Independence Day | Reaction and Commentary | First Time Watching
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 28. 07. 2024
- Hey everyone, join me for my first time watching Independence Day (1996)! End of the world director and filmmaker Roland Emmerich shows us how to deal with an alien invasion, starring Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and so many others!
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"Verowak is never late; she uploads the video precisely when she means to!"
@verowakreacts Titanic
The Fifth Element
@@VerowakReacts Jaws
"Must go faster" love that Jeff Goldblum repeats this line from Jurassic Park
One of the best quotes i heard about this movie was, "we should beam Independence Day into space and say it was a true story, that way no aliens start shit" lol
"Historical Documents"
This movie was such a staple when I was growing up its never crossed my mind that there is a generation that has never seen this.
Yeah pretty much most ppl older than me, Iâm 35 now, knew of or saw Independence Day⊠it was a global hit and phenomenon. Legit ppl who had no TV in different countries, still heard of Will Smith in that film. Itâs sometimes jarring to be reminded that so many, especially the younger generations, never knew that this film existed-- and that many other films are actually influenced by this film.
I saw it in the movies-I was 21-it was great. I am always surprised at the viewers who worry about the dog surviving as the city is destroyed
You have to imagine how much of a blockbuster this was nearly 30 years ago.
General William Grey: âFire at will!â
Vero: âWhereâs Will?â
đŒHunting, obviously.
This has a very special meaning in "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
And howâs the hunting, Will?
Itâs good!
I think V passed her sarcasm exam with this one!
Sarcasm is my middle name
@@VerowakReacts We could have whole conversations without ever being serious.
Yeah, I was on the fence with her, but no longer. Bye.
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19:34 âFreeze them to death?â
I've frequently read that Bill Pullman [President Whitmore in the movie] still knows that speech and that if you get a couple beers into him, you can talk him into doing it.
I can just imagine him at a bar saying that speech đ
@@VerowakReacts You know he wouldn't have to buy his own drinks. Someone would pay his tab for that, every time.
The Real Aliens Not Our creators Our enslavers still to this very day @Mauro Biglino & The 5Th Kind & Adam 1414 & Mars Anomilies and Beyond channels.
It is both impressive and sad that this speech is one of the greatest given by a POTUS in any movie.
@@VerowakReacts I feel like you did not enjoy this as much as anybody else did
FINALLY someone recognized the Hero of Canton
Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park: "Must go faster..." đŠ
Jeff Goldblum Independence Day: "Must GO FASTER!" đœ
Not sure how he got away with that...
Jeff Goldblum Lost World: Jurassic Park II: âIncrease your rate of climb.â
I think you're tne only reactor to notice and acknowledge young Jayne in this. Love that he gets a little credit, his role may have been small in this but he played it really well.
He was great in Chuck too
@@WheresWaldo05 emotionless ay? Not sure we are commenting on the same video mate.
Some reactors overdo it for clicks, some reactors are naturally gregarious, some reactors are analytical, some process and feel things quietly or internally first and most a a mixture. Humans are all different, plenty of variety here on CZcams, find what you like and enjoy that instead maybe?
â@@WheresWaldo05Wow. This is without a doubt the weakest and most pathetic comment I have seen in a long time. Congratulations.
WheresWaldo05 Dominant aphas donât have to tell people theyâre dominant alphas.
ID4 is the perfect encapsulation of 90's popcorn flicks. Fun if cliche story, great characters, and killer special effects and music.
Shout out to Boomer, the chillest dog who ever walked the Earth. Nothing phased this good boy.
He's just happy to be around his family đ„°
"The moon called ... they want their dirt back!" Brilliant - you really have a quick wit.
Thank you đ I was debating removing it from the edit because it sounds so silly lol
@@VerowakReacts I loved it! Please do not doubt yourself. Your facial expressions are so honest and expressive ... just keep being you.
Iâm British and even I think that Bill Pullman is the best president America never had. Iâd follow that guy into battle in a heartbeat!
