Independence Day Review

[@CryptoFiles]

Decker, I was excited when I saw you post an army of Darkness review but now Independence Day? Christmas was two months ago but I'm loving the belated gifts!

[@mactony4]

My favorite part is when Will character had to walk with the alien in the desert, the ``what the hell is that smell`` was funny since it really reeks near where they filmed.

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

I always forget that this movie is like 2 1/2 hours long. That's because it's such a well paced sci-fi action movie without any real throwaway/drag-on scenes. Certainly not winning any Oscars for story and characters. But it's a lot of fun and the special effects are really good.

[@CyanideSublime]

What have you done!? I cannot wean this addiction of your reviews! Damn THEE!

[@jasoncase9481]

EXEJON He is 1 of kind.

[@johnpriceprice6860]

Coca cola in a glass bottle is the shit. When I was a kid in South Carolina I used drag my little radial flyer wagon and collect glass bottles and take them to the little mom n pop corner store and exchange them for a bottle if cola cola. Now a days my kids know, you don't touch dads glass cokes.

[@God-nm9lk]

John Price Price you just established a backstory better than a Good amount of the movies reviewed on this channel 😂

[@xeoroth]

+Decker Shado 18:46 EDF...you sir have made my night. (Star Fox 64 would be another good choice but we all know that level in the game was based on this film...think about if another Star Fox game did for Resurgence, which Star Fox Zero is already out)

[@piercearrow8860]

Will Smith's character is a Marine Corps pilot!

[@paladindarknite]

...with a stache out of regs

[@KyleMcintoshMAC316]

I honestly don't understand why so many people get Smith's character's service branch wrong when talking about the film. Don't get me wrong I still love this review

[@blakeharris58]

@@KyleMcintoshMAC316 he does yell at Harry Connick Jr. calling him a Marine. Pretty important scene.

[@paulmajano]

Hahaha you said character, Smith been playing himself ALL THE TIME!

[@buckoQuentin]

Welcome to earth

[@sterlingsilver854]

Oh, that jab at the Fine Bros. Damn. Noice shot.

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

16:05 Sour cream and onion, that's my favorite flavor! 😁

[@countroshculla]

I was munching on Jalapeno & cheese flavour myself while watching this.

[@kurisu7885]

Since you mentioned how the cloud effect for the ship's arriving was done, the city explosions were actually done using vertical models that they set on fire. Seriously, they built an actual model, stood it up according to the direction they wanted the explosion to go, then lit it on fire.

[@mesyslexiyesnomaybesp82646]

I really think it's a shame that you don't have more subscribers, you make some of the best reviews on youtube in my opinion. Granted your production values aren't the highest, but that doesn't matter if it's really well written and funny. Keep up the good work, and I hope you get the number of subscribers you deserve.

[@clan741]

The reason for humans not getting sick from Martians is a nod to the Native Americans getting sick to the Europeans because the natives didn't have domesticated cattle to get used to their diseases. I can imagine Mars, being the frozen desert wasteland that it is, didn't have as many diverse microbes as Earth does for the Martians to build a strong immunity towards. Honestly the whole War of The Worlds novel was a criticism to European colonialism comparing Europeans to the destructive aliens who invade less technologically advanced cultures for resources.

[@ILOVEMARILYNMANSON89]

I literally realized this too. never considered the native American and European thing before this video.

[@lazarussolomon3541]

How would that work when the alien invaders are the one to get sick and not the "savage" natives? Unless you're talking about how the first group of colonists got sick form the new world.

[@GriffinPilgrim]

Of course the other side of that is Earth microbes probably couldn't infect alien lifeforms anyway but hey ho.

[@scottduncan5525]

hope we get a full on normal review of the Sequal

[@Hound831]

11:13 BUT WHAT ABOUT BOOMER?!

[@calvcoolidge]

Boomer... WILL LIVE!

[@Hound831]

YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!

[@Lee78072]

+Aclipes64 He got smashed by the M...ther F...ing T-Rex. Ha ha

[@Hound831]

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

[@jackfrost3475]

+Aclipes64 BOOMER...WILL LIVE !! which is the most important fact here

[@Keegan006]

All dogs deserve plot armor

[@bertcarroll1243]

OK the way it forms on those clouds it looks beautiful

[@white-dragon4424]

Great and funny review. 12:26 You're right, F-18 Hornets don't come with parachutes, they come with arrestor hooks, but I don't think that'd work that well at stopping alien fighters...

