20 Things You Somehow Missed In Independence Day
2. 2001
Easily the best Easter Egg in the entire movie flashes up on David's laptop towards the final scenes of the movie. While booting up his computer ahead of their trip to the Mothership, his loading screen shows a red lens and the words "Good Morning, Dave...".
If you're not there already, this is a direct ode to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. In particular, the famous line uttered by the homicidal computer program HAL before he begins to dispense with his own crew.