10.
Independence Day
Okay, I know
you're probably wondering why this silly sci-fi movie is in my top ten. When I
proudly talk about my top ten movies to the people I come across, most of them
seem surprised or shocked when I mention ID4 as one of my favourites. And I
don't even think it's a great film, but it's certainly a good one.
The reason this is
one of my top movies is because it came out at a time when I was just
discovering what movies could be and this was a spectacle kind of blockbuster
which made me realise what was possible with movies.
The year was 1996 and I was 13 going on 14. When I first saw the trailer for this movie I was blown away by it. I was amazed at UFO's the size of cities hovering over cities and blowing up famous buildings and monuments to extinguish the human race. The special effects were the real star of this movie and I was captivated by them.
I remember the night I went to see this at the cinema. It was opening night, and I went with my dad and younger sister. I had gone and bought the tickets about a week ago. Before the movie started (we were a bit early) my dad took me and my sister into the nearby games arcade. As I was playing a game, two of my mates from school walked in. I asked them what they were doing and one replied "We just went and saw Independence Day" and without a moment of hesitation, he continued "And Will Smith and the guy from Jurassic Park blow up the mother ship at the end". I looked at him and said "HEY" and he just smiled. The movie I had been looking forward to all year just had its ending revealed to me by one of my idiot mates. However, I blocked that out and went into the movie.
What I saw on screen absolutely amazed me and I thought it was the greatest movie I had ever seen. Everything about it was so big and my imagination was captured with almost every scene. After I saw it at the movies the first time, I went another 3 times to see it on the big screen. Besides The Matrix Reloaded I have never seen a movie 4 times at the cinema before. I just had to relive it again and again.
Over the years, as I got a little older and wised up to what made a really good movie, I realised how Independence Day failed in comparison to others in relation to it's story and character development, but no movie is perfect. I revisit this movie once a year or so, as it transports me back to that time and age when I was learning about the world through movies and began to imagine what kind of big, blockbuster movies I might create myself one day.
The year was 1996 and I was 13 going on 14. When I first saw the trailer for this movie I was blown away by it. I was amazed at UFO's the size of cities hovering over cities and blowing up famous buildings and monuments to extinguish the human race. The special effects were the real star of this movie and I was captivated by them.
I remember the night I went to see this at the cinema. It was opening night, and I went with my dad and younger sister. I had gone and bought the tickets about a week ago. Before the movie started (we were a bit early) my dad took me and my sister into the nearby games arcade. As I was playing a game, two of my mates from school walked in. I asked them what they were doing and one replied "We just went and saw Independence Day" and without a moment of hesitation, he continued "And Will Smith and the guy from Jurassic Park blow up the mother ship at the end". I looked at him and said "HEY" and he just smiled. The movie I had been looking forward to all year just had its ending revealed to me by one of my idiot mates. However, I blocked that out and went into the movie.
What I saw on screen absolutely amazed me and I thought it was the greatest movie I had ever seen. Everything about it was so big and my imagination was captured with almost every scene. After I saw it at the movies the first time, I went another 3 times to see it on the big screen. Besides The Matrix Reloaded I have never seen a movie 4 times at the cinema before. I just had to relive it again and again.
Over the years, as I got a little older and wised up to what made a really good movie, I realised how Independence Day failed in comparison to others in relation to it's story and character development, but no movie is perfect. I revisit this movie once a year or so, as it transports me back to that time and age when I was learning about the world through movies and began to imagine what kind of big, blockbuster movies I might create myself one day.
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