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No, when I first watched Mars Attacks I was hoping for a serious sci-fi thriller, but having seen the cast list knew it was going to be a bit weird. It seems the more super stars in the film, the weirder it is. Examples would be 'Murder By Death' and 'Oscar', both stacked full of legends but with utterly ridiculous plots.
You can count on Tim Burton to defy the studio for his own vision , This is such a wacky tribute to 50 's Sci fi B movies the stellar cast must 've had a field day on this Thanks Jen and look to the skies 😊❤
Sylvia Sydney had been in an accident and had declined to be in this, but Burton waited for her to heal enough that she does appear in a wheelchair. So sweet
There's a very good reason why Jack Nicholson plays two characters in this. Warner Bros. told Tim Burton that he couldn't kill off Nicholson's character in this film, because he'd already killed off the Joker at the end of Batman and they thought audiences would feel like they'd seen this before. Burton thought this was so stupid, he basically went "Screw it, I'm gonna kill him twice" 😆
Lol, I’m picturing old Jennie the home with her admiral Star Trek uniform on bopping to the TNG soundtrack on her turn table. Warms the cockles of me heart.
It's also a nod to the Irwin Allen Disaster movies from around the same period that always had all-star casts that were completely decimated by the end.
It's based on a series of trading cards of the same name from the 1960s. Many of the designs and scenes in the movie are taken straight from the trading cards. The original plan was to do a movie based on the Dinosaurs Attack! series of trading cards from the 1980s, but Jurassic Park had just come out and they didn't want to be in it's shadow.
@@munkeypantsman Sorry, I thought the trading card origin was known and we were talking about other inspirations the movie adaptation drew from. Though it's sadly ironic that they nixed Dinosaurs Attack because of Jurassic Park and Mars Attacks ended up being overshadowed by Independence Day
This movie isn’t exactly underrated but it’s worth way more than most people give it for. And I also love how Jen always catches the crazy music queues. Everything about it is fun.
The Theremin is the electronic sound instrument that makes that ufo associated sound. For an excellent reference movie “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, “Earth vs The Flying Saucers” , “This Island Earth” and “The War of The Worlds” (all 1950’s version not the modern remakes ) One last piece of Trivia - The Grandma was played by Sylvia Sidney (also had a part in Beetlegeuse ) a long time actress who was a major leading lady in the 1930’s and worked with all the major Hollywood actors of that time period and had a long career in TV and Movies up to 1998. This was her last movie.
This movie is based on the Mars Attacks series of trading cards published by Topps in 1962. It was popular with kids of the time, but they were extremely gruesome and the company was forced to halt production after an outcry. Topps brought Mars Attacks back in the 1980s, then an expanded series reissued in 1994, a couple years before this movie came out.
Topps legend Gary Gerani wanted to make a Mars Attacks movie, then Tim Burton got the movie rights to this & Dinosaurs Attack, & Tim was planning to make Dinosaurs Attack first, ...and then Jurassic Park came out, so he made this instead & Gary Gerani was heartbroken because he wanted to make this, but as a real scary horror movie like the original cards.
One of the early pioneers, paving the way for movies based on boardgames, movies based on a doll... Not to mention all the movies based on movies which they shovel at us nowadays.
"Don't run, we are your friends" My circle of geeks love quoting that line, especially during D&D sessions 🤣 Sometimes I feel like this is the best alien invasion movie, just for the silliness and the sheer amount of stars killed onscreen 😁
When my daughter and I watched this on video, we were walk around for like the next two weeks saying "ACK ACK!!" I think her mother wanted to kill us. :)
There is nothing greater than a good Sci Fi movie. This was a favorite of mine. Action plus a sense of humor is a great mixture. The Forbidden Planet is a great one as well!
The woman playing the alien in disguise was Tim Burton's partner at the time. She needed ongoing medical treatment because the costume was so heavy. She was quoted as saying that despite the extreme discomfort, it was a role she really enjoyed playing.
She was a spot on dead ringer for Vampira in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", which is kind of on a par with this one in terms of weird ridiculousness. No Danny Elfman on that one, some guy named Howard Shore, don't know if he did anything after it. 😉
Love all the Burton-Elfman movies! He's a big fan of the old classic Sci-Fi & horror genre. You've gotta see the '50s flix, "War of the Worlds" & "Earth vs the Flying Saucers". Burton recreated some scenes from those flix. He admired Vincent Price's roles in Sci-fi/horror so much he invited him to appear in "Edward Scissorhands". Burton also loves "claymation" inspired by Ray Harryhausen films which you should check out. I actually got to meet Mr. Harryhausen shortly before he died to thank him for all the fun he gave to us kids (& adults) back when we saw his movies in theaters. Burton's "Frankenweenie" is really cool and he did a short homage to Vincent Price called, "Vincent". I just started watching the "Wednesday" series on Netflix. It's awesome! Like totally! Lol It definitely has that Burton/ Elfman vibe. They are definitely in the select "creative genius" club!...for sure!
