06-25-2008, 11:54 AM
I loved ID4 back in 1996. I saw it about 5 times at the theater. I got it on VHS when it came out and for the next 2 years I probably watched it 50 times. Around 1999, when the new Star Wars movie and The Matrix came out, I moved on.
Then in 2004 or 2005 one, FX showed it on the 4th of July, pretty much the entire day I think. I sat down to watch it and.....uh.........yeah. It's still a nice time waster, and it's certainly not the worst movie ever, but it's basically a high budget B-movie. The special effects are still kind of cool, but man going back and trying to take it seriously is impossible.
I still fall in the floor laughing at the "fact" that you can survive a 15 mile wall of fire by jumping into a utility closet in a tunnel. Or that a computer virus that will take down an entire alien infrastructure can be written in about 4 hours. As Kevin Pollack said, "Who knew the aliens had Windows 95?"
And it wasn't as bad as Twister, another 1996 "classic". I loved the "I can look up into an F-5 tornado part at the end." Yep...too bad your eyeballs probably would have been sucked out.
Then in 2004 or 2005 one, FX showed it on the 4th of July, pretty much the entire day I think. I sat down to watch it and.....uh.........yeah. It's still a nice time waster, and it's certainly not the worst movie ever, but it's basically a high budget B-movie. The special effects are still kind of cool, but man going back and trying to take it seriously is impossible.
I still fall in the floor laughing at the "fact" that you can survive a 15 mile wall of fire by jumping into a utility closet in a tunnel. Or that a computer virus that will take down an entire alien infrastructure can be written in about 4 hours. As Kevin Pollack said, "Who knew the aliens had Windows 95?"
And it wasn't as bad as Twister, another 1996 "classic". I loved the "I can look up into an F-5 tornado part at the end." Yep...too bad your eyeballs probably would have been sucked out.