If you describe this movie to someone who's never seen it it would sound like an unimaginative, formulaic B-Movie with a big budget, and while it kind of is all of those things it is still one of the most entertaining movies ever.
This is such an important movie to my family. My dad says that David has the same career as he does, a video engineer. I think he recognized some of the terminology. He also picks up on a lot of the sci-fi gags.
I love "Independence Day" so much that when the sequel sucked as badly as it did, I was actually INSULTED. Like: "How dare you make such a crappy sequel to a CULT CLASSIC?!!?"
Well, the positive side of the story is that you could enjoy a whole room on your own, without people talking or watching their mobiles every 10min. with the screen brightness at 1000%
The scene where Will Smith drags the alien across the desert was not filmed at the Great Salt Lake, but on the Bonneville Salt Flats west of the Great Salt Lake. I lived there for many years including when Independence Day was filmed.
The ghostwriter of many movies is from Logan Utah. Star Wars, BTTF, E.T., Indiana Jones and hundreds more. Borg Drive in Sandy Utah is where his aunt used to live. STTNG.
Still hoping for a return as 3D printing is getting more widespread. That allows them to use the same 3D models for both the miniature effects and the CGI, which should let them get the best ouf of both worlds, you'd think.
I have seen Independence Day over 100 times and will watch it 1000 times more. It was a great day in American when Jeff Golbum and Will smith teamed up to save the world.
That introduction is simply fantastic. It gets me the same feels as the actual one in the movie. Also congratulations for making me finally comment on a video for the first time ever!
21: At one point the studio wanted to change the name of the movie, but Roland Emmerich wasn't having it. So he decided to include the words "Independence Day" in the iconic speech to ensure that the name stayed.
The dialogue "Must go faster" isn't just a nod to Goldblum in Jurassic Park, it is actually the same audio, lifted from JP. Also, Dean Devlin was in Real Genius, which always blows my mind.
Brandon Murphy I absolutely LOVE Real Genius, but I didn’t know about Dean Devlin being in it, lol! I will have to check that out. “Kent, stop playing with yourself.” “It really IS God.” 😂😂😂
I’m pretty sure H.G.Wells didn’t include El Toro US Airforce base in “his story”, being set about 100 years earlier than ID4 and all. The US movie version, yes...Wells original story, definitely not
I mean, we all knew what he meant. He was showing clips, after all, of the original "War of the Worlds" film, that aired in 1956. Seemed pretty obvious to me he was really referring to that. Or has "Social Distancing" truly made us this nitpicky?
Also: there were no airplanes, let alone an air station, in H.G. Well's book. The book was written in 1898, and the most modern thing was a machine gun in the book.
Independence Day remains one of my favorite sci-fi movies to this very day (John Carpenter's The Thing is my absolute favorite though). Clearly the thought and efforts put into this flick by the cast, crew and writers really paid off nicely. Too bad the same care was not executed in the lame sequel.
It was the first time I ever walked out of the theater part way through. I tried to prepare myself for disappointment but it wasn't enough. Such a let down.
When I saw this in the theater when it first came out the scene of David opening his laptop and Hal saying good morning and I began laughing then realized I was the only one in that very full theater that caught the joke.
No. The air force base in this movie is not the same one used in HG Wells's War of the Worlds. How do i know? Because Wells's story in set in the time and place it was written, ie Victorian England. Not too many US air force bases back then I think. The 1950s movie of the same name had very little to do with Wells's story, but the air force base comes from that movie.
They just cannot pay attention to what they are talking about half the time. One second he is talking about the original movie, then instead of saying it was the same air force base as that, they go to the original story, which as you say, was certainly not set at any kind of non existant at the time air force base. But this is also a bunch of guys who mention the toy fire engine being the only model used in that scene as all the other cars were hollowed out stunt cars, then later says pretty much all the cars in the film were scale models.
He said “story” instead of movie. Clearly it was simply slip of the tongue. That Air Force base was in fact the one used in both MOVIES. The base was built in 1943 and decommissioned a few years after ID4 was wrapped up. So yes, it did exist during the time period of the Wells story and movie. You guys all took a little mistake and ran with it like he has no idea what he’s talking about. Y’all are basic af lol
I didnt watch this movie untill ten years after it came out. For one reason i worked in a video rental shop when it came out on VHS and we had a whole wall in the shop with the new releases for rental and it was filled with copies of Independence Day well i had to clean and dust all the boxes at the weekends and i slipped on the step ladder while cleaning and ended up on the floor with a pile of VHS boxes ontop of me as i had taken one of the wall displays down with me. And well i hated this movie for years after that😂
Saw this movie three times in theatres alone. Because, as a teenager, I just LOVED violent sci-fi movies, and never bothered to question the logic behind them.
