Hacks attack Mars Attacks! The Tim Burton flop that people kinda sorta remember because the aliens are funny. Here’s a few previous re:View episodes that also fit the concept of re:Visit: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie: https://youtu. be/dRCOSZEtREI Enemy Mine: https://youtu.be/BuIemfjmIak Event Horizon: https://youtu.be/jm0aYVYJrfQ Ice Pirates: https://youtu.be/1fXACfkyvLc Spacehunter: https://youtu.be/eTeLD5KVtHE Cabin Fever: https://youtu.be/7uSkQq3NbO8
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Mars Performs A Domestic Ouch Incident
Loved the concept of this movie. Hated the final version. For me…. kinda boring, worth mocking.
The central joke of Mars Attacks is a subversion of the Star Vehicle. Where the star's are being used as a vehicle for the movies actual stars. Jim Brown and Pam Grier.
Jim Brown and Pam Grier had never been on screen together. The punchline at the end (literally as Jim Brown is a boxer) is that they don’t meet on screen.
Original Gangstas though was released 7 months before Mars Attacks, making the joke redundant.
They thought audiences would get the film, but they didn’t. Still till this day most people don't get the context of Mars Attacks. Not that you need that context to enjoy it.
I just wish people would stop putting videos out on the film until they actually understand it properly. The Nostalgia Critic one was bad enough.
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Mike, did you hear about the rich people in the sub, that went to see Titanic?
And not the Titanic that Mr. Plinkett reviewed.
I can't beleive Mike was into those awesome cards!!
It feels like something Rich would like and get made fun of for!
Mike surprises me again!
Guys, it's a movie based on bubblegum cards. The story is the title! That's it!
That's the movie!
Everything else, is
Burton playing in a sandbox and burning his army men with a lighter.
Burton just decided to say, 'Fukc Hollywood"
Kill the big stars, the normalish people save the day!
That's it, nothing else to look for. Done.
Not even corpse bride is original, it's based off an old jewish folktale.
Anyone else as an adolescent find the weird alien lady disturbingly attractive?
Wtf…2:30.😅 Wtf again! 48:00
Rod Steiger steals this movie
Mars Attacks is a national treasure
4:58 That mug DWARFS Jay!
This is what I knew about Mars Attacks before seeing it in theaters (me being around 12 at the time):
1. The title
2. The look of the aliens
3. Some of the vehicles and weapons as my friends and I owned the toys. Note, some of the merchandise did not even appear in the film.
What I expected:
1. The next Independence Day (I had seen Independence Day not long before and it was one of my favorite movies at the time)
What I got:
2. Mars Attacks! …
I was sorely disappointed. It was just a huge joke.
That being said, I appreciate it much more now as an adult.
My friends and I totally KNEW this movie would be a flop in the US, while it did pretty decently IIRC here in France. We were taken off guard and loved it. The final scene when Tom Jones is surrounded with animals was hilarious.
I haven't listened to the end yet but it seems you neglect an interesting fact: this movie was to be released around the same time Independance Day was and the fact that Independance Day succeeded so much more speaks volumes about the market and the business.
They say that most of the film is just gags, but in a way isn't basically staying true to the original source material? The cards were basically one-off gags, like martian killing a bunch of humans in dark but humorous fashion or just blowing up some monuments. There wasn't really any "mythos" or storyline to adapt, and so in a way, even though the film could've definitely been better and the storyline was weakest part of the movie, I don't think you can completely fault the movie for being too shallow" or not having complex characters.
If anything, I think he did a great job of bringing those cards to life. Even just the look, style and general humor of the film just gives that same feel the cards did. Also, I think considering other films of the time, I think the CGI wasn't that bad. The aliens, in a particular looked pretty awesome IMO.
I generally agree with a lot of their opinions on movies, but I honestly think they were a bit too harsh on this and I don't think it's as bad as they make it out to be. But I do think it's a pretty divisive movie overall, you either "get it" and appreciate it for what it is, or you hate it for what it isn't it.
Jay is wrong about Tim Burton though, Tim Burton came out with one of it not his best movies after this, Big Fish
Whether it be for the imagery they showed, their criticism of a Tim Burton """"""classic"""""", or their poking fun at YouTube's age restriction, this video has been rather poetically age-restricted. Let fellow YouTubers take this as a sobering cautionary tale of what happens when Dinosaur Attacks cards are displayed onscreen.
