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FilmPG-131996
Mars Attacks!
Directed by Tim Burton
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale… From TMDB
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Mars Attacks! is a 1996 comedy fantasy science fiction film, directed by Tim Burton, starring Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close and Annette Bening.
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60 of 216 · most liked first[Thread] 🤟So: Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! When I was 16, this film didn't excite me and I just wanted Independence Day. At 44, I'm so glad this movie exists!
positive · AI labelView post →In the movie "Mars Attacks!" the idiotically optimistic humans keep organizing grand peace summits with the aliens, only for the martians to play nice for about 15 seconds and then find an excuse to kill everyone with death rays. Not sure what about Trump and Rutte at NATO made me think of that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tom Jones in Mars Attacks! Is probably the best example of a musician acting in a movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Galaxyquest for the first in 25 yrs last nite, still holds up perfectly as a good movie & Trek satire. From the Golden Age of Big Budget Hollywood SF Comedies (MIB, Mars Attacks!) - I miss those kinda movies. Easily the only thing I like Detroit Red in, like Pratt in the Guardians flicks.
neutral · AI labelView post →revisiting Mars Attacks! for the podcast and I have a question: how is there not one decent laugh in this entire movie?
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Mars Attacks! (1996) Dir: Tim Burton #Movies #Film
neutral · AI labelView post →On this day in 1996, Mars Attacks was released in theaters. This movie is a hot mess, and because of that, it’s awesome! #90sSciFi #TimBurton #AckAckAck #AllHailSlimWhitman #WarnerBros
positive · AI labelView post →What a total clown car the USA is. …when I was a kid and I watched *Mars Attacks!* and that scene happened where gramma laughed ass off when the aliens disintegrated congress…I didn’t really get it. Now I do.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Mars Attacks” was such an unserious movie but damn near all of Hollywood was in it 😂😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Now Watching: Mars Attacks! My turn to pick for family movie night! #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Chime in if you agree that Tim Burton’s 1996 movie Mars Attacks is awesome, underrated, and deserves to be better known. #HorrorSky #FilmSky #SciFiSky
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight’s late movie: 1996’s “Mars Attacks!”. Not having seen it since it first appeared, I’m curious about how it’ll all seem in 2026.
neutral · AI labelView post →Never having seen 1956’s “Earth vs the Flying Saucers” until a few days ago, I never twigged the influence it had upon the deathray-firing flying saucers in 1995’s “Mars Attacks”. Tim Burton’s film has increased the size of the incinerating weapon, but its ancestry is splendidly clear.
neutral · AI labelView post →if you're ever just fucking angry at the world and wanna just see it burn, get stoned and watch Mars Attacks by Tim Burton and put yourself in the shoes of the Martian ambassador. Best way to watch that movie. >:)
positive · AI labelView post →Since the Star Wars benefit screening story has gotten so many shares, here's one of my other fun movie memories, also, coincidentally, involving singing. In 1996, Warner Bros. did a sneak preview of MARS ATTACKS! in Knoxville on Thanksgiving weekend, weeks before the film opened. 1/
neutral · AI labelView post →You Need to Watch Tim Burton's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie. In 1996, Independence Day became the highest grossing movie of the year, cementing Will Smith as a leading man, turned director Roland Emmerich into one of Hollywood’s top names, and solidifying the alien invasion movie as the ideal summer blockbuster spectacle. But another alien invasion film came out in 1996, one with the misfortune of showing up around 6 months after Independence Day. Mars Attacks! would be Tim Burton’s stab at…
neutral · AI labelView post →Logan Thonpson making his goalie mask themed for the 2026-27 season themed around the Mars Attacks movie is a DELIGHTFUL choice by him, I didn’t know he had this kind of game in him www.instagram.com/p/Dc6U9ofFDgl/
neutral · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky Day 13. The White House in a movie. Mars Attacks! (1996)
neutral · AI labelView post →Crying because we’ll never get another movie like Mars Attacks!
positive · AI labelView post →John Dunn’s ack-ack-ack-tastic alt-movie poster for 1996’s “Mars Attacks”.
neutral · AI labelView post →In your mind’s eye, choose a film that has the US President as a character. Now replace them with Trump. It only works naturally for one movie: Mars Attacks.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite Tim Burton movie before Big Fish and Sleepy Hollow is Mars Attacks!
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Mars Attacks. This movie really does have the most insanely stacked cast.
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s a movie that people you respect love that you absolutely hate? For me it’s Mars Attacks.
negative · AI labelView post →"Mars Attacks is the film ID4 wishes it was" - Richie Morgan
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie : Mars Attacks!. 🤪
neutral · AI labelView post →64/ Mars Attacks! (movie, 1996) A love letter to 1950s sci-fi, Tim Burton's film is a joy to watch. It pokes fun at so many of the clichés we've seen so often in sci-fi films. A film that took me a while to appreciate, but now? I love it. Ack! Ack!