This video is so good in the beginning and then gets progressively worse, with "things you missed" slowly becoming "things you can't possibly miss". Maybe I'd give it a like anyway, but I have a rule never to like any video with "nukelar" instead of "nuclear" in it, so there.
very true - he makes up some random point about the "thinking cap", wondering out loud why it is that this person would simulate putting on a cap from the front rather than grabbing the brim of some jaunty gentleman's hat, completely forgetting the cultural background of both the characters and the actors on screen in that scene. Apparently the entire staff of WhatCulture really hasn't heard of culture, as most of the rest of us know what a yarmulke/kippah is, and how they don't have brims to grab onto. :D
Indeed. El Toro is where the doomed Marines in the George Pal film are from, but there is no mention in the actual book. That line actually bothered me more than it should.
Actually I caught the Hal reference & the "virus kills invading aliens just like in War of Worlds" reference the 1st time I saw the movie. A couple of others I noticed later, but the rest I never knew, mostly because I didn't look that hard & was just enjoying the story.
Fun fact in case you didn't know Kevin Spacey was suppose to be President Whitmore. He was going to be a Richard Nixon type of President till the end when he becomes a hero.
Why is it in every film franchise featuring an Alien species they always are in the image of having Digits/Fingers that are not capable of constructing and flying spacecraft?
The scene with Mother ship at the begining, is the same as the opening scene in Star Wars- The New Hope, and you see the kid character Dylan Dubrow is playing with King Ghidorah toy from the Godzilla franchise.
9:06 This one is incorrect. It is the same Air Force base as in the the 1953 movie, Well's story takes place in 1890's England where there was nary an Air Force base to be found.
IDK why it took me so long to finally see this video, but you guys pointing out the bad dub job is one of those things I just happened to catch the first time I saw it in theaters and could never UNsee it after that.
Since you mentioned Chuck Jones from the phone book, I'll point out that you missed a reference to the Looney Tunes short: Duck Dodgers in the 24 and 1/2 Century. When Will Smith backs the alien fighter into the wall and says "whoops" because somebody had the instructions wrong, that's mirroring when Duck Dodgers tried to launch his ship but buried in in the ground. "Whoops! Had the silly thing in reverse."
I was just watching and couldn't help noticing that 1 of the channels on the TV news networks was 51 I thought maybe that was a little easter egg...lol.
I love this movie. I've loved it hundreds of times. Thanks for pointing out new stuff. I think I need to watch it in higher definition on a bigger screen. You've made some electronics dealer very happy.
I knew all of these facts and more. But for the everyday people this may come as a surprise! Thanks Adam. Are you related to that singer named Alex ? He sings that jam from 2011 Too Close!
A colleague of mine and myself worked on the movie and we did # 02 and 14. While many got the 2001 reference, this is the first time I am aware of that someone noticed the phone book entries. We did some more stuff like that, but most of it is on monitors that are somwhere in the background.
I liked the sequel, wait did I say that out loud 😬 Well I did, mind you they really didn’t think of physics when they had the Mothership land did they 🤣
Saw this film a couple days after it came out in theatres. Those were the days.
If you describe this movie to someone who's never seen it it would sound like an unimaginative, formulaic B-Movie with a big budget, and while it kind of is all of those things it is still one of the most entertaining movies ever.
Chalky welcome to Earth...punch
It's a very good movie, wdym unimaginative???
I can't stop laughing. "What is that smell" I said that exact same thing when I first moved to Utah.
The salt flats is decaying brine shrimp apparently and yes it smells
giggityfish I saw the movie in theaters and several dozen time since. I never knew that he was not acting when he said that.
I saw this in the theater. I was 13. And I always thought David’s “thinking cap” was him putting the top of his head back on cause his mind was blown.
I think funniest of all was "was that smell", I bet crew members must have a huge laugh when Will said that line in his unique angry mode.
This is such an important movie to my family. My dad says that David has the same career as he does, a video engineer. I think he recognized some of the terminology. He also picks up on a lot of the sci-fi gags.
I love "Independence Day" so much that when the sequel sucked as badly as it did, I was actually INSULTED. Like: "How dare you make such a crappy sequel to a CULT CLASSIC?!!?"
That was the ultimate introduction.!!
I actually saw the sequel in the theater and I was the only one in the auditorium. 2 hours later, I knew why
* Hancock uhhhh....
@* Hancock Actually, I didn't pay, I had a free pass. But maybe wasting a perfectly good free pass is worse
@* Hancock he wasnt bragging and your comment is embarrassing, for my money he was saying the film was shit.
