I admire Mike's ability to argue with someone who agrees with him.
@noneya36352 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a modern politician.
@roems6396 Жыл бұрын
@rickwilkinson1909 Reagan was honest? That’s hilarious.
@BR-re7oz Жыл бұрын
@Psychoticpebbles Reagan was not honest, but I would say 2016 campaign Trump was the most strikingly honest politician America or the world has had in modern memory. Of course, by the end of his first year in office it seemed like he just stopped caring or cut some kind of deal with the oligarchy and became a shill like the rest of the politicians.
@davidbarton8526 Жыл бұрын
Mike for president
@a-damthemansixtynan4463 Жыл бұрын
@psychoticpebblesI lol’d. Get it, folks? The joke is that no matter who you are, if you’re a politician, then you’re lying.
@zacharyhagan8185 жыл бұрын
The girlfriend was a stripper because Will Smith's character was in the military...they were just keeping it realistic.
@Amarok415 жыл бұрын
Did he just buy a Mustang?
@alyzluke8014 жыл бұрын
And the kid wasn't his.
@markmcgrath68124 жыл бұрын
Only military people will get it sadly.
@CaseySmart-fz5op4 жыл бұрын
He met her in Fallon, NV and she's on lithium.
@jimmym33524 жыл бұрын
Having served in the Navy I can confirm.
@theprooblem Жыл бұрын
As an Italian I've always been gravely disappointed that those Aliens weren't shown destroying Rome. You could have had some great corny scene with the Colosseum being blown up and one stereotypical Italian being disintegrated while on a Vespa carrying a pizza: "Oh mamma mia gli alieni!". As Stoklasa said: "That's so bad I can't believe it isn't in the script". Thank God they largely fixed this error in "The core" and in "2012", where we are vastely represented and properly mistreated.
@urchinblues7928 Жыл бұрын
If they attacked Rome they would hit St Peters first that’s where Santa and the great pumpkin lives, Jk I’m Catholic
@damenwhelan3236 Жыл бұрын
I have a "Mandela affect" moment with this movie, where I recall them destroying Rome! I'm sure I'm just recalling a different film or just made it up. But I have the memory of the colleseum being destroyed
@awandererfromys168011 ай бұрын
@@damenwhelan3236 The Colosseum gets destroyed in _The Core._
@jl.77395 ай бұрын
As a fellow European, this honor belongsto the french. In every global-Disaster movie they MUST show the Eiffel Tower being destroyed
@verazollinger68624 ай бұрын
New Godzilla sleeping in colloseum must have made you proud
@garyfeuer10712 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget, when I saw this in the theatre and the dog saved himself in the tunnel, one guy screamed out "What a f*cking dog!!" Everyone burst out laughing - Ive always remembered that for some reason
@TransoceanicOutreach Жыл бұрын
He was talking about the film in general.
@SkandiaAUS Жыл бұрын
My mate's biggest disappointment to this day is not shouting out "weeee" in final destination where the ambulance drives into a lake, and someone else in the theatre did it.
@thepangwin902 Жыл бұрын
Hell of a dog
@lopiklop Жыл бұрын
You saw this at the theater? And you stayed there long enough to see the dog. You must be a simpleton. You paid contributed to the box office of this movie, you're the reason why movie suck now.
@redfernpixelgnomepitcher1377 Жыл бұрын
@@thepangwin902 Like Cerberus
@The_Gallowglass4 жыл бұрын
Notice how the aliens completely ignored Milwaukee.
@YaRaginAye4 жыл бұрын
They knew they couldn't contend with the greatest force on earth known as Rich Evans.
@re92464 жыл бұрын
I would have hit Milwaukee first.
@admiralackbar47674 жыл бұрын
Can't blame them for that.
@histguy1014 жыл бұрын
@@leooz8071 .1% of them are
@drakonidesthevigilant51554 жыл бұрын
There is a Dark Horse in Milwaukie
@arthurchen64645 жыл бұрын
32:20 the pure contempt on Jay's face as he realizes Mike's going to talk about Star Trek.
@williamjensen56832 жыл бұрын
lol i had the same reaction just watching this now!
@Adino12 жыл бұрын
Damn, that was a fucking look
@ryanofottawa3 жыл бұрын
I love how Mike hates this movie and thinks its so dumb, but will still challenge Jay's unfair critiques of how dumb it is
@XxCrankyMoosexX Жыл бұрын
Yeah I was thinking "Jay has Mike defending a movie he doesn't even like that much" lmao
@gasparguruoftime5475 Жыл бұрын
That’s how a normal discussion should be. If you just dump all over something you don’t like without any restraint or without being fair your main points won’t stand out of what the real problems are.
@aw2584 Жыл бұрын
Movie can be stupid as fuck and have scenes made for cheap claps, but it doesn't necessarily means it's all bad. Not everything had to be pretentious crap. Don't get me wrong, Independence Day is fucking stupid as shit but... meh
@danielrafferty4108 Жыл бұрын
@@gasparguruoftime5475 This is what I like about Red Letter Media. Used to kind of watch the Nerdrotic circle of critics on things but when they all get together it becomes a bit of a circle or critics becomes a circle jerk. That and the fact that Mike's villain arc of laughing at old people on the brink of death is much better than anything marvel or DC are churning out 😆
@videostoryanalyses8910 Жыл бұрын
@@danielrafferty4108 Plus Mike and Jay are far more intelligent. At least their presentation is without devolving into an academic critique.
@TheDJVoyager3 жыл бұрын
The VHS tape of this did have a holographic type cover that when you moved it showed the image of the white house there and then the white house blowing up.
@princeprocrastinate64853 жыл бұрын
Haha oh yeah what a blast from the past, I still have that somewhere.
@PiLLbOt1003 жыл бұрын
Not a hologram. It is just a lenticular lens.
@PiLLbOt1003 жыл бұрын
Sorry for being pedantic.
@TheDJVoyager3 жыл бұрын
@@PiLLbOt100 ha, no worries. I didn't know what the actual term was and was too lazy to look into. I figured people would know what I meant.
@andylofi44483 жыл бұрын
I miss VHS.
@ryanmartian20028 жыл бұрын
Mike - "Jurassic World is a great film." Mike - "Independence Day is a terrible film."
@allhailsirmicrocosm99328 жыл бұрын
But three lefts make a right.
@subj3ctt0chang38 жыл бұрын
Not if you're driving in a roundabout
@blueshit1998 жыл бұрын
Well, he's 50% right.
@UnpwnedSoldier8 жыл бұрын
Don't forget all the dumb superhero schlock
@sufjanstevens70768 жыл бұрын
I agree that this is a strange combinarion off opinions, both movies are absolute garbage
@MrGeorgeFlorcus7 жыл бұрын
"The stupidest aliens in the universe attack the stupidest humans on Earth." catchy tagline
7 жыл бұрын
Duncan Van Ooyen This should be the top comment.
@Bacteriophagebs6 жыл бұрын
It's completely inaccurate, though. The aliens from Signs are clearly even stupider. Or Battlefield Earth.
@jondeare5 жыл бұрын
I went to this movie at the theatre....and there was this older lady sitting in front of me...and she cried....and laughed and cried...and laughed.
