RE: I shall admit to a tear of gratitude when the saucer blows up Washington DC in Independence Day.
I was visiting Plano, Texas when I saw the movie at night and I could swear I heard applause after that scene was shown...
The nurse using morse code to say M-E-R-R-Y C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S on his chest was very, VERY sad.
Hah! You beat me to it!
I was going to post “Independence Day,” the scene where Washington is swept away by a wall of fire....LOL!
True story.....when the movie was released in 1996, Bob Dole was campaigning in Los Angeles. He and one of his aides went to see the movie in a theater in Hollywood.
When Dole came out of the theater, a reporter asked him how he liked the movie. As we know, Los Angeles, New York and Washington were reduced to ruins by the attacking aliens shortly after the movie began.
Dole answered, “It was a good movie,” then quietly added as an afterthought, “a lot of people died.”
Dole’s aid leaned over to the reporter and quipped, “A lot of liberals!”