Love all the Burton-Elfman movies! He's a big fan of the old classic Sci-Fi & horror genre. You've gotta see the '50s flix, "War of the Worlds" & "Earth vs the Flying Saucers". Burton recreated some scenes from those flix. He admired Vincent Price's roles in Sci-fi/horror so much he invited him to appear in "Edward Scissorhands". Burton also loves "claymation" inspired by Ray Harryhausen films which you should check out. I actually got to meet Mr. Harryhausen shortly before he died to thank him for all the fun he gave to us kids (& adults) back when we saw his movies in theaters. Burton's "Frankenweenie" is really cool and he did a short homage to Vincent Price called, "Vincent". I just started watching the "Wednesday" series on Netflix. It's awesome! Like totally! Lol It definitely has that Burton/ Elfman vibe. They are definitely in the select "creative genius" club!...for sure!
4:26 First Jen immediately recognizes Nicholson playing a dual-role (which some Reactors don't catch at all, and few that quickly), and now she reveals that she's also a Tenacious D fan? No wonder she and her Serious Girl Spectacles are one of my Favourite Reactors, and continue to make me so much the Smitten Kitten. 😻
This has really been a fun reaction. I haven't seen this movie since I saw it first run in the theater in 1996! I have it on DVD because my late husband was obsessed with it, but I don't think I've seen it since I saw it in the theater. I might have watched it one other time but yeah it's a crazy ride.
Even though this makes fun of alien invasion tropes it was inspired by a set of Topps trading cards called Mars Attacks. One of the cards was a herd of cows on fire like in the opening.
Topps legend Gary Gerani wanted to make a Mars Attacks movie, then Tim Burton got the movie rights to this & Dinosaurs Attack, & Tim was planning to make Dinosaurs Attack first, ...and then Jurassic Park came out, so he made this instead & Gary Gerani was heartbroken because he wanted to make this, but as a real scary horror movie like the original cards.
Kicking off October with one heck of a crazy movie 😅 so much fun and has probably the weirdest dog hybred ever 😆 totally bananas but we love it 🙂 fantastic way to start October jen 🔥💙🔥💙
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This was a blast to watch. 😁 I first saw this around the same time as Independence Day, initially not knowing that it was in production before the other. I thought it was a funny if odd way to send up modern sci-fi, but later knowing the story and Burton's affinity for Ed Wood made it more enjoyable to revisit.
Annother "forgotten" treasure is "The Faculty"... it's a sci-fi thriller with TONS of familiar faces (frodo, jean grey, lilith from frasier, T-1000, john stewart, etc.) and an alien invasion plot
I remember a funny commercial when this came out. It talked about us as earthling singing signals to the far reaches of space. Finally, we got an answer. “ack ack ack ack”. It basically sounded like “SHUT THE F*CK UP”.
"This is my kinda paradise! Hanging out with the animals!" Tom Jones feeding the deer is a very wholesome moment to start the victorious ending with. That he shows up at all is such a treat because he's hilarious. A Bond singer (Thunderball) and a Bond in the same non-Bond movie together 🤣🤣🤣
Great reaction! Jim Brown (Byron) was actually a full back for the Cleveland Browns back in the day, broke into acting while still playing in the NFL. His early breakout film was The Dirty Dozen in 1966.
This movie up there with Galaxy Quest. Do you get the jokes or not? If you do you are human. If everything goes over your head. What wait? What have you done with your life? So many major stars in a B movie hamming it up. So many inside jokes/ references. It is still timeless. My boys both less than 14 found this movie funny last year. They did not get every joke of course, but they still thought it was funny.
Slim Whitman lived near me in northeast Florida. His neighborhood was suggested as a shooting location for a movie version of the TV series "Dallas", which was to star John Travolta and Jennifer Lopez.
It's always great to see "serious" actors doing comedy, particularly people like Jack Nicolson and Rod Steiger. In a way it reminds me a bit of "Dr. Strangelove" in terms of surrealism: and I think the President's "war room" in this movie was inspired by the one in "Strangelove".
1:29 you realized thats Captain Terell of the USS Reliant from The Wrath of Khan? Thats Paul Winfield. And whats even funnier he dies in this Film the same way like he did in Wrath of Khan 😅. He also played Police Lieutenant Traxler in Terminator 1984.