@willigagbob82435 жыл бұрын
Would have worked for Signs or Mars Attacks, for completely different reasons.
@rockyseverino92305 жыл бұрын
I'd watch a movie with that tagline. Sounds like Mars Attacks lol
@Renegadebane3 жыл бұрын
Humans are playing chess, the aliens are playing Warhammer 40k.
@dj62083 жыл бұрын
Lol tru
@EliseOfTheValley3 жыл бұрын
Blood for the blood god?
@kidkangaroo52133 жыл бұрын
@@EliseOfTheValley Skulls for the Skull God
@misterdoctor96933 жыл бұрын
The aliens are broke and living in their mom's basement?
@talkinghoorse69363 жыл бұрын
The Aliens want to show Rich Evans their Warhammer figurines and Wendy's ads.
@mayaangelou17512 жыл бұрын
The amazing thing about this movie is you can easily be drawn into a fantasy world wherein Will Smith can knock out an alien in a robotic suit when in reality he can't knock down a skinny comic with a good hard slap!
@at0micl0bster Жыл бұрын
What kind of slap knocks someone to the ground...
@explorinjenkins349 Жыл бұрын
@@at0micl0bster a dad slap. Right after you poke the tail lights out of his LTD.
@OpenMawProductions Жыл бұрын
...Robot suit? They're in a biomechanoid suit, it's a living organism that they ride around in.
@Molotov_Milkshake Жыл бұрын
@@at0micl0bster a really hard one, obvs.
@EjaculatingNarwhal Жыл бұрын
That slap had more script than this entire film.
@mitchell89407 жыл бұрын
i saw independence day on opening weekend, people applauded when the dog lived in the tunnel.
@MegaZeta7 жыл бұрын
+Colby S if that's your response to people reacting a way you didn't like to a scene in a movie, it's definitely a personal problem that's all on you
@MegaZeta7 жыл бұрын
+Colby S Adjust your attitude, you'll be happier
@ericsilva44726 жыл бұрын
sorry about my dad... he claps for a lot of shit in a lot of movies... -_-
@fhistleb6 жыл бұрын
But what if he is a life coach?
@fhistleb6 жыл бұрын
No way, he gives slightly ok answers that can lead to more conflict, as you can see.
@Mozts17 жыл бұрын
That forced perspective they're using to make Jay look smaller is great.
@spikethegodposter12936 жыл бұрын
Mozts1 O god I didn't notice that until now
@NoNonsenseInABag6 жыл бұрын
I'm always amazed at these special effects. As all his livejournal followers know, he's 7 feet tall, and on a constant hair gel I.V. (cleverly hidden by scenery or airbrushed out, frame by frame)
@Locateson5 жыл бұрын
He's sitting 3 metres away from Mike in the back of the room. It's glorious
@johndodd69085 жыл бұрын
@@Locateson His chair is much larger than Mike's as well
@damir41325 жыл бұрын
@@johndodd6908 The fuck seriously. Isnt Mike like 6ft2? How small would Jay have to be. Im 6ft6 and i feel like Mike is bigger then me watching this video
@PhazerSC3 жыл бұрын
When they mention "practice flying on a computer game" and "you need level 10 hand-eye coordination to fly an alien spaceship" I was immediately thinking of The Last Starfighter.
@jaminv28892 жыл бұрын
I was thinking he was describing Pixels.
@jasonredwine5270 Жыл бұрын
I was thinking of Slade Craven
@ManOutofTime91311 ай бұрын
That movie is legitimately good, though. And it has decent side characters that appear throughout the film but don't get in the way of the story.
@joshuaanderson40906 ай бұрын
Which like spaceballs, was another movie that made more sense and was more fun. :)
@AltCTRLF84 жыл бұрын
Patrice O’neal and O&A did a great review on Independence Day. “Didn’t knock the alien out, he knocked out his outfit..”
@MartKencuda4 жыл бұрын
"judd Hirsch, you mean 'Heeby Kikeburger'?" *Patrice scream laugh*
@eamon48004 жыл бұрын
“What’s with this Area 51! Couldn’t they bargain it down to area 50!”
@MilitantAtheist23934 жыл бұрын
@@eamon4800 "I wear penny shoes, not penny loafers!"
@redzeppelin64 жыл бұрын
"What you doing with the 1950's spaceship?"
@AltCTRLF84 жыл бұрын
“what kind of asbestos room did she go into? she lived but later died of mesothelioma”
@deplorabledegenerate26305 жыл бұрын
When the fog is really high up in the sky like that we call it "clouds", Jay.
@PoochieCollins4 жыл бұрын
hahaha
@monsieurcondottiero26853 жыл бұрын
Milwaukee is so overcast that I don’t think Jay remembers what clouds are
@cheezemonkeyeater3 жыл бұрын
I thought they were giant, flying sheep.
@makeshiftswahili97103 жыл бұрын
@@cheezemonkeyeater cotton candy, ackshully
@earlmcraw56063 жыл бұрын
They are the real alien ships.
@ctkachuk086 жыл бұрын
What you have to understand is that the reason the virus was able to take out the mothership and disable it's shield is that the aliens entire fleet was running on Windows 95.
@CONSOLETRUTH26 жыл бұрын
Cameron Tkachuk more like Mac OS as Jeff Goldblum uses an apple powerbook to upload the virus. If the alien ship was using windows he wouldnt be able todoanything as they are 2 very different OSs.
@jeffwells6416 жыл бұрын
You can write and compile windows programs on a Mac or Linux box, they just won't run on your non-windows machine. The real problem is (which Cameron was mocking) there is no way they are using any system Jeff Goldbloom would know how to write a program for, and so no virus.
@Axterix136 жыл бұрын
Though they can sort of get away with it in that our tech is based on their tech, coupled with the aliens being a hive-mind, so not exactly security minded. Also worth noting that the aliens did it first, subverting human computers (the satellites) to use as their countdown timer, which also hints at a reasonable amount of compatibility. But yeah, it's a bit silly... just like most cases where hacking or programming is used in a movie ;)
@BackPalSA5 жыл бұрын
Cameron Mitchell is in this movie!? @@jeffwells641
@John-yy1oy5 жыл бұрын
Wait a minute....windows, Windows let us see the sky!....sky, the sky is where the spaceships are!.... We can disable the spaceship....by using windows 95!!! Somebody get me a Gateway PC!
@Swordopolis2 жыл бұрын
Every July 4th, my friend sends the "Today we celebrate our Independence Day!" speech via text message to everyone he knows, it's great
@HughMansonMD3 жыл бұрын
Simultaneously destroying all of the major population centers of the world is my favorite chess tactic.
@ReinBelmont8 жыл бұрын
aliens are playing checkers, but Jeff Goldblum's been playing chess for years
@MuscleDad4208 жыл бұрын
heh
@eamon48008 жыл бұрын
Poppa bless
@estauricossauro8 жыл бұрын
This is totally me when i'm destroying the white house
@mjspresents8 жыл бұрын
This should have been a line in the movie. nice.