[@jebvoorhees125]

Your easily the most hard working reviewer on KZbin. Keep up the good work!

[@kingcatnip2614]

you say will smith is an air force pilot but he has a usmc tag later , im confused

[@God-nm9lk]

king catnip he’s a Marine

[@SoulcastProductions]

Decker: I really don't like coke. me: Neither do I.

[@ericallen789]

i don't like coke either i just like the smell of it

[@internetzenmaster8952]

"It's kind of like in Halo, except the shields last longer than 2 seconds" Oh lord, how I wish that were still true in Halo 5... multiplayer is hell sometimes.

[@skullyskaric7779]

12:25 ...... Sydney ......"twitch's with rage at 100% head explode"

[@jasoncase9481]

Ok if the goal of the ID4 aliens is to eat humans then repeat it in all other planets what exactly would they do after having no more planets to invade? No more food is a huge problem

[@DrewLSsix]

Jason Case. The universe is a huge place.... also, thats the worst reason to travel the universe.

[@SirS3mt3x]

6:29 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!

[@Armageddon-yt3so]

+ItzFizz OH SNAP!

[@solowingborders3239]

My favourite part of this movie was the F/A-18 Hornets and thanks Decker for correctly identifying them and the fact they don't have drag chutes. There were several errors with the F-18s in the movie, the HUD not looking right (from pilot view at least), depicting of harpoon missiles as air to air weapons, lack of external fuel tanks on the F-18s would give them a short dogfighting duration. I'm done ranting about my favourite plane.

[@9specter528]

Don't forget the biggest error of all. Those F/A-18s you see in the movie? They were flown by the USAF. I'm not even kidding, the fix could've been easy too, just make 'em fly like say, the F-15, for example (which, IIRC, DID make an appearance in the movie escorting Air Force One as they flew off to Area 51)

[@TheBlackKnight1o1]

15:26 I saw a new ad for the second one and recognized a scene exactly like that.

[@TheBlackKnight1o1]

15:24 actually

[@Luciferkrist]

I wonder if they are going to address the fallout from the few nukes launched, and if they were able to salvage any usable tech from the fallen ships.

[@ProxxRoxx]

10:07 made me laugh that hard my Dogs started barking at me. Brilliant!

[@dark67titan99]

Any progress on Pacific and Atlantic rim yet decker

[@kevinfox500]

My only real complaint a out the movie, Will Smith, playing the Fresh Prince, for the millionth time. Pretty much every role, until the Legend of Bagger Vance, was the same damn character. So thankful he either lucked out of being type cast, orngrew out of that phase. Not saying he is ir was a bad actor, just that his roles showed little to no versatility until after 2000.

[@cinemasaur]

That Gatorade joke was spot on! I really enjoyed Idiocracy!

[@garlicgorilla6540]

....and now we are truly living in Idiocracy.

[@burningpapersun1]

Electrolytes! It's what plants crave!

[@matthewrosenkoetter6351]

As nostalgic critics pun was for this movie in a running gag he had for years... with the dog scene: WHAT ABOUT BOOMER? BOOMER WILL LIVE!

[@NIGHTSTALKER973]

06:30 OH DAYUM SHOTS FIRED XD

[@Wagmiallday]

yo that struggle with the bottle and then that delivery was priceless! lol

[@MCMLXXXIX]

I wish Will Smith was in the sequel. Then he could say, "Welcome to Earth...again!"

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

But they went and killed him off. And not in any meaningful way like maybe pulling a Russel to take out a ship.

[@RBEmpathy]

He could have punched an alien in outer space out by the oort cloud and said, "Welcome to the solar system!"

[@jasonkreider8954]

He was suppose to be in it but they didn't want to pay the amount he asked for

[@glentalbot9166]

Any interest in reviewing STARGATE?

[@toasega]

+Glen Talbot I know, right? Also, LEAVE HULK ALONE TALBOT!

[@glentalbot9166]

+S.A.M. I can't do that. Stopping the Hulk is a matter of national security.

[@toasega]

Glen Talbot (sabotages your base and then escapes by hitching a ride with the Hulk)

[@glentalbot9166]

+S.A.M.We're scrambling the helicopters and tanks to follow.

