Independence Day feels like an artifact from a lost era of blockbuster movies. But the more things change, the more they stay the same
. A little comic relief, a little ready-made character actor shenanigans, not least the hilariously, inescapably homoerotic nonsense of Connick calling Smith “big daddy” throughout the movie. A nod to forebears likeThere's an emphasis ethnic difference inthat I'd forgotten about until rewatching it recently.
as “propaganda for the so-called genius of the Jews and their alleged concern for humanity.” The group—no fan of Hirsch or Fierstein's abundance of Jewish jokes, apparently—issued a political fatwa against the movie.a good movie? Maybe. Probably not—but it's a wonderful piece of product and I won't begrudge myself the affection I have for it.
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