@qwertymanor6 жыл бұрын
Rein 4d chess
@FumblingDylan6 жыл бұрын
There's one scene they cut from the film that makes the story make so much more sense. The crazy Area 51 guy sits down with Jeff Goldblum in the captured Alien ship and he's explaining how all the technology of the last few decades has been reverse engineered from the ship, INCLUDING COMPUTERS (he says computers specifically). It's like 30 seconds, and it makes the solution make sense rather than being inexplicably able to hack the aliens with a Mac.
@rockyseverino92305 жыл бұрын
That's a good point actually
@Teajryan5 жыл бұрын
Fair enough.
@RockDeicide5 жыл бұрын
Was that scene cut from the film? I distinctly remember seeing it in a Russian TV broadcast 15-20 years ago.
@John-yy1oy5 жыл бұрын
@@jakejutras5420 Quantum Computing
@Wafflepudding5 жыл бұрын
@@antediluvianspy1708 their password was "Admin". No matter how advanced the tech and security protocols, you can always count on users to be stupid, lazy, insane or all of the above.
@patrickjspoon3 жыл бұрын
You know, the VHS release of this movie had a holographic front in the packaging which showed the White House blowing up WITHOUT the helicopter. I'm sure this has already been said 700 times.
@JumblyJumble4 жыл бұрын
I worked near the Goldstone Observatory in California. It has a deep space radio telescope. They most definitely had employees there around the clock. One of the missions was SETI-related. The employees were almost exactly like the people in Independence Day. From what I've heard, they get all worked up prematurely and then deflate when they find out the signal is from a random pulsar documented in the 1970's. The red light is a bit much.
@TortureWorld2 жыл бұрын
Why the hell would they name an observatory after an ice cream store franchise?
@utkarsh27462 жыл бұрын
From what I understand different teams of scientists have to apply for time with the telescope and there is a whole schedule of who gets how many weeks for their research made in advance? Neil Dgrasse Tyson was explaining his work at one of the observatories and he explained part of just how bureaucratic and logjammed the whole thing is.
@stevemiller16262 жыл бұрын
They usually don’t notice anything until they see the data later.
@davidferrara1105 Жыл бұрын
Poorly written?
@cmfrtblynmb02 Жыл бұрын
They don't and can't do live monitoring of the data. Employees are there for mostly other purposes. The famous Wow! signal? It was actually discovered on the printed data. The data was printed and someone was looking at and saw it and wrote Wow! next to it. That's how it is Nowadays computers can scan it real time of course. And then record the irregularities. But humans will never do that. It doesn't make any sense.
@EvtheBread7 жыл бұрын
There's actually a great _Calvin and Hobbes_ Sunday strip where Calvin writes a story where aliens come in an Independence Day type of ship and just start sucking up the air like Mike was talking about, and they deploy a megaphone and say "Although you may find this slightly macabre, we prefer your extinction to the loss of our job."
@Mikey-xz4vn5 жыл бұрын
They suck up the oceans too! But I think Watterson was making a commentary on how capital takes precedence over the environment as opposed to a truly creepy alien incursion :P
@evansullivan25355 жыл бұрын
Michael Piperni dirty Commie
@evansullivan25355 жыл бұрын
shut the fuck up, commie@@fuzzydunlop7928
@evansullivan25355 жыл бұрын
nothing's more embarrassing than being a commie@@joshp6030
@SomeKindOfScum5 жыл бұрын
@@evansullivan2535 alright calm down bucko
@JulianCallan8 жыл бұрын
Can't believe you guys cancelled Half in the Bag, Wheel of the Worst, Pre Rec and the Plinkett reviews for this.
@andrewthorne35708 жыл бұрын
They haven't. They've done a half in the Bag since they've started this series
@jeffemerson608 жыл бұрын
It's a joke.
@28Pluto8 жыл бұрын
The joke is missed on you.
@Bluehawk20088 жыл бұрын
RIP RLM 2012-2016
@thomaswiseau24218 жыл бұрын
Can't believe they cancelled the entire channel for this.
@minorityofthought1306 Жыл бұрын
Saw this at the drive-in in 96 at 20 years old. It was a double billing with Arnold's Eraser playing before it. It's still a guilty pleasure and reminds me of a simpler time in my life.
@kyucklebeans9 ай бұрын
Yeah I was gonna say I was 15 and just cared about asking out my crush and seeing something visually fun and exciting. Who cares about how silly some of it is. It was 1996 and way more fun than the 2020s
@Mosotti4 жыл бұрын
We were lucky that the aliens disabled Windows Defender. The firewall was probably off too. Terrible sysadmin...
@Subvisual4 жыл бұрын
I saw this movie at an outdoor theatre in a campground when I was around 12. It was dark, the temperature was just crisp enough that you shivered at the right moments, and it was the perfect narrative mix of ominous/scary beginning and inspirational/stupid end. I feel like this movie was specifically made for me to watch it at exactly that moment and place in my life.
@shammy87034 жыл бұрын
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@HydraBill573 жыл бұрын
Had a similar experience and I've always enjoyed this movie in a dumb fun kinda way. It really is a harmless dumb fun popcorn flick.
@NobodyCaresALot3 жыл бұрын
And that's ok! Not even Mike or Jay can take that from you! I remember seeing it in a brand new theater, it was a big premiere and the audience was riled up. There was applause and gasping. Total suspension of disbelief in the theater that night. I had never seen that before in my life, and really the only thing that comes close was movie goers seeing Endgame and just having a good time. Very similar.
@shane58963 жыл бұрын
I was also 12 when this movie came out and 12 year old me loved it. Adult me thinks it's cheesy, but I still have nostalgia for this film.
@carnybusiness74323 жыл бұрын
Same dude. I was 11 years old when I watched this movie in theaters in 96, and I think I was around the perfect age to love a dumb popcorn blockbuster like this. It has never held up upon later rewatches, but I still have a soft spot for it.
@asyourgm4 жыл бұрын
What I remember most about this film is that after Siskel and Ebert both gave it 'thumbs down', Emmerich created a 'Mayor Ebert' character and his assistant 'Gene' for the 1998 Godzilla, which Siskel and Ebert highlighted with a black and white still during their review.
@thefractalcurve54624 жыл бұрын
I thought it WAS Ebert for the longest time.
@babytoshiro70142 жыл бұрын
A thumbs down??? I remember taking years to see it but now I am quite fond with more of it than parts I dislike😊
@redneckgopnik8164 Жыл бұрын
And they where disapointed that Emmerich didn't had the balls to kill them off in the movie 😎
@MCPOSJ117films4 жыл бұрын
Can we talk about the fact that will smith knocks out an alien with a single punch despite the alien was in a bio mechanical suit, then drags the alien through the desert and it doesn't wake up until they slice it open.
@Conservative42 жыл бұрын
It did crash straight into the ground 60 seconds before that. I can imagine it being a little weaker than normal.
@bradydavis46662 жыл бұрын
@@Conservative4 Thank you. lol I hate when people try to be all witty while making a point. Usually these people forget the details.
@sirquaffler5422 жыл бұрын
WELCOME TO EARF
@duffthimblespork4 ай бұрын
Maybe it was playing possum
@pdubbs882 жыл бұрын
The part when Peppy and Falco help Fox to hit the opening is my favorite.