Well, the positive side of the story is that you could enjoy a whole room on your own, without people talking or watching their mobiles every 10min. with the screen brightness at 1000%
I liked the sequel, as do several people I know, so go figure. :-)
I wouldn’t say I “missed” them Bob
LOL, I love office space!👍
I didn’t miss any of them, my reflexes are too quick. I caught them all.
@@AxeKick80 I understood that reference.
Would you say they “jumped to conclusions” with this title? Maybe they need a mat to play the game properly
Management potential there Djbred28!
The scene where Will Smith drags the alien across the desert was not filmed at the Great Salt Lake, but on the Bonneville Salt Flats west of the Great Salt Lake. I lived there for many years including when Independence Day was filmed.
The ghostwriter of many movies is from Logan Utah. Star Wars, BTTF, E.T., Indiana Jones and hundreds more.
Borg Drive in Sandy Utah is where his aunt used to live. STTNG.
As a fan of miniature effects, they will be missed
yes indeed! The helicopter crash from Diehard was miniature as well.... and STILL looks great! CGI has ruined a lot of good movies.
Still hoping for a return as 3D printing is getting more widespread. That allows them to use the same 3D models for both the miniature effects and the CGI, which should let them get the best ouf of both worlds, you'd think.
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I enjoy it when a person from Great Britain says the words "Independence Day" with a happy and joyous inflection.
I have seen Independence Day over 100 times and will watch it 1000 times more. It was a great day in American when Jeff Golbum and Will smith teamed up to save the world.
Is it weird that Adam's parody of the epic speech also gave me goosebumps? 😄
That into was great. Things like that are why what culture is the only"list" channel I actually like
That introduction is simply fantastic. It gets me the same feels as the actual one in the movie. Also congratulations for making me finally comment on a video for the first time ever!
21: At one point the studio wanted to change the name of the movie, but Roland Emmerich wasn't having it. So he decided to include the words "Independence Day" in the iconic speech to ensure that the name stayed.
the intro was fire!
The dialogue "Must go faster" isn't just a nod to Goldblum in Jurassic Park, it is actually the same audio, lifted from JP.
Also, Dean Devlin was in Real Genius, which always blows my mind.
Brandon Murphy I absolutely LOVE Real Genius, but I didn’t know about Dean Devlin being in it, lol! I will have to check that out.
“Kent, stop playing with yourself.”
“It really IS God.”
😂😂😂
@@susanrobinson910 He also was in the movie Moon 44.
I’m pretty sure H.G.Wells didn’t include El Toro US Airforce base in “his story”, being set about 100 years earlier than ID4 and all.
The US movie version, yes...Wells original story, definitely not
I was just going to point ou tthe same thing.
I mean, we all knew what he meant. He was showing clips, after all, of the original "War of the Worlds" film, that aired in 1956. Seemed pretty obvious to me he was really referring to that. Or has "Social Distancing" truly made us this nitpicky?
El Toro was a fixed wing marine corp air station (Irvine Cal)
You forgot about "David beating Goliath" David vs the Goliath alien invasion 😉
I dragged my friends to see the sequel due to my love of this film. I'm still apologizing to them to this day.
Don't forget the scene with the alien saying "DIE" was sampled on the first track "Release Me" from Infected Mushroom's debut album.
"Humanity was saved by a virus" ...Not this time.
Womp womp.
We're not doomed by one
@@andymiller6661 nope
MCAS El Toro was not an Air Force base. MCAS stands for Marine Corps Air Station.
Also: there were no airplanes, let alone an air station, in H.G. Well's book. The book was written in 1898, and the most modern thing was a machine gun in the book.
Red Five...pogues.🙄....what are they good for? Absolutely nothing...
Another fun fact, when Russell blows up the ship, the explosion is the empire state building explosion upside down
Yeah I was expecting him to say that one too
Independence Day remains one of my favorite sci-fi movies to this very day (John Carpenter's The Thing is my absolute favorite though). Clearly the thought and efforts put into this flick by the cast, crew and writers really paid off nicely. Too bad the same care was not executed in the lame sequel.
@Daniel Rodriguez It certainly is in my opinion! Superior to films like it, such as Alien (which is also great though).
@Daniel Rodriguez True, I agree.
@Daniel Rodriguez Thanks, my friend.
I loved the sequel, as did several of my co-workers, for whatever reason. :-)
I feel like "must go faster" and "good morning dave" were well known, but the rest were new to me.
I got about halfway through the sequel and fell asleep, i never rewatched it.
