The Reel Rejects - MARS ATTACKS (1996) IS CAMPY SCI-FI MADNESS!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:41 Ah! Wow! Amazing! What a weird time we just had. What a very weird movie time we just had. We just got attacked by Mars. We got attacked by Mars, you guys. What a weird freaking movie. If you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, make sure to go and give us five stars, five big ones.

Starting point is 00:01:06 And if you are prepper, we want to thank you. Thanks for cutting down these highlights so the people here on YouTube can go watch them. OK, guys, we just wrapped this up. And as per usual, we're going to go straight into the Patreon questions. Thank you guys so much for sending those into us. And we are gonna dive right in and explore. And then, yeah, depending on how many questions we have, we can get into our fuller opinions.

Starting point is 00:01:37 But what usually ends up happening is we answer. This shapes the review. This gives us the talking points. It gives us structure exactly Okay Koi retail prompters. I got you It's either Robbie or Robby Robbie Bopar Paras Asks hi guys. How's it going good lost my voice, but otherwise well

Starting point is 00:01:59 Maybe you can agree with me in saying that you just finished watching one of the weirdest movies ever made. Yes tough It's Tim Burton's is probably par for the course in Your opinion which has the weirdest or funniest actor actress in the movie including unexpected small roles and cameos Keep up the good work and chow from sardinia. Hello from sardinia. That is exciting weirdest funniest actor actress in the movie including unexpected small roles and cameos Jack Nicholson having two roles was pretty weird yeah it was and Christina Applegate being credited in the beginning but only have one scene with no lines was also very weird you think there was a scene we just didn't clock that it was her or she had scenes that were cut I thought maybe she had

Starting point is 00:02:39 scenes that were cut because why is there only seen just her making love in an RV yeah Yeah, that's that's fair. That was real weird. Oh yeah, man. What about you? What do you think with some some unexpected one to some weird ones? Uh, I think Danny DeVito coming in just because he works with Tim Burton all the time. That that one seated like Danny that we forgot he came back. Uh, but I'm gonna go Tom Jones. Okay. I'm gonna go the entire Tom Jones actually as Tom Jones some fun That was pretty that was pretty weird very I liked it though I liked it also random Ray J being in this yeah actually doing something and affecting the plot to some degree that was fun

Starting point is 00:03:17 That was a definitely unexpected and interesting one. Thank you for for sending in that question Janine LC says hey guys Thank you for for sending in that question. Janine LC says hey guys Jean LC hey guys Mars attacks as a movie I always forget was directed by Tim Burton maybe just because of its style cast or subject matter What's a film and a director's filmography they always forget they made or just doesn't feel like their other work That's hella fun. Oh, there were a few scenes that felt like Burton, but overall I agree. Yeah, very very off-brand It's a great question, I'm sure if I had an IMDB open in front of me, I'd have a hundred answers but off the dome That's a toughie

Starting point is 00:03:56 because I Was gonna think of still when Steven's billboard where he's so diverse. Yeah, everything Well that does work ready player one is a little off of his Filmography for me, but there are moments kind of like this Yeah Dang and Danny's elenuves enemy Enemy doesn't feel like a venue film the rest are kind of in a similar

Starting point is 00:04:21 Large scope trajectory I'm gonna say and, even though it's a small scope, still feels like Denny. Enemy jumps to mind. Alien 3 for Fincher, because the studio basically directed it and butchered it, but Fincher's, Alien 3 doesn't really feel like a Fincher film. The director's got a little bit more so.

Starting point is 00:04:39 Okay. Schumacher's Batman Robin. That's my one. Schumacher with Batman Return, Batman 3 and 4. Schumacher is one Robin. That's my one Schumacher with Batman return Batman three and four Schumacher is one of the best directors in the game. He did phone booth. He did Tigerland. He did Lost Boys. He's an absolute genius. He is a big producer as well and Schumacher is known for Batman but it's the most unlike him even when he's a fan of the opera that felt more like Lost Boys but he was basically making like a big McDonald's commercial and that felt very tonally different Schumacher is my pick

