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Mars Attacks! / Destroy All Humans!


***May contain spoilers***

I have heard many theories concerning how Tim Burton's 'Mars Attacks!' is similar to 'D.A.H!' two excellent products of humorous sci-fi. I have therefore decided to list the similarities.

Characters:
-Hillbilly/Farmer Harold Turnipseed. (They both mistake cattle mutilation for BBQ)
-President Dale/President Huffman. (Both killed and they sound a bit the same)
-General Decker/General Armquist. (Epitome of trigger happy American general. They hate aliens i.e NUKE 'EM!!! and they both come to a sticky end.
-Natalie Lake/Miss Rockwell. Dumb blonde who is abducted by the aliens.

Saucer:
-Legs extend on landing.
-They land in almost exactly the same spot in front of the Washington D.C Capitol.
-Death Ray

Martians/Furons:
-Highly advanced craniums
-Reading minds ability
-Lack of genitalia
-They have an interest in Earth women.
-Assassination of President
-Disintegrator Ray has practically the same effect.

Miscellaneous:
-Both of the titles have exclamation marks at the end of them.
-Washington Monument is destroyed.
-Stuff with cows (you know what I mean!).
-Attempt with atomic/nuclear weaponry is foiled.
-Rocking cars/caravans due to mutual horizontal enjoyment of 2 peoples' company (i.e sex)
-Giant robot (Robo-Prez and the Martians' one)
-Danny DeVito's voice is similar to that of the workers in Union Town.
-Crypto 137's voice is like Jack Nicholson's.

I hope you have enjoyed going 'Oh yeah, I remember that!' at this and I thank you. :-)

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OMG!!! watching Mars Attacks! on ITV2 the other night, i was thinking how similar it was to D.A.H's i thought i was the only one......also it made me really wanna play the game!

I MISS CHARMED ALREADY AND IT HASN'T EVEN ENDED YET!!

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ya its exactly like the movie. imma huge fan of this video game and ALL of Tim Burton's movies, so this is like it.

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You have obviously spent a lot of research on this.

If your life's free from failure, you're not taking enough risks...

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well its definatly inspired by mars attacks, but just so you know, tim burton didnt come up with the idea for mars attacks, mars attacks were a series of trading cards in the 1960's, they were very violent too. then in the 80's there were another series of trading cards like that called dinosaurs attack

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I was thinkning the same things when I was playing. :'D

Jack Sparrow can shiver me timbers anytime he'd like.

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I was wondering if the game developers purposely gave the alien or the voice telnt use a Jack Nickson sounding voice on purpose.

Like what are they trying to say baou the american President?

BTW I though the saucers in the movie were slightly better.

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isnt there a donut store with a big donut on it in both the movie and the game? i remember picking up the donut and throwing it with my ship...

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don't ask why but the movie mars attacks scares the $hit outta me. It's only because of the appearance of the martians though.

and yet crypto doesnt scare me

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