correct!

Considering inflation. 890 Mil bucks is a huge deal right now

@@bolobalaman yes indeed! let's spend it all on (un to this day still) crapy expensive computers and make Bill Gates even more disgustingly filthy rich for no reason and vote him for president who will become the antichrist! mmwwuuhahahhhaaaahaaaaaahhh! 👹😧

Nice research 🎉

So, doesn’t change the point but those numbers are way off, I’m sure just a simple mistake pulling numbers from somewhere and not catching it but the numbers OP gives would make the ships larger than the distance from the earth to the moon (~250,000 miles at farthest) and so far far larger than even the earth. The diameter of the moon is 2,159 miles (3,475 km). The mothership is supposed to be about 600 km across, still huge though.

The mothership "over 500 miles in diameter" at its widest point. Each of the saucer ships is 15 miles in diameter but some of the shots make them look way bigger, especially the NYC ones.

@@callmeshaggy5166 I was sleepy when i typed that comment. Idk where i got 270k from. I even stated in my comment how it's a quarter the size of the moon which would obviously be more like 500 ish miles wide. My mistake

@@RocketSurgn_ I was tired when i made my orgininal comment. Idk where i got 270k from. I even stated in my comment how it's a quarter the size of the moon which would be more like 500 ish miles wide 🤦‍♂

Yes Brent spinner Dara on Star Trek

He tried worm farmin' but.........

Great now that you said DATA… I need to see his “life form” song from generations… lol

@@sabrecatsmiladon7380 They were seduced by the glamour of it all.

@@syn420951”tiny little life forms”

Steve had invited her to stay at the base after her work shift. That's why he suspected she would be there. Luckily, she got there after it was attacked.

God I always forget about shit like that when watching these old movies. I was 11 when this came out so I don't question that stuff because I REMEMBER living in those times, when even Caller ID was a new luxury that was a clunky BOX with a screen that hooked up between the wall and the phone. My dad owned a radio communications business back then so my family had beepers to get ahold of each other. My mom was super fancy because she had a dash-mounted CAR PHONE with the huge brick transmitter in the trunk, and it wasn't even cordless! It had one of those coiled phone cords connecting it to the holster. We didn't have a reliable dial-up internet source in my family's home until 1999 and I didn't get my first cell phone - one of the Nokia bricks with the one inch black and white screen and interchangeable faceplates - until my 16th birthday in September of 2000. But even then it didn't have texting because IT WAS TOO EXPENSIVE. If you didn't have a stupidly expensive unlimited texting plan, text messages cost 10-15¢ EACH with T9 input. Pop-out keyboards wouldn't become a standard thing until the mid-to-late '00s when I was in college. God we're getting old. 😂

Think we're about the same age, I started college in 1994!

Also makes sense that should the military push back, their old bases would make sense as a place for any civilian survivors to show up :)

_Top Gun: Maverick_ comes close.

@@Stevarooni Totally agree, that was awesome in a packed theater.

That's how I saw _Revenge of the Sith_ and the way the theater EXPLODED when Yoda drew his lightsaber is something I'll never forget. I also saw Jurassic Park in a packed theater although I was only 9 years old so I was too absorbed in the movie to notice what everybody else was doing. That T-Rex car chase and the raptors in the kitchen shortened my little life by about five years, I think. lol The only thing that has come close to that experience since then was _Avengers: Endgame._

@@kriscynical All great crowd movies! That must have been quite the experience with the T-Rex at 9 years old, haha. I imagine there were dreams of being chased by that and the raptors...which also happened to me after seeing ALIEN at 11 years old 😁

@@kirk1968 OH GOD I can only imagine what the chest burster did to your poor little head! Jurassic Park is tame compared to _that._ 😂

Plus a president that can give an actual speech to inspire and motivate…

Hacking an alien ship with a virus is such nonsense I couldn't bear it back then. I mean, a Mac virus doesn't work on Windows (in the slightest), yet in a few minutes he can whip up a virus to disable an alien mothership when he has no knowledge of their systems whatsoever, and not even a clue about the hardware to even deliver it. Atomic head smack there. The right idea was to just deliver the nuke immediately, then hope the satellite motherships would die.

If slightly hokey

@@wheelz8240 no its not.

It's a good speech and a good moment but greatest motivational speech in film? Uh, no.

Welcome to Earth.

