Did you find "Mars Attacks!" to be funny?

[RandomFool]

I haven't seen it in forever but I don't remember being too impressed by it. If I saw it on dvd for 5 bucks I'd pass it up.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Same goes for when that song come on and blew up everyone's heads

And that didn't make you want to puke?

Originally posted by: cubeless
it was great... it's a primer for an obama presidency... he's gonna talk to the bad guys and make them our friends... the aren't really bad guys, just misunderstood...

yeah I was thinking the same thing, lol. Kind of ironic, Burton was insinuating a lot of things, but I still didn't like it.

 

[nakedfrog]

I watched it a long time ago, probably shortly after it went to cable, and didn't particularly enjoy it, but I've liked most of the other Burton movies I've watched.

 

[feralkid]

Originally posted by: Dirigible

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
It's a little like Zoolander, Buckaroo Banzai and Top Secret! in that you have to accept that it's set in an alternate reality with its own rules for the film to make sense.

Except that Buckaroo Banzai rocked and Mars Attacks, Zoolander, and Top Secret! were meh films.

Wherever you go, there you are.

-John Big Booty

It's Big Boo-Tay.

 

[Fritzo]

I spent the whole movie going "WTF????" I left confused.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: ja1484
Hell yes. But like a Barry Levinson film, it's more subtle/adult humor. It doesn't insult your intelligence by telling you when to laugh like every current theatrical release for idiot America.

The first 2 minutes of this clip, for example:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fM8SdkeL4SA

Always leaves me in stitches. In fact, that whole clip is pretty much gold.

So you're saying you have to feel like you're more sophisticated and better than everyone else in order to enjoy the movie? I wonder why they marketed it to such a narrow audience?

 

[Nitemare]

Enjoyed A Nightmare before Christmas but didn't really care for Mars Attacks

 

[Amused]

Watched it in the theater when it came out. I loved it. The date I was with hated it. I have since bought the DVD.

 

[TruePaige]

It was s'ok.

I prefer his later works more.

 

[Maleficus]

No (Indifferent)... should have an option No (Wow that movie sucked hard)

 

[lozina]

I found that the Aliens surprisingly sound just like Hillary Clinton

 

[Tim]

I just watched it on netflix over the weekend. I thought it was pretty funny in certain moments... exampe, when the grandmother is listening to music on the head phones and the aliens creep up behind her with the ginormas lazer cannon. I mean c'mon, that's just funny

 

[Homerboy]

I dunno if "funny" is the right word. I wasn't laughing out loud or slapping my knees at the "jokes". Did I find it completely entertaining and *gasp* original? Yes. Good movie. Would watch again and again.

 

[vi edit]

I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: vi edit
I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: vi edit
I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad.

It doesn't have the same delivery on a forum as it did when Jack Nicholson said it.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: vi edit

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: vi edit
I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain't bad.

It doesn't have the same delivery on a forum as it did when Jack Nicholson said it.

nah I read it with Jack's voice in my head.
Great... now I'm going to have to watch the movie again. I have NEW movies I need to watch people!!!

 

[Specop 007]

I love that movie!!

"We still have 2 out of 3, and that aint bad"

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Specop 007
I love that movie!!

"We still have 2 out of 3, and that aint bad"

And the follow up to that is when Grandma laughs and says "They blew up congress!"

I loved that part too.

 

[sdifox]

I loved it. Especially the record that kills martians. errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, pop.

 

[TehMac]

Hrmm, well, damn, I'm surprised. Note, I *found* the humor/parodies/satire but I didn't find it amusing. I found the film really disturbing. Perhaps if their lazers didn't frickin do that to people--it creeps me out. Anything else is fine though.

 

[Rachael]

I thought it was pretty funny back when I saw it.

 

[Xavier434]

I thought it was hilarious.

 

[ja1484]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: ja1484
Hell yes. But like a Barry Levinson film, it's more subtle/adult humor. It doesn't insult your intelligence by telling you when to laugh like every current theatrical release for idiot America.

The first 2 minutes of this clip, for example:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fM8SdkeL4SA

Always leaves me in stitches. In fact, that whole clip is pretty much gold.

So you're saying you have to feel like you're more sophisticated and better than everyone else in order to enjoy the movie? I wonder why they marketed it to such a narrow audience?

Sigh. I wondered how long someone would take to get personally offended.

Fact is, the American comedy has for a long time stopped relying on humor (i.e. a sudden, unexpected change of perspective) and has resorted more and more to things that make grade school kids giggle, like turd jokes and sexual awkwardness.

Hence the recent praise for Judd Apatow's productions, and their tendency to simply rely on realistic depictions of awkward situations, making them amusing "because it's so true".

The point is, not every gag is completely obvious and predictable.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
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