I had a sweet spot for this film due to its obvious 50s/early 60s alien invasion influences...its a shame it didn't even make half its budget domestically....
and yet a P.O.S. like Alice In Wonderland rakes in TONS of cash!
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I completely agree.
I love Mars Attacks! and can't wait to have it on Blu-ray.
I consider myself a Tim Burton fan and I too think Alice In Wonderland was a complete piece of crap.
I genuinely don't understand why Mars Attacks! gets so much hate.
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fully agreed. not enough people have seen / remember or appreciate the spoofing of the atrocious 50's sci fi movies. too bad for them.
alice in wonderland was truly terrible too.
I agree. I really like this film, and consider it Tim Burton's most underrated film. By all means it is not his best, but it isn't his worst either, and it is better than the work he's churned out this past decade, Big Fish and Sweeney Todd being the exceptions.
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I agree Mars Attacks is better than Alice in Wonderland!
But Tim Burton has made far worse movies than Alice In Wonderland.
That horrible Remake of Planet Of The Apes & Edward Sissorhands!
Ed Wood & Big Fish are his best movies.
don't forget Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring the lovechild of Madonna and Elija Wood. also, i always had the feeling Sweeney Todd was only half baked...
man, that man made quite a lot of bad movies.
ps
being better than Alice in Wonderland is not that big of achievement.
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Kind of odd calling it a "FLOP" in all caps and an exclamation mark, when it made a profit.
Honestly I'm hoping for the day when movies aren't making back 10 times their budgets. Hollywood has grown disgusting and these people have let the money raining down on them go to their heads.
Well, some say that the release of 'Mars Attacks' almost 6 months after 'Independence Day' came out was what killed it.
Though Emmerich's film tried to be serious in the face of a rather ridiculous alien attack (why were they decimating us by starting with 'landmarks,' and how did they know they were significant?), Mars Attacks reveled in its ridiculousness.
Just take the b-movie quality of how Brosnan and Parker's characters seem relatively at ease to just be a head and internal organs, and a head on a dog's body.
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I agree that Independence Day is cheesier than it wishes to admit. But I don't know what's wrong with hitting landmarks. If you look at cities from the sky, you'll notice the general monotony of them, except for the small city center areas. Same with architecture in general. It would make sense if you wanted to annihilate at population to start their central points, ruining their hubs of command and communication.
It was better than you'd think to see what it brought in at the time. If I remember right, the DVD sold pretty well.
You have the same thing going in now with the Lone Ranger. It is NOT as bad as the critics say. It has problems, but it's an entertaining enough summer movie.
It's funny, I love this film & I LOVE Ed Wood. Both movies tanked for Burton but I think they're some of his best work. Especially Ed Wood, where was Depp's Oscar for that one seriously?
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