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Independence Day was a remake of the 1953 version of War Of The Worlds. Some of the remade scenes are obviously made in homage to the original. Example: in the 1953 version, The US tries to stop the Martian advance with a nuke. The nuke was delivered by a Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing, a plane that never entered service in the USAF, but looked really cool. In Independence day, when a decision to drop a nuke was made, it was delivered by a B2 - the Northrop designed all wing bomber that is the direct decendent of the YB-49.

On the other hand, political correctness and modernism was on display as well. In the 1953 WOTW, the Martians are defeated as they are in the HG Wells story, by viruses "which God, in His wisdom, had created" (quote from the novel and the movie). In ID, the aliens are defeated by a human created computer virus - no need for God when you have a hacker, don't you see. Moreover, in the book and the 1953 WOTW, Martians were looking to conquer Earth to live on it (Mars was dying) and to use Human Beings as food. In ID, the alienes simply moved from planet to planet stripping them of their resources - their real crime was that they were the ultimate environmentalist nightmare, sort of like interstellar strip miners and polluters.