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Though there are better movies, I’m thinking that this, from Roland Emmerich’s 1996 sci-fi blow-em-up Independence Day, might be the definitive moment in 1990s blockbuster filmmaking. If you sum up that specific brand of bombasticism, it’s not really about a triumphant T-Rex, it’s wanton destruction

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4 July

I agree! We just covered Jurassic Park and Independence Day on our podcast , and while JP was my favorite, their was nothing like watching ID4 in the theater! The audience loved it and cheered for so many scenes.

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And while we’re talking about it, here is my favorite essay about disaster films, in which Despina Kakoudaki argues that 1990s disaster flicks employ images of disaster to explore contemporary ruptures in national politics and to offer a utopian and sublime alternative to our current conditions.

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