I don’t think I’ve ever seen Independence Day in HD, beyond seeing it in the heater when it came out. I’d be curious to see what it looks like in 4K (I think the HBO Max version is only 1080p; they don’t seem to have a lot of 4K movies on the service). I bet you can see a lot more film grain in Ultra High Definition.

I remember that Independence Day was one of those ‘90s action movies that was shot in Super 35, a fake widescreen format where they’d chop off the top and bottom of the screen for the theaters but open up the frame for home video, so you’d actually get more image on the TV screen, though it was less epic (and you…

You still can. Just go to twitter.com & search for @1996ID4. You can read the whole thing. Not quite the same, but still worth it.

Rewatching it now, two things really stand out. After the initial alien attack, Will Smith and Harry Connick Jr.’s characters are way too cavalier while preparing to go into battle, joking around after millions had just been murdered. After living through 9/11, the world went dead serious for weeks after, so this just…

The majority of Idaho residents who commented on their states’ new laws were against them as well.

Very much agree. Watched it again last night (I’m not American, but it’s become a 4th of July tradition... to the extent where if we’re out playing a show we switch up our intro music to feature Pullman’s big speech) and it really does hold up well.

One thing that always bothered me is the ship that David and Steve fly into space crashed on Earth in the 1950s. It’s now the 1990s. Has the alien technology really not changed in 40 years?

Dude couldn't figure out a roof mount? Come on.

Is that you, Hulk?

All vehicles are throwable.

Ugh: the plastic mount on the 18-140mm

you really think if they DID come up with something more substantial, they’d share it with the public? they’d probably rather we think they were all incompetent than share.

There should be an investigation into why USA military pilots with equipment that’s designed to positively identify an enemy aircraft travelling at supersonic speeds, and confirm facial identity of a bombing target from ten miles away, can’t capture decent imagery of a drone flying lazily at 30mph a stone’s throw…

Easy money!

If humans could interbreed with Neanderthals and Denisovans I would argue they were single species because it is a definition of species https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

Why didn’t you just get a ticket? I dunno, seeing the Hanson Brothers through a telescope seems, mmmdumb? 

Thank you

God I hate these “strawberry moon”, “blue moon”, “blood moon” “super blue blood ultra moon”

You mean my Covid nanoprobes are already obsolete? DAMN YOU BILL GATES