Jen and I saw Independence Day at the Landmark on Friday night. It was wonderful. Action movies are often described as "good for their genre," but this movie is legit good. Despite being made in 1996, the special effects are awesome and none of the "technology" was super out-of-date. (To be fair, there was a shot of a pager on the table at one point and the "upload virus" computer screen was janky as hell, but that's not bad for a two-hour movie.)
I was happy to find some of my favorite Sci-Fi actors in the film, including Mary McDonald (First Lady Marilyn Whitmore) who is the gem of Battlestar Galactica (where she also fucked a President - but also became a President). And Adam Baldwin, who played mercenary Jayne Cobb in Joss Whedon's Firefly, had a surprisingly large part as Major Mitchell.
While watching the movie, I was reminded that I had an Independence Day action figure. (I was in the 6th grade when the movie came out so lay off). But did I buy the action figure of Will Smith, the charismatic fighter pilot? Or Bill Pullman, President and decorated war hero? Or even the alien? No. I bought the action figure of the be-spectacled scientist (Jeff Goldblum) who found a pattern in the alien transmission and uploaded a computer virus. I was a nerd from the very beginning.
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| Why does a scientist have a grappling hook and body armor? His skills were Microsoft Office. |
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