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The White House explodes. Will Smith punches an alien and delivers the one-liner. Jeff Goldblum uploads a virus from a PowerBook. The movie that made July 4th weekend a permanent blockbuster holiday — and the biggest film of 1996 by a mile.
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in black suits and shades, policing the aliens already living in Manhattan. The neuralyzer flash, the talking pug, and a theme song you could not escape made this one of the defining blockbusters of summer 1997.
Roland Emmerich's 2004 blockbuster trades aliens for air currents — a cascade of extreme weather that flash-freezes New York in a matter of days. Dennis Quaid's climate scientist goes unheeded, Jake Gyllenhaal ends up burning library books to survive, and that frozen Statue of Liberty became the poster image for every "what if the climate does THIS" conversation you had in school.