my second favourite trivia is that on the home video release there was a subtitle option for "martian" that was all ANK ANK ANK ANK ANK ANK the entire movie
so Tim Burton, a Boomer, kills all the GenX actors first.
that checks out.
@blogdiva all that CGI was _hard work_ in that era. some of it does not hold up but some honestly kinda does. the weird martians in particular.
of course, below the line vs. above the line and all that
Took me too long to realize that Jack Blackβs dad is βMitchellβ aka Joe Don Baker
Roger Ebert wasnβt wrong:
"Ed Wood himself could have told us what's wrong with this movie: the makers felt superior to the material. To be funny, even schlock has to believe in itself. Look for Infra-Man (1975) or Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) and you will find movies that lack stars and big budgets and fancy special effects but are funny and fun in a way that Burton's mega production never really understands."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks%21
Jack Nicholson is POTUS?!?!?
this movie was supposed to cost $260 million. by the time it was finally shot, the budget was $80 million
Mars Attacks! is always a fun watch. Having trouble finding the right person to tag but huge thanks to the miru cast for the double feature!
ACK ACK ACK π₯π₯π₯
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I am told that was real footage of a hotel being demolished, modified and inserted for use in the movie, and is why the los vegas hotelier subplot existed at all
I like to believe that releasing a bird is an undeniable declaration of war in Martian society
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thought i had hallucinated Natalie Portman. sheβs in this mess.
first time i watch this movie, btw
No Depp?! No Helena Bonham Carter?!
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why am I watching this
Starring Jack Black as Vincent DβOnofrio
I love the actors that understand what kind of movie they're in*
*I love Pierce Brosnan
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You and I are Martian to the beat of a different drum
And this is basically just regular Las Vegas footage.
Tom Jones? why?!?!?
Best use of a dove in a movie (not counting John Woo obviously)
oooooh, itβs directed by Tim Burton. no wonder the cast. wow. didn't this bomb badly?
Even if I could stay awake, Miru is now showing Mothra with commentary
I sense a disturbance in the farce
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@blogdiva Because he's kind of a Vegas guy? I guess it doesn't have to make sense.
This Kennedy room scene could just be the entire movie. I would watch 1 hour 30 minutes of this!
#marsattacks
#monsterdon
#monstermiru
Ack ack ack. The Martians are routers.
well that went well
Lucas Haas will always be to me the little kid from Witness
We're getting a dimesworth of Jack Nicholson
Ah, the wide ties of the 90s
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#monsterdon was fun. thank you. gonna pass out watching #mothra with commentary on #monstermiru
@peterries Audience: same
glad I didn't spend money in the theater on this - but I did get a couple of laughs!
Thanks @miru for hosting!
Ah, the grungy flannels of the 90s
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I wonder what Slim Whitman would've thought of this
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no grannie!
BTW, if you're enjoying this, check out the Destroy All Humans! games if you haven't yet
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Things are happening so why does this feel so slowly paced?!
I toured the WH when Reagan was prez, and the whole building smelled like a barn, like the WH had a sewage leak. Truly revolting.
The Kennedy room lol
imagine how stressful it would be to have to build a war room that looks important
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Well this is escalating quickly
itβs funny that Martin Short is cosplaying Michael J Fox
#marsattacks
#monsterdon
#monstermiru
Jack Black looks like he's about to get beat with a pillowcase full of soap.
#marsattacks
#monsterdon
#monstermiru
That church is pank.
They built an AI that generates prog rock lyrics
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my favourite little bit of trivia is that they built a whole alien language and then just said "fukkit, they go ANK ANK ANK all the time."
Boss I need a raise, have you seen the amount of hashtags I'm dealin with
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FOXY BROWN!
honestly the rampaging martians feels a little on the nose for how it feels to be trying to survive today
still funny but you gotta set some analogies aside
because they, too, are too accurate
Those animals obviously haven't read Elvira's book
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Byron & his Batman Forever nippled armour survived!
They made it to New Vegas
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@ohiofi Good question
Dunno if this is just me but I don't really feel invested in anyone in this movie so even the things that are happening I kind of don't care about
The only thing that could make this better would be if it came with a stick of bubblegum
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@moira I was wondering about that
boomer down!
@redrummy I don't know but we're all (ish?) watching the stream on https://miru.miyaku.media
To be fair they're both hideously unnatural
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"We still have two of the three branches of government working..."
Total science fiction, these days.
"They blew up congress lol"
It's too late guys you've already flown the bird of war
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Yes I want to play that light gun game
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Inside of me are two wolves and the little sister one is grossed out
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the girl reporter is hilarious
Is it safe to call it "old age" mysticism yet
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just reckoned, Jack Black is tiny⦠and he looks like a dark-haired Leonardo di Caprio in this movie.
I just remembered that this isn't the 90's alien invasion movie where the dog jumps away from an explosion and I got a little depressed
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(you know, for the Monsterdon word cloud)
This one brings back memories #Monsterdon #MarsAttacks #Monstermiru
God I hope those saucers don't get lost
AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK... AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK,
AHK AHK AHK AHK @ryan AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK! AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK AHK!
@CardboardRobot @svetlozaurus It's not a set time, it's a few minutes after the main feature, although @ryan prepares the stream content ahead of time so he could probably announce when it's going to be if he wants to
A couple times in the past we have done community-organized double features when there was nothing queued up on @miru and in those cases the time would be announced in advance or during the main feature
well there we go, mars attacked
gramma's music saved the world
good for her terrible taste
Unsure which I like better, the aliens' weakness being music or a computer virus
@svetlozaurus π that's the spirit
(if you are actually joining right now, you missed the main event earlier, this is the unofficial double feature)
I mean we learn this lesson every week
Flawless filmmaking
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No you weren't too late Barbara
Godzilla cameo!
They ain't getting the TV!
Great metaphor
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Very Futurama vibes from this movie
You'd think at some point he would start wondering about the fact that she hasn't spoken at all
Why am I hungry for paprika
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Burton, his cast wife
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