Oh WOW! 60 seconds in and you nail it: "It's pulsing, is it prime numbers?" đ
âItâs coming from the moonâ. *turns up volume* âweâve been trying to reach you about your carâs extended warrantyâ
What a witty and original comment đ
@@GeorgeTropicana I appreciate your input.
In the 1980's President Ronald Regan gave a speech saying if there was an alien invasion. All of our differences would melt away.
Nice that the alien computer was Mac compatible.
_"It's nice to have people die."_
- Verowak Reacts, July 4th, 2024, in remarks on Independence Day.
there's like a conspiracy that elvis was an alien and just left the planet instead of dying
A year later in âM.I.B.â, Will Smith makes a comment about Elvis and his partner, Kay, says, âno, he just went homeâ a reference to Elvis being an alien.
"Hello - the moon called - they want their dirt back". Classic.
XD
âI thought it would have like a massive AOE of some kindâ
Is my girl a gamer?đâ€
Loved your line.
"The moon just called. They want their dirt back."
Hudson Hawke would be a funny documentary lol
Still one of my favourite al time summer blockbusters...
No matter how many times I watch this, it never gets old.
"Welcome to Earth!"
I saw it in a huge, packed theater on July 2nd, 1996. It was a great time with everyone cheering! I miss that kind of theater experience.
"Do they do a background check?" Not sure about astronauts, but for certain security clearances not only do they check you out, but they check your family, relatives, friends, etc... It is a pretty intense thorough background check.
NASA is notoriously uptight about the public relations image of their astronauts and will most certainly reject you for the most irrelevant things if tarnishes your image.
â@@BogeyTheBearNever A Space Agency @ Spacebusters NASA Fanboy questions #1-#15 before @ Mauro Biglino & Adam 1414 & the 5Th Kind channels.
Helllo boys, I'm baaack.
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The Poseidon Adventure. The original one, not the remake. Damn good disaster movie. One of the best! Glad you liked ID4. This movie was such a cultural staple and yet doesn't get discussed much anymore.
"The Day After Tomorrow" is my favorite Roland Emmerich film, which isn't saying much, but definitely watch it. It's super fun, and the President and VP in the movie were both modeled after real people ;)
Love this movie!
I always get a little teared up at Russell's sacrifice at the end.
"Hello boys! I'm baaaack!" đ«Ą
When watching this in the theaters for the first time with my gamer/DnD friends and we saw the first wide shot of the damage caused by the aliens weaponry on the cities, one of them said "So... that's what a max level fireball looks like." We're still nerds to this day. Great reaction as always V!
You just have to hope that it wasn't cast by a wild magic sorcerer đ€Ł
@@VerowakReacts mother of god!
@@VerowakReacts That was a Nat 20 đ€
I love this movie its 28 years old and still looks incredible lol
9:28 such an iconic shot lol
10:03 the audience in theaters cheered at that part for obvious reasons lol
12:16 the best welcome ever lol
13:16 that was mostly improv by Will and the smell he's asking about is actually coming from the dry lake bed they're on lol
19:34 "freeze them to death?"
21:47 one of the best speeches in cinema history lol
28:22 Jeff Goldblum and the Director were talking about his line from Jurassic Park "must go faster, must go faster, must go faster" and thought it would fit in well here so they added it in lol
Always felt weird about how the ending is like "smoking cigars is fine, and nuclear fallout is beautiful."
So this is where palpatine got the idea for a 1000 ships with super lasers.
2:16 That's the date the Declaration was signed in Roman numerals.
I know the presidents speech is moving no matter how many times I hear it... but my favourite line has always been: "In the words of my generation... UP YOURS" because it always resonates.
The bring Elvis back is a conspiracy. Elvis's death was controversial and some one came up with the idea he was taken by aliens, either because he was one or because they wanted one. They even threw it into Men In Black - Agent J: you know Elvis is dead right? Agent K: No he's not he just went home.
