#steven hiller

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Capt. Steven Hiller: “just make sure your seat backs and tray tables are in their upright and locked position.”

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Lt. Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin: “Please, fasten your seat belts, return the tray tables to their locked and upright positions and prepare for landing.”

[curiouscornfieldcryptid]

In honor of the Fourth of July… 🇺🇸🦅👽

[axelmedellin]

Daily drawing 5 july 2024

Independence Day

[michiruspens]

More hockey cards! (Can't believe I got that Ed Belfour card in two packs in a row)

[burningexeter]

[THIRD HEADCANON/FAN THEORY]

In my own insane (but somehow way less insane) take on the infamous (is it infamous, I just want to know that) Tommy Westphall Universe fan theory which claims not only are 500+ shows are in the same universe but they all take place in the mind of a twelve year old autistic boy with a snowglobe (yes, this is a real thing, blame St. Elsewhere), I propose that in this case for me not only are a decent handful of media are set within the same universe as each other but they all take place within the mind of the deadly, morally grey, femme fatale and early 20s sorceress Charmcaster — the Alien Force and Ultimate Alien Charmcaster to be specific.

How I see it is this is the Where The Magic Happens Trilogy Charmcaster (the pitch I did) specifically the second and third series Charmcaster where she's not only way more mature but a lot more darker, sinister, calculated and ruthless where she took all the lessons she's learned and built upon them and grew from them but not in the good way you think of at first. Obviously, as the second and third series go on, she redeems herself and this is teased throughout because in all three shows Charmcaster has a code, refusing to hurt people that she doesn't have to, expressing regret and disgust at herself for [SPOILER ALERT] decapitating Gwen when they first met, going back to when she doesn't need to to save Gwen and her friends when left behind etc.

She's torn between being a hero and a villain.

But here's where her secret universe within her mind comes directly into play, at the end of the first series, a now changed completely Gwen - no longer the spoiled, know-it-all, mean brat she was at the beginning of the series - gives Charmcaster a special snowglobe that originally meant a lot to Gwen when she was only little and in the words of her Aunt Sandra "finally being able to walk".

It turns out in the second and third series, it's a prized possession of Charmcaster that she won't let anyone else get near or even touch even Gwen who gave it to her in the first place.

How I see it is this is where Charmcaster's universe begins, all of the following are figments on her "imagination". Stories in her mind that only she knows of, it's her own personal secret that's all her fun and her fun only. One day when they're married, she'll tell her wife Gwen but for now, this is hers and hers only. That way, it makes her finally telling Gwen more special.

CHARMCASTER'S UNIVERSE

The connecting theme here are a total of three things which fits them despite being tonially and stylistically different from each other:

1). They focus on distinct but very unconventional types of protagonists and even ensembles having to not only fight the odds but face the highest stakes and the highest threats there is. At the same time, the protagonists aren't generic action heroes or the type who'd be the heroes of these scenarios but they have moral codes or just codes in general even if they're not always "good people" and always end up doing "the right thing". Way less of Tony Stark from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Frank Dux from Bloodsport and Steven Hiller from Independence Day and WAAAAY more of The Stranger from High Plains Drifter, The Driver from Drive and Michael "De Santa" Townley from Grand Theft Auto V.

2). The villains or main antagonists are always never one-dimensional or generic stereotypical bad guys. They're all fully-fleshed out or just fleshed out in general villains with their own personalities, histories and motivations. Some of them are genuinely tragic villains out of Shakespeare and some who are full-on villainous are dangerous and intimidating. Hell, some have codes too. They fall straight into the morally grey area with that if they have that. Way less Tonraq from The Legend Of Korra (ugh, that whole show sucks), Fire Lord Ozai from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Senator John McLaughlin from Machete and WAAAAY more of J. Nomak from Blade II, Davy Jones from Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest/At World's End and Thaddeus Sivina from Shazam!.

3). All of the events in them are either caused by, advanced and forwarded by or sometimes both by the protagonists. They make life-altering decisions that whether good or bad, whether they did or didn't do the right thing, will have massive repercussions. It's never something random as all hell happening to a certain individual, it's the opposite where they did something that caused or triggered this event to happen to them so they really have no one else to blame but themselves.

IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:

• The Mummy (1999)

• Saving Private Ryan

• Overlord (2018)

• Inglourious Basterds

• Thief (1981)

• Heat (1995)

• The Long Kiss Goodnight

• The Invisible Man (2020)

• Upgrade (2018)

and that's just too name a few, there's much more to it than that but this gives you a great idea on what's going on in the mind of everyone's favorite teenage sorceress Charmcaster.

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MARTIN LEE (1946-Died September 29th 2024,st 77).English singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the pop group Brotherhood of Man.

Lee was brought into Brotherhood of Man along with Lee Sheriden, Sandra Stevens, and Nicky Stevens by band manager Tony Hiller in 1972, when its original line up split up to pursue different music careers. The new version won the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with their song "Save Your Kisses For Me". Lee has been a member of Brotherhood of Man since joining in 1972.