Yeah it gets even worse at the end so maybe rewatch for some Good laughs
It was the first time I ever walked out of the theater part way through. I tried to prepare myself for disappointment but it wasn't enough. Such a let down.
Kudos for implementing The Speech at the start!
When I saw this in the theater when it first came out the scene of David opening his laptop and Hal saying good morning and I began laughing then realized I was the only one in that very full theater that caught the joke.
If you suspend your disbelief for most of the movie, it turns out to be quite enjoyable
That’s what I do, and I always enjoy the hell out of it. It’s a film made to get audiences cheering, and they succeeded
Miguel Castro that goes for most Emmerich movies...it’s why I love them!
Yup. It makes enjoying dumb action movies like the sequel easy for me.
To be fair I think you have to do that with all Sci-Fi movies...
@@Fifury161 The one thing that nerds never like to admit: "Sci-Fi is the REAL fantasy in fiction!"
legit 'lol' at the beginning w/ the mic
That beginning Speech alone gets my like
No. The air force base in this movie is not the same one used in HG Wells's War of the Worlds. How do i know? Because Wells's story in set in the time and place it was written, ie Victorian England. Not too many US air force bases back then I think. The 1950s movie of the same name had very little to do with Wells's story, but the air force base comes from that movie.
Came to the comments to see if anyone called Adam out about this. Was not disappointed.
I was gonna say that!
I was about to say this as well.
They just cannot pay attention to what they are talking about half the time. One second he is talking about the original movie, then instead of saying it was the same air force base as that, they go to the original story, which as you say, was certainly not set at any kind of non existant at the time air force base.
But this is also a bunch of guys who mention the toy fire engine being the only model used in that scene as all the other cars were hollowed out stunt cars, then later says pretty much all the cars in the film were scale models.
He said “story” instead of movie. Clearly it was simply slip of the tongue. That Air Force base was in fact the one used in both MOVIES. The base was built in 1943 and decommissioned a few years after ID4 was wrapped up. So yes, it did exist during the time period of the Wells story and movie. You guys all took a little mistake and ran with it like he has no idea what he’s talking about. Y’all are basic af lol
you had me at the "good morning" intro ....hahaha
I see what you did there with the Independence day speech and I fucking loved it
I didnt watch this movie untill ten years after it came out. For one reason i worked in a video rental shop when it came out on VHS and we had a whole wall in the shop with the new releases for rental and it was filled with copies of Independence Day well i had to clean and dust all the boxes at the weekends and i slipped on the step ladder while cleaning and ended up on the floor with a pile of VHS boxes ontop of me as i had taken one of the wall displays down with me. And well i hated this movie for years after that😂
Funny, I felt the same way about this film as you did on the floor, but I was sitting in a movie theatre.
Saw this movie three times in theatres alone. Because, as a teenager, I just LOVED violent sci-fi movies, and never bothered to question the logic behind them.
This video is so good in the beginning and then gets progressively worse, with "things you missed" slowly becoming "things you can't possibly miss". Maybe I'd give it a like anyway, but I have a rule never to like any video with "nukelar" instead of "nuclear" in it, so there.
Did you ever see Billy Connolly ripping into George W. Bush for saying "Nucula"?
Someone hasn't read the HG Wells book, as it doesn't have an American airforce base in it
spectrum I don't like when people pronounce nuclear as "new-cue-ler" instead of "new-clear"
very true - he makes up some random point about the "thinking cap", wondering out loud why it is that this person would simulate putting on a cap from the front rather than grabbing the brim of some jaunty gentleman's hat, completely forgetting the cultural background of both the characters and the actors on screen in that scene. Apparently the entire staff of WhatCulture really hasn't heard of culture, as most of the rest of us know what a yarmulke/kippah is, and how they don't have brims to grab onto. :D
You get a like just for the awesomely written opening
Things no one missed in Independence Day: Jeff Goldblum is a national treasure.
Really?!
@@paulrooney8911 he is awesome! 😄
You said what we were all thinking 😂😘
Ok, that was the funniest intro ever.
"Ronald" Emmerich, huh?
I originally missed the Starbucks in the mothership. I would say having one there would be a surprise, but not really. Not any more.
Same Air Base in Wells' story er ahem, nope.
Indeed. El Toro is where the doomed Marines in the George Pal film are from, but there is no mention in the actual book. That line actually bothered me more than it should.
I’m 8th for no reason just am 🤣
Great film just to kick back and enjoy
Actually I caught the Hal reference & the "virus kills invading aliens just like in War of Worlds" reference the 1st time I saw the movie. A couple of others I noticed later, but the rest I never knew, mostly because I didn't look that hard & was just enjoying the story.
