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Independence Daysaster (2013) Sinopsis:
Directed by W.D. Hogan. With Casey Dubois, Iain Belcher, Andrea Brooks, Nicholas Carella. When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.
Credited cast: Casey Dubois ... Nick Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Iain Belcher ... Todd Andrea Brooks ... Eliza Nicholas Carella ... SETI Technician Aaron Craven ... Phillips Revard Dufresne ... Secret Service Agent Lane Edwards ... Major Preston Emily Holmes ... Celia Lehman Michael Kopsa ... General Moore Ryan Merriman ... Pete Garcette Garwin Sanford ... Vice-President Brubaker Tom Everett Scott ... Sam Garcette Grace Sherman ... Leni Jill Teed ... Secretary of State Spears Keenan Tracey ... Andrew Garcette
Description of Independence Daysaster (2013):
When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.
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User Review:
While the average viewer should never get anywhere near them, I have a soft spot for low-budget genre flicks of the kind they produce for the SyFy Channel, and within those confines, this one's a real gem. Rather than take The Asylum's cynical but amusing formula of knocking off the title but little else of a current blockbuster, Daysaster goes the opposite route and has the chutzpah to rip off a beloved hit that's almost 20 years old in a fair amount of detail. Roland Emmerich's Independence Day is one of my favorite movies, and if you take the brazen plot point and dialog nods to it in W.D. Hogan's pic as loving homage rather than shameless theft, you'll probably have a blast. I know I did.The level of acting is pretty good for one of these flicks, where you're shooting for an underdog quality that will make you root for the low budget trappings rather than sneer at them. Tom Everett Scott is the star name here, and he makes an effective President, particularly when mixed with the goofy computer hackers (Emily Holmes and Iain Belcher are delightfully awkward interacting with the Leader of the Free World) he finds himself with for most of the movie. Meanwhile, Garwin Sanford is fun as his weasel of a VP and Ryan Merriman is a solid hero as the President's firefighter brother.While many of the plot points are lifts from the Emmerich flick (it's fun to watch the movie shouting out the ID4 lines it references as it references them... or maybe that was just me) and its big-budget knockoff Battle Los Angeles, there are a few clever new ideas in the way the nature of the alien threat provides openings for a small, plucky group of random citizens to fight back. The special effects aren't so bad that it's a distraction, and you can't argue that the design of the alien vehicles doesn't stand out.If you could imagine yourself watching a movie called Independence Daysaster for anything but derisive laughs, give it a try. This is one of the good ones.
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