Starting point is 00:05:07 You know what it's not one I forget But it's one that I really grew up on was my introduction of this director And I think the movie's super by James Gunn it feels very different from all of his other movies. Oh interesting I could do that. Do you feel like his tone? I feel like it's it's his humor But it's such a smaller scale like it's it's a scrappy. You know it's very it's it's it's it's his humor, but it's such a smaller scale like it's it's a scrappy. Yeah, it's very it's it's it's It's his trauma era more than what people know him for so I see it as like a bridge so I could see that Okay, yeah, I think other ones that were a little weirder Didn't didn't the oh

Starting point is 00:05:40 Frank hey, I've never seen that movie. I was gonna say didn't the resource did you mean Dupreeh? I don't remember, but if they did it would be totally odd, but they also did community. So that's kind of their bridge Oh Valid. Yeah, I don't know that that's one I got a cook on but I think this one for sure. You know what? One that is actually my favorite of this director and you've seen at least one of this guy's films Bo is afraid is very different from Ari Aster's other movies, and I love that movie I would I really want people to react to it anxious film. I thought in theaters. I had a rough time. It's great Yeah, it's anxiety knuckling it incarnate, but yeah, thank you so much for sending in a question

Starting point is 00:06:22 Kev be Mars Thank you so much for sending in a question kevbee Mars Kevbee Mars attacks started off as these wild crazy trading cards from 1962 totally over the top and violent It's honestly wild that this movie is not trying to copy Independence Day or be a parody of it It feels like it could be to me. This is Burton's fun bizarre tribute to cheesy 1950s sci-fi flicks, which I love to death I Felt that because I've seen very few of those films, but in what I get from the tone I definitely felt like it was a love letter to it's funny watching this I felt like it was a love letter stuff I didn't know I felt like I was missing a lot of references But it did feel specific like that giant mech chasing the character designs all that stuff

Starting point is 00:07:01 So I felt it even without knowing it for sure Yeah, I definitely felt like it was harkening back to a different time in filmmaking and it's funny watching two movies on the channel both involving a large cast of you know star-studded actors and it being about an alien invasion this movie and Independence Day similar premise but just very very different executions yeah and yeah I can see how it was inspired by stuff from the sixties. Definitely felt very sixties. And yeah, I dug those aspects of it.

Starting point is 00:07:35 I really think this is a a ambitious film in both its efforts and the way they tried to execute it. So yeah, I appreciate it for that alone. Jay Rushden. OK, do you know this film is copied Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, which is much better film Attack of Killer Tomatoes used the song Puberty Love while Mars Attacks used Indian Love Song. Is this valid point or coincidence of song use? I would say they're trying to do different things.

Starting point is 00:08:02 I don't know. I haven't seen Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, so I don't know if that is I remember the cartoon. Oh, there's a cartoon. Yeah Could the killer tomatoes? I remember the song which makes me think I saw it as a as a wee lad but I Don't know about those parallels because I don't I don't think I've seen attack of the killer things or I don't remember it I just remember a cartoon in the 90s and a song But I do think it might be an homage if it used a similar song,

Starting point is 00:08:30 but I don't have enough context, Jay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm not familiar, but you definitely made me curious. I would love to check that out and see if it feels like they are very similar, and see, yeah, just the parallels and the contrast between those two things. Thanks. J. Rustin Kiana my five-year-old brain will never be able to unsee the bizarreness that was Sarah Jessica Parker's head on her chihuahua and vice versa what bizarre moment from this movie is forever stamped in your brain

Starting point is 00:08:57 Hope you lovely gents have a lovely day. I wish the same to all the reject nation Thank you. Yeah, she had to love that. That's definitely one Appreciate the love. That's definitely one of them. There's a lot of them. The boxer boxing the alien. It was great. I loved that a lot. The 50s robot chasing Jurassic Park style. Yeah. It was a really fun image. That was good. I liked the subversion of Jack Nicholson shaking the alien's hand just for him to get stabbed in the back with the fly through his chest. The two Jack Nicholson's. Yeah, just overall, just the fact that there's two of them. 90s Vegas is pretty cool to see in motion

Starting point is 00:09:36 instead of just photos. Yeah. Cause that's been 30 years now. Vegas looks hella different. Yeah, also that whole scene with the alien as the woman. Oh yeah, that's stamped in my mind. That was a hell of an image. That was fun. Yeah, there's a lot of bizarre, this movie has a lot of bizarre images just coming at you. Yeah, but you know, I like me some weird so I embraced it and this is definitely different than I'd expect from Tim Burton, but for sure probably at his weirdest.

