| | Independence Day DVD (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Action/Adventure DVDs, Action Movies, Horror Videos, Adventure, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Aliens, Futuristic, Blockbuster, Disasters, Big Battles, High Flying | | Starring | Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Will Smith, Randy Quaid, Vivica A. Fox, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Harry Connick, Jr., Judd Hirsch, James Duval, Mary McDonnell, Harvey Fierstein, Margaret Colin | | Director | Roland Emmerich | | Composer | David Arnold | | Costume Designer | Joseph A. Porro | | Director of Photography | Karl Walter Lindenlaub | | Editor | David Brenner | | Producer | Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich, William Fay, Peter Winther, Ute Emmerich, Lincoln D. Hiatt
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Closed Captioned; Additional Footage; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Academy Awards; Director's Comments INDEPENDENCE DAY is a pyrotechnic, futuristic, disaster, action mondo-adventure about aliens attacking Earth and humans giving them the big boot. When mountain-sized flying saucers open fire on the world's cities, a ragtag band of colorful characters sets out to bring the alien critters to their pseudopodic knees. Borrowing liberally from science fiction classics like WAR OF THE WORLDS and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and a host of disaster movies from TOWERING INFERNO to METEOR, ID4 maintains a mindless mission to entertain with dazzling special effects and unabashed feel-good charm. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound, Best Visual Effects. Academy Awards: Best Visual Effects. With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and WAR OF THE WORLDS. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's most important cities, creating global panic. The nasty visitors use death rays to blow New York, Washington D.C, and Los Angeles to smithereens. A handful of plucky Americans, including the Clinton-esque President (Bill Pullman), a gung-ho fighter pilot (Will Smith) and a computer geek named David (Jeff Goldblum), attempt to devise a strategy against the invaders.
On July 4th, their risky plan is put into effect, as dozens of fighter pilots (including the President) wage an assault on the spaceships. However, their success (and the fate of the world) depends on David, who is attempting to disarm the aliens's mothership. Released theatrically in the USA Tuesday July 2, 1996.
Color by DeLuxe; in Super 35 Panavision widescreen; digitally mastered in THX.
"Independence Day" earned $100 million at the box office in just seven days -- which is faster than any other film ever made.
Additional cast: Ross Bagley (Dylan).
Additional credits: Pamela Klamer and Julia Levine (set design); Terry Clotiaux (visual effects producer); Joseph Viskocil (miniature pyrotechnics/mechanical effects supervisor); Michael Joyce (model shop supervisor); Peter Winther (associate producer) and Jonathan Taylor (second unit camera). Independence Day Quotes/Excerpts: "You know how I'm always trying to save the planet? Well, here's my chance." -- David Levinson (JEFF GOLDBLUM)
"What's the rush? You think we'll get to Washington, it won't be there?" -- Julius Levinson (JUDD HIRSCH), to his son, David Levinson (JEFF GOLDBLUM), while the two frantically drive to the capital city.
"Welcome to Earth." -- Capt. Steven Hiller (Will Smith), after punching the daylights out of an alien who has crash-landed in Arizona. Independence Day Reviews: "...For fun, fright and thrills, there's not a wilder joy ride around..."
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone "...INDEPENDENCE DAY fulfills the promise of the movies: to deliver the audience out of the everyday and into the sensational..."
-- Liese Spencer, Sight and Sound "...A rousing state-of-the-art cartoon capped by an aerial-combat climax..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today "...Witty, of-the-moment fun." -- Rating: B+
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "...A spectacularly scaled mix of '50s-style alien invader science fiction, '70s disaster epics and all-season gung-ho military actioners..."-- Todd McCarthy, Variety Independence Day | List Price | $26.98 (You save $5.49) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1996 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  21366  | | CD Universe Part number | 5984949 | | Catalog number | 2005848 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Sep 23, 2003 | | Rating | PG-13 (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | For sci-fi destruction and violence. | | Also Known As | ID4 | | Running Time | 145 Minutes | | Additional Info | Special Edition; Digipak | | Movie Details | Color; Special Edition; Digipak; 2-Disc Digipak Set; Collector's Edition |
Independence Day Movie Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  IDIV Still the One
The newly enhanced special edition version of Inde[pendence Day just makes more clear the staying power of this great little film. I use it in my first-year composition classes as inspiration for the final writing project of the semester, and this version is even better than the theatrical release. The quality of the picture and sound is marvelous, the nine-minute addition makes sense, and the story has immediate appeal in our post-9/11 world. Sci-fi fans will have fun finding all the allusions to movies past, and a new generation of kids will root for Will Smith in his dogfight with an alien craft. This movie--and this version--create a win-win for everyone.
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Great "what if?" story. Good characters & story. Great special effects. Highly recommend this movie - even for non-sci-fi viewers.
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This review is for a different format. One of the Will Smith's Best Movies.
Great Special effects, on the edge of your seat action.
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This review is for a different format. This is Why we celebrate Indepedence Day.
I was watching the Movie in High-Definition and I must say the special effect are four words: "Phenomenonal, Five-Star blockbuster." The real stars of the show are the special effects when you watch the show on high-definiton television the movie comes alive.
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This review is for a different format. ANTI-VIRUS ALIENS?
Great movie except for the fact that they defeat these SUPER advanced aliens with a simple virus created with a Macbook from freakin 1995. Not cool but whatever. The ariel fights kick arse here.
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Independence Day DVD 2-Disc Set
Region 1
Digipak
Disc 1: INDEPENDENCE DAY - Feature Presentation
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary:
1. Roland Emmerich - Director, Dean Delvin - Producer
2. Voker Engle - Special Effects Supervisor, Doug Smith - Special Effects Supervisor
Interactive Features:
Additional Interactive Features - Choose Between the Theatrical or Special Edition Versions of the Film
Disc 2: INDEPENDENCE DAY - Supplemental Materials
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Scenes: Original Biplane Ending Sequence
Behind the Scenes:
1. "Creating Reality" (30 min.)
2. "ID4 Reality" (22 min.)
3. HBO First Look: "Independence Day" (33 min.)
Interactive Features:
Interactive Games
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photo Galleries - Production Stills
Galleries:
1. Storyboards
2. Original Artwork
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