@keefriff996 жыл бұрын
"The Randy Quaid Incident..." That would be a great punk rock band name.
@anubusx5 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a reality show.
@alloutofbubblegum81654 жыл бұрын
And the first song on their CD would be "I'm Baaaack"
@TheKaiTetley4 жыл бұрын
keefriff99. The government is coming for all of us The Republican Party is a ball of pus They are reading our brains with the x-rays You gotta listen to what I say Don’t believe the media, they lie to you I am the only one who knows what to do
@UlshaRS4 жыл бұрын
They we're great for a while but then the lead kind of lost touch with reality and fled to Canada with the bassist because he thought the Kiss Army was coming to take them away to FEMA camps
@jakeguy60503 жыл бұрын
@@TheKaiTetley what do i do?
@twoodin8 жыл бұрын
TV Tropes calls it Eureka Moment and it lists the catch a cold scene in Independence Day as an example.
@Phurzt5 жыл бұрын
I motion that we update the cliche's name to "House ex Machina"
@signantwolf65024 жыл бұрын
@@cpmenninga I saw the same comment thread. I prefer "Moronspiration" myself.
@jaredbond7908 Жыл бұрын
I unironically cited this as my favorite movie, when introducing myself to a college screenwriting class.
@Mister_Clean Жыл бұрын
The president's Independence Day speech was definitely something you could recite in a drama/acting club
@drhodesco Жыл бұрын
“I love your balls!!” for admitting that
@jaredbond7908 Жыл бұрын
@@drhodesco yeah, but hol-e-god, did his movies get bad... 2012 was literally the last movie I saw in a theater (which was 2009). it was so bad, it scared me from the theater experience altogether.
@drhodesco Жыл бұрын
@@jaredbond7908 so he went from your best to your worst, ruining your experience and enjoyment. That’s sad. I wasn’t so aware of directors and such at that time, but I think Independence Day gave me my fill because any movie I saw the preview for that looked like an end of the world scenario, I just didn’t watch. I got the point, seen it already. Turns out most of them were from the same guy, I guess.
@GrayD_Fox Жыл бұрын
Did they kick you out
@ghostapostle72253 жыл бұрын
"I can never understand why people love Independence Day" - The same guy who thinks Feeders belongs in a museum.
@danewoodruff56973 жыл бұрын
@Zeke Spears so do you
@lukeschroter93892 жыл бұрын
@Zeke Spears I love indiana jones
@BananaMana695 жыл бұрын
Its so funny to me that Independence Day copied the "There's too many of them" scene exactly right down to the asian pilot.
@samuelperezgarcia4 жыл бұрын
And yet they forgot to mention the most obvious Star Wars reference: "Look at the size of that thing".
@iforgot878723 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah it is an Asian guy in ROTJ right? Lol.
@Lopyswine3 жыл бұрын
you guys realize its not copying, it's paying tribute. Lucas did the same thing with homages to E.T., Frankenstein, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
@amelzon13 жыл бұрын
Derek is correct.
@anubusx2 жыл бұрын
This and Return Of The Jedi both feature a pilot crashing in their target, causing it's destruction.
@chrismorgan72348 жыл бұрын
Randy Quaid's the key to all this...
@arranboon18 жыл бұрын
He's a fatter character than we've ever had, so hopefully we can get him working
@malcolmthompson39998 жыл бұрын
Randys gonna take his little aero plane and go to town
@arranboon18 жыл бұрын
+Malcolm Thompson Hahaha
@chrismorgan72348 жыл бұрын
Randy's gonna drink some Qui Gon Jinn, and fly his bongo bongo into the Trade Federation control ship. While Frank the Rabbit tries to fuck Mrs. Doubtfire's daughter.
@mikewilliams7368 жыл бұрын
It's not the same but it rhymes.
@superface3 жыл бұрын
Them: "This movie is for dumb people. Let's look at an example." [The dog escapes the explosion] Me: *smiling with tears in my eyes*
@josephdevon60682 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha
@mcsmalldaddy26722 жыл бұрын
This comment genuinely made me laugh out loud
@h4tch3tt742 жыл бұрын
The first Independence Day is just another fun background movie for Sunday afternoon. You leave it on the TV while you go do chores. You can come back and know exactly where the movie is in the plot.
@falsedavidbowie368 Жыл бұрын
What a compliment
@daviddowsett1658 Жыл бұрын
@@falsedavidbowie368 Better than what the guy in the clip said "I don't watched it very often as I don't like it" which has to be the most stupid line ... and they have a go at the movie for being for simpletons ... haha
@PatricksCrazyPlace8 жыл бұрын
Independence Day is a 1950's B movie, made with 1990s cinematography and special effects, with an "America FUCK YEAH" attitude. It is one of the more, shall we say, unique cinematic time capsules from the 1990s.
@jointhe64618 жыл бұрын
Agreed. The film harkens back to a time of optimism between the Gulf War and 911.
@user-mn3iq2cs9n8 жыл бұрын
I'd actually say it's fun to ...not watch...have on in the background. It's maybe SO bad, with fun special effects, that casual viewings are forgivable. Still, no debating it. It's a terrible movie. I'll show my children Forbidden Planet 100 times. I'll hide this one from them.
8 жыл бұрын
What about those who liked this movie in a quasi-ironical sense, like Space Cop?
@user-mn3iq2cs9n8 жыл бұрын
***** I'm definitely watching Space Cop with my future kids some day.
@user-mn3iq2cs9n8 жыл бұрын
***** I think that goes without saying.
@haydn-db8z5 жыл бұрын
Mike and Jay are: Co-dependence Day.
@JaneSmith-so6hw2 жыл бұрын
The "Dog Scene" is rough to watch now, but I was so happy a dog didn't die when I was 6-7 years old watching this movie at the theater. After watching Old Yeller when I was 4 years old, that scene was a welcomed relief... Also, Bill Pullman and Randy Quaid killed it.
@thefractalcurve54622 жыл бұрын
When the dog escaped the fire and into the doorway, the audience at the theater went wild. I’ll never forget it.
@sleepykoinu2 жыл бұрын
Commented this on an older comment but it's funny people cheer for that one dog considering millions of people and probably billions of animals are killed in that same scene. But I know as a kid I was happy the dog lived
@JaneSmith-so6hw2 жыл бұрын
@@sleepykoinu Yeah lol, millions of people- ehhh fuck'em.. But don't dare kill that dog. It obviously hits different as an adult tho.
@Eckendenker2 жыл бұрын
Why did Bill Pullman and Randy Quaid kill the dog?
@JaneSmith-so6hw2 жыл бұрын
@@Eckendenker because Randy was drunk and Bill gave him the keys.. Knowing what we know now, I'm thankful Randy only killed the dog and no dogs wore any masks in the making of this movie.
@rodrigobittar794011 ай бұрын
28:05 is called serendipity, it's what always used to happen in every episode of House M.D. and gave Dr. House the key to solving its cases.