Paul Winfield dies in almost every movie I see him in. One thing you can count on is of Paul Winfield is in a movie, 9 times out of 10 he's going to have a good death scene.
Halloween is coming. You need to see the classic Cary Grant flick, Arsenic and Old Lace! 1944, Frank Capra directed, who also did It's a Wonderful Life, which you also needs to see at Christmas.
I enjoyed this movie so much back then at the theater but I had even more fun watching your reaction, Jen😂 "Release the doves!!!🕊😂 The cast is really insane and of course Danny Elfman's score awesome as usual. By the way, my suggestion for a Jack Black movie is definitely "School of Rock"!🤘
Danny Elfmann scored Midnight Run with Robert Deniro, Charles Grodin, and John Ashton (who just passed away on Thursday). Hilarious action-comedy, anti-buddy road trip movie. Definitely worth checking out. Directed by the same director as Beverly Hills Cop.
I LOVE this movie!!! Its fun, irreverent, a genuinely star-studded cast, perfect music and sound effects inpired by 50s SF films, and wonderfully written. I've always wondered if its a coincidence that this movie and "Independence Day" were released at about the same time. And best of all, this movie makes fun of EVERYONE: the warmongers, the peacemongers, tourists, media-types, scientists, politicians... everyone! 😂
The line, "Can't we all just get along?", was actually a part of the zeitgeist at the time, after it was said by Rodney King, whose beating by police went to court, and the exoneration of the police involved started the L.A. riots. It was mocked often in entertainment at the time. An example of historic dark comedy.
@8:57 ... Not a phone ... It's an arny Walkie-Talkie. Probably works on the CB Radio band. Like the kid toys from the 60's - 70's. Range ... 1/2 mile, maybe.
Hehh.. still remember, after seeing this in the cinema, we just sit and stared in front of us, asking "what the hell did we just watched?" :D Of course we had to watch again, and a lot of times since. Classic :)
If Tim Burton directed it, Danny Elfman scored it... except for: Ed Wood (Danny and Tim were fightin' at the time) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (an adapted musical) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Elfman was overbooked that year)
I'm happy you took this movie for the insane over the top ridiculousness it was meant to be. Sure, it's not high art, but it's wacky fun, meant to be just enjoyed. I loved it when I first saw it in the theater.
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Mars Attacks was Based on the Mars Attacks bubblegum cards issued in 1962, the cards were quickly taken off the market due to the explicit gore and implied sexual content.
I once saw a drag queen dressed as the alien intruder meeting Martin Short and accessing the WH. She/he was leading a Gay Day parade and had the walk down pat.
Grandma was played by Sylvia Sidney, who has a long credit list at IMDB. She starred in Hitchcock's 1936 _Sabotage_ , recommended if you want to watch an early Hitchcock film. *Her first credit is from 1926,* and the last one in 1998, a 72 year career.
One of my favorites when i was a kid was a movie called "Spaced Invaders" from 1990. Even caught jokes in it as an adult, that i didn't get when i was a kid.👍
What's really wild is at the end Natalie Portman was giving medals like how Princess Leia gave medals to Han and Luke at the end of Star Wars and Natalie would go on to play Luke and Leia's mom. What's even crazier is that Lukas Haas who played Richie was in the movie Witness as a little boy starring alongside Harrison Ford who played Han Solo. So many Star Wars connections in just one scene!
Another similar movie is “Amazon Women on the Moon”. “Mars Attacks” pokes fun at the 50s low budget alien invasion flying saucer B movies. “Amazon Women on the Moon” does the same thing for 1980s late night cable TV shows.
I think it was the academy awards that year that a bunch of actors who were in the movie said, "I'm sorry for Mars Attacks" when they were up on stage.
You said you love Danny DeVito. Try Ruthless People, where he is a loving husband whose wife gets kidnapped. It also has Judge Reinhold as a totally ruthless kidnapper. You know, Billy the gentle cop from Beverly Hills Cop? And Bette Midler as the helpless kidnap victim. Well, maybe I'm not telling the story right... You have to see it for yourself! Brilliant movie! 😀
There was a time in my childhood when Slim Whitman commercials were all over TV (I am pretty sure this was just a midwest thing). I had never heard of him before, but he was clearly ahead of his time and was preparing us for the future. RIP Martian Slayer.
Did u know how wacky this would be when you first watched?!
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Looking at the movie poster I knew it was going to be a bit bananas but holy moly it was super bonkers
Well, the Trailers certainly Helped🤨if anything, I was More Surprised that "This is a Tim Burton!"🤷♂(LOL)
I had a feeling it'd be crazy.