Saw this with friends at a local theater and when they mentioned El Toro (Lake Forest) had been destroyed, every started laughing and yelling. We were in El Toro. There was a Marine Base and Military airfield next to our town. It's shut down now.
That's awesome when you live somewhere that movies reference!!!
YOU CUT âWELCOME TO EARFâ???
Heresy!
and "keep my wife's name out your effin mouth" too
Fire at will.
âWhereâs Will?â đđđ
Us military was probably concerned that supporting the film could be seen as a tacit endorsement of the area 51 plot.
If you want to see more of Adam Baldwin (Jayne from Firefly), Check out the TV series "Chuck". It's a lot of fun.
I definitely do want to see more of him! :D
@@VerowakReacts Let's watch Chuck! Whenever you've got some bandwidth. It would be fun to see what you think of it. It was a cult hit for us nerds back in the day.
@@VerowakReacts See "My Bodyguard", Adam's first film as a teenager. It won awards.
He was also in the second Die Hard movie.
Fun one, Verowak! Thanks for sharing it. đ
Julius is such a great character
Grew up watching it and love it and love the speech and the hello boys I'm back line
Yeah. The "How convenient!"-counter is up and running with this one. :)
Yes we used to say "up yours"
Happy late 4th Of July, Everyone
"If the dog had died, I wouldn't have liked the movie."
I have some bad news for you: Over 1 million dogs live in Los Angeles, and nearly all of them got nuked.
So now you have about a million reasons not to like this movie.
Or, Mary McDonnell and Randy Quaid died in this movie.
If either of those people AND that dog were trapped in a burning building and I could only save one, sorry dog, I'm saving the human.
Why would the death of one dog hit you harder than the death of a mother leaving behind a young daughter, or the death of a single father orphaning his 3 children?
It's not just you though.
It's everybody, including me.
I just think we all have our priorities a little skewed.
Glad to see you had fun with this movie. I have always liked it a lot and the special effects hold up amazingly with the use of a lot of miniatures. After the scene where Julius tells David that he still got his health I think you say: 'Freeze them to death?'.
It's definitely a fun movie. And now that I'm going through it, it does sound like I'm saying "Freeze them to death". I had no idea what I was saying đ€Ł
I have similar thoughts about sci-fi movies and TV shows but I like to think of as being told to us by a much more advanced race from the future as precautionary tales of what our future holds for us and they're attempting to guide us to avoid the pitfalls of that future.
I don't use Spotify. I connect my cassette recorder to the headphone jack. CZcams has so much free and unique music i record to cassette and listen to it in my car while driving around. My PS5 is connected to my 24inch tv that was made in 1998 via a hdmi to rca converter. Flatscreen tv's have imput lag. My tv doesn't. I can record movies,music and tv shows off the internet and put it on cassette tapes or VHS. Because of the hdmi to rca i can go around copy right features and copy anything i want to VHS and watch it anytime. Everything i like on the internet im making a VHS backup file. Old but not obsolete.
10:56 fire ad will, 'Where is will', Will Smith is in the fighter plane
A list of great disaster films for me are - The Impossible, Life of Pi, 2012, Daylight, Volcano, San Andreas, and Deep Water Horizon.
Mommy's sleeping always makes me cry
When the title is spoke in the film you've got to point into the camera and go, 'THAT'S the name of the _movie!'_
3:13 The actor playing the Vice President is Robert Pine, the father of Chris Pine who would go on to play James T. Kirk in the Abramsverse Star Trek movies. So-- payback against the aliens, I guess.
I knew him as the chief from Chips. And here's another Star Trek reference for you: Chips is Michael Dorn's first semi-regular role in a TV show (Worf from TNG and DS9)
lol... This movie was the return of the big dumb fun popcorn disaster movie. This movie was huge the summer of '96.
Back in '97 some friends and I went to see Area 51's fence/gate. Was creepy. Security was posted up on the hills and we were followed down the long dirt road by a white van full of "totally not security" guys. In the town nearby called Rachel, they had a monument for this movie at the Little A'Le'Inn.
