Badlands Story Hour Ep. 174: Independence Day
Chris Paul and Burning Bright do a Fourth of July revisit of Roland Emmerich's 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Randy Quaid, Harvey Fierstein, Vivica A. Fox, and Harry Connick Jr. Both guys expected to have fun with a summer classic. Instead they arrive at the same brutal verdict. This is one of the most heavy handed political programming vehicles of the 90s, and it goes down way rougher than nostalgia suggested.
The conversation covers the pornographic scale of the destruction played for…
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