@SolarnovaАй бұрын
Dr House kicks ass
@VideoGameDaddy6 жыл бұрын
'House Realization' Always the moment when Wilson/Cuddy/Foreman would say something offhand and unrelated to House's current case, and then House would link it to his case and save the day. EVERY TIME
@IloveGorgeousGeorge4 жыл бұрын
IT'S LUPUS
@liabw054 жыл бұрын
Brad Knapp haha
@TheRoyalFlush-ym3gv5 жыл бұрын
Jeff Goldblum's eco-warrior pay off is when he say's "Y'know how i'm always trying to save The World...Well, here's my chance".
@JHParee4 жыл бұрын
Yes. It is very on the nose, but you are right.
@keefriff993 жыл бұрын
Doesn't he ham-fistedly toss a soda can into a recycling bin while he says it too?
@JHParee3 жыл бұрын
@@keefriff99 oh yes. He does.
@Barnesofthenorth3 жыл бұрын
I mean it kind of works... But he could have been a crazy person who thinks he's a super hero and it'd be the same thing. It should have been way more specific than general world saving. Wil Smith tries to save the world as a soldier so he could have said that too.
@rorylynch1203 Жыл бұрын
I like how you can track the health of Roland Emmerichs marriage through the course of his films where now he always kills the ex-wife’s new husband
@GoufinAround_ Жыл бұрын
I love how Mike comes up with the plot of Battleship when thinking about them stealing resources and suggesting they just come down and steal water
@flybywire095 жыл бұрын
I always knew I was dumb. The fact I was happy Boomer made it into that road closet proves it.
@anubusx4 жыл бұрын
Boomer will live.
@tentringer40654 жыл бұрын
Boomer OK
@RPGManoWar4 жыл бұрын
WAIT I NEVER REALIZED THAT! WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT DOOR LEAD TO!?
@who70634 жыл бұрын
Ok boomer
@Xvladin4 жыл бұрын
@@anubusx *happy screech*
@explodingnightmareproducti56125 жыл бұрын
"You'd all be dead if it wasn't for my David"
@hubachecka4 жыл бұрын
Future Mike to Brent Spiners return: "No one's ever really gone"
@TerzaGuardia Жыл бұрын
I like how there's this vibe of "we don’t understand why people enjoy this" but not even 5 minutes in Mike nails it exactly and just...doesn't notice. Yes. It's like a Saturday morning cartoon. With a massive budget and a buncha names on screen. That's it. That's why it's popular.
@kaminskasmitchell Жыл бұрын
I think they did a good job of clarifying this take in their Resurgence review. Essentially they feel that the sequel is schlock (ridiculous to the point of being entertaining) while the original comes across as uncreative pandering.
@Los499 Жыл бұрын
That would explain why children (and adults who watched it as children) would like it, which Jay notes would be understandable. It doesn’t explain why adults, who should know better, watch it and defend it.
@thepapschmearmd Жыл бұрын
@@Los499 what? It absolutely explains it. It’s a Saturday morning cartoon for adults.
@karlscher5170 Жыл бұрын
I think it's hurt patriotic pride, because Emmerich as a German nailed the American sweet spot of stupidity
@shanemaurer273611 ай бұрын
@@Los499 "Adults who should know better" Let people enjoy what they enjoy.
@krismargett6 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised there was no mention of people's complete and utter disbelief Randy Quaid's abduction story, even though the planet was completely encircled with giant alien ships.
@Axterix136 жыл бұрын
Well, I don't know about you, but if aliens were to show up, and some nut job (his image doesn't lend itself to credibility) claimed he was abducted by them, I probably wouldn't believe the guy either. It's just more likely he's crazy or wanting attention. Probably one of a ton of people coming out of the woodwork making the same claim.
@seanknight25165 жыл бұрын
Also it's entirely possible that his character was a nutjob/attention seeker and was never abducted despite the invasion, though that would be giving too much credit to the writers, nuance wasnt exactly on the ticket for this movie
@Fargoth_Ur8 жыл бұрын
A lot of people seem to be missing the point as to why Mike and Jay hate this movie so much. It's not just that it was a dumb, corny, schlockfest; it was a dumb, corny, schlockfest that paved the way for the success of Michael Bay and equally cancerous, big-budget action movies the likes of which we're not going to see die anytime soon.
@Fargoth_Ur8 жыл бұрын
Time period and context have A LOT to do with why those movies were successful. They aren't the greatest looking back on them, but they worked for their era. What did Independence Day really bring to the table that hadn't already been done by those films or by the Spielberg movies it was desperately trying to ape? And Iron Man 3 was way better than this film.
@Fargoth_Ur8 жыл бұрын
Laurel Jacobs ...Yeah, no fucking duh. I intentionally changed it as a personal preference that's relevant to me. I mean, wow, it's not like people play around with usernames or something.
@VarietyGamerChannel8 жыл бұрын
Pro-Tip: Don't watch. Critics are curious creatures. 'You shouldn't enjoy this because I don't'. Basically big children. And they call these films made for children. Projecting much?
@Fargoth_Ur8 жыл бұрын
That's a rather gross and, dare I say it, childish oversimplification. Someone explaining point-by-point why they don't like something is not the same as a kid stubbornly refusing to eat their vegetables.
@Fargoth_Ur8 жыл бұрын
Trevor Plant Movies like Predator, Army of Darkness, Highlander, and Die Hard aren't high-falutin', intellectual think-pieces, but they also don't talk down to their audiences. Making a fun, action-packed movie that isn't as dumb as a sack of hammers is far from impossible.
@BLTspace3 жыл бұрын
Snowed in for a couple days... re:View playlist engaged
@boondocksaint13 ай бұрын
We all know Mike "I love Shlock" Stoklasa secretly loves this movie.
@RicAdbur5 жыл бұрын
Wait... isn't Jay's idea about the aliens wanting to suck up volcanos to fuel their ships the actual plot of the eventual sequel? These guys predict everything.
@ressljs4 жыл бұрын
Really? I know we're talking about an unwanted sequel to a big dumb movie, but volcanoes? I didn't think even Hollywood could get that dumb.
@thepresence3654 жыл бұрын
There's a sequel!? Why?
@MartKencuda4 жыл бұрын
It must have been Xenu coming back to collect all those alien souls, or thetans.
@christopherwalkinalloverya58244 жыл бұрын
@@MartKencuda Tom Cruise could've played the protagonist. Scientwits would've considered it an informative docu-drama.
@Pattamatt19983 жыл бұрын
@@Derek_Keenan wow what a spicy and original take. very cool
@lucasbarcellos33195 жыл бұрын
The best thing to come out of Independence Day was Metal Slug 2
@judas-dk6bu5 жыл бұрын
it definitely wasn't the Independence Day game.
@jinvid5 жыл бұрын
On the Neo Geo baby!!
@metalbrainmextrememetalent68105 жыл бұрын
Does Metal Slug 2 copy the plot of Independence Day?
@Yusuke_Denton5 жыл бұрын
I don't get it.
@turtleanton65395 жыл бұрын
Ohfuck yeeeeeees
@YouLikeBosch2 жыл бұрын
I saw it in the theater twice when I was 9. The alien surgery scene jumpscared me both times. I was a 9 year old simpleton and I loved the film.
