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Independence Day (movie) - Definition and Overview |
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Independence Day movieposter Independence Day is an American science fiction movie about an attempted alien takeover of the earth. The movie features several scenes of major American landmarks being destroyed by the aliens, such as the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, California, the Empire State Building and the White House. The film's success was partially credited to an extensive marketing campaign which began with a dramatic commercial during Super Bowl XXIX. This movie was scheduled for release on Wednesday, July 3, 1996, but due to high level of anticipation for the film, many theaters began showing it on the evening of July 2.
Plot
Many years after an alien spaceship crashed and was recovered by Area 51 scientists (who made first contact with the aliens) in the 1950s ,the US and other nations are in shock at flying saucers above many parts of the country and the world. Some (including an airplane pilot who claims to have been abducted by aliens who want to find Humanity's strengths and weaknesses) have already theorized that the aliens are up to no good, but the Americans and others don't listen. The aliens eventually act on their mission, conquered half of Earth by destroying most of the major cities, and plan a troop invasion to exterminate the rest of humanity. Several groups survive the attack, found that the aliens travel from planet to planet to cleanse natural resources and that they are the next target from an alien POW, and the counterattacks begin. It climaxes on July 4 where the aliens are thrown off guard by a sort of computer virus followed by nuclear weaponry and the human race strikes back, destroying their mothership and all of the alien destroyer fleet.
Criticism
Whilst a commercial success, it was ridiculed by some critics for the plot (which involved causing the aliens' high-tech computers to malfunction by infecting them with a simple virus written on an Apple Macintosh -- cf War of the Worlds), and poor acting. Many people outside the United States (and some within) also derided the film for what was viewed as calculated pandering to excessive American nationalistic sentiment.
Advocates of the film point out that alien virus protection could have evolved to such a high level that archaic viruses might have passed under their notice due to a need to allocate proccessor power to more advanced scanning.
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RepShimkus: 1,458-Declaration of Independence
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