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"You're an adult- just cope." MARS ATTACKS!

post #1 of 9
4/20/04 at 3:50pm
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This is the only Tim Burton movie I like. I really like it. I hadn't seen it for years when it came on HBO a few days ago. I think my favorite scene is at the president's press conference, and this androgenous person steps up and asks in a low, low voice: "Will the martians have two sexes, like we do?" My second favorite scene is Jack Nicholson as the Vegas cowboy dude getting crushed by the giant globe. "WHOA!"
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post #2 of 9
4/20/04 at 9:52pm
For my dollar, FAR more entertaining and rewatchable (not to mention ORIGINAL) than that overblown piece of crap that overshadowed it at the box office.
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post #3 of 9
4/21/04 at 12:54am
GREAT movie. So fucking weird. Everyone dies. It's great.

"My Nancy Reagan chandelier..."
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post #4 of 9
4/21/04 at 8:00pm
Comedian Brian Haley, who's most known for being the guy who looks like Drew Carey without the glasses, (or the guy who took over the role of 'wacky mechanic' on Wings) plays the best Secret Service Agent in film history.

He's a by the book, no nonsense, kick ass guy who even gets a few on-screen kills of these otherwise unstoppable aliens. He enters the Oval Office with a cautious but determined attitude 'Mr. President, it's a full scale invasion, we're getting you out of here.' He's as even spoken as if the character were ordering a cup of coffee. When the president is leaving, he has him change course 'Not this way sir, there's a tour.' No doubt his service as a US Army Green Beret helped him bury his otherwise frantic comedy style for this stern supporting role.

In the scene where the president is in the bunker, you see his arm is broken, but he's still got an UZI in his off hand, ready to go down shooting to the last man, and preforms the often-mentioned, rarely seen 'Take a bullet for the President' when he's fried by a blast intended for Nickelson. That guy had the balls to do the job.
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post #5 of 9
4/22/04 at 9:33am
This whole movie has got balls the size of a Mac truck's tires. Not only does it kill a shit load of people, Jack twice and a bunch of boy scouts, but also even takes out a cute dog. Love the marachi band at the end and Rod Steiger is one fearless motherfucker.
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post #6 of 9
4/22/04 at 11:06am
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"MR. PRESIDENT, WE GOTTA NUKE EM AND WE GOTTA NUKE EM NOW! KILL! KILL! DESTROY! DESTROY!"
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post #7 of 9
4/22/04 at 12:56pm
"Maybe instead of houses, we can live in teepees. Because they're better in a lot of ways."
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post #8 of 9
4/24/04 at 8:30am
"Whoa, he just made the international symbol of the donut."

Great movie and one of my favorite Danny Elfman scores.
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post #9 of 9
4/24/04 at 10:19am
This movie is absoloutely classic. The sounds that the martians make alone is worth watching the movie. And that doesn't even take into account the part there the spaceship is trying to knockthe Washington Monument down on the boyscouts.
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