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"Mars Attacks" was underrated as a Burton film

Probably in a general sense too
Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate
  05/08/25
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Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate
  05/28/25
saw it at the cinema with my dad when I was too young to rea...
orchid house hunting ground
  05/08/25
iirc the military refused to give the production crew any ma...
Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate
  05/08/25
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orchid house hunting ground
  05/08/25
i think cr
Lemon know-it-all ape senate
  05/08/25
Great and highly cr performances from Jack Nicholson in this...
Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate
  05/08/25
"You gave up pork, huh?"
Slate Soul-stirring Degenerate Pervert
  05/28/25
https://youtu.be/MPMmC0UAnj0?si=tP_ncKZ4q88S_OPG
Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate
  05/28/25
Lot of millennial era directors only make one film over and ...
Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate
  05/08/25
My kids love this movie.
Laughsome toilet seat
  05/08/25
it was actually pretty frightening seeing it for the first t...
Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate
  05/08/25
It did scare my youngest daughter.
Laughsome toilet seat
  05/08/25
So long, retard -- just don't touch any of my stuff while I'...
motley ruddy pit
  05/28/25


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Date: May 8th, 2025 9:48 AM
Author: Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate

Probably in a general sense too

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Date: May 28th, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate



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Date: May 8th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: orchid house hunting ground

saw it at the cinema with my dad when I was too young to really get it. I remember my dad told me he didn't like it because it made humanity look stupid or something. that's how I knew it was actually good and I was too dumb to see it at the time.

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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:42 AM
Author: Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate

iirc the military refused to give the production crew any material dated past the 60s because the script they received made the DoD look toothless and inept

so in the landing scene you have a smattering of guns from the 50s and 60s, tanks domestic and foreign ranging from WW2 to mid cold war, and a variety of other period anachronisms (the movie seems to take place in the late 80s or early 90s). probably a general pull from the backlot for whatever they had sitting around from other films

this ends up making the film a better tribute to the period for it; those directors from the era (Roger Corman comes to mind) usually had barely anything to work with and anachronisms and continuity errors were rife throughout

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48913221)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 2:43 PM
Author: orchid house hunting ground



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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:43 AM
Author: Lemon know-it-all ape senate

i think cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48913226)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate

Great and highly cr performances from Jack Nicholson in this flick. Clearly having lots of fun with the roles

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48913262)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 5:17 PM
Author: Slate Soul-stirring Degenerate Pervert

"You gave up pork, huh?"

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Date: May 28th, 2025 5:23 PM
Author: Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate

https://youtu.be/MPMmC0UAnj0?si=tP_ncKZ4q88S_OPG

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48968724)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:56 AM
Author: Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate

Lot of millennial era directors only make one film over and over again (Wes Anderson comes to mind with this) but that one film tends to be fantastic and very well honed in the successive iterations

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48913276)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 10:58 AM
Author: Laughsome toilet seat

My kids love this movie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48913282)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:02 AM
Author: Mildly Autistic Copper Hell Doctorate

it was actually pretty frightening seeing it for the first time as a kid

the deskeletonizer rays are played for kitschy laughs but the effect is pretty grotesque and maybe a little too detailed on film. not to mention the general uselessness of the authority figures portrayed to actually do anything meaningful against the martians. it's still pretty "family friendly" though and a great intro to 50s-60s sci-fi schlock (great genre for kids ime. will develop a healthy sense of humor later in life if introduced to that stuff early) in the same vein that "LA confidential" is a good and well, if very "late modern", paced intro to film noir

apparently the IP comes from a series of Topps trading cards that had quite a bit of ultraviolence (for the time) in it https://www.flickr.com/photos/31558613@N00/albums/72157625601126001/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48913300)



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Date: May 8th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Laughsome toilet seat

It did scare my youngest daughter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48913346)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: motley ruddy pit

So long, retard -- just don't touch any of my stuff while I'm gone

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5721901&forum_id=2)#48968672)