You guys are too hard on this one, great Movie
…….. mars attacks rules
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Most of the tanks in the background aren't even american.
Those with the round turrets you see are Soviet T55 tanks. 😄
And yes, they're all dressed and equipped like it's the 1950s.
The M1 helmets, the M41 Walker Bulldog tanks and I believe a couple of guys use M1 Garands
Big Eyes was awesome, you fucks 😉
Dumb sentimentality…really…
The part were the language translater dosent work It's supposed to be awkward that's why it is funny.
the corpse bride is actually based on an old jewish folk story
I thought this movie was funny as a kid. Also, good on you for showing Dinosaur Attacks and Mars Attacks cards without censorship. This is a monkey's paw wish but i really want a Dinosaurs Attack movie if only for Dinosaur Satan
"She's so old her frontal lobe fell out" OMFG that's my favorite.
Typical jack Nickelson movie? Have you guys watched easy rider ?
Grrrreaaaat! yer dissing one of the funniest movies of ALL TIME… Whats ya gunna doo next…? FLIP BURGERS???
I made that same Will Smith "welcome to Earth" video… no one watched it
Proposition: Early in the movie, two tourists stop in front of the Landmark hotel. One starts talking about Howard Hughes, how eccentric he was, and that there's a rumor he was cryogenically frozen, but that the rumor's probably not true.
Later in the film, amidst the wreckage of the hotel, we see a big, steel cryogenic pod. It opens by itself and up pops crazy old Howard Hughes with his long hair and really long fingernails.
Howard Hughes makes himself presentable and eventually meets up with and joins the main characters of the film.
Same scenario with the plane. Someone asks, "Does anyone know how to fly a plane?" Hughes says, "I'm an aviator. Ever hear of the Spruce Goose?" No one has. "Well, it was a big deal at the time." Unfrozen Howard Hughes pilots the plane towards the end of the movie (instead of Tom Jones).
When you realize that Star Trek Beyond has the same exact resolution as Mars Attacks
The cast is what made this movie great for me. So, it wasn’t wasted. Your re:Visit was a failure.
Do the frightened you ÿwats.
9:45 – To defend 8 Mile for a minute, Eminem was born in Missouri, it's entirely possible his mom has a Southern accent.
"Corpse bride is completely his idea."
although I heard somewhere, maybe like a tumblr post or something, that corpse bride basically stole an old jewish folk tale and stripped it of it's cultural relevance and called it an original story.
Mars attacks lore…. It was supposedly ripped off from an old HOWARD STERN SKETCH!! Wierd!
When I first watched the movie back in the 90s I remember it just being a cluster fuck of different character stories thrown together in an attempt to make a unique movie and I still feel that way. The movie is a few script & film edits from being good. There is just entirely too much useless stuff thrown in that bloats the movie. For example, the Pierce Brosnan and Sara Jessica Parker stuff with the shitty CGI could've been completely cut. It's like they thought just throwing a bunch of well-known actors and actresses with a bunch of dated CGI was going to make it "successful" and forgot that they still needed the movie to actually be good. It's not a terrible movie by any means, just really disappointing.
i just love that the hero of the movie saved the day by going to pick up his dementia addled gran.
This movie sucked
I bought this movie because I saw Danny Devito was in it…. Ffs
That said the super violent general was worth the money
Mike came up with an actual story in less than one hour, that's something the movie writers couldn't accomplish in the two hours they took to write their script.
Such wasted potential with Mars Attacks. Fun concept but so poorly executed. The comedy is flat/nonexistent. The characters are bland and uninteresting.
(37:47) Just noticed the Playboy magazine on the table.😜
Just grow your hair until you can tie it in ponytail, easiest way to have hair without going bald, won´t have to use silly hair products to keep it in shape like a statues hair
Now I want a dub of New Hope done entirely by Mike.
(maybe) unpopular opinion, but personally, I really like this movie. It feels like it's deliberately going for the schlock side of the 50s/60s sci-fi horror and has a whole "don't think, have fun" mentality throughout. I also liked how it full blown trolled the audience by getting a-list celebrities and using most of them as glorified cameos. The criticisms brought up are fair, but I think it's one of those cases where the critics are on a different wavelength from the casuals.