Starting point is 00:10:05 Yeah, and I'm glad they just let him play. It felt like a kid in the sandbox just going like weeeee with everything. And I love how practical a lot of it was. Yeah, let him roam in his creativity with practical effects, all right. Alan Smithy with the last one of these. Hey Aaron and Koi, hope you love the movie.

Starting point is 00:10:22 It's one of Tim Burton's best. Although they are all crazy, which character did you relate to the most? Lucas Haas is a good one, mellow and sweet to grandma. Also, if Congress was actually disintegrated by alien rays, would the country be A, better off, or B, about to eat a dookie sandwich? Thanks, rejects.

Starting point is 00:10:38 Lucas Haas was delightful. I think the character I related to most, I like Pierce Brosnan's optimism even if it was naive I did like the the corn cob pipe or not corn cob But I like the pipe spoken optimist of Pierce Brosnan even though it cost him and us everything He was cool. I liked I liked the boxer like the dad. I think that you know he was he was trying to change his ways and he Loved his family. I like the integrity integrity punch that man from 2k and I respect that yeah Needed the money you needed the money just wanted to get back to his family, but he was trying to stand the straight and air I started to do a scene of him like actually going to punch the guy they were like let's let's keep him wholesome

Starting point is 00:11:19 I didn't like them the most Family let's save it let them actually fight the aliens. It was cool, man Yeah them and Pierce Bros my favorites and then Congress You know Congress has a purpose whether or not it serves that purpose depends on which Congress we have in session There are three branches and they're meant to have Jackson balances I would argue that in most of our lifetime We haven't gotten to experience that but the idea of the three branches being a balance of what the American people actually want is a beautiful concept, and just as I feel about America,

Starting point is 00:11:51 it's a wonderful idea executed poorly. And I think Congress has a place, and one day hopefully we get to see it actually in use. Yeah, you know, they're good in theory, and hey, the world of this movie, maybe they get a chance at a new Congress and maybe the systems will work how they're supposed to because at the end of the day, the humans won.

Starting point is 00:12:12 So America can in some semblance, it started new. So- TP houses. TP houses, let's make it happen. Hopefully it does in the sequel or the world of Tim Burton that this happens to inhabit. Thank you, Alan Smithy for sending in the questions and thank you everyone who sent in questions guys send in questions forever review we will answer them and call you out and

Starting point is 00:12:31 take the time to go over them thoroughly so yeah thank you so much we appreciate you. Koi do you have any fuller thoughts that you would like to express how did you how do you feel coming out of this overall thoughts in the movie? I? Enjoyed it in a different way than I expected I didn't know what I was getting going in and was still surprised by it like you never know with a movie this beloved, but in a cult following the tone and I Thought it was Tim Burton, but mainly from like schmodown and from just like reading IMDB and stuff But then every image I'd seen like I'd seen the cover I'd seen the aliens and I was like, oh I so you have one kind of idea of what the movie's gonna be

Starting point is 00:13:11 This was not it and I liked this I don't know what I thought it was gonna be but it certainly wasn't that and I don't have a lot of exposure to like 50s Sci-fi my main exposure to that era is comics and iron giant like that tonality And I think that's why I love that robot chase so much because it had that iron giant flavor The Rocketeer that kind of energy I really like seeing directors get a budget to play and to make weird art This was that I'm very particular about humor

Starting point is 00:13:40 So I was nice to laugh a bit and like you know a good time. Aaron and I suffered through a certain comedy that will not be named once, and that was one of the hardest videos I ever had to do, because I knew that the audience was devout, and I respect that audience, and I love that they're happy, but it was hard, because I was like, this is not for me. So this is also not my sense of humor, but I got to laugh. This isn't something that I'd be like,

Starting point is 00:14:02 oh, my comedy is blank, but I at least was able to Find that joy and humor so um Definitely not something that I would have ever expected, but I had a great time with it. It was fun It was funny. It was good to see these actors get into play in a very specific world so I had a good time Yeah, for me. I feel like this movie Beginning to a little bit for me to get into I I was like, okay, what are we doing? I'm not really gravitating towards any of the characters per se, and I was like, okay, let's get to the Mars stuff.