As well as guitarist, Lee was also the main lead vocalist for the group. He married Brotherhood of Man member Sandra Stevens.Martin Lee (singer) - Wikipedia

[kitkatt0430]

Anyway because I'm in a sci fi mood right now (and rewatched the film recently) and you mentioned that you loved the film - I would love to know about your more detailed thoughts on Independence Day!!

It is absolutely a silly, feel good film to me. I love so much about it. Brent Spiner's delivery of all his lines before the alien autopsy gone wrong, Will Smith dragging an alien through the desert while bitching at it (he deserves to), Judd Hirsch and Jeff Goldblum's excellent chemistry as a father and son duo... even the music choice at the start of the movie - I can't hear R.E.M.'s It's the End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) without thinking of this movie and it fits the overall theme of the movie soooo well.

I like the President character - not surprising, I generally like Bill Pullman's character acting - and he works well as someone trying hard to keep it together and do the right thing despite grieving his personal loss of his wife during the first act of the movie.

(Apparently they reused the White House set from The American President, which amuses me trivia wise since that's another movie I enjoy. And if I watch one right after the other, I can pretend Thomas Whitmore was elected after Andrew Shepherd's second term and then contemplate how the Shepherd family and their secret security agents fared the aliens.)

But Steven Hiller is probably my favorite character, though, because he's just fun. He's relaxed and confident in his relationships in a way that says he's comfortable both with who he is and who they are, even if others are more judgemental about it.

That said, I do really enjoy David a lot - an MIT grad who is overqualified for his job and his father doesn't seem to understand why he won't/can't get a better job, though it's rooted in love and wanting his son to be happier. I see a lot of mental health struggles in David that are relatable, even if they're not similar to my own issues.

I always feel so bad for the alien groupies at the start of the movie. Yeah, we're supposed to see them as being kinda idiots, but they're just excited and hopeful and it's sad that they die for being willing to hope that maybe the aliens come in peace and want to hang out or party. They just wanted to believe in a better future and that's really not so bad.

The end of the movie comes together really well. Despite it being a bit ridiculous that David can create a virus that can propagate to every alien ship from the mothership and kill their shielding after being totally unfamiliar with the alien tech just days earlier... it's somehow just plausible enough that I can suspend disbelief and just enjoy David and Steven having their infiltration mission. And the Independence Day speech that Whitmore gives before the world wide attack on the alien ships always gets to me. It's cheesy but it gets to me.

[radiomaxmusic]

Feature Artist / Brotherhood of Man / 12pm ET

Martin Lee (born Martin Barnes, November 26, 1946 – September 29, 2024) was an English singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the pop group Brotherhood of Man. Lee was brought into Brotherhood of Man along with Lee Sheriden, Sandra Stevens, and Nicky Stevens by band manager Tony Hiller in 1972, when its original line up split up to pursue different music careers. The new version won the…

[the-firebird69]

Independence Day/Best scene/Roland Emmerich/Will Smith/Steven Hiller/Jef...and it is aweful they delivered the code and ppl saw it not much but ehre it is a warning to us

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Thor we see it they try to bomb our ships and dont use them and flee we hit them now and kille them all have the oppotunity and all up now Freya

and we have permission we do this now

Frnk Castle Hardcastle need it badly

now too we use thier devices on them now

Duke Nukem Blcokbuster we close thier cities and one by one yes use them too tey try to drill in and or percussion we use it on them now

Olympus

all of us now

Her 

will do 

savage oopress now too dart maul darth talone

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NIGHTWING (1979) – Episode 222 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“I’ve decided to end the world. They all have to go.” Well, you can forget about cleaning the house, then. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out some Indigenous American culture infused with apocalyptic horror in Nightwing (1979).

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 222 – Nightwing (1979)

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Decades of Horror 1970s is partnering with the WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL (https://wickedhorrortv.com/) which now includes video episodes of the podcast and is available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, and its online website across all OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.

Directed by: Arthur Hiller

Writing Credits: Steve Shagan & Bud Shrake & Martin Cruz Smith; (1977 novel by) Martin Cruz Smith

Music by: Henry Mancini

Cinematography by: Charles Rosher Jr. (director of photography) (as Charles Rosher)

Visual Effects by: Carlo Rambaldi (special visual effects)

Selected Cast:

Nick Mancuso as Youngman Duran

David Warner as Phillip Payne

Kathryn Harrold as Anne Dillon

Stephen Macht as Walker Chee

Strother Martin as Selwyn

George Clutesi as Abner Tasupi

Ben Piazza as Roger Piggott

Donald Hotton as John Franklin

Charles Hallahan as Henry

Judith Novgrod as Judy

Alice Hirson as Claire Franklin

Pat Corley as Vet

Charlie L. Bird as Beejay (as Charlie bird)

