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J'avais 16 et c'est tombé à point nommé en attendant le retour de SW lol

its nuts how good the cloth sim and material rendering was in this movie

I skived off college one afternoon to watch this, & found it a lot more fun than ID4. Now I get to pass one of the lifesize Martians whenever I use the front door of the studio! (It's a little bit of my stop-motion origin story, I guess!)

I had the privilege of visiting the model shop in England which made the full sized Martians for that film. There was one in the hallway as you went it. The guy giving me a tour told me a funny story about one of them going missing as well. www.kirkd.co.uk/blog/index.p...

I'm a decade older & grew-up on the classic 50s movies on Saturday afternoon TV. My loved this movie from day 1, but we've lost sight of it. Haven't seen it in ages. Need to remedy that

I saw Mars Attacks on opening weekend with my cousin of the same age (14 at the time). I think we probably liked it more than anyone else in that screening as we were definitely laughing the loudest and the most. It would be great if it got a re-release with a 3D conversion.

I was too young 😭

Lovely!

There are even mechs! It's so cool. The fun is taken to the extreme, I love it. Martians are so mean, so evil, so devious, it's perfect. The film makes such good use of the key elements of sci-fi. The aggressive human general is perfect, too. 😁

We respond to our senior cat in the Martians' voice, because she sounds just like them. I always liked this one, silly & offbeat

Thanks for this - I dig a Mars Attacks appreciation thread

Yes, but if the Martians actually came to Earth, would you rather be turned into a red or a green skeleton? These are the important questions that we always asked each other when watching this movie during a family sci-fi movie night.

I adore this movie and would really love to watch it with an orchestra (and Theramin) playing along.

"They blew up Congress!" will never not be my favourite line

I feel comfortable and confident calling Mars Attacks part of Tim Burton's Golden Age.

No, we wouldn't have gotten *this* version... the big budget, star studded spoof. But we couldve gotten a lower budget, scrappier version. Terminator, Robocop, Predator... all R rated... seemed to do fine.

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I'm a few years older, so I'm lucky enough to have loved it when it came out in part because some of the movies it references had been shown on British TV in the decade prior. Now I've seen a few more of them, I love it even more. And the gleefully evil Martians still out-play even Nicholson. 😁

This is one my faves! Sadly, it terrified our toddler son (I thought he would think it was funny and he did not) and even today if you say “ack ack” to him he gets rattled. Sorry Baboo I didn’t mean to give you a lifelong trauma. :(

Ridiculous fun all around!

Somewhere in the attic of my parents still is the ‚Starlog‘ magazine with an exclusive report from the Mars Attacks set. 🥹 I also was 16 when this movie came into the theatres, and my Friends and I became instantly fans of it. You‘re so right: there is nothing comparable to it. It‘s outstanding.

I still hope somebody will make a real good Mars Attacks film, filled with grotesque gore and erotism. I still think Burton missed the sport here.

It’s so good

Ack! Ack Ack Ack! Ack Ack!

The cast of that movie is so nuts to me. They got like anyone and everyone in on it. I think I'm due for a rewatch.

I was not allowed to choose a film for them to watch again.

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Dude!

Check my IMDB and if I’m back in Europe this year.. let’s grab a beer!

I don’t know if I’ve watched it. 😅 I guess I will.

Thank you for the reminder, I have to see this again. Love the movie.

When I realized this film is more Horror Comedy than usual sci-fi (after getting more into horror/horror-comedy) is when I really finally appreciated it! Kid me was too stuck in my usual genres as well.

It's one of the BEST good BAD Sci-Fis EVER! I try to watch it any time it's on.

Having rewatched both recently, Independence Day has aged terribly; its plot devices are painfully obvious, and its story barely holds together—it’s so crudely propagandistic and over-the-top. In contrast, the madness and biting satire of Mars Attacks! remain very contemporary.