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Just finished watching ID4 (Independence Day) for the 50th time

ATOMICJORGE

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And I never get bored it's such and amazing and timeless movie

It's 3:36 AM here but it was worth it

I'm not joking I have a top 20 of movies that I love and have watched at least 30 times each

I know some find it decent at best but for me it's a very special movie I love the cast story music photography (special shout out to the great LATAM dub Will Smith is voiced by his Fresh Prince of Bel Air voice) the President speech etc

What do you think about the movie? I think it has aged is a science fiction military action movie done right

P.S the sequel is such a missed opportunity...

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Sinder

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Love it. Can't get over how bad the sequel was. Bigger dropoff in quality than The Matrix to The Matrix Reloaded.
 
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It's not a bad film, honestly for what it is. Movie has like 10 main characters and you end up liking basically all of them and the story juggles all their stories quite well.
 
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The diversity of the cast was unusual for that kind of film at the time. I think it's lasted well because of that. The story is very simple but solid. The handling of the characters is what makes it a classic of the genre. The MCU films learned that lesson well and have used it on an industrial scale.

I've watched the sequel a few times. That's a different kind of film, in which stock characters serve the narrative. I have to admit I find the whole thing much less compelling.
 
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Not a fan of movies where the military features so prominently and in such good light.
 
EarlGreyHot

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Awesome movie. The jets vs aliens fights still look incredible. Will Smith is awesome in this movie.
 
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John Kowalski said:
Not a fan of movies where the military features so prominently and in such good light.
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Not many blockbusters that avoid glorifying USA military, otherwise they wouldn't allow use of props and licenses. I love films that are more critical of them though, like Jarhead, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and other anti-war films but then they aren't fun loving summer blockbusters.
 
Mr Swine

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Probably my favourite movie ever. I never get tired watching it.

The soundtrack is so amazing too, really sinister and foreboding
 
DiipuSurotu

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I never understood the "ID4" acronym for Independence Day. Obviously the 4 stands for July 4 but that doesn't make sense in an acronym.
 
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It´s a great movie. A pity they don´t really make movies like this anymore.
 
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Sinder said:
Love it. Can't get over how bad the sequel was. Bigger dropoff in quality than The Matrix to The Matrix Reloaded.
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Reloaded actually took the premise of the original and recontextualized it in a new and interesting way though. It is flawed for sure but I really don't think the sequels are as big a drop off in quality as people claim. Just my opinion 🙂
 
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Great War of the Worlds Tribute/Remake, good corny fun.

I can't bring myself to watch the Sequel, they probably left it too late from what I heard how bad it is.
 

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How do you keep count of how many times you see a movie? Or is that an estimate?
 
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John Kowalski said:
Not a fan of movies where the military features so prominently and in such good light.
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War of the Worlds - 1953 - updated the 1800's book in a Hollywood movie to show American Military defeat the Aliens, Not too long after World War 2 not coincidently, they knew American military defeating the evil alien invaders & saving the rest of the world would sell quite well

ID4 - 1996 - practically a remake/Tribute of 1953 WOTW movie
 
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DiipuSurotu said:
This makes more sense. Interesting!
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According to the Wikipedia article, ID4 was the working title of the film because another studio held the rights to the title Independence Day. The famous Bill Pullman speech was apparently introduced in a ploy to get the studio to bid for the title rights. They eventually cleared the rights but seem to have kept the short, snappy alternative title in the marketing. It made for what we would now call a very viral ad campaign.
 
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Maven said:
50 times? Why?

Why not watch a new movie you've never seen?
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I have to go with the original poster on this. I occasionally watch new films but from a purely commercial standpoint it makes a lot of sense to watch the really good ones as often as you want. I haven't even decided whether I'm going to see Captain Marvel in a cinema this weekend, but I'll watch one or two MCU films on DVD or Blu-Ray in an average week.
 
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LL_Decitrig said:
I have to go with the original poster on this. I occasionally watch new films but from a purely commercial standpoint it makes a lot of sense to watch the really good ones as often as you want. I haven't even decided whether I'm going to see Captain Marvel in a cinema this weekend, but I'll watch one or two MCU films on DVD or Blu-Ray in an average week.
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Understandable. I would prefer something new over watching the same movie over and over
 
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The only films I've watched more than like 3 or 4 times I think is Yojimbo and Lady Vengeance. As for ID - I've seen it - it was ok. Think I've seen it twice? but I could be wrong. It's fine, it's good even but not a rewatchfest for me.
 
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Unaha-Closp said:
The only films I've watched more than like 3 or 4 times I think is Yojimbo and Lady Vengeance. As for ID - I've seen it - it was ok. Think I've seen it twice? but I could be wrong. It's fine, it's good even but not a rewatchfest for me.
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Yeah. It's hard for me to remember, but before home video players became widely available in the late seventies we would rarely watch a film more than once. I saw Annie Hall once, in 1977, and have seen it only once or twice on television in the past forty years or so. I even saw Blade Runner only twice, in 1982 with the Harrison Ford voiceover, and then the Director's Cut version with the unicorn sequence in 1993. I bought a copy of the DVD around 2001, but never watched it.

More recently I bought a boxed set with all three major cuts of Blade Runner, and have watched all three versions. But that's me looking back in retrospect at my whole adult experience of film and deciding that is the most satisfying film of its type and well worth multiple viewings.
 
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I watched it at the theatre on opening weekend, and have seen it maybe twice since then. I enjoyed it, but I've got no desire to watch it again. An old friend of mine from school had a role in the movie as the daughter of one of the leads, which is cool.
 
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ATOMICJORGE

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Airegin said:
How do you keep count of how many times you see a movie? Or is that an estimate?
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It's an estimate because I love this movies and I own them on DVD Bluray and whenever I catch them on TV I stay to see them


Maven said:
50 times? Why?

Why not watch a new movie you've never seen?
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I do haha I love movies yesterday during the day I went to the cinema to see Captain Marvel with my GF and some friends

I love watching new films as well but I never get tired of seeing my personal favorite ones
 
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