Fred F. Sears
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Independence Day (1996)
Directed by Roland Emmerich
influenced by Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Plot
From the cheesy dialogue and paranoid conservatism to the gleeful defilement of national monuments, this is Earth vs. the Flying Saucers from 1956--albeit updated for the '90s via Star Wars, Alien, Top Gun, and T2, and then filtered through the '70s disaster genre and that awful TV movie from the nuclear-scare era, The Day After.
A mammoth, multicolored bird with an uncanny resemblance to the monster of the fifties sci-fi picture The Giant Claw sticks its beak into people’s faces and emits a flabbergasting croak: You can almost feel the air.