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A story goes that when the fireball rolled over the President’s residence, the audience at the Mann’s Chinese didn’t scream. They roared . For a solid minute, you couldn’t hear David Arnold’s bombastic score over the sound of 1,100 people cheering, laughing, and clapping.

That night in 1996, nobody knew they were watching the end of an era. It was the last great pre-CGI overload film to rely on massive, physical miniatures. It was the last time a disaster movie could feel so purely fun without the weight of a cinematic universe. independence day 1996 premiere

Independence Day would go on to gross over $817 million worldwide. It made Will Smith the biggest star on the planet. It gave us the greatest Presidential speech never written by a real President. A story goes that when the fireball rolled