Comics.
No.1 film of 1996 and Academy Award winner for Best Visual Effects.
As for the 2016 sequel aka Resurgence........
You'll have to see that for yourself.
Everyone's talking about the president and Will Smith but the real hero is Russell Casse
The energy you two bring to a reaction is magnetic. Gimme more feel good classic tent pole summer blockbusters.
I just learned recently that his exclamation "What the hell is that smell!!!" was improv, and he was actually asking a serious question. Something about a horrible stench at the shooting location.
Russell's sacrifice is still, to this day, one of the most epic movie moments of all time.
one of my all time favourite movies - and one of the first movies i remember seeing at the cinema as a teen. we all walked out having had the best time. the cast is perfect and the script truly works
33:33 Did you love Will when he slapped Chris?
Best movie speech ever and the wife dying is one of saddest movie moments in the 90s
I’ve seen this movie so many times, I’ve lost count. It’s so rewatchable, fun, intense, exciting, has great character moments, and solid dialogue throughout. 10/10.
I still get goosebumps whenever I hear the president's speech. Bill frickin' Pullman!
This is probably one of the best reactions to a movie in a while
In High School circa 2003 I was in the Drama Club hoping to land a part in the school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by giving a monologue, it didn't have to be from that specific play so I decided to use Whitmore's Speech which I had memorized long before because it was in the official ID4 novelization.
Roland Emmerich was on fire in the 90s… guy directed this, Godzilla, Stargate, The Patriot
I already know that I'm going to love this reaction from Tara and Aaron! 😊
I love this movie so much!!! It's always a must-watch movie for me in the upcoming days leading up to and on July 4th.
The cast including Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Will Smith, Judd Hirsch, Vivica A. Fox, Mary McDonnell, Randy Quaid, and Margaret Collin is absolutely stellar. And the special effects are spectacular. No to mention there's so many great quotable lines in this.
The President's speech is by far my top favorite moment in this movie. And Bill Pullman's President Whitmore is one of my favorite movie Presidents.
The spaceships in this movie always reminds me of the sci-fi mini-series "V: The Mini-Series" & its sequel "V:The Final Battle"(which I very highly recommend).
I do highly recommend the 2016 sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence".
Looking forward to the next reaction. 😊
We will NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT! We will NOT GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!
*Immediate chills*
Probably the most underrated movie speech in history!!
This movie used to air SO MUCH here in Brazil and somehow we'd always watch it, but the only thing I remember is will smith and a parachute??? Anyway if there is a 'MURICA🦅 movie, this is it.
I was able to sneak out of my office and buy tickets for about 20 coworkers on the day this came out in Westwood in L.A. (where a lot of premieres for movies used to be). It was BANANAS to see a "popcorn" movie in a theater that large with a VERY enthusiastic audience... that somehow managed to exceed expectations.
Fun fact about one of your favorite characters - they used makeup to age up Judd Hirsch. He's only about 15 years older than Jeff Goldblum. And I might be misremembering this, but I think Bill Pullman has talked about the speech he gave as being only a draft insert that they planned on changing before shooting.
Bill Pullman gave the best speech in film history. He is such an underrated character actor. So wonderful.
Bill Clinton at the premiere is crazy. Lol who else have the president at they movie premiere. WILL Smith always been on another level.
Bill Clinton only went because he heard there might be an opening with Jada.
"Hello boys, im back!" is one of the coldest lines in an alien movie ever. Probably my all time favorite scenes in this movie. Now yall gotta watch the second on
Same thought every time I watch this, that parachute landing is still brutal
What's your FAVORITE Roland Emmerich Joint??
2012
I really enjoyed Anonymous. A very intriguing concept and have watched it many times
I like a lot of them. The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down are my faves. Then this and 2012.
S T A R G A T E
Godzilla. A casual subplot with miscast actors, but an agile, redesigned Godzilla roaming the streets looks just incredible. Especially, when the lizard comes ashore.
Fun Fact: The “Primary Weapon” fireball blast that destroyed the city has an interesting way that it was filmed. They made a giant miniature model of the city, then turned it on its side so that the camera is looking down, finally they created the fireball and filmed it rising towards the camera.
Hey, as you can imagine, everybody and their mother has reacted to this movie on the 4th of July over the past few years. Just wanted to say you guys have had one of the most enjoyable reactions I’ve seen, as well as one of the best edits of the film. You gained a subscriber today. Looking forward to more.
Remember when writers actually had heart? That last speech still makes me feel something 30 years later
Best Speach Ever
Omg, every time Tara wears that sweater… I need it. lol ❤️🔥
Fun Fact: In a deleted scene, which is still featured in the novelization of the film, the reason why a computer virus from Earth works on alien technology is due to the the ship the humans have that they recovered from Roswell. The alien tech was reverse engineered, meaning that all Earth computer tech was based on it. That is how David's laptop was able to connect with the alien mothership and infect it and the smaller ships.
Every time I see the Pullman speech, all I can think about is Orny Adams doing the speech just before a lacrosse game as the Coach in the show TEEN WOLF. 🤣
Bill Pullman is the best president in movie history
Battle: Los Angeles is another fun alien invasion film.
That movie was surprisingly decent. I might have to watch it again myself.
I absolutely love this movie, I watch it every 4th of July. Wish Independence Day Resurgence was as good as this.
Will Smith's pilot "buddy" in the movie is a man named, Harry Connick, Jr. EXCELLENT jazz piano player with smooth vocals.