Independence Day (Five Star Collection)

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Independence Day (Five Star Collection)

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Of the two commentaries, the more interesting is the one with the special effects supervisors, who engagingly demonstrate how the film’s illusions ran the gamut from traditional “model & string” effects to the most sophisticated CGI applications. “Creating Reality” is the best of the three behind-the-scenes documentaries; “ID4 Invasion” is an interesting compilation of fictional news reports (some of them quite convincing) that were created for the TV reports within the movie, while the “HBO First Look” featurette hosted by Jeff Goldblum is rather glib and redundant. Of greater interest is the “special edition” cut of
Independence Day and the original unused ending with Randy Quaid heroically piloting a vintage biplane instead of an advanced fighter jet. As producer Dean Devlin explains, the sight of a rickety airplane keeping pace with F-18 jets was “just not believable.”
–Jeff Shannon