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Hi everyone! I know it's still a couple days away, but Happy July 4th! This was such a great movie to watch to celebrate Independence day with you all! I've also never seen so many explosions in all my life. This one's going to be really hard to top haha.

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Nathan Jasper

I have a theory that Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay compete with each other to see who can explode/destroy the most things. Emmerich: 1992: Universal Soldier 1994: Stargate 1996: Independence Day 1998: Godzilla 2004: The Day After Tomorrow 2009: 2012 2013: White House Down 2016: Independence Day 2 2022: Moonfall Bay: 1995: Bad Boys 1996: The Rock 1998: Armageddon 2003: Bad Boys 2 2005: The Island 2007: Transformers 2009: Transformers 2 2011: Transformers 3 2017: Transformers 4 2019: 6 Underground 2022: Ambulance Kings of Destruction, these two 😂

Maplenuts React

Okay, I don't know most of these movies, but knowing that they all have a ton of explosions makes me so so so happy hahaha. You've inspired me to make a poll that's just "Movies with lots of explosions" 🤣

Nathan Jasper

Just if you can stay away from the 1998 godzilla, almost everybody hates that movie 😂

scott osborne

why stay away from piss take godzilla everyone needs a good laugh once in a while and its not really all that bad of a film i like it many other like it too i know it should of been called big lizard stomps on nyc but hey the fisherman was japanese and he made the mistake in thinking it was the real godzilla

scott osborne

you should of waited 2 more days to putting this out

Wade Wallenstein

This is one of the best films ever made. I watched this in the theater when it came out. Truly an experience! Some trivia: This holds the record for most miniature model work to appear in one film. Model shop supervisor Michael Joyce estimated that more miniatures were used for this film than in any other two films combined. Due to the advances in digital technology since this film's release, most experts believe this record may stand forever. Production designer Patrick Tatopoulos presented Roland Emmerich with two concepts for the aliens. Emmerich liked both designs so much, he came up with the idea to use one design as the actual alien and the other to be a bio-mechanical suit the aliens could wear. Both of Tatopoulos's concepts appear in the film. The President's speech was filmed on August 6, 1995 in front of an old airplane hangar that once housed the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima exactly fifty years earlier on August 6, 1945. Interestingly, the crowd was not scripted to start cheering. Bill Pullman's delivery of the speech was so good that they just started applauding and cheering on their own and the filmmakers kept it in the movie. You should definitely check out Independence Day: Resurgence from 2016. If you thought the explosions were great here just you wait lol

Jimmie V

Love how much you guys loved POTUS Bill Pullman... he was on a bit of a streak at the point, having just completed one of the most enjoyably rom coms the year earlier with While You Were Sleeping and then a year after ID, taking Robert Loggia with him to do one of the most insane, mind-bending films ever made in David Lynch's, Lost Highway (which like many Lynch films, wasn't really appreciated as the masterpiece it was, until much later).

Sobizle

If you guys would be interested in a bit different take on "humans meet alien visitors for the first time", then i can´t recommend the 2016 movie Arrival enough. It´s amesome and it was one of the most memorable and emotional cinema experiences of my life.

Michael Pirretti

I'd recommend "War of the Worlds" if you are looking for more end of the world type movies. It has lots of explosions in it as well.

Maplenuts React

I love these facts! Okay, if I was in that audience in front of Bill Pullman giving that speech, I absolutely would have started cheering and jumping up and down also haha. It was soooooo dang epic!!

Maplenuts React

I didn't realize he was in a rom com too! He would be so fricken charming ❤️

Maplenuts React

We actually have seen Arrival!! It's one of my most favourite movies ever made! ❤️❤️❤️ So you know us well haha. Excellent recommendation!

Maplenuts React

Oh hell yeah! Sounds like something we'd love then! hahaha

dys

Emmerich has made a lot of stinkers, but I don't think Michael Bay has anything in his catalogue that can stand up to Emmerich's best like this movie.

Michael Pirretti

Definitely! If you haven't seen it, it is quite visually stunning.

Anthony Donato

War of the Worlds really good movie that is underrated.

Raven Dark

This is such a great reaction, guys. So much fun. One of my favorite movies. This one was a massive juggernaut of a film when it released. I saw it when it first came out, and as good as the special effects look now, they looked far more impressive back then, especially when seen in a theater. At the time, it felt like I and a theater full of people sat there with our mouths hanging open for most of the film. I still remember seeing the tagline on the poster for the first time. "The question as to whether we are alone in the universe has been answered. On July 4'th, we'll wish we were." Since you asked for more 'End of the world" type movies: Deep Impact Armageddon The Impossible War of the Worlds 2012 Children of Men Intersteller I Am Legend (Will Smith, the pilot you saw in this film)

Maplenuts React

Oooo that tagline is so good!! And thank you for all of these recommendations, this is great!

Darian Harman

What a great re-watch for me! I watched this in the theater when I was 12 years old, and getting this film on VHS was one of my favorite Christmas presents that year. I watched it over and over. The older I get, the better this movie becomes. Both of you "got" this movie in the same way I did when I was watching it for the first time. This is one of the hardest working screenplays in action-movie history, in my opinion. If you think about where we start, how sprawled out the different stories were, and how they all coalesced not only into a narrative and plot, but also a STORY. And it's all completely coherent! All these random-ass character interactions ended up making complete sense both technically and emotionally. This is a really awesome-ass movie, and I will never outgrow it! Oh, also: When the credits were playing, my mother said that Jeff Goldblum's walk while smoking the cigar at the end was one of the sexiest things she's ever seen. She still says that to this day. Lol.