positive · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: MARS ATTACKS FOR TAX PURPOSES
neutral · AI labelView post →Revisited some good ones this week! Final Cut of Manhunter, Mars Attacks! and Speed Racer. Good movie week. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
positive · AI labelView post →Finally convinced the family to watch Mars Attacks. I think I’ve lost movie picking rights for the year…
negative · AI labelView post →IIRC the game is based on the [Mars Attacks trading card](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks), not the [Mars Attacks! movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks!). The movie is also based on the original trading cards, but the game devs could not buy the rights to the movie. So this article is a bit misleading, I guess it will be updated when someone from Warner Bros notices it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wonkette Movie Night: Mars Attacks! All are welcome! The movie is free with ads on YouTube, join us for a needed distraction. Trivia in the comments and much quoting! www.wonkette.com/p/wonkette-m...
neutral · AI labelView post →This list of Tim Burton Movies put Mars Attacks as the worst and listen, I'm not a film buff or Burton scholar, but this already seems fatally flawed.
positive · AI labelView post →Just another late night watching “Mars Attacks!”
neutral · AI labelView post →Is Mars Attacks the perfect movie? Its such a silly hilarious spoof that always makes me smile
positive · AI labelView post →Share a '90s movie that you think deserves more love. Mars Attacks
neutral · AI labelView post →I not only consider MARS ATTACKS! a Las Vegas film, but also one of the very finest.
positive · AI labelView post →It’s a Martian in disguise from Tim Burton’s finest film based on a trading card series, Mars Attacks!
neutral · AI labelView post →Fuck it, Alien invasion week. Taking movie suggestions! #NW ... Mars Attacks! (1996) #Firstwatch #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Literally, every actor in existence might be in this movie. #Frightclub #marsattacks
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a COMEDY movie that begins with the letter M 🎞️🖤 Mars Attacks
neutral · AI labelView post →What Film would You Love to see a Sequel to? 🎥 🖤 Mars Attacks 2.
neutral · AI labelView post →The huge hype that the film began generating in early 1996 caused Warner Bros. to postpone the release of Mars Attacks! from summer to Christmas. And even Steven Spielberg temporarily cancelled his plans to direct War of the Worlds. 40/42
neutral · AI labelView post →And Jack Nicolson played two different roles in the same film: Mars Attacks. So yeah she would be a great casting choice
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched MARS ATTACKS, Tim Burton’s final defensible film, with my kid today. Not as good as I remembered, but much better than its reputation.
neutral · AI labelView post →Disc market share for week ending in 2024-06-29: "Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire" makes a chilling entrance at 1st place, having no need to act Ungentlemanly.. # **Top 20 Disc Sellers** |This Week's Rank|Last Week's Rank|Title|Street Date|Studio|Genre|Box Office (millions)|Blu-ray Share for Title|Index*|3D%†|UHD%††| |:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:| |1|New|*Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire*|2024-06-25|Sony Pictures|Comedy|$113.38|67%|100|-|24%| |2|1|*Godzilla x Kong:…
neutral · AI labelView post →Introducing daughter to a movie classic, MARS ATTACKS. let's see what 11 year olds think of this.
neutral · AI labelView post →Coordinates for #FrightClub tonight! #TouchMe (10ET/9C/8M/7P/3BST) Shudder: watch.shudder.com/video/966626 also on AMC+, Philo #MarsAttacks (11:45ET/10:45C/9:45M/8:45P/4:45BST) Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10004... Kanopy: www.kanopy.com/en/product/1... also on Roku Channel
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's more on Logan Thompson's new mask, a fitting tribute to the sci-fi comedy film "Mars Attacks!" that takes place in D.C. His last two masks were also inspired by D.C.-based films in National Treasure and Night At The Museum 2: thehockeynews.com/nhl/washingt...
neutral · AI labelView post →You can tell Mars Attacks was released in 1996 because there is a Chihuahua in it. The cast of Mars Attacks has so many faces you know and they have hosted SNL 22 times. That is how you know a movie is good.
positive · AI labelView post →More cards: The Spirit by Will Eisner Dinotopia by James Gurney (a personal favourite) Also, awaiting filing are more Bob Eggleton and Ken Barr cards. I may have some Action Comics alongside my Star Wars ccg, X-Men and Turtles (film & cartoon) Mars Attacks is the holy grail, but beyond my price
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Attacks (trading cards). I just now realized [the 1996 Tim Burton Mars Attacks! movie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks!) was based on [a set of trading cards originally from 1962](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Attacks).  They were made by Topps and there were 55 cards in the original set. It's been reissued a few times now over the years since then, in 1994, and later. This is the original…
neutral · AI labelView post →Improve a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals" Mars Attacks! With Big Naturals
neutral · AI labelView post →#JanuaryMovieChallenge #FilmSky Day 29: 1/29 A movie filmed or takes place in Kansas Mars Attacks - 1996
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Attacks is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun from the set of "Mars Attacks!" (Probably my favourite Burton movie.) #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →holy shit Mars Attacks ahaha… btw the cast was WAY too stacked for that movie
positive · AI labelView post →Not feeling inspired this afternoon, so I'll watch a movie instead... Mars Attacks looks sweet in 4K and the steelbook is super fun. #filmsky #physicalmedia #4K #steelbook
positive · AI labelView post →Name 5 Directors You Love & Their Most Underrated Film? Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr. Fox Spielberg - Ready Player One Nolan - The Prestige Tim Burton - Mars Attacks! Miyazaki - Ponyo
neutral · AI labelView post →Explain a film plot badly: That movie where Martin Sheen gets honeypotted by another species ... . #FrightClub #MarsAttacks!
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