No, when I first watched Mars Attacks I was hoping for a serious sci-fi thriller, but having seen the cast list knew it was going to be a bit weird. It seems the more super stars in the film, the weirder it is. Examples would be 'Murder By Death' and 'Oscar', both stacked full of legends but with utterly ridiculous plots.
Yes
ack ack ack ACKKKK ACKKKK!
ack ack
How dare you say that!
My thoughts exactly.
Ack ack ACK! Ack?
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“Don’t run, we are your friends” is my favorite line from any movie
The studio said you can't kill Jack Nicholson so Burton killed him twice.
I think he proposed the idea to Nicholson, who loved it.
You can count on Tim Burton to defy the studio for his own vision ,
This is such a wacky tribute to 50 's Sci fi B movies
the stellar cast must 've had a field day on this
Thanks Jen and look to the skies 😊❤
@@jerryfick613 yes haha
Jack Nicholson jokingly remarked that he wanted to play all the roles when asked if he'd play the President in this movie. :)
@@disposablehero4911 He'd already killed him in Batman, so that's three times.
"Who's in this?"
Everyone. Everyone is in this.
Legendary cast.
"And why have I never seen this movie?"
Because everyone would be better off if we forgot it existed.
@@sirraf23 Trash opinion. This film is a classic.
FUN FACT: The actress who plays the grandma also played Juno in Beetlejuice.......another Tim Burton flick! ❤❤❤
Sylvia Sidney.
@@clarencewalker3925 Yep! :)🙏🙏💓💓
Sylvia Sydney had been in an accident and had declined to be in this, but Burton waited for her to heal enough that she does appear in a wheelchair. So sweet
@@YolandaAnneBrown95726 And I'm so grateful he did, because she's so hilarious in this. "Thank you honey, but don't you ever let this happen again!"
Good one
That's Slim Whitmans yodeling exploding the Martians brains.👽
I lost three friends like that in the 80s...rip
Then Simon Pegg stole this idea for his solution to Star Trek Beyind.
There's a very good reason why Jack Nicholson plays two characters in this. Warner Bros. told Tim Burton that he couldn't kill off Nicholson's character in this film, because he'd already killed off the Joker at the end of Batman and they thought audiences would feel like they'd seen this before. Burton thought this was so stupid, he basically went "Screw it, I'm gonna kill him twice" 😆
Jack loved it haha
Lol, I’m picturing old Jennie the home with her admiral Star Trek uniform on bopping to the TNG soundtrack on her turn table. Warms the cockles of me heart.
This movie is a great satire of those 50's and 60's movies about Martians. Look forward to your reaction.
Sort of like how “Amazon Women on the Moon” is a satire of 80s and 90s late night cable TV.
It's also a nod to the Irwin Allen Disaster movies from around the same period that always had all-star casts that were completely decimated by the end.
It's based on a series of trading cards of the same name from the 1960s. Many of the designs and scenes in the movie are taken straight from the trading cards.
The original plan was to do a movie based on the Dinosaurs Attack! series of trading cards from the 1980s, but Jurassic Park had just come out and they didn't want to be in it's shadow.
@@munkeypantsman Sorry, I thought the trading card origin was known and we were talking about other inspirations the movie adaptation drew from.
Though it's sadly ironic that they nixed Dinosaurs Attack because of Jurassic Park and Mars Attacks ended up being overshadowed by Independence Day
This movie isn’t exactly underrated but it’s worth way more than most people give it for.
And I also love how Jen always catches the crazy music queues.
Everything about it is fun.
The Theremin is the electronic sound instrument that makes that ufo associated sound.
For an excellent reference movie “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, “Earth vs The Flying Saucers” , “This Island Earth” and “The War of The Worlds” (all 1950’s version not the modern remakes )
One last piece of Trivia - The Grandma was played by Sylvia Sidney (also had a part in Beetlegeuse ) a long time actress who was a major leading lady in the 1930’s and worked with all the major Hollywood actors of that time period and had a long career in TV and Movies up to 1998. This was her last movie.
The theremin was also commonly used in the 1950s flying saucer movies that this spoofs.
The Day the Earth Stood Still is IMO one of the landmark Sci-fi films of all time, along with Metropolis and 2001.
Blew up congress, ha ha ha. Oops, now I'm on a list.
List of heroes maybe.
Welcome. I've been on the list for decades.
Best line in the movie!
Even the FBI and other Federal agencies probably hate congress too lol
'The Secret of My Success' one of Michael J Fox's best comedies!!