@ichi1082 Жыл бұрын
Some for me. Makes it hard to watch the film without nostalgia goggles now...
@luisjavierkanchi6872 Жыл бұрын
hahaha
@roems6396 Жыл бұрын
Your parents paid movie theater prices twice for this? I went when it came out in July....maybe it was even on July 4th when it was released, I can’t remember. But it was definitely a let down, even if I couldn’t explain why at the time.
@InaneBlatherPodcast Жыл бұрын
@@roems6396boo
@lonnymotto3 жыл бұрын
I would like to submit, 4 years late, that "that moment" where the protagonist realizes the solution be called the Jessica Fletcher moment. Fifty minutes (real time, which includes commercials) into each episode of Murder She Wrote, Jessica Fletcher realizes who the real killer is by some unrelated action. If not, alternatively, it could be called the "ah-ha" moment, such as "where's the spoon" from Coming to America.
@sterlingaltorfer42422 жыл бұрын
It's called a Eureka moment
@blamecanada85258 жыл бұрын
Third episode and they're already on movies they hate
@archfiendbaramos8 жыл бұрын
They both hate the movie, Mike's on the right instead of the left, this show has JUMPED THE SHARK IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE PEOPLE
@MrMoonman30008 жыл бұрын
No, that was the second one. Mike hated Escape from New York. Jay picked it because he loves that one.
@Mekhet098 жыл бұрын
As was pointed out they have a shitload of shows for that. I want to know movies that they like and if they both hate something keep on a plinkett review.
@andrewgwilliam48318 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I hope they get back to what these were supposed to be about.
@suncu918 жыл бұрын
We already have Plinkett shitting on bad blockbusters, best of the worst where they shit on old movies, and half in the bag where they shit on new movies. I liked the episode with len kabasinski who,k while they laughed at how movies sucked, he asked them to find good things about the movie. And it really turned into a good conversation about movies. I thought from Tremors episode that re:View to be more like Every Frame Of Painting where they could focus on things they cant in other formats.
@MrECHOfox7 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see you guys review "Mars Attacks!"
@andrew419805 жыл бұрын
Ack ack ack
@squidincsquid5 жыл бұрын
Stargate would be great.
@3AHoles5 жыл бұрын
Worst movie ever made
@aleckermit5 жыл бұрын
Loved it back when it was new, DID NOT age well.
@gustafsone5 жыл бұрын
@@3AHoles You must have gotten stuck on Martian detail.
@DrRemulack Жыл бұрын
I really wish they would do a Re:View about all of their guilty pleasure films, but done in the style Mike and Rich's Star Trek TNG favorite episodes. It would be EVEN better if they talked about films they genuinely that are typically accepted as terrible. Could you imagine if it turns out Jay likes "Tootsie" or if Mike was a huge closet fan of "Dr. Giggles"? i would love to know, PLEASE PLEASE film a top three/five/ten guilty pleasure films.
@heymanthatscoolable3 жыл бұрын
I agree with everything said here and I still love this movie
@nighttray14892 жыл бұрын
Same here. Acknowledge all its flaws and still watch it whenever it’s on.
@christopherdobney29272 жыл бұрын
IKR? This and Armageddon... the guiltiest of guilty pleasures.
@sethmonster65292 жыл бұрын
@@christopherdobney2927 I hate that I love Armageddon….
@mizurjell95342 жыл бұрын
How embarrassing for you
@NothingHereForYou2 жыл бұрын
I'm not gonna lie. I really like 2012.
@anticalgary5 жыл бұрын
I like this movie for the same reason I like pizza pops or instant ramen noodles. Sometimes you just want or need crap
@signantwolf65024 жыл бұрын
True enough. Have an updoot.
@AltCTRLF84 жыл бұрын
agree. there’s quite a few “bad” movies that i’ll watch over and over whenever it comes on TV.
@denisdooley15404 жыл бұрын
Exactly, it was SciFi pop. I thought that's what summer "blockbusters" were supposed to be, fun movies that have no chance at sniffing an Oscar. Oh well, I guess critics are supposed to be critical, lol.
@Lance37a4 жыл бұрын
You can't have steak every day sometimes you have to go to McDonald's.
@marykatie1864 жыл бұрын
The hell is a pizza pop
@cernunnos12405 жыл бұрын
It’s called a eureka moment.
@princeprocrastinate64853 жыл бұрын
Mike mentioning Star Trek to Jay is like me talking about it to my best friend, pensive stare with little engagement whilst all the while thinking 'please not another star trek tangent'.
@iforgot878723 жыл бұрын
I think a lot of the reason a lot of people responded well to this movie is because it captured large scale conflict in a way most movies had not before. It had great effects and it was able to really show across several locations how high the stakes were. As movies get bigger in scale, they usually become less logical because there is less time to explain everything. The problem is every movie tried to be like Independence Day so the novelty of the scale wore off, but the dumb qualities of scripts contorting to tell giant scale stories stayed. That’s my understanding at least. Yes the script has some dumb qualities but I think people gave it a pass because it felt epic. It doesn’t hurt that Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith are charismatic and some of the humor like the Area 51 stuff actually works.
@CsykKrit3 жыл бұрын
Type 'scale' again.
@iforgot878723 жыл бұрын
@@CsykKrit scale
@olovambrosiuspersson39574 жыл бұрын
TV tropes has this particular trope listed as "Eureka moment"
@mechadie59153 жыл бұрын
Happen-stance serendipity sounds better. It’s mine, Pay me. A eureka moment should be reserved for a character’s own realization unprompted from outside. Happen-stance serendipity is the phrase. Embrace it. The eureka effect refers to the common human experience of suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept. There was nothing incomprehensible, rather he finally made a connection to an obvious but overlooked idea. 😎
@ralphthemoviemaker8 жыл бұрын
It's actually Hack Screenwriter Tip #108 you hack screenwriters!
@Subhumanslug8 жыл бұрын
I figured you were too busy stroking Derpy to comment on a RLM video but I guess I was wrong.
@valuemoviesgermanyreloaded24428 жыл бұрын
Ralph, you are awesome.
@jbjacobs95143 жыл бұрын
Because they were busy with Sarah Polley's zombies.
@monsieurcondottiero26853 жыл бұрын
That hack screenwriting tool is literally the ending to every episode of House
@thevrana2 жыл бұрын
So, they cut to the scene where Data says that the aliens are mostly like us, they use oxygen, about the same tolerance to heat and cold. So it doesn't occur to Jay and Mike that maybe they don't want to suck water and trees from the planet, they want to colonize the planet.
@jacobreed5655 Жыл бұрын
I saw this movie in a drive through when it came out. also i had beer. i had fun. i liked fresh prince.
@rorypayton5 жыл бұрын
The ship that crashed at Roswell wasn't a saucer. The eyewitness sketch of the Roswell ship does resemble the ship used in the movie. Also, according to producer/co-writer Dean Devlin, the U.S. military had agreed to support the film by allowing the crew to film at military bases, consulting the actors who have military roles, etc. However, after learning of the Area 51 references in the script, they withdrew their support.
@nickwilson44396 жыл бұрын
In a deleted scene, it explains how most modern technology was reverse engineered from the ship in Area 51. That's how the computer virus was supposed to work.
