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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: INDEPENDENCE DAY (WIDE SCREEN/SINGLE DIS (DVD
EAN: 0024543036685
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Running Time: 153 minutes
Sales Rank: 7903
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: July 03, 1996
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
On July 2nd communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos. A number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth that are revealed to be gigantic alien spacecraft. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere an ex-scientist turned cable technician discovers that the aliens are going to attack. On July 3rd the aliens destroy New York Los Angeles and Washington. The survivors devise a plan to fight back and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day...System Requirements: Running Time 153 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 UPC: 024543036685 Manufacturer No: 2003668
Amazon.com essential video:
In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - war of the worlds
I don't know how to explain to somebody that likes this why this movie sucks. Here's a few random things that come to mind: Will Smith is an uninteresting actor except for when he was in MEN IN BLACK and some other movie I can't remember the title of. Bill Pullman is the president. The president is one of the heros of the movie. LAME. Presidents are cowards and frauds that would hide in a bunker somewhere. The plot is dumb and sucks; particularly the silly backstory between the president and Jeff ... Read More
Rating:  - Brilliant entertainment
You don't need the philosophies of Plato or Schopenhauer or Descartes to watch this film. Watch it for what it is: an suspenseful action-packed sci-fi film. Although it does seem a bit long (just over 140 minutes), the film doesn't seem to drag at all. The subplots are interesting, and the special effects won't really disappoint. The actors and their characters are memorable (the chemstry between Goldblum and Hirsch is a plus for the father-and-son genre). David Arnold's music is spectacular, and ... Read More
Rating:  - Flawed yet still fun disaster flick
Before superpowered crimefighting men in tights dominated the summer movie landscape, there were asteroids (Armageddon, Deep Impact), tornadoes (Twister), and giant lizards (Godzilla) destroying national landmarks that caused people to flock to their air-conditioned movie theaters in the summer months. But the film that seemingly started it all was 1996's Independence Day.
Directed by Roland Emmerich and produced by Emmerich and his partner (or in most cases, co-offender) Dean Devlin, ... Read More
Rating: - Good character developments & acting. Special effects were good at that time but not good compared to movies of the last 4 years
It has good character developments and acting. The special effects were good at that time but not good compared to movies of the last 4 years. It's worth watching.
Rating: - Independence Day
I lost my original copy in the divorce. This is a cool movie.
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