Better Now than Ever

Rating: 8/10 (4 March 2010)

I first saw Independence Day on laser-disk on 35 inch CRT. I watched ID4 for the millionth time on a 50 inch plasma on Blu-Ray in February of 2010 and Independence Day is a better movie now than it was all those years ago. If you have not seen Independence Day yet, then now is the best time to do so If you are watching this movie to find the meaning of life, you will not find it in this movie. To watch ID4 you have to suspend belief because there are parts to this movie that just don't make sense. For example it is far fetched that a human computer could upload a debilitating virus to the mother ship when in 1996 you could barely have Macs and PCs communicate. Even when the movie is 14 years old, the effects still are very impressive. When you see the Capitol Building building shatter into a million pieces, the feeling was the same in 2010 as it was in when the movie first came out. Independence Day is popcorn movie, nothing more or less. But it is great popcorn movie