Best film moment anyway...
Bored in Vancouver one day a few years back (I'd broken my wrist skiing after flying 19 f*&%ing hours to get there so was NOT in the mood for the usual fun activities) I went to see a film, Rumble In The Bronx.
I wasn't really expecting much but got the surprise of my life when, during the pre-film shorts, a promo for Independence Day came on.
The usual stuff happens, spaceships fly about, Will Smith smokes a cigar etc etc, and then we get to the scene where the mothership hovers over The White House and blows it up.
And the cinema erupted.
Everyone was cheering, laughing, screaming in delight, standing up and pumping their fists in the air... the French Canadian guy next to me even hugged me, screaming some delighted gibberish.
It was, in ways the following film could never hope to achieve, a truly magnificent moment and a complete wake-up to how the average Canadians feel about their big neighbour.
( difficultchild, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 2:02, 1 reply)

Yes!
I lived in Boston, MA for a number of years and went to see Independence Day with a few Irish friends. On that same scene we cheered and oddly enough so did most of the cinema (they were 70% black or hispanic).

Imagine how it went down in Iraq.
(Tugnut I got them all..., Wed 23 Jul 2008, 12:03, closed)