Independence Day didn’t invent or perfect the summer movie, but it arguably understood it better than anything since.

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While Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day is the talk of the movie world, there have been many other amazing alien films not ...

From The Godfather, to Star Wars, to The Lord of the Rings, these great trilogies are genuinely amazing from start to finish.

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