[@toasega]

Glen Talbot I get helicopters, but why tanks? They'd be too slow to follow the Hulk. (Uses my own tech powers to hack all your choppers, jets and tanks, forcing them to remain stationary)

[@1Adam20]

One other note. The Flag placed on Luna's surface would be white by now due to the cosmic rays causing it to bleach out.

[@scrambled5948]

In the original version of the film, Russell was supposed to not fly a jet into the alien spaceship, but his very own cropduster. Whether that enhances or decreases the awesome factor of this movie is up to you.

[@jamesroper4952]

Actually Decker the alien ship was having a bit trouble keeping up with Will Smith. The only reason he couldn't keep it up, was because he was out of fuel. Besides all that I really enjoyed this review of one of my favorite childhood movies.

[@freightdog208]

Did anyone else notice that the zipcode on the letter from NASA is literally in the middle of Iowa?

[@KatOwO2235]

I like Pepsi, Pepsi's my favourite

[@KenMabie]

President Lone Star !

[@GamingSuccub]

Ive only been watching your review for a couple of days and I already love your humor while also pointing out both cons and pros of each movie. You have earned yourself a new subscriber. :) P.S. I love this movie.

[@KlingonCaptain]

I see that you used footage from the Blu-ray that fixed that stupid chrome fire truck that used to drive me crazy.

[@swaggerblue84]

hey DECKER new to the channel why no wesley snipes movies ? no drop zone , money train , passenger 57, murder at 1800 whats up with that 🤔

[@danaberg6354]

II personally found the full cut on the special DVD better. Another example of deliberately withheld content which has been in movies lately (you can't see the full movie until the DVD/Blu-Ray comes out). That used be more of an issue with Video Games (EA being one of the more infamous examples still today).

[@vevans0009]

Fun entertainment, indeed. God, I hope Resurgence will still have the same "charm" as the first. The trailers for it has got me REALLY interested in it. XD

[@9specter528]

I am from the not-so-futuristic (in fact, quite similar, actually) year of 2017, and as much as I hate to be, I'm gonna be the bearer of bad news: INDEPENDENCE DAY RESURGENCE FUCKING BLEW

[@BlackavarWD]

And from the future year 2020... still trying to get Godzilla right. (in America)

[@davidsmith3949]

4:42 LOL. That Idioocrocy reference.

[@UltrabotUltimus]

Could you review Trick 'r Treat

[@jameswelch3624]

Independence Day has been a great movie since it came out. A mix of space invasion, some war, throw in a good plot, decent puppetry and good cgi for the times and a bit of comedy

[@mynamemaycontainAtoZ]

Wait there's a sequel this summer?

[@JohnBlack2345]

and HOW did they get from NYC to DC in 4 scenes?????

[@cjermevpg6372]

In the original War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells explained that the Martians apparently had no microorganisms of their own. Unlikely, but it does explain why they didn't bring us disease.

[@187mrsmith]

U should review star gate tbh that's 1 of my favorite movies

[@exowarrior]

There is a film I would love to see a review of called Death Machine, have you heard of it?

[@motherbrain86]

you, off the shelf veviews, ocpcommunications & ramboraph 4life have been my fave film reviewsers since 2015

[@MonkeyDRickey]

when you have tine can you do a review of Godzilla 1998

[@mvargasmoran]

By those years, there were some drag and drop components for your own apps, so having a "nice by windows 95 standars" looking app is simpler than you think.

[@Zeddyboi86]

Am I the only one that think that laugh after drinking the Coke was probably the most natural sound Decker has ever made in his reviews?

[@AllenShircliff]

Decker The Director of this movie also did The Patriot.

[@commanderkruge]

Re: War of the Worlds and Martian diseases: According to the book the Martians had eradicated all dideases on their planet ages ago, hence they couldn't infect humans with nothing and also they had no bodily defences left, sine they didn't need that any more.

[@ryandowney8743]

I hope you do a review of ID4: Resurgence

[@nolanhewitt2563]

wish of these are you open to do Hannibal lecter movies or Harry Potter (just thought of that for Alan Rickman)

[@tylerrebik7700]

Great review Decker, really nailed it.

[@grapeshot]

That's one thing about aliens that invade Earth what does them end in the end is that they're allergic to Earth.

