Day The Earth Stood Still/independence Day

The Day The Earth Stood Still

A craft lands in Washington and an alien appears. He's come to speak to the leaders of the world in the hope that he can convince them of the danger that Earth is in. Finally he is forced to show his true powers to teach mankind a lesson.

Special Features:

• Film commentary by writer David Scarpa
• Deleted Scenes
• Still Galleries:

• Concept Art
• Storyboards
• Production Photos

• 4 Featurettes:

• Re-Imagining "The Day"
• Unleashing Gort
• Watching the Skies: In search of extraterrestrial life
• The Day the Earth Was "Green"

Independence Day

With a $71 million budget and mind-blowing special effects, Independence Day is a grand, high-tech throwback to such films of the 1950s as The Day The Earth Stood Still and War of the Worlds. Here, aliens, in numerous gargantuan spaceships, arrive without warning and hover over the world's most important cities, creating global panic. The nasty visitors use death rays to blow New York, Washington D.C, and Los Angeles to smithereens. A handful of plucky Americans, including the Clinton-esque President, a gung-ho fighter pilot and a computer geek named David, attempt to devise a strategy against the invaders.

On July 4th, their risky plan is put into effect, as dozens of fighter pilots (including the President) wage an assault on the spaceships. However, their success (and the fate of the world) depends on David, who is attempting to disarm the aliens's mothership.