Also... I can't place the reference but it sounds so familiar... arg lol
Now you can check out Independence Day Pitch Meeting (7 min comedy skit). (Over 300 Pitch meetings available). Warning: Heavy on spoilers.
Disaster movies: Pompeii, Volcano, The Poseidon Adventure, & Titanic.
When I first saw this in the theater on opening weekend, I knew early on it was going to be an action packed cheesefest & just went with it. The visuals were very good for the time and the actors didn't disappoint. It was entertaining and the President's speech was great! If you don't take it too seriously, it's a lot of fun! See ya next time, V!
It's definitely a fun movie! The President is the best President I've seen in any movie so far!
â@@VerowakReactsI'd contend it was Michael Douglas in An American President. If you haven't seen it, please consider it.
Really cool movie, great action, comedy and drama. Lady Vero is also so fun to watch, she really gets into the comedy.
All comedy that is not Will Smith, was great!!
Cheese of the highest order, so much fun. I can still remember a packed cinema cheering and shouting at the screen. Massive back in the day, I miss 90's cinema going.
Devlin and Emmerich did "Stargate" in 1994. After "Independence Day" they became Hollywood's golden children. Then they did "Godzilla vs. Ferris Bueller" in 1998 and they were no longer so celebrated.
Will Smith's character's friend, Capt. Jimmy Wilder was played by Harry Connick, Jr. who is a genuine rock star and jazz singer. Too bad he didn't have a serenade ready for the wedding ring scene.
Adam Baldwin (Major Mitchel, Jayne Cobb) was also in the second Predator movie. He seems to play a lot of very gung ho characters.
This movie was initially scheduled to open on Thursday, July 3, 1996. Due to its unprecedented ad campaign and the events of the movie's plot, it opened in some theaters a day earlier. I remember seeing the revised commercials explaining the change.
Brent Spiner played Dr. Okun (the nutty doctor at Area 51). He was nominated for a Saturn award for this role, which he won that same year for his other role as Data in "Star Trek: First Contact".
Independence Day was supposed to be the Sequel for Stargate, but they decided not to pursue that angle.
I'm very happy they didn't :D Stargate was fantastic
Let's give the moon their dirt back in a jar, yeah a jar of dirt (if you know, you know!)
Dante's Peak (1997) would be a good disaster movie to watch.
Hello Verowak-
Let me not bury the lede: HUGE thumbs-up for you having Dean Koontz' "Lightning" on your shelf. One of my favorite books that almost no one else has ever heard of! đą
This is the first of your videos I've watched (I did a mini-"reactors watch Independence Day" marathon this morning). I emjoyed it...though I feel bad that none of you got to experience this movie the way I did as a teen- in a jam-packed auditorium full of excited moviegoers- this movie was an EVENT; like a concert.
I'll definitely check out more of your vids. Peace.
Another Dean Koontz fan!! I'm due to reread Lightning soon :D
Growing up in a small town, there is 0% chance that the movie theatre would be packed đ€Ł
I'd almost call them Spacescrapers
19:35 Took me a second but.. "Freeze them to death?" lol
this is what I heard
That's what it seems like. I NEVER would have guessed that. I spent like 10 minutes trying to figure it out
Other disaster/end of the world movies: Dante's Peak, Deep Impact, San Andreas, The Day After Tomorrow, Greenland, 2012.
I like that you seem to be rooting for the aliens lol. "I thought it'd have more of an AoE." And looking happy when they first fire on the shields lol.
Some movies, I just can't help but root for the evil ones đ€Ł
23:10 Looks like he picked the RIGHT week to start smoking, amphetamines and sniffing glue...in his "Airplane"..!
in fact.... ..."I just want to wish him good luck, we're (literally) ALL counting on you"
I'm so curious about the "max i
It's from a short film that I made!! :D
Area 51 is not what the "common" knowledge states, the real alien and testing site is Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio
That's really close to međą
Full Metal Jacket is why he seems familiar.
