Which is intriguing, since Quaid's character really is one of the heroes of the fight against the alien threat. Honestly, without being allowed to go online and verify it, if I was asked on a quiz 'Was Randy Quaid in Independence Day?' I would have answered no. But, outside of that, there is very little that I truly remember about this movie. And, of course, I remember parts of Bill Pullman's climactic speech. I remember Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum flying the alien ship to the mothership and installing some sort of virus. I remember the jump scare with Okun in Area 51. Not that it's a truly bad movie, at least not offensively so, but the thing is that I remember very little about the content of the movie. With that said, however, even with the relatively average rating I gave it, this movie is, at the same time, better and worse than it had any right to be. That's not to say that I couldn't find some enjoyment out of it as someone who's 30, but I knew that I wasn't going to see the second coming, like some people tend to do when they're nostalgic about certain movies or the experiences they had with it. This was a product of its time and my enjoyment was also a product of its time. I never looked at this movie with rose-colored glasses. But I wanted to go back to a timeframe where things were much simpler for me, not as stressful. However, when I say I was nostalgic for this movie didn't mean that I was expecting it to blow my mind like it probably did when I was eight. Now, of course, as someone who was eight years old at the time of this movie's release, my tastes were, say, a little less discerning than they are now, theoretically speaking. Anyway, one of the things I remember most about this movie, other than that one jump scare, isn't even something about the movie itself, it's the fact that I made my mom (or aunt) take me to see this movie in theaters a second time.
I was eight years old in 1996 and, quite frankly, this was probably the type of movie that spoke to me as a child. Here's the thing, Independence Day came out in 1996. Admittedly speaking, however, the reason I did choose to watch this last night wasn't to contrast Extraterrestre with this, though it does make for an interesting contrast, it was simply because I was feeling slightly nostalgic and I wanted to watch a movie from my youth. But Independence Day, for one reason or another, is still somewhat fondly remembered to this day. Well, really, perhaps that last point is a bit of an exaggeration. So, now that I think about it, as I didn't really notice at the time, it turns out that after watching an alien invasion movie (Extraterrestre) without the aliens and barely any invasion as it is, I decided to watch the most alien invasion-y movie ever made.
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