[@ThomasYutani]

Hi Decker will you make reviews about Terminator/Robocop/Screamers/Resident Evil/The Thing/Species or something from these? Keep goin' you're makin it awesome

[@RetroAmateur1989]

The reveal of the spaceships over the cities still sends chills down my spine! P.S:I really need to buy myself a better camera P.S2:I really need to buy myself a better microphone too.

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

PS3: It only does everything!

[@boldbearings]

17:34 "Why didn't we get diseases from the aliens?" Decker. Write books or screenplays. I'll read em or see the films.

[@robzilla730]

Dittos.

[@sebieckbert1190]

Great review as always. Please review Mars Attacks at some point. Would be really awesome.

[@MrDe4dGuy34]

This film has the greatest 'Murican hero in film history: Randy Quaid's Russell Casse.

[@VistasClemency]

Great, now I have the urge to go see the sequel... Decker, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!

[@1king4all]

The most realistic rendition of an alien ALIEN I've ever seen. Highly believable imho.

[@vincentvega9983]

Don´t be confused, it was after the beverage wars from 92 that Coka Cola become the only beverage available. Of course that ended after the franchise wars, when Pizza Hut took everything.

[@MrSaber152]

how about jean-reno-ry this January

[@wugglesx]

So did he ever get that check?

[@ToxicTerrance]

I hope you got a better bottle opener

[@axelwulf6220]

Most Alien Invasion movies tend to be B-List and below, opting for it being either an isolated incident or a an event happening in a far away future ID4 threw that How-To book out the window and did a global event in modern day with current technology Yeah, we're outgunned, but most of the victims from the Harvesters probably were push-overs, or didn't know how to violence Until they found Earth, and discovered how tenacious we were Yeah, this was the blueprint of a great movie Not pretentious No political jargon No narrative Hell, there wasn't any token characters that stood out or were there to make sure everyone was "included" All the dumb characters that would get in the way were pretty much annihilated, and as action Sci-Fi this was, there was surprisingly a great lack of gore (people getting incinerated doesn't exactly count as gore)

[@jacobschweitzer1068]

This is roland's best film imo despite it's flaws

[@BigMrSox]

How does an extra terrestrial species capable of interstellar travel not know about McAfee or Norton?

[@AndrewMiller-yo7bd]

You could have done a summer of alien invasion movies, Decker. 😊

[@KenMabie]

WELCOME TO ERRF !

[@yogibear6363]

Sneak peek of Adam Baldwin shooting stuff before Firefly/Serenity.

[@tohpingtiang4878]

You're not supposed to use brute force with the bottle opener

[@coolricksgarage222]

Does watching the full ad get you paid more?

[@kevinwilson140]

I like how some letter written before the aliens show up about the shuttle would mean anything after the ALIENS in giant spaceship hovering over the world. Kinda think the shuttle program would be going through some unexpected changes wether the aliens are hostile or not.

[@Throwboy]

Great now I want coke and pringles. 😅

[@animalman57]

Decker, can you review E.T. The Extra Terrestrial?

[@montevideo3580]

What do you like instead of coke then?

[@DemonZangetsu23]

The signal sounds like Meshuggah - Bleed

[@BusinessOfFear]

So. Much. Product. Placement. In the movie as well.

[@TheDarkZeroGame]

I wanna see you review a movie that is 5

[@montecristo1845]

The one thing I remember being an annoying calling card in Roland’s films is how often characters ask to have dialogue repeated to them. General after being told it’s slowing down: “It’s WHAT?!” President on phone: “Could you say that AGAIN?!” David to his dad asking about WH pens: “Dad, what?” Area 51 Scientist after David wakes him up: “What?” And so on…

[@ZERO-ue2mx]

That fine bros joke though.

[@basicallyimegg3212]

Is it a government for hire at a combat site?

[@yank3656]

thanks for sharing Decker Shado

[@Landers]

Yet another great review Decker! Loved it!

[@davsny5]

"Jimmy you can't bank at that speed, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jiiiimmmmmmmyyyyyy Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!" Poor Jimmy the saddest death ever well and Harvey Fierstein poor Marty crushed by midtown traffic.

[@Kiryu904]

I found it weird that the alien in Area 51 let out a screech when it was shot to death, even though earlier in the film it was said that they don't have vocal cords. By the way, you make pretty cool reviews Decker.

[@Ziggy5504]

🗣️"I'm trying to get fired"😂😂😂