"You talk the talk. Do ya walk the walk?"
She recognized who he was from his role in Firefly as Jayne Cobb (the hero of Canton).
Nope, definitely not since I've never seen that movie
And what a role it was!! đ€©
@@VerowakReacts - The kind of guy where people erect statues to honor him.
@@Mr.Ekshin "Everywhere I go, his eyes keep following me."
16:11 - its not quite dead... its getting better
Area 51 was not recognized by the US government until several years after this movie came out. When they did recognize that it exists, they simply said that it was a testing ground for experimental aircraft. Good enough expectation, I guess.
Nice job spotting "Jame." I had to check the credits to verify it was him, he seemed so different here than in Firefly. I gues that's why they call it acting. Will Smith's girlfriend was totally hot.
Next: Mars Attacks
19:58 âItâs a UNIX system. I know this!â Luckily, the aliens use the same operating system as _Jurassic Park._ đ
You should check out Adam Baldwin's (Jayne) very first movie, My Bodyguard from 1980.
To this day, even when I watch Firefly, I always think of him as Linderman, his character in that movie.
The extended editions makes the movie a whole lot better.
I watched this movie for first time on October 2022
Who knew that the aliens used MacOS? Although, to be fair, if they were using Windows 95, they would have gotten the BSoD long before they reached our solar system.
"Deep Impact" (sort of 'Armageddon's more serious sibling) and "Dante's Peak" are fun watches IMO. More old school there's "Earthquake" or "The Towering Inferno".
(with the "Area 51" stuff BTW, I _think_ it's one of those situations where the US government hadn't officially acknowledged its existence in 1996, it was an open secret but still technically a secret - the base is real, it's just for testing prototype aircraft etc. Or at least that's what "they" say :). Similarly, the UK government didn't officially acknowledge the existence of MI-6/SIS until about 1994, despite fictional characters like e.g. James Bond and George Smiley working for it for decades previously)
The weapon went off upon impact of the plane and destroyed the ship the same way it destroyed the cities earlier
I love this movie,my birthday is Independence Day. When this came out in '96, it's all I wanted on my b day, was to see this movie in theaters.
Everyone celebrates your birthday!! So many fireworks :D
The book held by the Statue of Liberty says "July 4th, 1776" (date the US declared independence) in Roman numerals
Hello boys! I'm baaack! đ„
I love your Jurassic Park quote.
Thank you! I love movie quotes đ
I love this movie man
Great Reaction......
This President and the President from "Air Force One" have my vote for re-election......
19:35 âFreeze them to death.â God damn it, open your f*cking ears! đ€Ł
UFO-scrapers đ
I swear I remember some television ad campaign to be an extra in this movie but I can't find it on CZcams or anything. Definitely a movie I loved as a kid but can never get into now.
The hero of Canton. The man they call Jayne.
I totally forgot that until you mentioned it.
If you like Jayne you should watch the series Chuck.
The ultimate disaster movie is Threads(1984). It's also one that not many react to so it will help you stand out.
I saw this in a theatre built of stone constructed in 1926. They'd kept much of the original design and it was quite an experience. Sadly the theatre had a fire that gutted it several years later. The outer structure still exists though, as a bar.
It's always unfortunate when older construction gets destroyed :( It's neat to see the different architecture
Great reaction like always, love this movie, And a fun-fact Will Smith saying "what the hell is that smell?! " was improvised because there was a dead brine shrimp that are in the salt flats themselves and he was tired of smelling it. Keep up the good work.
Thank you!! đ
9:23 - "You know I thought it would have a massive AoE of some kind"
Director Roland Emmerich: (* In a Joker voice *) "And...here...we..go!"
It was the right amount of destructive power! đ
âPerhaps we need some outside universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.â
September 21, 1987 - Ronald Regan
Umm, is this a joke? Ronald Reagan died in 2004.
@@daerdevvyl4314 yeah i copy pasted a bad date sry