I remember going to see this at the movies when it debuted, yes, on the fourth of July 1996. Make some popcorn and accept it for what it is: mindless entertainment, with emphasis on "entertainment." 10 people found this helpful _Independence Day_ doesn't even come close. The first really serious alien invasion film was, of course, Spielberg's _Close Encounters of the Third Kind_ in the 70's. Maybe that's why I'm giving this absurd film a break.
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I saw them all in reruns on TV back in the 60's. I kind of miss those old movies: _The Day the Earth Stood Still_, _Earth vs. It borrows from all the grade B outer space invader films of the 1950's, which were also aimed at teens, but it has big budget special effects instead of the laughable cheapo effects of the old 50's sci fi stuff. Critics who panned it for being unrealistic just didn't get it. Once you adjust to the fact that there isn't one iota of seriousness to this film, it is entertaining. The stellar cast (Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, et al) do their jobs well, keeping straight faces throughout. I think the dialogue annoyed me the most. It's basically a cartoon, with cartoonish characters, a cartoonish plot, and cartoonish dialogue.
I finally got around to streaming it 24 years later, September 2019. The trailer for this film, which is almost as notorious as the film itself, was shown on the commercial breaks at the 1996 Super Bowl.
Passed this one up when it was released, even though everybody in the world was talking about it.
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