@Xvladin4 жыл бұрын
Thank god aliens used the exact same framework as the Roswell ship 😭 Could you imagine if they were like, "Okay! Run the virus!" And the alien ship goes Unexpected character on line 57 in AlienVirus.bat, ";"
@AltCTRLF84 жыл бұрын
they reverse engineered something that was from the 1950s and used it in the mid 90s, and it worked. even my 3 year old laptop doesn’t have a floppy disk drive anymore.
@cordovalark52953 жыл бұрын
People also tend to forget how is it nobody saw such a huge Alien mothership passing by the moon with the naked eye?
@SolarnovaАй бұрын
It’s painted dark against the background of space, sort of like how the suspected Planet X is a dark planet, impossible to see from earth.
@lionspawfilmandphoto8 ай бұрын
Fast forward to 2023 where a movie script shoehorned a character moment in Dial of Destiny where a young boy practices flight simulation on a homemade cardboard rig and can miraculously fly a real plane through turbulent weather, active warfare, and temporal portals.
@KazakhToon5 жыл бұрын
The Jimmy Nintendo joke became the plot of Pixels
@macsmith20134 жыл бұрын
It's the plot of the 1984 movie "Starfight" (or "The last Starfighter"), in which some space force plants arcade machines all over the galaxy and then recruits folks who break the high score for fighting in an intergalactical war.
@PoochieCollins4 жыл бұрын
@@macsmith2013 : tell me that movie was written ironically.
@jeanfigueroa62354 жыл бұрын
@@PoochieCollins It's a guilty pleasure of mine tbh
@GasmaskAvenger4 жыл бұрын
Its also how they land the plane in "Snakes on a Plane"
@kidkunjer4 жыл бұрын
@Poochie Collins no, but it's fricking awesome, so it doesn't matter.
@dgaart6 жыл бұрын
This is my favorite dumb movie of all time. I guess it just came out at the right time in my life (I was 10) and I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen. It was pure spectacle, with some of the most amazing visual effects, fun comic relief, and (at the time at least) tense and even somewhat scary imagery. In my 10-year-old mind, this movie was a thrill-ride and Will Smith and co. really were saving the world. Plus, we saw it at some huge-ass theater that had just opened up downtown...making it even more of a memorable theater experience for me. Nostalgia aside, I still find it thoroughly entertaining and fun to this day, even if a little dumber and less believable. I agree with a lot your points (though Jay just seemed to be trying to find things to nitpick without even remembering what happened in the movie.) I hate the majority of Michael Bay/Roland Emmerich-style mindless schlock that this film has continually inspired since. Yet, to me this movie just works a dumb, fun, entertaining movie or drinking game movie.
@mhern576 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Fun. To this day!
@daviamorim5 жыл бұрын
It must be a really small window indeed then. I was eleven when this came out and I remember very clearly that I felt sad that my friends liked it. I didn't even want to argue about it and call it bad, I just kind of left them and went home. This is probably the first movie I remember that made me more cynical about movies. It was that bad.
@MasterKoala7775 жыл бұрын
I loved it when I saw it in the theater in 1996 at 20 years old. I saw it again recently (bought the DVD) and well... it just couldn't live up to the memory. But I agree that it was quite a spectacle when I first saw it. In my mind back then, it was going to be a classic forever.
@Boobalopbop4 жыл бұрын
I agree, 100%... This is the classic, just sit back and enjoy type of movie. It's got fun, interesting characters, real and of the world level stakes, it's exciting... Its great for what it is. And who doesn't love President Pullman's speech?? Hating thislbie is anti-American, lol. There, I said it.
@Boobalopbop4 жыл бұрын
@@MasterKoala777 That's how I feel about Forrest Gump. When I first saw it at like 13, it was the greatest movie ever... Now I can't stomach it. Same goes for Titanic.
@Playbahnosh4 жыл бұрын
I.D. was one of the best popcorn movies of my childhood. It was the talk of the school and a mainstay at movie nights, even here in Hungary. I watched it so many times, I could basically recite the entire movie line-by-line from memory. And I wasn't the only one by far. Mike says the movie is made for stupid idiots. I say there is nothing wrong with a movie that's accessible and easy to understand. I could watch this with my parents, my friends or even alone, and all had a great time every time. The story is straightforward, the characters have clear motivations, they are fun and there is never a dull moment from start to finish. No, ID4 is not a deep and meaningful Oscar bait, artsy high-cinema bullshit or a 5 hour long drama with a billion twists and turns. Not every sci-fi has to be Blade Runner or Space Odyssey. ID4 is a simple popcorn action movie, full of popculture references, cheesy one-liners and catchphrases, and a metric f-ton of action. The main thing is, it doesn't try to be anything else. You can say it's corny or dumb, but I can still watch I.D. today and have the same amount of fun I had all those decades ago. There are very few movies like that.
@joker9273 жыл бұрын
25 year old, simple escapism popcorn film with sweet explosions and a happy ending. Zero complaints about this film.
@stevenloube67843 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@sideways51532 жыл бұрын
It’s a flat C, if you’re gonna grade it. Passing, but not pushing the envelope or being the best it can be.
@joker9272 жыл бұрын
@@sideways5153 to each there own. I've watched this movie 20 times and seen a lot of Oscar winners only once.
@chillhour61552 жыл бұрын
@@sideways5153 yeah I watch movies as a moviegower not a critic
@iDGF9999 ай бұрын
My only complaint has always been the kid's mysterious illness. It always felt unnecessary
@DrSmokeTrees8 жыл бұрын
I don't get it. Does Mike like Action Schlock, or not? He didn't like Civil War because it was "too serious and comics are Schlock". He did like BvS "Because it *was* Schlock".... and he doesn't like ID4 because its Schlock.... Inconsistent much?
@thefox19018 жыл бұрын
He definitely can't seem to decide if he likes schlock or not. Well, neither can just about anyone. It usually comes down to whether or not a cheesy movie makes you feel like you are being sandblasted or not.
@lodestarrobot8 жыл бұрын
+The Fox is it good schlock or bad schlock? That's usually what defines wether it's like able or not
@Armadio218 жыл бұрын
I always feel like Mike would just be a massive dickhead if you ever met him on the street. The idea that comics and comicbook movies are schlock and can only be or should only ever be schlock is just seems so arrogant to me.
@HawkOfGP8 жыл бұрын
I think that whether a movie is Enjoyable depends on a lot of factors to do with the person watching and it's not actually about whether the movies is "schlock" at all. I would like it if Mike and Jay would go deeper into articulating what makes the difference between good and bad schlock in their view. Could be an interesting discussion. What I don't like in the comment section is people making this conclusion that Mike and Jay must be hypocrites cause they like dumb movie A, but not dumb movie B. I think this is false comparison. Is every movie that is "smart" good? I don't think so. And very clearly not every dumb movie is unenjoyable. Sometimes "dumb" just works better than in an another context, and I think the reasons for this can be quite complex and different people will obviously have different views on this. In short, it is entirely reasonable and consistent to like some dumb movies, but not all dumb movies, because the dumbness of movie is not the only thing that matters and there is more than one type or level of dumb that a movie can be.
