Mars Attacks! Discussion

>that scene where the sleazy vegas Nicholson character takes his hat off and his wig comes off too
lmao

ACK ACK ACK ACK, ACK ACK? AACK ACK AAAACK!

Literally the scariest movie ever as kid

I had a friend who was terrified of this movie and developed panic attacks after watching it. I made him watch it again when he got a bit older and he enjoyed it.
He grew up to be a failure nonetheless.

I'm shocked how many actors/actresses are crammed into this.

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Except all of the cheesy sci-fi B-Movies it borrows from.

Watched it as a kid was scared shitless for a few weeks after of an actual alien invasion.

>Tim was told not to kill off Nicholson
>Does it twice
The absolute madman.
Favorite film since I caught it as a kid late at night. It's not great, but it's fun to put on to enjoy. Still crazy just how many big name actors signed up for this movie.

Okay, but essentially every character except for the old woman and her grandson is pointless

>>mfw they come in peace

fun schlock

Mars Attacks! is an underrated IP. The movie is great. Probably the best thing Tim Burton ever did.

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>So, in this scene, you're head is attached to the dog body, and you're scratching yourself.

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Hearing my small town said aloud several times in the movie, and mis pronounced.
Pahrump, Nevada. Seeing the implosion of the "Landmark Hotel" prominently used in the movie.

>mfw

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this is the only part I remember

youtube.com/watch?v=gIbAMRoO39c

One of the best alien invasion movies ever made.
Fantastic cast.

I hated it when I first saw it because I was a retarded child.
Now that I'm a retarded man I love it.

Same, the way the martians looked/acted + the ray guns disintegrated people into skeletons traumatized me for awhile

creepy childhood movie

It's a movie about not letting foreigners into your country

It's not as funny as it thinks it is.

Surprised this pic hasn’t been used for an architect meme yet.

Now there's potential.

He was only really interested in their metabolic rates.

is not funny for a comedy, is just weird looking and lame

I wish parents actually gave a fuck about what their kids see, or play.

me too. i was surprised at how many big name actors were in such a weird and goofy burton movie

Underrated although the comedy is pretty weak

This was my sexual awakening.

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What the fuck?

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I think this movie and the alien encounter in Fallout gave me my obession with ayy lmaos. Just that otherwordly & mysterious feel.
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There's two kinds of Tim Burton movies:
1. Goth garbage
2. American Kitsch Kino
All of his good movies are in category 2: Ed Wood, PeeWee, Betelguise, Dark Shadows, Big Eyes, Mars Attacks
Dark Shadows and Betelguise have a little goth, but that's not what they're about

Oh wow I got really close to there not even two weeks ago, didn't know the movie happened here.

I was going to laugh at you, but really, I feel bad if that's true. Sorry about the rough break, bro.

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>natalie portman's in it

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This thing didn't give me nightmares, but that kind of dread that stays at the bottom of your stomach and refuses to leave. I saw this shit on the big screen once, which makes it even more terrifying, and then a couple of times on tv and it was always a bad idea.

>Don't run, we are your friends!

Based.

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Love the opening
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Burton gave us the biggest satire of liberal response to constant muslim offences five years before 9/11. What a visionary.

What did Burton mean by this flag??

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kek

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arigato

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Watched it way to much as a kid, which as a result my dad would chase me while saying ACK ACK ACK.

Thanks Dad.

Glad people like this one

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I remember finding it funny as a kid but now I'm too afraid of watching it again and ruining it.

you mean Eric the actor

Remember that scene after the martians attack but things are more chilled so they get a martian to come back and talk like killing a bunch of dudes before was just a diplomatic accident/misunderstanding but the martian just shoots them again?

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>Studio says to Burton you can get the money to hire Jack Nicholson, but you're not allowed kill him off
>Burton casts Nicholson as two different characters and kills both of them

Don't run, we are your friends.

THEY BLEW UP CONGRESS
HAHAHHAHA!

Watch this back to back with ed wood. pure kino

My boomer uncle always said it was the best thing ever and desu, after the first contact scene, the movie is complete horseshit. Awkward and stupid, only the Martians are good.

Where did your uncle touch you, user? Show me on the doll.

>N O
>B I R D S

specially the alien disguised as a hot blonde that bit off some guy's fingers

My kino collection

>Woah, they made the international sign of the donut

It was based.
But it made 2nd grade me leave the theater with tears in my eyes when they turned everyone into a skeleton. Didnt finish the movie until a few years later. No other movie and I watched plenty of horror scared me like this. Then i watch it a few years later and realize its all a comedy

first time? i've seen this film 100 times. the pacing has problems and some of the characters are not great. otherwise it is flawless and i wish there were sequels.

was a pretty good book made where they were in a mansion and the martians were doing experiments on humans and animals.
look i just want to see a martian rape a cute girl ok.

I still have fucking ayylmao nightmares

ACK ACK ACK

Biggest lol in the movie

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That could mean anything. It's just a random flag.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=VOzYPXvCqXA

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I find it funny. It was an amusing take on the old alien invasion films and the cast was good. The Martians themselves are hilarious and well designed and the ludicrous violence is wonderful. It's just a dumb film, which keeps it from elevating past being a good parody - kind of like Hot Shots.

