How’s this for pathetic? Not only am I late to the roundtable, I’m so late that Will even beat me to the good late joke. Here’s what’s new:
Last House on the Beach (1978), which bears a striking resemblance to several other movies about “last houses” that you might have seen…
Mars Attacks! (1996), in which the title pretty much says it all…
Suspiria (1977), in which we learn that American tourists can’t even study ballet abroad in peace…
and…
Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1966), in which John Agar is no Peter Graves, Tony Huston is no Lee Van Cleef, Susan Bjurman is no Beverly Garland, and Larry Buchanan is no Roger Corman.
#1 by Blake on March 15, 2009 - 6:31 pm
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Huh. When you said that you were reviewing the other alien invasion film of 1996, for some reason I kept on thinking that you’d review “The Arrival” with Charlie Sheen.
#2 by Thomas on March 16, 2009 - 5:04 am
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Mars Attacks is a pretty uneven film, but it’s worth it for just about every scene featuring Pierce Brosnan. It really was the role he was born to play.
#3 by Chad on March 16, 2009 - 11:12 am
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I’m glad to see that, contrary to impressions I’ve had for years, I am not the only person who really likes “Mars Attacks!” without qualification and who saw more in it than just watching the horrific deaths of a-list celebrities (although admittedly that was a bonus).
#4 by The Beerman on March 16, 2009 - 1:32 pm
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“Mars Attacks” is one of those movies that after a lukewarm theatrical viewing got better and better the more times I watched it on cable and DVD. (And as unhealthy obsession with Lisa Marie has nothing to do with it. Well, maybe a little…)
#5 by lyzard on March 16, 2009 - 3:16 pm
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I love it (that probably goes without saying, right?). My favourite aspect of it – other than the SCIENCE!! – is Lisa Marie’s mysterious ability to look computer-generated when she isn’t.
#6 by MatthewF on March 17, 2009 - 4:13 am
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Mars Attacks is hmm, ah, okay. Tim Burton seems more interested in the production design than the film. It’s the classic hollywood vanity project where a slim pet-idea of a popular director is massively inflated by giving him waaaay too much mone.
I preferred Independence Day, I know, I know, I just do.
#7 by Ciaran on March 17, 2009 - 4:24 am
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Mars Attacks deserves credit for taking a pub quiz trivia fact (pop stars with pilot’s licenses) and turning it into a major plot point.
It’s disturbing to realise that therefore Tom Jones’ role could have been filled by either Bruce Dickinson (from Iron Maiden), or Gary Numan…
#8 by Joshua on March 17, 2009 - 3:46 pm
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It’s disturbing to realise that therefore Tom Jones’ role could have been filled by either Bruce Dickinson (from Iron Maiden), or Gary Numan…
Well, I don7t know about disturbing, but it would have been a very different film, I think…