Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American epic science fiction disaster movie. This movie is directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich. A sequel to the 1996 movie Independence Day. The film takes place 20 years after the events of the first movie, during which the United Nations has collaborated military defense and research organization. Independence Day can be watched online, but the movie is not available on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. Starring Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, and Bill Pullman, the title went on to become the highest-grossing movie of 1996.
Independence Day is available to rent on a number of popular platforms and services. For $3.99 the HD version of the film can be rented through Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, YouTube, Redbox, Microsoft, Vudu, and DIRECTTV. There are multiple purchasing options Redbox offers a $13.99 price tag for HD whereas the other services mentioned come in at $14.99.
One of the strange things about Netflix especially now that they are offering ever-changing top 10 lists,” is how often theatrical flips end up on top of and near the top of their top 10 lists at a given moment. The Mark Wahlberg starring thriller, platformed in Christmas of 2016 and went wide in January of 2017, was one of the 2 movies that year about the Boston Marathon bombing, following Jake Gyllenhaal’s Stronger. It was also one of two Peter Berg directed Mark Wahlberg starring thrillers concerning grim days in recent American history which came courtesy of Lionsgate.
Hollywood theatricals are still a big deal to streaming services that make studio programmers and mid-budget star vehicles almost commercially impossible in theaters. You. can’t have Patriots Day huge success on Netflix because folks forgot to see it in theaters unless yu produce and release Patriots Day in theaters first.
For many Americans in 2020, Bill Pullman is the only United States President worth recognizing on July 4. In the 1996 Roland Emmerich blockbuster, Independence Day, Pullman’s fictional president Thomas J. Whitmore delivered a stirring speech in the midst that his inspiring words are part of the reason the people of Earth won the day. The kind of leadership simply doesn’t exist in the real United States of 2020, with a President who refuses to wear a mask himself and who seems to think that a global pandemic is just going to magically dissipate.
