Just for Fun Friday: Independence Day (the movie)

Just for Fun Friday: Independence Day... Weekend Wrap-up July 5

Just for Fun Friday: Independence Day (the movie)

Four score and seven months ago—

“It came out in 1996.“

Not everyone likes a sci-fi movie, but I do. Independence Day (directed by Roland Emmerich) delivers on many levels. As good as special effects are these days, this movie’s still holds up today, from the spaceships, to the aliens, to the explosions.

The plot is the typical alien invasion trope with the humans emerging victorious in the end (after the mandated “Rah, rah, Americans are soooo great” speech), but still has enough uniqueness to keep it interesting.

Will Smith, who is always funny (when he’s not slapping people) in his delivery is the star of the show, but his partner played by Jeff Goldblum also turns in an entertaining performance. Lt. Commander Data (yes, but Brett Spiner will always be Data to me) plays a slightly batty scientist holed up in Area 51, and Randy Quaid is perfect as a drunken army vet before he went all conspiracy theory on us. Finally, Judd Hirsch, as Goldblum’s father is the voice of reason thought the chaos.

Oh, yeah. Bill Pulman is…well, Bill Pulman. Slightly dry and bland.

And in the time honored tradition of taking a great movie and sullying it with a sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence was released on June 24, 2016.

-Leon

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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

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