" with your dreadlocks sticking out of my parachute "

That "What the hell was that smell?" and the kicking of the alien was completely improvised.

I COULDA BEEN AT A BBQ!!

Technically there IS a 50s version…kind of… War of the worlds…it set the frame work for the majority of alien invasion type movies, like this, Mars attacks, amongst many others

It’s largely a research and development base, shrouded in secrecy… Not to be “that guy” , but might have been more accurate to say “is rumoured to have…” as opposed to “they are meant to have…” Personally I reckon that with the govs track record, IF there is any evidence of life beyond our planet, it would be there, but as there’s no concrete proof, to act as if it’s definite and any attempts to deny are further proof is a slope you don’t wanna slide down

The man dissed his wife on national TV. I'd do the same thing. Jokes are one thing, personal attacks are another

And _War of the Worlds_ (2005)

And Contact with Jodie Foster. The found footage movie Area 51 is pretty awesone too!

That's the best speech in any movie period!.....imo

Too bad of all the “learnt behaviour” from movies that got picked up in real life…that wasn’t one of them…lol

Lucky dog

Sadly it’s directors other movie made at the same time, with the same composer, and a similar aesthetic feel to its design wasn’t as well received at the time as it was a bit more “cerebral” STARGATE

@@trayolphia5756 I LOVED Stargate! I haven't watched that one in YEARS. I need to remedy that.

@@kriscynical I recently started a friend down that path, whenever our work schedules per,it they come over and we get through a disc worth of SG-1…started with the movie, and about 1/3 of the way through season 5 am they are LOVING it I anticipate many tears soon as she mentioned her fave character is Daniel…

@@trayolphia5756 I've never actually watched the TV series but my late uncle was a big fan of it. 😊

@@kriscynical it’s well worth a watch, and has become easier to do so since it’s now streaming… There was a total of 17 seasons (proper 21-24 episode long seasons not the 8-9 BS on Netflix lol) and two direct to DVD movies. Enjoy, like anything it takes time for the proverbial snowball to build some momentum down the slope, but once it gets going… 🤩🤩🤩

That's the best speech in any movie period!.....imo

And it almost wasn't in the movie! They were going to cut it but it ended up being so explosive and awesome that they had to keep it in.

@@kriscynical good thing they DID keep it…modern real life politicians need to learn from the example…THAT is a good presidential speech…as opposed to what we’ve gotten in recent years…

@@trayolphia5756 The only comparable cadence and true speaking charisma I've seen before or since was Obama, really. Agree with his politics or not (I really don't want to get off on that track), you can't deny he's an amazing orator.

@@kriscynical I wasn’t trying to divert to that track either, hence why I didn’t specify names/parties :) 👍✌️

There have been examples of triple term presidents throughout American history though haven’t there?

@@trayolphia5756 No one ever served more than two terms until Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Democrat FDR was elected in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944. In retaliation, Republicans in Congress passed the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution in 1947, which took effect in 1951, limiting election to the presidency to two terms. Ironically, the only presidents after that in the 20th century popular enough to have been elected three times were Republicans, but. . . too late, no longer allowed.

@@trayolphia5756 Only Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was elected to four terms, dying in office shortly after beginning his fourth term. Prior to FDR no other president served more than two terms; it was considered an informal tradition that a POTUS should not serve more than two, though theoretically they could. And there were a scant few that did attempt (unsuccessfully) to run for third terms, both consecutively and non-consecutively. In 1951, during Harry Truman's second term as POTUS (as FDR's Vice President he succeeded him when he died - serving nearly a full term, and won election for another term in 1948) we ratified the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution which limits a President to serving only two full terms, or one if they succeed to the presidency for more than 2 years. The text of the amendment allowed for a technical exception for Truman to perhaps run for a third term, but he didn't. Naturally of course there have been none since.

These are dead in their little ship.

At least you still have _Independence Day_ 🙂

These two had an interesting theory that the plan to defeat the aliens involved blowing them. I like the way they think.

@@Mr.Ekshin I agree with you I like how they think. They make some interesting assumptions during movies too. Thanks for the cool reply.

If you do - bring tissues I still tear up if I ever hear “bright eyes”

indeed, those are so good !

Yeah, if ol' Will had really come down like that for a _real_ jump? ... diagnosis: two busted ankles! In his next movie, he would've been filming from a wheelchair, or using a pair of crutches - plus regular doses of Tylenol-3!