When a dozen smaller crafts the size of major metropolitan cities break off of the mother ship and strategically station themselves above government capitals around the globe, it becomes all too clear that these aliens have hostile intentions. As President Whitmore (Bill Pullman), a former Air Force pilot and Gulf War hero tries to figure out how to respond to what may or may not be a threatening species, David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) gets to work deciphering the signal the aliens are sending through our own satellites. On July 2nd, the world awoke to news of a gigantic alien craft setting into an Earth orbit. With multiple radio telescope arrays and orbiting telescopes, we searched the cosmos for other signs of life, we just never thought other beings would come looking for us. We always assumed humans were the only intelligent beings in the vast universe. Thankfully in this grand age of Blu-ray and 4K transfers, the fun spectacle of 'Independence Day' is back. Suddenly, watching the movie on a 25" tube TV, the film lost a lot of the impact and excitement when it was released on VHS, and a lot of the enjoyment went with it. 'Independence Day' was the first film where I felt the "scale" of a film. I loved this movie - while it was in theaters. It was a cornball throwback to 1950s alien invasion films and 1970s disaster epics all rolled into one - and I ate it up over and over again. In 1996, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's 'Independence Day' was the "it" movie of that summer. It didn't matter if I'd just seen it a few days earlier if a friend called up and wanted to go again, I was more than happy to blow some of my allowance on a ticket. Movies like 'Jurassic Park,' 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day,' and 'Batman Returns' are all prime examples of films that I saw multiple times in the theater as a kid. There's something about the 90s era summer blockbusters that make me happy whenever I sit down to revisit them.
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