To be honest, I utterly hate this movie. It's stupid in every sense of the word. While there are brief moments of entertainment, they can't make up for the sheer stupidity that is Independence Day

Also, it seems Roland Emmerich has a thing for destroying The White House.

Probably the biggest guilty pleasure of all time.

The first, and best 'End Of The World Mega Budget' film.

Simple, unhateable, mockable, gung ho, thigh slapping, flag waving, blow shit up film making.

Superb.

I love this film. It's awful. Awful but I love it. It is one of my guilty pleasures. Please feel free to peruse my guilty pleasures list for more.

As a film , two stars but it has a five star place in my heart.

Just as excellent as I remember, Kick-ass SFX, extreme brutality (30million killed in first 45mins), hipster Jeff Goldbloom, sexy Will Smith and BILL PULLMAN! This film is just epic win.

Despite numerous moments of cheese and stupidity, 'Independence Day' actually holds up much better today than it probably deserves to. With its charming cast of endearing characters, impressive visual effects, and rousing score from David Arnold this sci-fi epic still manages to entertain the hell out of me after all of these years even after countless imitators and parodies.
I'm lukewarm to the idea of sequels at this point but if they're made with as much earnestness and heart as this I'd be up for seeing these characters whup a little more of E.T.'s ass.

To be honest, I utterly hate this movie. It's stupid in every sense of the word. While there are brief moments of entertainment, they can't make up for the sheer stupidity that is Independence Day

Also, it seems Roland Emmerich has a thing for destroying The White House.

Wow...I was so let down when I saw this film. Being a big fan of science fiction I just knew it was going to be amazing. Well it was amazing for me...amazingly bad. The story and plot were so by the numbers I was bored to tears. Upon entering this into Letterboxd I saw that their are two sequels in the works. One for 2014 and the other for I believe 2016. Ick. Well the series can only go up at this point I guess.

Manufactured with sci-fi parts stolen wholesale from other movies (Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Aliens, The War of the Worlds...), this artless, badly put together, totally uninvolving science fiction rerun fails to generate any tension, wonder, or engaging characters, and displays a mind-boggling amount of contempt for its audience. Attempts at humour fall flat and the special effects fail to thrill as director Roland Emmerich packs on the emptily grandiose scenes. Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum are easily the best things in the film.

Hadn't seen this film for probably a decade. It is so good.

Completely stupid and has some moments which now feel cliche

But my god is it good - Will Smith is bloody great

Best pep talk ever.

ALIENS. ALSO AMERICA.

I love emmerich films... U can't beat watching shit get blown up! Some bits of cgi look a bit dated now but it's immensely enjoyable

The only 'MURICA movie I need.

Cheesy, αλλά cheesy with a lot of nachos.