Next to ed wood of course

you forgot to show the third stage of the process

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It's a funny wannabe B-film that's genuinely kind of creepy if you watch it as a kid when it came out.

Burton was on his fucking game throughout the 90’s including for this movie. I keep waiting to see him make another good movie (Big Eyes was fine but forgettable).

>teenage Natalie Portman
My adolescent boner says hi.

Very nice.

I don't remember this film having such an impressive cast, god damn

Glad I'm not the only one.

Same the flaming cows in the beginning got to me and I noped the fuck out aftrr a bunch of people got turned into skeletons. Jack Blacks death was what made me run out

First movie I ever saw in theatres. Fucking love it still to this day.

I watched this when I was 5, I was completely terrified of it for years. I only got over it when I was 12 and finally saw it. I found slashers and fucking Alien less scary.

Based

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i cant even remember what movie i went to see but the preview for mars attacks played beforehand. I legit had nightmares for months after. And even refused to see it till like 10 years later

ACK ACK ACK

I was a favorite of mine and my mom. Whenever we would would see a lady with a hairsprayed beehive type doo we'd call her Ack ack.

The disguised alien woman biting off the creepy assistant dude's finger and spitting it in a fish tank always stuck with me

i´ve never understood why the aliens lied, saying WE COME IN PEACE and killing people afterwards, what did the mean by this?????

Dun't run; we are you're friends

came here to post this, you're doing gods work user

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Mars doesn't have animals so seeing something being controlled by another species triggered them on an existential level.
Seeing as how the card game ends with Mars being completely destroyed and the surviving Martians end up in zoos they weren't wrong.

The alien looks scared as shit

dank

HA HA HA! They blew up Congress!

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Most likely the translator never actually worked.

It's a classic but dedinitely not perfect.

mars attacks is to burton as to what 1942 was to Spielberg.

they're both these huge, stylized over produced ""comedies"" that go on for way too fucking long, with way too many characters and shit going on.

shit just gets boring.

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You mean 1941

The dog was a pitbull

Ain't no use cryin over Slim Whitman.

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I think you both mean Schindler's List

Do they even make fun movies like this anymore?

After 9/11 movies like this were simply impossible to do profitably.

They'll forget it after it's been 20 years right?

Humans are stupid as fuck and easy to trick

Saw it at the theater. It was great. All the celebs at the time were awesome to see in it. Jack as the cowboy and the president, the music by Elfman, the humor, all great. One of the last really good Burton films.

God damn I loved this movie as a kid. Used to sleep with my Martian ambassador action figure like it was a teddy bear.

I was a little kid when I first saw it and I didn't get what it was doing in a meta sense, so I thought it was terrible.

I would genuinely love to see another attempt at this movie
some mid-budget so they could afford not to skimp on the gore; maybe a *really* expensive SyFy production or low-level Lionsgate theatrical thing, like Upgrade or Hotel Artemis or Brightburn, maybe 10-20 mil budget
not something grimdark, just something truer to the tone of the trading cards
and if it does well enough, maybe we can get a Dinosaurs Attack movie out of it too, lol

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All of the effects were really great except for when the put the horse's head on the dog

maybe we can get a documentary called Somalia Attacks!

I'm thinking this because the Martians appear confused when the humans applaud them.

just turn on the news.

One of my first memorable boners happened during the alien prostitute scene

This.

I like when the boxer challenges them to a fist fight and they take the challenge

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I am sad Killer Klowns got shit canned.

Kek

You are not even in the top 20 over here I guess

It didn't actually film in Pahrump.
The movie cited Pahrump but the actual filming was in a Dry Lake Bed between Las Vegas and Pahrump ( Sandy Valley turnoff from Highway 160 ) Where the saucer first landed.

I like you

yeah, the designs of the aliens were extremely freaky.
when i was like 7 or 8 i was flipping through the channels and the scene where the aliens land and the hippy lady lets the dove go was on the Sci-Fi channel.
I can still remember the terror I felt when they started talking and shot the bird out of the sky. Not really a movie for kids imo

it's a satire of violent countries calling for diplomacy while committing atrocities
the whole film is burton being a radcen similar in tone to tawp

Not bad for a campy 90's comedy

So how did he survive? did he literally just pretend to be dead?

It was a knockdown

>two sexes
Imagine the furore on social media if this was made in the current year.

I saw it when I was really young because my parents dragged me and didn’t tell me it was a dark comedy
>Didn’t realize it was a parody
>Starting crying when they were melting people and laughing
>thought it was a legit horror movie for 10 years until I rewatched it and realized it was hilarious
Seriously though I was traumatized for weeks after seeing it as a child

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It seems that we all had the same fuckin childhood of dumb boomer parents that wanted to include you in their activities
To be fair it is crazy difficult to grasp what will or won’t be scary to a child
Campy gore and clownishly grotesque monsters are funny to adults but to kids who have never seen horror or mutilation this is what think it looks like and it terrifies them

good post

>Not sleepy hollow
Nigger

They even got the most weird sounding actor to ask that awkward question.

Same alongside The Mummy.