Movies Of The ‘90s: ‘Independence Day’

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a former fighter pilot and the world is facing annihilation at the hands of an alien species whose only motivation is permanently ending the human race, well then, who cares if you’re the president? You belong in the air, baby!

Welcome back to Nerdette Recaps with Peter Sagal, the podcast where we rewatch movies of the ‘90s and dissect them like the intense nerds we are. Today is all about the 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, starring Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Vivica A. Fox, Bill Pullman and at least 25 gallons of pure Americana.

Listen to the conversation and then join us next week for our discussion of White Men Can’t Jump.

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0:00.0	From WVEZ Chicago, this is Nerdat Recaps with Peter Sagel.
0:09.1	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:10.0	I'm Tricia Bobita, and we are joined by, drum roll, please.
0:14.2	Snares, patriotic, swells of music, Peter Sagall.
0:18.3	Hey, how are you?
0:19.7	And I want you to know not only am I just like Jeff Goldblum in this movie, I look like him, too.
0:26.2	Peter, the video is on the Zoom's call.
0:28.5	I hate to say it, but...
0:29.6	So today we are recapping Independence Day, which is essentially more or less a 1996 propaganda film about how America reacts when aliens attack.
0:41.4	Whoa, whoa, whoa.
0:43.0	Showing your cards early, Miss Johnson.
0:45.9	I thought we'd have to wait at least 30 or 40 seconds to find out how much you loathed it.
0:50.8	But no, you opened with that.
0:52.8	All right.
0:53.7	I don't know. I thought it would be fun to
0:55.1	just like start dirty and see what happens. Lay it out. Lay it out. Absolutely. We're going to play
1:00.4	this hand open handed where everybody knows everybody's cards are. This is awesome. Okay. So Tricia, you have
1:05.7	seen this movie a great many times, right? What is your relationship to Independence Day? I don't remember the exact
1:11.6	first time I watched it, but probably pretty early on into its VHS life at my local video store.
1:18.1	And yeah, this is one of those movies where like if I caught it halfway through on TV, I would
1:22.4	usually sit down and watch the rest of it. And I have to be honest, like, yeah, there are some
1:26.7	problematic things about it. And it's a very silly movie in many ways, but I really of it. And I have to be honest, like, yeah, there are some problematic things about it,
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