This movie is based on the Mars Attacks series of trading cards published by Topps in 1962. It was popular with kids of the time, but they were extremely gruesome and the company was forced to halt production after an outcry. Topps brought Mars Attacks back in the 1980s, then an expanded series reissued in 1994, a couple years before this movie came out.
Topps legend Gary Gerani wanted to make a Mars Attacks movie,
then Tim Burton got the movie rights to this & Dinosaurs Attack,
& Tim was planning to make Dinosaurs Attack first,
...and then Jurassic Park came out,
so he made this instead
& Gary Gerani was heartbroken because he wanted to make this,
but as a real scary horror movie like the original cards.
This had some of the best lines. My favorite was "Ack-ack ack-ack".
Language, please! There are kids watching. ; )
Mars Attacks! is from the 1962 Topps trading cards which Tim Burton made into the movie.
And the trading cards were not trying to be funny or parody. They were more like horror.
Doc Hollywood, really good fun Michael J. Fox movie.
Perfect feelgood movie
The Frighteners. Also great.
Doc Hollywood.. Is basically Pixar's "Cars".... right?
Best slept on Michael J Fox movie: The Frighteners
Admit it, you've been walking/gliding like the Martian "girl" all day after watching this movie.
That was Tim Burtons girlfriend at the time I believe 👍
@@kevinslayzak1214 They have at least one kid together, and maybe more, I don't fully recall.
"Dont run. We are your friends"
Those whacky sadistic little gritters
We were prepared for peaceful aliens. We were prepared for hostile aliens.
What we weren't prepared for - Aliens who are just Jerks!
12:06 “Whaddya think now hippie?” cracked me up. 😂
I love this movie and I loved how you enjoyed it. Yeah Elfman was the only man to score this movie. Live your channel thanks please keep posting.
The Washington Monument gag was a parody of “Earth vs The Flying Saucers” from the 50’s.
When this was released on DVD, it included an alternate audio track of the movie dubbed into Martian.
The film based on bubblegum trading cards 😂
One of the early pioneers, paving the way for movies based on boardgames, movies based on a doll... Not to mention all the movies based on movies which they shovel at us nowadays.
"Don't run, we are your friends" My circle of geeks love quoting that line, especially during D&D sessions 🤣 Sometimes I feel like this is the best alien invasion movie, just for the silliness and the sheer amount of stars killed onscreen 😁
As far as I'm concerned, there's really only one word that can be used to accurately describe this movie: BANANAS!!! 🤣🤣🤣
When my daughter and I watched this on video, we were walk around for like the next two weeks saying "ACK ACK!!" I think her mother wanted to kill us. :)
Tim Burton movies are always a visual feast! This is gonna be fun, Jen!
There is nothing greater than a good Sci Fi movie. This was a favorite of mine. Action plus a sense of humor is a great mixture. The Forbidden Planet is a great one as well!
The woman playing the alien in disguise was Tim Burton's partner at the time. She needed ongoing medical treatment because the costume was so heavy. She was quoted as saying that despite the extreme discomfort, it was a role she really enjoyed playing.
She was a spot on dead ringer for Vampira in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", which is kind of on a par with this one in terms of weird ridiculousness. No Danny Elfman on that one, some guy named Howard Shore, don't know if he did anything after it. 😉
Love all the Burton-Elfman movies! He's a big fan of the old classic Sci-Fi & horror genre. You've gotta see the '50s flix, "War of the Worlds" & "Earth vs the Flying Saucers". Burton recreated some scenes from those flix. He admired Vincent Price's roles in Sci-fi/horror so much he invited him to appear in "Edward Scissorhands". Burton also loves "claymation" inspired by Ray Harryhausen films which you should check out. I actually got to meet Mr. Harryhausen shortly before he died to thank him for all the fun he gave to us kids (& adults) back when we saw his movies in theaters. Burton's "Frankenweenie" is really cool and he did a short homage to Vincent Price called, "Vincent". I just started watching the "Wednesday" series on Netflix. It's awesome! Like totally! Lol It definitely has that Burton/ Elfman vibe. They are definitely in the select "creative genius" club!...for sure!
