- If Aliens attack, you can do anything you please, including stealing military helicopters and flying fighter pilots even though you’re President.
- Just don’t try to communicate with the aliens using flashing light panels.
- We’ll be concerned about the environmental effects and collateral damage of nuclear missiles, even against aliens that destroyed our major cities and want nothing other than for us to die. “Diiiiiie.”
- Globally, ID4 made more money than Spider-Man 3, Passion of the Christ, The Lost World, and Transformers. (Looking at that list, Mamma Mia and Madagascar 2 are #42 and #43.)
- From Wikipedia: “The movie originally depicted Russell Casse being rejected as a volunteer for the July 4 aerial counteroffensive because of his alcoholism. He then uses a stolen missile tied to his red biplane to carry out his suicide mission. Devlin preferred the alteration because the viewer now witnesses Russell ultimately making the decision to sacrifice his life, and seeing the biplane keeping pace and flying amongst F-18s was ‘just not believable’.”
First, that scene would’ve been awesome. But what I learned is that there was actually a limit to believability in the film—a biplane flying with F-18s was deemed unbelievable for the scene where they’re attacking an extraterrestrial spacecraft after Jeff Goldblum uploaded a virus to an alien computer using a laptop from 1996.
July 4, 2009