Independence Day | | Cast : | Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith | | Director : | Roland Emmerich | | Studio : | Fox Home Entertainme | | Format : | Widescreen | | Released Date : | July 03, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | May 11, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 07, 2005 | | Summary | Excellent! | Content
 | What can I say? I love blow-'em-up movies. And you can't get this one on Columbia House! ;) |
| Rating | | | Date | August 05, 2005 | | Summary | Intense Alien Movie | Content
| I see this movie on all the time on television and I still stay and watch it from time to time. I love the ensuing hilarity as Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum team up to take out the mother ship, as well as the intense special effects for the aliens, the air battles, and the destruction. All in all, this movie is very well put together and is a good buy for anyone who seeks some adventure! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 04, 2005 | | Summary | Pseudo SciFi for the intellectually challenged | Content
| We all love our country and hope the USA does well in all respects; but other than the rah-rah sentiments expressed here and in the title, this film is a bore. An orgy of special effects masks a sappy script devoid of any content beyond bald information, as if the viewer needed a prompt to explain everything to death. Every character and event are borrowed from some other movie or medium; the only thing new here is the scale of weaponry, which after about 30 minutes leaves the brain numbed. Aliens (you can easily recognize them, they're the really ugly ones) are far dumber than the script claims, for with all their "advanced" technology they neglected to install anti-malware safeguards in their computer system. The good guys call their secret weapon a "virus" (which it isn't, but the target audience wouldn't know a virus from a doorknob). You have one-dimensional character types, ranging from a clueless President and a gaggle of low-level empty suits disguised as cabinet members, to a stripper posing as a heroine whom the First Lady thinks is really OK-cool (has Mrs. Bush seen this movie?). This film marks a new low in the now-eviscerated scifi genre. I saw its initial release and left the room for popcorn 3 times, having nothing better to do, then finally managed to make it all the way through the DVD on three cups of coffee for support. It's too long, too loud, and too pointless, with enough gasoline-spiked pyrotechnics to solve the energy crisis several times over. Youngsters will love its complete avoidance of ideas, though few will grasp that this is really an over-produced B-movie about battles fought with conventional stuff bloated beyond belief. Someone looking for a little more substance might try viewing an older sci-fi classic like "Colossus: The Corbin Project" for something more nutritive than this high-fat cinematic Twinkie. Overall, too low-octane for many tastes.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 16, 2005 | | Summary | is there a number lower than zero?!?!?!?!? | Content
| people took this nonsense seriously?!?!?!?!?!?and are giving this ''rave reviews''(must be somehow connected to the film or the participants themselves......)NO UNBIASED PERSON WITH AN IQ ABOVE A ROCK can HONESTLY SAY this deserves more than the obligitory lowest 1 star.did the fresh prince really get into a spaceship.................AND FLY IT?!?!?!?!?BETTER THAN THE ALIENS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?look,far be it for me to tell YOU what you liked or didnt like,BUT I,MYSELF USE MY BRAIN WHEN WATCHING A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!movies this feeble really should be for the preteens to fawn(go gahgah)over.....ANYONE OLD ENOUGH TO GET A LEARNERS PERMIT SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR LIKING THIS NONSENSE!!!!!NO EXCUSE!!!!!!!!!!!and guess what,those same dunce cap models loved the equally pathetic WAR OF THE WORLDS(why wasnt the fresh prince in this?!?!?!?!?LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) |
| Rating | | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | Good effects, but poor knowledge of military customs. | Content
| I liked the story line and the special effects; they had the desired effect. What put me off was the knowledge of military custom and training.
(1) A Marine would not call another Marine a "soldier."
(2) A jet pilot would not have a clue how to fly a helicopter; there is no cross-training. It costs too much to train; cross-training is not efficient.
(3) A Marine would not salute without a cover on ("hat," to you civilians) under any circumstances. That means anytime indoors without special circumstances.
Other than those things that directors could find out but are too lazy to, this is a good film. |
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