Love all the Burton-Elfman movies! He's a big fan of the old classic Sci-Fi & horror genre. You've gotta see the '50s flix, "War of the Worlds" & "Earth vs the Flying Saucers". Burton recreated some scenes from those flix. He admired Vincent Price's roles in Sci-fi/horror so much he invited him to appear in "Edward Scissorhands". Burton also loves "claymation" inspired by Ray Harryhausen films which you should check out. I actually got to meet Mr. Harryhausen shortly before he died to thank him for all the fun he gave to us kids (& adults) back when we saw his movies in theaters. Burton's "Frankenweenie" is really cool and he did a short homage to Vincent Price called, "Vincent". I just started watching the "Wednesday" series on Netflix. It's awesome! Like totally! Lol It definitely has that Burton/ Elfman vibe. They are definitely in the select "creative genius" club!...for sure!
Jen has the best reaction videos! She's so funny and fun. I love her signature ponytail! ❤
1:56 "subscribe" I love your humour Jen 😂❤
4:26 First Jen immediately recognizes Nicholson playing a dual-role (which some Reactors don't catch at all, and few that quickly), and now she reveals that she's also a Tenacious D fan?
No wonder she and her Serious Girl Spectacles are one of my Favourite Reactors, and continue to make me so much the Smitten Kitten. 😻
This has really been a fun reaction. I haven't seen this movie since I saw it first run in the theater in 1996! I have it on DVD because my late husband was obsessed with it, but I don't think I've seen it since I saw it in the theater. I might have watched it one other time but yeah it's a crazy ride.
"... for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest."
What the hell does that mean?!
"What do you think now hippie?"
The dove releaser. I think
Yeah that’s our gal, Jen’s a shoot first blow things up later kinda earther.
🤣 i just lost my bananas haha!
A modern day spoof on the old sci-fi classics of the 50's & 60's. Good for sure. ha ha!
Even though this makes fun of alien invasion tropes it was inspired by a set of Topps trading cards called Mars Attacks. One of the cards was a herd of cows on fire like in the opening.
Topps legend Gary Gerani wanted to make a Mars Attacks movie,
then Tim Burton got the movie rights to this & Dinosaurs Attack,
& Tim was planning to make Dinosaurs Attack first,
...and then Jurassic Park came out,
so he made this instead
& Gary Gerani was heartbroken because he wanted to make this,
but as a real scary horror movie like the original cards.
The use of the song to defeat the Martians is a call back to Attack of The Killer Tomatoes.
And a call forward to A Quiet Place!
It's "Indian Love Call" by Slim Whitman , who lived near me in northeast Florida.
Kicking off October with one heck of a crazy movie 😅 so much fun and has probably the weirdest dog hybred ever 😆 totally bananas but we love it 🙂 fantastic way to start October jen 🔥💙🔥💙
Watch “Sleepy Hollow” from 1999! Tim Burton directed starring Johnny Depp. Music by Danny Elfman!
A great Halloween watch
Grandma is so adorable. I love her. She also played Juno the Caseworker in Beetlejuice.
The finger in the fish tank scene...PRICELESS! 😮
"Howdy There, Good Buddy!"👋🤠
Hi Eric, I'm sorry to learn about your sister, I've been worried about you, I knew that it must have been something important. How is she now, Eric?
@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. She had a bad fall. Shattered her femur, and has a concussion as well. Currently in rehab. Takes all of my time, that's why no correspondence until now.
@@e.d.2096 OUCH!🤕Knew it had to be something Bad, but had NO idea it was that Bad! I'm so Sorry, My Friend...
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This was a blast to watch. 😁
I first saw this around the same time as Independence Day, initially not knowing that it was in production before the other. I thought it was a funny if odd way to send up modern sci-fi, but later knowing the story and Burton's affinity for Ed Wood made it more enjoyable to revisit.
Forbidden Planet is a bit of a proto-Star Trek. Pretty influential.
@@dextercool Huge YES! FORBIDDEN PLANET! I second the recommendation!
Also, it stars a young Leslie Nielsen, from way back when he was serious.
Forbidden Planet is required sci-fi watching. First appearance of Robby.
@@LordNelsonkm Robby the Robot to be precise !! 🤖
Yes Forbidden Planet is a must watch it's like the Grandaddy of SCI FI films .
Sleepy Hollow is another excellent Tim Burton/Danny Elfman collaboration with a really amazing story and cast!
Annother "forgotten" treasure is "The Faculty"... it's a sci-fi thriller with TONS of familiar faces (frodo, jean grey, lilith from frasier, T-1000, john stewart, etc.) and an alien invasion plot
I worked with Salma Hayek (the nurse) on a movie set before.
The doves had nothing to do with it. The Martians simply talk like politicians: saying one thing while meaning something entirely different.
I remember a funny commercial when this came out. It talked about us as earthling singing signals to the far reaches of space. Finally, we got an answer. “ack ack ack ack”. It basically sounded like “SHUT THE F*CK UP”.
