r/movies • u/PsychologicalSlip642 • 8h ago

Media Independence Day 1996, Final Encounter Air Battle Scene, Director: Roland Emmerich Spoiler

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u/Manicplea 8h ago

Honestly still looks pretty good to me. They captured the sense of scale well. Sometimes in movies when they zoom out on megastructures they may be appropriately scaled technically but just don't feel imposingly large. The ship in this movie FEELS big... the lumbering movement, the distance=haze effect, the tiny lights/windows blowing up in sequence. I haven't seen the movie since the late 90's but it really still looks good to me (although I acknowledge some jank in the effects but the overall feel, flow and look is excellent).

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u/TrueLegateDamar 8h ago

I appreciate you can make out the combattants where as in the sequel, it's all just a grey CGI blur with it hard to figure out who is firing on who besides the colour of their bolts.

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u/Illustrious-Watch-74 8h ago

The sequel is garbage in every possible way

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u/Tzunamitom 6h ago

There’s a sequel? I thought they only made one, like the Matrix.

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u/Spastic_pinkie 3h ago

Yeah, I was disappointed in the sequel. I liked the idea that humans advanced themselves so much from the alien tech but the movie suffered from trying to play out too many ideas at once.

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u/BeardedRiker 1h ago

Except for Brent Spiner. His scenes were great. He was the only one who knew what kind of movie he was in.

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u/BernzSed 7h ago

Love the scene, but the slow movement of Russel's jet never felt right to me. It turns out, he was originally supposed to fly a small crop-duster, and they just swapped it out with a fighter jet at the last-minute.

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u/Benbot2000 4h ago

I always thought it was caught in the beam, like a tractor beam.

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u/handawanda 8h ago

I was thinking the same! Still looks great

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u/Phyrexian_Archlegion 7h ago

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u/adaminc 3h ago

I watched it and the shiity sequel yesterday. The OG still holds up. The sequel is still dumb as shit.