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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Mar 5, 2017 9:19:18 GMT -5
well
from it's first scene of the flaming cows to the las vegas tower rolling off with nicholson falling out of it, a brilliantly subversive tim burton movie
saw it twice i think and wanted to buy the widescreen vhs pack with the tshirt, but alas i didn't, settling for the one without it
also have the soundtrack
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Mar 5, 2017 9:44:47 GMT -5
Hilarious movie, and you gotta love that pretty much everybody that was killed were assholes. Nobody unlikable actually survived.
Don't run, we are your friends.
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Post by Fade on Mar 5, 2017 10:11:25 GMT -5
As a kid I watched this purely for Michael J. Fox..
Michael J. Fox died immediately
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Post by Stu on Mar 5, 2017 11:59:43 GMT -5
I first heard of Mars Attacks after seeing advertisements in a comic book catalog. It had photos of sculptures like the one below, and I thought it was going to be some kind of dark graphic novel or something. Then the movie came out and I realized it was a parody and a play on oldschool sci fi films.  |
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 5, 2017 12:20:56 GMT -5
Billy Crystal openly mocked it at the Oscars during the intro song, right in front of Jack Nicholson, who laughed his ass off.
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Post by Woo on Mar 5, 2017 13:19:39 GMT -5
Amazing movie! Possibly my favourite Tim Burton movie and aside from Big Fish his last great film.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2017 12:49:11 GMT -5
TIL the eldest of Jim Brown & Pam Grier's kids in the movie is Ray J.
Also, having been a Boy Scout, I will never stop laughing at the Washington Monument scene. I nearly passed out LOL'ing when I first saw it (middle of the day showing, maybe 2 or 3 other people in the theatre)
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Mar 6, 2017 15:59:45 GMT -5
I love it, always have. It's f***ing batshit in all the best ways.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Mar 6, 2017 19:07:54 GMT -5
ACK ACK. ACK.
(Translation: It's alright, somewhere in the middle tier of Burton's work. Like I don't love it the way I do his two Batman movies or Ed Wood. )
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Post by agent817 on Mar 6, 2017 19:25:00 GMT -5
I remember watching a lot on HBO back in 1997. I had fun with it considering how crazy it was. I wonder if the reason it didn't do well was because it came out months after Independence Day and some people immediately called it a knock-off or something.
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Post by PKO on Mar 6, 2017 20:00:38 GMT -5
I LOVE Mars Attacks. It's bizarre, campy, visually arresting, chocked full of celebrities who get killed off in amusing fashion, has a great score and has Tom freakin Jones as a hero. Plus, alien Lisa Marie did things to me as a child  |
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Post by Rhody Codes on Mar 6, 2017 20:45:10 GMT -5
I first heard of Mars Attacks after seeing advertisements in a comic book catalog. It had photos of sculptures like the one below, and I thought it was going to be some kind of dark graphic novel or something. Then the movie came out and I realized it was a parody and a play on oldschool sci fi films. Which were based on a series of trading cards featuring aliens invading various Earth cities. |
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