Yesterday, Did You Celebrate Our 'Independence Day'?

To only watch Independence Day on July 4th and not at least watch 1776 as well is a lower form of treason, in my mind.

Do you love America? Yes.

Do you consider yourself a Patriot? Yes.

Do you consider yourself to be reverent? Yes.

Did you spend three hours of your day watching the Director's Cut of 1776 yesterday? No...

If those are your answers, then it should be off to the gallows with you...

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I watched ID4 yesterday! With the help of RiffTrax commentary:

http://www.rifftrax.com/rifftrax/independence-day

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I spent the day drinking beer and hanging with friends. (Just like our forefathers!!)

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I had a "darker side of the American dream" Cagney-Walsh double feature of The Roaring Twenties and White Heat.

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I watched The Music Man for the Americana (and Robert Preston not dying), Independence Day because, god help me, it makes me proud to be human, and then the director's cut of 1776 on TCM.

Love Indepence Day. Loved it when I first saw it in 96 and love it still today. It's fun, it's harmless and the President's speech is a guaranteed tearjerker in my house.

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i watched arrested development and the brood. now THAT is all-American activity. (even if cronenberg is canadian)

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Arrested Development is close. Ann (Mae Whitman) played the
President's daughter in ID4.

It was actually the first time in many many years that I did not watch it. I did quote it a good ten or so times.

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I would rather watch "Dazed and Confused"

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I started watching it, but by the time i got to the part where the ships had settled over their targets, it was midnight I was tired, and nobody else wanted to watch it. :(.

But I love the movie, its one of the few movies that doesn't get old for me. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are perfect together.

"Welcome to Earth!"

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Tenth!

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I watched parts yesterday, and some of it today, but I was out all day, swimming and enjoying the weather...in Trenton, unfortunately. In any case, I've always been a big fan of ID4, and probably always will be. It is totally cheesy, but it's got a lot of great actors, an early blockbuster-y Will Smith (which to me, is always fun) and it's just a good ol' fashioned end of the world flick. I watch it every once in awhile if it's on and I'm pretty sure I've still got a VHS copy lying around somewhere.

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I only viewed this film once. And, sadly, I'll never get those two hours of my life back.

I guess that pretty much sums up what I thought of this film.

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Jaws. Every 4th.

...and some classic twilight zone.

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I caught most of it on tv on Thursday. I loved it back in 1996, but I guess I was the right age at the time to love it, about 14 years old. I wasn't tired of Will Smith yet, the effects still looked new and awesome, the aliens were really cool, and it had DATA! Only, he was playing a REAL person, and not an android!

Now, I still think it's a fun movie. I'm kind of tired of Will Smith's schtick, the effects are a bit dated, I can't even remember the name of the actor that played Data anymore, and South Park's constant jabs at Independence Day have forced me to laugh at it in parts that are meant to be serious. But I still think it holds up well as just fun, semi-plausible escapism.

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I watched Unforgiven. It takes place during the week of Independence Day.

Little Bill Daggett: You been talking about that Queen of yours, again, Bob? [punches him] On Independence Day?

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I watch it every year- however I watch the first part (July 2nd) on July 2nd...and so forth.

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I watched in glorious HD Smokey and the Bandit (occurs during 4th of July), The River (honest hard working Americans), and Backdraft (Fire Fighting Americans). It certainly fueled my patriotism this weekend.

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Very few summer popcorn films have even come close to the FUN time that was Independence Day since its release. That is a FACT-
My take-http://blog.entertainmenttodayandbeyond.com/2009/07/05/roland-emmerich%e2%80%99s-independence-day-a-look-back/

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ID4 is one those movies that could have been so much better if they did one little thing. Cut down on the sarcasm. Every actor had such heavy dose of sarcasm that movie became less about an alien invasion and more about actor's egos.

If you're going to make a science-fiction film, please don't insult the source material with a bunch of one-liners.

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