For those who haven't seen the Independence Day sequel...
Good. You didn't miss out
Love the intro Adam
Independence day 2 is the lead up to star trek. That ball teaches us so much more.
The beginning is so well done! Love it, great work @WhatCulture
Well guess I'm watching Independence Day tonight lol
When will said "what the hell is that smell", I thought he was talking about the alien as well
The Aliens look alot like the Aliens in Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds movie!
HG Wells' eponymous War of the Worlds?? Oh dear me...
Fun fact in case you didn't know Kevin Spacey was suppose to be President Whitmore. He was going to be a Richard Nixon type of President till the end when he becomes a hero.
Just realized that the area 51 security guard is Kowalski from SG1
MCAS El Toro was never used in the film (except in a sign). 29 Palms was used in its place.
Why is it in every film franchise featuring an Alien species they always are in the image of having Digits/Fingers that are not capable of constructing and flying spacecraft?
The scene with Mother ship at the begining, is the same as the opening scene in Star Wars- The New Hope, and you see the kid character Dylan Dubrow is playing with King Ghidorah toy from the Godzilla franchise.
Speech at the start. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
How could i have missed "must go faster" from both movies? Best ever. Always wondered why though so thanks!
9:06 This one is incorrect. It is the same Air Force base as in the the 1953 movie, Well's story takes place in 1890's England where there was nary an Air Force base to be found.
Thats what they want you to think
It's also not an Air Force base. MCAS stands for Marine Corps Air Station.
@@Furblesnert - Nice catch!
IDK why it took me so long to finally see this video, but you guys pointing out the bad dub job is one of those things I just happened to catch the first time I saw it in theaters and could never UNsee it after that.
this intro is gold
Im surprised a Brit referred to this movie as Independance Day, and not its UK Title of "Ungrateful Colonists Fight Aliens"
The intro was on point. Nicely done, sir.
Damn you What Culture, now I need to revisit this.....
Not gonna line. I AM WATCHING THIS IN JULY xD
Since you mentioned Chuck Jones from the phone book, I'll point out that you missed a reference to the Looney Tunes short: Duck Dodgers in the 24 and 1/2 Century. When Will Smith backs the alien fighter into the wall and says "whoops" because somebody had the instructions wrong, that's mirroring when Duck Dodgers tried to launch his ship but buried in in the ground. "Whoops! Had the silly thing in reverse."
I knew all of those. Except the first 20.
That epic intro made my day. Thanks Adam 🙂
Thanks. Loved!!! One of my FAV movies of all time!!!
your introdutory speech touched me
Still one of my all time favourite films!
I was just watching and couldn't help noticing that 1 of the channels on the TV news networks was 51 I thought maybe that was a little easter egg...lol.
I wanna rewatch it again. Good movie
One of the best movie trivia videos I ever saw. *thumbsup*
Pretty much, most of the nods I hadn’t seen but a couple that I did.
I must have watched this movie (no lie) close to a half million times and I never knew the part about the smell!
This was so much *FUN* thanks Adam!
I love this movie. I've loved it hundreds of times. Thanks for pointing out new stuff. I think I need to watch it in higher definition on a bigger screen. You've made some electronics dealer very happy.
El Toro is actually MCAS El Toro (Marine Corps Air Station), not Air Force.....
That intro was Awesome!
Hello there! May the Force be with you!
Great video guys. That was awesomely entertaining and informative.
I had to pause after 1:05 because man, it's dusty in here. Allergies are really bad.
You get a like just for the first 10 seconds alone lol
Awesome opening
Love you, Adam Clery.
I knew all of these facts and more. But for the everyday people this may come as a surprise! Thanks Adam. Are you related to that singer named Alex ? He sings that jam from 2011 Too Close!
A colleague of mine and myself worked on the movie and we did # 02 and 14. While many got the 2001 reference, this is the first time I am aware of that someone noticed the phone book entries. We did some more stuff like that, but most of it is on monitors that are somwhere in the background.
2020 and people still say NUCULAR
TWO, two freaking syllables, not thr33!! 🤦🏽♂️
I love that two of my fav movies are linked. Stargate is awesome!
My favorite movie. Love this flick.
I liked the sequel, wait did I say that out loud 😬 Well I did, mind you they really didn’t think of physics when they had the Mothership land did they 🤣
Great intro man
Something you missed... David was nearly black out drunk when he devised the plan
My husband and I just watched this movie again the other day!
wow can't believe that Ind Day is more than 23 yrs old. I remember I couldn't watch it in the movies so I settled for a cd copy.