Danny Zapien as Joe Mamoa

Peter Prouse as Doctor

José Toledo as Harold Masito (as Jose Toledo)

Richard Romancito as Ben Mamoa

Flavio Martinez as Isla Laloma (as Flavio Martinez III)

Lena Carr as Pregnant Woman

Virginia P. Maney as Old Squaw

Wade Stevens as Ambulance Attendant

Robert Dunbar as Helicopter Pilot

John R. Leonard Sr. as Helicopter Pilot

When a shaman decides the world must end and all must die, he performs a ritual that releases a very large and murderous Desmodus rotundus colony, commonly known as a guano-load of vampire bats! Nightwing (1979) is the only venture into horror for director Arthur Hiller and writer Martin Cruz Smith. Even so, the 70s Grue-Crew are bat-guano-crazy over their movie. Between the story, the bats, and the cast (Strother Martin’s in the house!), there is plenty of fuel for their talkabout!

At the time of this writing, Nightwing (1979) is available to stream from YouTube and PPV from Prime and AppleTV. The film is available on Blu-ray formatted physical media as part of a double-feature with Shadow of the Hawk (1976) from Mill Creek Entertainment. 

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Jeff, will be Craze (1974), directed by Freddie Francis and sporting a bunch of Oscar winners. It’s got to be great, right? Right? Why are you laughing?

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com.

Check out this episode!

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1997 Kids' Choice Awards - Favorite Movie Actor

Jim Carrey - The Cable Guy as Ernie "Chip" Douglas

Tom Cruise - Mission: Impossible as Ethan Hunt

Will Smith - Independence Day as Captain Steven Hiller

Robin Williams - Jack as Jack Powell

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THE 100 GREATEST DIRECTORS IN THE HISTORY OF WORLD CINEMA! (@INDIES)

.Roman Polanski

.David Lean

.Alfred Hitchcock

.Frank Capra

.Elia Kazan

.Dasari Narayana Rao

.Fred Zinnemann

.Milos Forman

.Kamal Amrohi

.Peter Jackson

.John Huston

.Billy Wilder

.Frank Lloyd

.Roland Joffe

.Lekh Tandon

.Asit Sen

.B.R. Chopra

.Edgar Wright

.Chris Columbus

.Ernst Lubitsch

.Alain Resnais

.Guru Dutt

.George Cukor

.Ivan Reitman

.Mahesh Kaul

.Jayant Desai

.Richard Curtis

.Robert Clouse

.Basu Bhattacharya

.Maurice Pialat

.David MacDonald

.Mel Gibson

.Anthony Minghella

.Jamie Uys

.Joseph Mankiewicz

.Pierre Chenal

.David Fincher

.Ken McMullen

.Jeremy Leven

.Mary McGuckian

.Alfonso Cuaron

.Rob Reiner

.Delbert Mann

.Louis Malle

.John Cromwell

.Charles Chaplin

.A. Bhimsingh

.Jean Delannoy

.Mervyn LeRoy

.Nancy Meyers

.William Wyler

.Bhargava (Kannada)

.Jonathan Lynn

.Peter Weir

.Robert Rossen

.Roger Michell

.Robert Zemeckis

.Robert Z. Leonard

.J. Lee Thompson

.Robert Wise

.Jerome Hill

.Anthony Quinn

.Jacques Audiard

.Agnes Jaoui

.Mervyn LeRoy

.Roland Emmerich

.Wallace Worsley

.Stephen Herek

.Blake Edwards

.Andrew Fleming

.John Frankenheimer

.Claude Autant-Lara

.Kenneth Branagh

.Lasse Halstrom

.Ralph Nelson

.Andrei Tarkovsky

.Robert Stevenson

.John Madden

.Stanley Kramer

.Olivier Dahan

.Norman Z. McLeod

.Mike Newell

.Raymond Rouleau

.Michael Curtiz

.Nora Ephron

.Arthur Hiller

.Vittorio De Sica

.Bernardo Bertolucci

.Sohrab Modi

.John McTiernan

.Steven Spielberg

.Tay Garnett

.Abel Gance

.Richard Linklater

.Merian C. Cooper

.Michael Bay

.Renny Harlin

.Victor Fleming

.Phil Karlson

.Satyajit Ray

.David Yates

.John Guillermin

.Oliver Stone

.James Cameron

[axelmedellin]

Daily drawing 4 july 2021

Capt. Steven Hiller

[the-imaginative-hobbyist]

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[greatrunner]

Assuming I’m not mixing details up and confusing one alien for another:

As a kid, I remember thinking Will Smith had punched the alien in Independence Day so hard, he killed it and had to drag it’s body back to that military base he ended up on.

But, if that’s the same alien Brent Spiner was doing the autopsy on, Will Smith punched the alien so damn hard, it stayed unconscious for hours as he dragged it’s dead weight through the desert until he got to the military base he and it ended up on.