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Summary: At Last in DVD!
Review: Great DVD! The extras are great and the menu is incredible work. A truly DVD masterpiece.
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Summary: AWESOME splosions Dude!
Review: Here's another spectacular DVD set from FOX. You get cool 3D menus; documentaries; and a plethora of conceptual drawings, storyboard sketches and production photos. Plus, you get one of the best looking and sounding DVDs ever produced, and the perfect opportunity to test the limits of your new DVD player! Who cares if the movie is stupid? It's a big-budget special effects extravaganza, chock full of breathtaking pyrotechnics, thrilling dogfights, and hideous alien beings. Have fun with it! Get a pencil and paper (a lot of paper) and write down every dumb thing you see. For example: Why do the aliens kill only the most annoying characters? Why do the explosions always move in slow motion? Steve (Will Smith) knows that Jasmine's hometown has been destroyed; so why is he not surprised to find Jasmine alive and waiting for him at the army base? Steve has seen the alien spaceships in flight; why does that mean he instinctively knows how to pilot one? Why are the seats in the alien spacecraft built to human specifications? If alien technology is so much more advanced than ours, why are their computers compatible with a Macintosh laptop? And, if David (Jeff Goldblum) is already suffering from airsickness, is it really a good time to take up cigar smoking? Etc., etc., etc. Oh, and don't forget to watch the alternate ending...they didn't use it because they were afraid of "losing credibility." Good thinking!
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Summary: An Awsome DVD
Review: This DVD with it's exeptional sound was almost exactly like the theatre. With a larger screen at home it would of been just as good. The behind the sceens really take you into the making of the movie. It reveals everything about the special effects!
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Summary: Good movie, disappointing DVD
Review: This is a fun, fun popcorn movie, the likes of which we haven't seen in a few years. And the DVD quality is pretty good.What disappointed me were the extras on DVD 2. Having purchased the awesome ABYSS 2-disc pack, and having purchased the BLADE DVD (and I think the BLADE DVD extras still blow all other extras away), the amount of material on this was disappointing. I mean, the ABYSS DVD had the ENTIRE MOVIE in storyboards, plus the entire original shooting script. Why couldn't we get that here? Instead, we get 3 scenes storyboarded, and NO script. We get three making of specials, one of which is cool ... but by the third one, it all seems so redundant! IMO, people are riding this 2-disc craze to try and make more money, but if they keep this level of supplamental quality (or lack thereof) up, they're going to lose sales.
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Summary: Got a DVD player? Good. BUY THIS DVD.
Review: You would have to be insane not to own this DVD. We waited 4 years for it, but it was more than worth it. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if those 4 years were spent creating this DVD! The animated menus are PHENOMENONAL. Sure, you may have seen some excellent animated menus on, let's say, a Dreamworks DVD, but you have never seen anything like this. The DVD's menus are different from any other's for one reason; these menus have their own story to tell. It feels like while you're browsing, you've become a part of the movie. On the Feature DVD, the menus take place in front of the White House. Several options on how to view the movie are laid before your eyes, while you can hear voices coming from the White House from where the light is on, with the flying saucer hovering above. But you're just about to explore. When you go to "Language Options", you feel like you're in the passenger seat of the car with Jeff Goldblum parked outside the White House, and you feel like you're in the aliens' flying saucer when you go to scene index. And on the Supplemental DVD, the menus take place in Area 51, and you've only become immersed in it. While you explore the huge array of theatrical trailers and TV spots, or you choose one of 3 behind-the-scenes documentaries, you feel like you're IN Area 51, you see the aliens in the 3 test tubes, and you witness horrifying alienated sights just by going to the Chapter Menu of the "Creating Reality" documentary. Now I'll elaborate on the enormous amount of supplemental material that can't fit on one disc with the movie. There are 3 teaser trailers, 1 theatrical trailer, 5 30-second TV spots, 1 15-second TV spot, the TV spot shown in the 1996 Super Bowl, and the Apple Computer TV spot. It also includes the alternate ending that has never-before-seen footage and director's commentary throughout. And the Feature DVD allows you to choose between the version of the movie shown in theatres, or the director's cut with 9 minutes of added footage. And there are 3 behind-the-scenes documentaries, The ID4 Invasion, The Making Of ID4, and Creating Reality, a never-before-seen documentary that lets you in on the ground floor of the making of the movie. Motion control, the White House sequence, computer effects, you name it, it's all there. It also has full-screen storyboards and behind-the-scenes photos, and optional director commentary or visual effects commentary through the feature. So, in other words, if you own a DVD player, and if you have cash, GET THIS DVD! You won't regret it! Trust me! It's money well spent!
