From a time when the plot of Burton's movies could be almost entirely described by their titles alone. Mars attacks ... and then nothing happens.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
There's some good gags (The aliens running around with a universal translator that keeps saying "Don't run away! We are your friends!" as they kill humans) but on the whole the movie is shit.
I'm gonna appeal to authority on this one and mention that Godard, cinema Himself, loves Mars Attacks.
So Wryan, whatever became of your interview with Richard Elfman?
Fack yeah, really??!! I have no idea where I stand on Mars Attacks, but that fact is totally gonna skew my eventual re-watch.
The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer 13) - A
Stranger by the Lake (Giraudie 12) - B
American Hustle (Russell 13) - C+
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese 13) - C+
Passion (De Palma 12) - B
Weighing in ...
Very good:
Popeye
Speed Racer
Mission to Mars
Good:
Zabriske Point
Not good:
Sleepy Hollow
Awful:
Mars Attacks
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Howard the Duck
Haven't seen:
Heaven's Gate
1941
One From the Heart
Ishtar
Zardoz
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
At least Sven didn't call Howard the Duck a masterpiece.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
Yeah, put me in the Mars Attacks is awful category.
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I find Mars Attacks! to be quite hilarious.
And Sven likes Exorcist II? If I ever get to watch a movie with him, I want it to be this one, so he can explain his love for it to me.
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
I like Mars Attacks okay.
For the record, Mars Attacks and Starship Troopers both rule.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Ok, who was the last person who hates Mars Attacks?
'Cause I'm with them.
Mars Attacks!: good idea + totally unfunny script = meh
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(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
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I think just about all of my opinions should be taken with a grain of salt considering I find The Ninth Gate to be not only better than Chinatown, but one of Polanski's best.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Pretty much.
And for the record, Sleepy Hollow is, in fact, pretty great.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Or alternately, it's not and amounts to little more than a few pretty pictures. I actually thought it was okay when I saw it for the first time a year or two ago, but when it was on at a Halloween party last year, my friend (who loves Mars Attack and even has a poster of it) and I spent most of the time making fun of how bland and silly it was and how awful Burton has become. That was an effective way of alienating half of the people there, though at least my friends hosting kinda hate Burton's recent films.
As am I. Embarrassing film.
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“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Watching the Bing Crosby cartoon of Sleepy Hollow on Youtube. It's weird.
Who's the town lady's man? Ichabod, Ichabod Crane.
I hate Burton's output as of late, but Sleepy Hollow is not in that bunch.
He has yet to top Ed Wood or Batman Returns, though.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
Oh man, the Headless Horseman song is good.
Now he likes them little, he likes them big
Part in the middle, or a wig
Black or white or even red
The Headless Horseman needs a head
Big Fish beats Batman Returns handily.
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Oh shit he's in the woods and the frogs are croaking "Headless Horseman"!
The ending of the Bing Crosby Sleepy Hollow is darker than the ending of the Burton one.
Hey Derek where's your av from? If it's from the Mekas I'm even more curious than before.
I'll see his Jonas Mekas and raise him a Naomi Uman.
Sorry but Removed still resonates with me.
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Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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