Episode 6: INDEPENDENCE DAY- Classic Movie Review #1

  

                       Can't start the summer off without aliens..well, Avengers is still coming. For now, I'll review this movie.

              Independence Day is my first review of an older movie and I plan to do more. Anyway the film is directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, and stars Will Smith, Bill Pullman, and Jeff Goldblum. It is about a mothership that comes to earth, sends little spacecrafts, and people go crazy and try to stop it. Now of course, this isn't an original plot now in 2012, but it was more original back in 1996 when it first came out. The film focuses on the President, who is trying to find out what to do during the invasion/extermination. Captain Steven Hiller, a pilot who is looking for his family during this apocolapse, is the main pilot. The last main character is David Levinson, a man who is trying to stop the aliens through technology. Now, this movie won an oscar for Best Visual Effects and I think it should've. I liked how the aliens looked in this movie because nowadays aliens look like weird animals.

                            See that? It looks pretty awesome. Anyway, I really liked this movie and I think that the acting is pretty good. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum steal the show from everyone else. The only bad thing that I will say about this movie is that it doesn't have a lot of character development for Will Smith and Jeff Goldbulm's characters even though their acting is magnificent. It really focuses more on the President (Bill Pullman's character) than the other two. Anyway, I bought this movie on Blu-Ray and I really enjoyed it. Independence Day is going to get an 8.5/10.