@Fargoth_Ur8 жыл бұрын
BvS is "schlock" is a way that it's so full of itself, but tone-deaf in it's execution, that most of what you're supposed to take seriously just comes out as comical. Independence Day just grabs a bunch of generic elements, throws them together, and acts as though it's following in the grand Spielbergian tradition of blockbusters. But it just lacks any of the charm or inventiveness of those movies, and also isn't so inept and terrible that it becomes schlocky in a funny way. It's just dull and groan-worthy for anyone whose seen this kind of story played out. I really can't comprehend why people jump to the conclusion that this line of thinking is "inconsistent". Even if that weren't the case, this isn't a hard science you can accurately quantify and measure. It's just two people giving their subjective opinions and their reasoning behind reaching said opinions.
@tituschow8 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't mention the president's inspirational speech. They should of called the sequel "Memorial Day."
@johnlee7164 Жыл бұрын
Mike, it's the 90s, so this movie has big 90s energy. US Air Force, internet, computer viruses, Area 51, UFOs, X-Files, grey men world coming together for world peace. There's actually some novels (yuuup) where the other countries manage to take down the city ship attacking their country.
@deadNightwatchman Жыл бұрын
Independence Day novels???
@makingastardestroyer3066 Жыл бұрын
@@deadNightwatchman yeah I want it too
@azchris19793 жыл бұрын
I worked in a theater when I was a kid and this movie came out. The management warned us that it would be crazy and it really was underwhelming when it actually happened.
@priqq14 жыл бұрын
My favorite part of this movie is seeing all the intact palm trees among all the destruction as will Smith's girlfriend, son, and dog leaving the tunnel
@PasCorrect8 жыл бұрын
The world needs a compilation video called "Mike's Top 10 'Dumb People Cheer' Moments."
@dmayres Жыл бұрын
This and Jurassic Park were the first true Summer blockbuster movies I experienced at the cinema. I was 12 when this came out, great memories! Shame the sequels have all been dreadful
@deepstatethrombosis4 жыл бұрын
There's only one Alien movie that holds its own amongst all others, a timeless classic with the most realistic & pragmatic examination of what would REALLY happen if aliens came to our world & they were hostile... Mars Attacks.
@rishieastwood76963 жыл бұрын
Graphics sucked in that to be honest.
@rickylovesyou3 жыл бұрын
That movie was so bad..so so bad.
@strahaironscale5713 жыл бұрын
@@rickylovesyou only if you are stupid, oh so stupid
@JuliusCaesar8882 жыл бұрын
When the Martians are running around incinerating everyone, and they're carrying speaker blaring "Do not run, we are your friends!"
@johnnythewalrus2 жыл бұрын
Lol I hate that movie
@twolittleturtleshts18174 жыл бұрын
I cheer every time that dog makes it through the door. Every single time.
@diehounderdoggenalt4 жыл бұрын
Because I like dogs and they didn't do anything to warrant being on a Roland Emmerich picture.
@jokerz79368 жыл бұрын
Real Question when the Aliens invade will we still be able to get some of that juicy Shaq meat?
@robball10007 жыл бұрын
Wouldnt you cross the vast ocean of space for juicy shaq meat?
@dinosaurspy70967 жыл бұрын
That S-meat is a resource!
@MercuryAlphaInc4 жыл бұрын
The thing I liked about Independence Day was that the Aliens were actually getting the win and destroying important places all over the planet. Usually, it's just American City A, B and C that get attacked and destroyed, but here it kind of felt like it could've been the end had they not had their way in with the crashed Roswell ship. Granted, the movie came out when I was 6 years old and I loved it back then, so seeing something like this could instill a real feeling of dread for a kid.
@Ken-fh4jc10 ай бұрын
Good thing none of the aliens noticed the nuke hanging from the bottom.
@thepangwin902 Жыл бұрын
You gotta give the movie some credit for the blowing up the cities part. That was some cutting edge crazy back in the day. All the critiques are valid though.
@ryukagesama8 жыл бұрын
There is an important distinction between criticizing a film and that film's favored audience. It's better not to insult the latter, BUT if you are going to insult the latter, you should at least build an argument against the FILM first. It's not a cerebral film, but it does have the hallmarks, tropes and character archtypes of the old sci-fi films, but are shown in what was a modern period. This enabled contemporary audiences to empathize with the events going on in the film. Obsessively watching cable news for a slow trickle of uninformed updates; The varied responses to the invasion: parties, riots, frantic evacuations; The involvement of heroes from many demographics, from different groups in society: politicians, military (both command and front line soldier/pilot, scientists, and most importantly schmoes/regular joes. All these things make the events more relatable and entertaining. It largely comes down to the willful suspension of disbelief, and more specificly whether you are watching these events unfold OR are watching the film/filmmakers relay this story to their audience. Not everybody to saw this movie, paying audience or critics, liked this movie, but most did. And some will say that the movie is dumb and that they didn't "get the feels" from this movie, and that's okay. Just don't say we're stupid for ENJOYING it.
@DIEGhostfish8 жыл бұрын
But in a universe where Roswell actually WAS an alien encounter SETI would definitely be manned.
@dklustick3 жыл бұрын
A million times YES.
@thundarrisaboss27252 жыл бұрын
i went to pulp fiction to see a film. i went to ID to see big alien ships, and explosions. i wasnt disappointed by either.
@davidferrara1105 Жыл бұрын
I bet you went to Cheesecake Factory after. And wore beige.
@Flavorful_Chunt2 жыл бұрын
Best part of this episode is Jay making somewhat unfair comments to the point that Mike is forced to defend the movie hahahahahahaha
@kawatika4 жыл бұрын
Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith made me enjoy this movie. Also because it's one of the few Emmerich films with no annoying, detestable, punchable kids.
@christophercarrasco1543 жыл бұрын
Lmao "punchable kids"
@HumanHamCube2 жыл бұрын
This and Stargate.
@TheSolidSnakeOil2 жыл бұрын
@@HumanHamCube It's easy to forget Emmerich made Stargate because it's nothing like his other movies. My only complaint is with the constant close-ups.
@HumanHamCube2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSolidSnakeOil i work a lot on Emmerich films our studio partners with him regularly hes an interesting guy.
@xtzyshuadog2 жыл бұрын
*Leave. My director's. Name.*
@wideboi51794 жыл бұрын
Every time I see the Dog moment i bust out laughing because when I was kid, my friend was saying "kibbles and bits, kibbles and bits, KIBBLES AND BITS!!!" like the commercial and his timing with the movie was perfect. I laughed so hard I ruined the movie for everyone in the theatre.
@RupertWins2 жыл бұрын
That's brilliant
@tnfpodcast Жыл бұрын
That's hilarious.
@D00dlebugInc5 ай бұрын
Am I misremembering, or doesn't the president mind link with an alien and explain that the aliens strip planets of resources and then move on?
@frenchyroastify2 жыл бұрын
I saw this when it was released in the theatres. I just wanted to see the special effects. When all the cities got blowed up and the smoke settled, I walked out knowing the ending wouldn't be worth waiting for.