Starting point is 00:14:33 Because I feel like with a movie that's similar to this, Independence Day, I felt like they did a good job of giving us a large cast, but allowing us to care about our characters. And I feel like if you have characters that you care about and putting them in funny situations, it only enhances the comedy. So when we get to the stuff that's actually happening, I'm like, okay, I feel like the there's some seeds that were obviously

Starting point is 00:14:54 relevant, you know, for plot points. But I think a lot of the fun comes from seeing what the Martians do, and how they affect Earth and then seeing how certain characters respond to the Martians. And I enjoyed the insanity of that, you know, it was very weird. We didn't get a lot of explanations for why things were, things just were. And you know what, sometimes that's okay. Sometimes you're just in for a weird good time with an absurdly large cast dying in various strange ways. And you

Starting point is 00:15:27 know what? That's, that's all you need at the end of the day. I, you know, it's funny. I feel like I judge if I really, really liked a movie on if I would rewatch it or not. And if I would show people the movie and I feel like I don't know how much that beginning part was because I can't judge it by based off of our road caster here but I think that if I were to show people I might like skim past the first like 15 or 20 minutes I'm like all right let's get to the good shit and then it starts to really pick up because yeah I think the acting was really good and I feel like they definitely struck the tone of this film in a very fun way.

Starting point is 00:16:09 It felt like they were doing some, some characters felt like they were doing like homages to like the 50s and like the type of movie that this is spoofing or parroting. So I enjoyed those aspects of the story. But yeah, I think this is for sure very, very different from the other Tim Burton movies I've seen, both Beetlejuice one and two and Alice in Wonderland, Edward Scissorhands. Yeah, I will say that this is probably my least favorite of those movies, but I do respect Tim Burton for going for it

Starting point is 00:16:47 and going balls to the wall and making this unapologetically a Mars Attacks, 1950s inspired film. I agree. I think I had a slightly better time with it, but I wouldn't likely rewatch it for a while, and that is a barometer of my enjoyment. I think it would be a decade or so until I was like,

Starting point is 00:17:07 oh, I had a weird time, wonder how that would feel again. But I didn't enjoy the time watching it. I liked these last two hours. I thought it was fun and novel and different, and that's always a pleasure. I personally am, I love Edward Scissorhands, and I'm a big, big fan of Beetlejuice and that energy, so I like that kind of darkness with Tim Burton

Starting point is 00:17:25 But I probably like this more than Beetlejuice 2 which a lot of people loved I think it's just all Interpretive and I I mean I think my favorite Tim Burton is From memory and it's actually a movie. I don't remember and that's always weird like I remember loving the experience of it But I don't remember the movie at all, but when I think like what's your favorite Tim Burton movie? I think it's big fish, but I only saw it once and I just remember being like in awe of it So I would need to like look at Burton's filmography a bit more to make that fair judgment But I had a great time watching this but it's not a tone I revisit a lot like I don't rewatch a lot of comedies personally yeah

Starting point is 00:18:01 You're like the feeling that movie gave you yeah Yeah. I love to read about the big fish. I would love to too. I've not, I think I vaguely remember moments from that movie, but I don't remember the plot or anything at all. So yeah, let us know if you wanted to do Big Fish at some point. But yeah, I can at the end of the day say I liked this movie. I had fun with this movie. I didn't love it, but I could definitely go back and play certain scenes, certain segments of the movie, and show some friends like, yeah, this person's in here, and this person's in here. Look at the fun ways they perished.

Starting point is 00:18:32 And yeah, just laugh at that. And you know what? At the end of the day, that's good enough for me. It's a solid B, and I feel like it was intended to be a B movie, so it's fitting for me. That's a perfect way of putting it, yeah. It's like a C plus, a B minus for me. That's a perfect way of putting it. Yeah, it's like a C plus, a B minus for me, but yeah, sitting in that place comfortably. Yeah, I hope that you guys enjoyed watching this with us.

Starting point is 00:18:53 We had a good time. It's always fun watching movies with Koi and it's fun watching movies with you. Thank you guys so much for joining us. We love you and we'll see you in the next one. Bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop. Psst. Ha, ha, ha, ha.

The Reel Rejects - MARS ATTACKS (1996) IS CAMPY SCI-FI MADNESS!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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