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[Thread] 🤟So: Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! When I was 16, this film didn't excite me and I just wanted Independence Day. At 44, I'm so glad this movie exists!

The odds of a tribute to 50s sci-fi films, with irreverent humor but also a strong budget for such films, are so low. Not to say virtually impossible in 2025. But here it is: this film is simply unique. We're lucky it exists at all. Whether we like it or not, it's a truly powerful proposition.

Right from the start, the film sets the tone with hundreds of spaceships! How cool is that? Sure, they're identical flying saucers, but it's totally in keeping with the style that inspires this film. It totally respects the idea behind the trading card series released in 1962 by Topps.

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. 😁

And all those scenes focusing on a secondary character with an often dark, sometimes potty humor? It's so rare. The scientist played by Brosnan is sooo good. We've seen this character in so many sci-fi movies. And the end of his storyline is, well, surprising. 😁