"Oh, they're not very tall... probably the same size as me!"
You're 4' tall Jen? 🤣🤣🤣
I'm legitimately curious about that now; I just didn't want to be the one to ask.
Jen is a hobbit.
Whats a martians favorite car? ........Cadilac ack ack ack
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@@fayesouthall6604 You ought to know by now!
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Okay, Billy Joel. 😂
Stop, you're killing me.
"This is my kinda paradise! Hanging out with the animals!"
Tom Jones feeding the deer is a very wholesome moment to start the victorious ending with. That he shows up at all is such a treat because he's hilarious. A Bond singer (Thunderball) and a Bond in the same non-Bond movie together 🤣🤣🤣
Great reaction!
Jim Brown (Byron) was actually a full back for the Cleveland Browns back in the day, broke into acting while still playing in the NFL. His early breakout film was The Dirty Dozen in 1966.
This move was batsh*t crazy and I love it
This movie up there with Galaxy Quest. Do you get the jokes or not? If you do you are human. If everything goes over your head. What wait? What have you done with your life? So many major stars in a B movie hamming it up. So many inside jokes/ references. It is still timeless. My boys both less than 14 found this movie funny last year. They did not get every joke of course, but they still thought it was funny.
Just a fun watch from beginning to end . Uncomplicated story with deep implications .
When I was a kid my next door neighbor was a big slim Whitman fan.
We were never attacked by aliens, so it must have worked.
Slim Whitman lived near me in northeast Florida. His neighborhood was suggested as a shooting location for a movie version of the TV series "Dallas", which was to star John Travolta and Jennifer Lopez.
This movie is based on a series of trading cards of the same name. Some scenes like the burning cows are taken directly from cards.
It's always great to see "serious" actors doing comedy, particularly people like Jack Nicolson and Rod Steiger. In a way it reminds me a bit of "Dr. Strangelove" in terms of surrealism: and I think the President's "war room" in this movie was inspired by the one in "Strangelove".
I wonder if jen would like it's a mad mad mad mad world
1:29 you realized thats Captain Terell of the USS Reliant from The Wrath of Khan? Thats Paul Winfield. And whats even funnier he dies in this Film the same way like he did in Wrath of Khan 😅. He also played Police Lieutenant Traxler in Terminator 1984.
And he got shot in that movie too. The only time he did get shot was… oh wait spoiler.
Darmok and Gilad at Tanagra!
@@mallninja9805 Shaka, when the walls fell.
Paul Winfield dies in almost every movie I see him in. One thing you can count on is of Paul Winfield is in a movie, 9 times out of 10 he's going to have a good death scene.
R.I.P - Will never forget his voice from "City Confidential."
Halloween is coming. You need to see the classic Cary Grant flick, Arsenic and Old Lace! 1944, Frank Capra directed, who also did It's a Wonderful Life, which you also needs to see at Christmas.
A wild ride of a movie with a stacked cast. 😂
LMAO "Whatya think now hippie!?"
Love Jen's reactions - especially her devotion to Star Trek :)
I enjoyed this movie so much back then at the theater but I had even more fun watching your reaction, Jen😂 "Release the doves!!!🕊😂 The cast is really insane and of course Danny Elfman's score awesome as usual. By the way, my suggestion for a Jack Black movie is definitely "School of Rock"!🤘
Danny Elfmann scored Midnight Run with Robert Deniro, Charles Grodin, and John Ashton (who just passed away on Thursday). Hilarious action-comedy, anti-buddy road trip movie. Definitely worth checking out. Directed by the same director as Beverly Hills Cop.
'Forbidden Planet' (1956) is GREAT! But the movie this one is mostly a parody of is 'Earth vs. the Flying Saucers' (1956)...
I LOVE this movie!!! Its fun, irreverent, a genuinely star-studded cast, perfect music and sound effects inpired by 50s SF films, and wonderfully written. I've always wondered if its a coincidence that this movie and "Independence Day" were released at about the same time. And best of all, this movie makes fun of EVERYONE: the warmongers, the peacemongers, tourists, media-types, scientists, politicians... everyone! 😂
I need more Jen singing Tom Jones.
The line, "Can't we all just get along?", was actually a part of the zeitgeist at the time, after it was said by Rodney King, whose beating by police went to court, and the exoneration of the police involved started the L.A. riots. It was mocked often in entertainment at the time. An example of historic dark comedy.
Rodney King said it.
@@auerstadt06 Oh man, big mistake on my part. I should have double-checked my memory. Thanks for setting me straight.
A great Michael J Fox movie is The Hard Way, also stars James Woods.
