What song do we blast at Republicans to make their heads explode? I’m still trying to figure it out.
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What heresy is this?
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This movie was a piece of art. Then, as now, I had a love of the absurd, silly and surreal.
Added context, a couple friends and I used to sing Tom Jones songs before our first class, wandering the hallways of our huge high school in the mornings. I’ve met folks from my school who didn’t know me or anyone else I knew by name, but who remember the Tom Jones singalongs.
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You’ve never heard the song “Respect” by Aretha? But I guess that’s also “archaic”…
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See I liked both Paris, Texas AND Mars Attacks. Maybe not on the same night.
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Ack ack ack. ACk ack ack ack ack!
Ack ack ack ack ack. Ack ack ack ack ack.
Ack ack ack!
(seriously, 65 posts in, and nobody did this?)
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That rewrite is even more hackneyed and predictable, though. I enjoy how this film commits to a “rake joke” and also allows the Martians to be Gremlins/Looney Tunes-style unrepentant and uncomplicated agents of chaos.
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That sounds worse than having someone tell me that I only imagined things I lived through years ago, all right.
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Just on Twitter, so it didn’t count here.
Great summary. That was what I was expecting when I saw it years ago, and it delivered.
I wasn’t expecting Casablanca.
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It was Otis Redding’s song. Aretha popularized it.
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I like funny movies. I like stupid movies. I like Science Fiction movies. I like much of what Tim Burton has produced during his career. I like dumb cameos, and even dumber cameos where the person doing the cameo is doing themselves but the dumbest version of themselves and leaning into it.
I did not like Mars Attacks! I rank it right at the level of “They Live!” for importance in my life, and far below such silly, goofy gems as “Big Trouble in Little China.”
But if YOU like it, more power to you! I’m glad you found something to admire in it.
The song “Respect” as sung by Aretha Franklin then. Otis’ original studio recording didn’t include the word “propers.” (Wouldn’t rule out the possibility that later live versions did. As I recall, once her version hit he would refer to the song as one “Aretha took away from me, but I’m gonna sing it anyway…”)
ETA:
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WAP by CardiB.
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I don’t think anyone has mentioned that both Mars Attacks and Independence Day came out the same year with ID coming out first. Mad Attacks was an anti-blockbuster movie and compared to the dreck of Independence Day, was way more entertaining and creative. Maybe folks had their fill of alien invasion disaster porn movies and just wrote this one off but it is a far superior movie and a brilliant comment on America saving the day propaganda.
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I’m not dismissing your experiences at all. I’m telling you what conclusions my years of research has taught me. You’re experience is part of that, not the whole thing. 
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I wish. But it isn’t. We need something that makes them literally self-asplode.
A role he reprised in the TV series “Gotham”.
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Batman ('89) : Frankenstein ('31) :: Batman Returns ('92) : Bride of Frankenstein ('35)
All brilliant, for different reasons.
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You’re right, my mistake.
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