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Summary: The sound quality is horrible
Review: I loved ID4 in the theater, and have been anxiously awaiting the DVD release. My poor rating is not for th film itself, but for the production of the DVD. The sound is mixed oddly. When something blows up, or jets fly, the sound is QUIETER than when people are talking. These effects should be louder. If you turn up your system to hear the effects the way you would like to, the next scene in which people are just talking ends up being way too loud. I guess the movie was mixed this way to prevent TV speakers from popping, but I have a mid-to-high-end system, and this just really bites. I was so disgusted with the sound that I turned off the movie, and will be returning the DVD to Best Buy for a refund (hopefully). I observed this same effect on the movie Event Horizon
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Summary: Great movie... stop whining
Review: This is one of my all time favorite movies. I think the acting is excepional, and the special effects are spectacular. Most of the complaints this movie gets, I belive are undeserved. People who criticize this movie tell people to leave their IQ at home... Maybe they should have brought their IQ along to understand the movie! First the people who complain that the movie is too much focused on America.... WTF? Can you please tell me what the name of the movie is? Indepenence Day (ID4) an american holliday! c'mon get a clue, of course it is going to be biased in favor of america, it is only the most important American Holiday! another problem people have with the move is that the acting is horrible... well I wont touch much on that one since that is subject to opinon... all Ill say is watch it again... the DVD version has more of the Story intact... and watch the part where the "firt kid" says "is mommy sleeping" and the pres says "yeah... mommys sleeping" and tell me you don't feel anything.... the other problem people have a hard time with is the part, or parts i should say; where Jeff Goldblum is able to dicipher the alien code in the satilite and where he can connect to the alien ship with his laptop... first... the alien ships where using human satilites, where everything is in binary(how all our compuers are Binary)... and Jeff Being a 8 year MIT Grad probably has a good understanding of reading binary... and all he did was find a hidden binary code that wasnt supposed to be there, he filtered it out and realized that it was a count down(in short). the one that most people have a problem with is when he interfaces with the alien ship using his laptop.... well think about it! they have had an alein ship there to study for 30+ years... how do you think they were studing the alien technology?with computers! Im sure they developed some sort of interface adapter to the alien technology that allowed our computers to interface with alien computers... what, you want them to show you how they make it so you know it works and then you can say this is a beliveable movie? C'mon guys Use your IQ you have so much of, take it to the movie next time, im sure youll like it the movie much more. the only issue with the movie are the shortcuts it takes... like when will smith finds his girlfriend among the rubble of EL Toro, or when he finds Area 51 with the RV caravan. or how Wills girlfriend finds the first lady, or how Jeff's girl friend is in a position to get a meeting with the president So Jeff can Give the critical info to the pres just in time... but all that is to just make the movie more fun. thats all the movie tries to be... just a Kick A$$ joy ride! enjoy it for what it is and don't cut it down for something that it isn't even trying to be.
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Summary: What took it so long.....?
Review: What took it so long to come on DVD? I have been waiting for 4 years to see it on DVD
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Summary: Just as exhilirating as the first time
Review: This DVD was just as fantastic as when I saw it in the theatres. The best feature in this DVD has been the hidden Easter Eggs. I really enjoyed being able to watch the explosion scenes with different audio layers. I hope everybody has learned how to access the secrets. Another really amazing thing was the mockumentary. The news cast they put together was very realistic and entertaining. For anyone contemplating buying this DVD, I highly recommend the purchase! It's been a very worth while buy, so run, don't walk to your local DVD retailer! enjoy!
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Summary: You either love it or hate it
Review: "ID4" is a movie that people are either going to love or hate. I personally LOVE this movie. The acting and special effects are top notch, there is a plot, not much of one but there is one and no people, this is NOT a remake of The War of the Worlds. I have read some of the reviews on here and frankly, I can accept people's reasons why they hate this movie, but some of them are lame. Like one reviewer mentioning about the swaying palm trees after the nuclear fire or the fact that Jeff Goldblum's character can access the alien mothership with a laptop. It's only a movie! This movie wasn't made to be analyzed for it's flaws. It was made for fun! Anyway, the plot has alien beings invading the Earth in 15-mile wide spaceships that hover over important cities and soon, they destroy them and plan to take over the world and wipe us out. A small band of survivors must band together to stop them before it's too late. Plain and simple. Nothing complicated. The special effects are awesome. Shots of the First Interstate Tower, Empire State Building and White House being blown apart are spectacular and very realistic. The firestorm that occurs afterwards is also fantastic. There is also plenty of action as F-15 jets and alien crafts engage in a huge air battle with missles flying and explosions happening. It's a good deal for anyone who loves action and sci-fi disaster.
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