@8:57 ... Not a phone ... It's an arny Walkie-Talkie. Probably works on the CB Radio band. Like the kid toys from the 60's - 70's. Range ... 1/2 mile, maybe.
Hehh.. still remember, after seeing this in the cinema, we just sit and stared in front of us, asking "what the hell did we just watched?" :D
Of course we had to watch again, and a lot of times since. Classic :)
If Tim Burton directed it, Danny Elfman scored it... except for:
Ed Wood (Danny and Tim were fightin' at the time)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (an adapted musical)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Elfman was overbooked that year)
This movie defies description. Probably my favorite Tim Burton movie. The cast is stacked, and the laughs and absurdity are non-stop. LOVE IT!
It is a really fun, and quite insane movie/parody of War of the Worlds.
Thank you for another great share, Jen! This is another movie that I first watched in the theater.
I'm happy you took this movie for the insane over the top ridiculousness it was meant to be. Sure, it's not high art, but it's wacky fun, meant to be just enjoyed. I loved it when I first saw it in the theater.
Same ! Im gonna be jammin tunes when im older😂 8:00
❤❤❤ Just turned on RUclips & Saw come up..Subscriber awhile 65yr old..Couldn't even get past credits for comment..I Love ❤️ Danny Elfman too...was Lucky to meet in the 80's ( from 78 to 85 was 4ft11 Super Nerd who made stage clothes for Punk rock bands in NYC) met Him 1st at Oingo Boingo gig,then awhile later at a NYC loft party..both times he was Awesome, he was nice, funny and last time at loft party remembered me and my nickname, I came up to bar next to him and he said "It's the Sewing Hobbit!" Talked there a second and then a bit awhile later 😊😊😊 Hope you don't mind Old Lady's Overshare..Can't wait to Dive into reaction 😊😊😊
Sleepy Hollow is a fantastic Burton/Elfman collaboration 🙂.
Mars Attacks was Based on the Mars Attacks bubblegum cards issued in 1962, the cards were quickly taken off the market due to the explicit gore and implied sexual content.
I once saw a drag queen dressed as the alien intruder meeting Martin Short and accessing the WH. She/he was leading a Gay Day parade and had the walk down pat.
Grandma was played by Sylvia Sidney, who has a long credit list at IMDB. She starred in Hitchcock's 1936 _Sabotage_ , recommended if you want to watch an early Hitchcock film. *Her first credit is from 1926,* and the last one in 1998, a 72 year career.
One of my favorites when i was a kid was a movie called "Spaced Invaders" from 1990. Even caught jokes in it as an adult, that i didn't get when i was a kid.👍
17:13 That martian lady has Jen's dance moves! 🙌😆
Jen, there's something I've wanted to tell you for a long time....
Ack ack ack! Ack ack, ack ack ack ack ack -- ack ack!
Hi Jen hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
Thanks John you too!!
For more Michael J. fox check out The frighteners. It's a great movie.
What's really wild is at the end Natalie Portman was giving medals like how Princess Leia gave medals to Han and Luke at the end of Star Wars and Natalie would go on to play Luke and Leia's mom. What's even crazier is that Lukas Haas who played Richie was in the movie Witness as a little boy starring alongside Harrison Ford who played Han Solo. So many Star Wars connections in just one scene!
What a start to the spooky season! Great fun, thanks Jen you are the best.😊
Another similar movie is “Amazon Women on the Moon”. “Mars Attacks” pokes fun at the 50s low budget alien invasion flying saucer B movies. “Amazon Women on the Moon” does the same thing for 1980s late night cable TV shows.
I think it was the academy awards that year that a bunch of actors who were in the movie said, "I'm sorry for Mars Attacks" when they were up on stage.
You said you love Danny DeVito. Try Ruthless People, where he is a loving husband whose wife gets kidnapped. It also has Judge Reinhold as a totally ruthless kidnapper. You know, Billy the gentle cop from Beverly Hills Cop? And Bette Midler as the helpless kidnap victim. Well, maybe I'm not telling the story right... You have to see it for yourself! Brilliant movie! 😀
There was a time in my childhood when Slim Whitman commercials were all over TV (I am pretty sure this was just a midwest thing). I had never heard of him before, but he was clearly ahead of his time and was preparing us for the future. RIP Martian Slayer.
Jen, a few movie suggestions:
"Doc Hollywood" - Michael J. Fox
"School of Rock" - Jack Black
"Romancing the Stone" - Danny DeVito
Thanks for the fun reaction Jen and very excited on the Terrifying and spooky films you’ll be reacting this Halloween Season.👍🏼😉