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We Recommend is a movie podcast where every week Jesse and Jason discuss a movie that they love and recommend you to watch and then come back and listen to their podcast!
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Mars Attacks!
What happens when Jack Nicholson jumps into a film project without even glancing at the script? Join us as we unravel the hilarity behind Tim Burton’s quirky gem, "Mars Attacks!" With a star-studded cast and slapstick comedy intertwined with 1950s sci-fi flair, this episode is a rollicking ride through Burton’s cinematic universe. From the mischievous Martians with their curious disdain for birds to the intentionally campy CGI effects, we explore why this film remains a beloved classic. Prepare to laugh along with behind-the-scenes tales, like Howard Stern’s surprise at his similar concept, and discover how yodeling music hilariously saves the day.
Take a nostalgic trip with us through Tim Burton's eclectic filmography, where gothic charm meets steampunk style. We share our thoughts on Burton’s highs and lows, from the eerie allure of "Sleepy Hollow" to the polarizing "Planet of the Apes." The trading card origins of "Mars Attacks!" add a fascinating layer to our discussion, while we debate Burton’s transition to CGI and its impact on the magic of his earlier works. Whether you’ve followed Burton from "Beetlejuice" to "Corpse Bride," or are just dipping your toes into his cinematic world, our discussion promises a captivating look at his creative genius.
Ready for a laughter-filled movie night? Our double feature recommendation includes the chaotic comedy of "Rat Race" and the goofy alien antics of "Killer Clowns from Outer Space." But the fun doesn’t stop there—our exploration of "Mars Attacks!" wouldn’t be complete without highlighting Tom Jones’s delightful cameo and the unforgettable spectacle of Congress getting zapped. So plug in and join us for an episode where quirky humor meets sci-fi satire, and find out why this cult classic is a must-watch for both long-time fans and newcomers alike.
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Hello and welcome to the we Recommend podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse and I'm Jason. Rest assured that we will soon come out at a very real outcome, because this week we recommend Mars Attacks. Yes, we will. Mars attacks. Yes, we will. I got that. Hell. Yeah, is that like the most famous like alien talk there is? I don't think I know a single other one other than it's the Martians from Mars attacks.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's my favorite, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this has been a movie you've been wanting to do for a while. I think we were talking about this the first year that we started the podcast, and thanks Mom for recommending it Hell yeah. And if anybody else out there wants to recommend movies for us to do, you don't have to be our moms.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you don't have to be our moms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't have to be our moms, you can just say it, so just link at the top of the description or go to the bottom of the description and email us. Baby, we recommend Mailbag at gmailcom. Hell yeah, so what is it about this movie that you like, man?
Speaker 2:Fucking. What is it? All of it. I love the star-studded cast. Oh dude.
Speaker 1:Insane saying everyone's so good.
Speaker 2:I love the slapstick comedy, the like norman rockwell-esque, like 1950, yeah, yeah, um, and it's like war of the worlds. But what if they were funny?
Speaker 1:yeah, what if it was one of the funnier movies you've seen? Yeah, I just you know I this is a movie I watched a lot as a kid, but when I was watching this time I almost completely forgot every aspect of it other than the Martians, and I forget how many people are in this and that Jack Nicholson plays two characters.
Speaker 2:Incredibly well.
Speaker 1:So apparently he accepted the job for even reading the script. And then, when he read the script, tim Burton was like, hey, what character do you want to play? And he's like I want to do them all. So he's like, ok, well, you can do two. And he did those two, which I do wonder if there is any sort of messaging behind the fact that the president is played by the same guy. That's like a money-hungry hotel person.
Speaker 2:Casino owner.
Speaker 1:Yeah they're the same character. Yeah, so I'll like these aliens, dude. Like, what did you think about the cgi? It's bad I mean, but I did not, great apparently they did make it a little more like cartoony on purpose. Yeah, that's what I kind of like about it, so it could give like kind ofoony on purpose. Yeah, that's what I kind of like about it, so it could give that kind of like cheesy, like bad effects.
Speaker 2:Yes, and that's what I love. I love about the the era of like the 1950s, whenever, like aliens were starting to get popular, like this is kind of what it looks like.
Speaker 1:Yeah this is oh, yeah, anytime when it cuts to the UFOs in the sky and they're the practical, like miniatures, like they're crashing into each other.
Speaker 2:I'm like holy hell. This is amazing. But I also I love the idea that we think that they're. They're, so they must be peaceful because they're intelligent, but they're really just just the biggest assholes.
Speaker 1:They're literally just shitheads going around the galaxy and just like explode, just like, oh, let's just blow them up, yeah. And the fact that everybody's like the kid, everybody keeps thinking maybe we can make peace, they is all a misunderstanding. They just keep trying to make peace with these things and they're like, ok, sure, yeah, we'll do that. And then immediately Gotcha, gotcha, and again the second time when they go to meet Congress and he pulls out, like he obviously knows, they're going to think he's pulling out a gun, yeah. But then it's just like his little speech and then he's like, yeah.
Speaker 1:I did it anyway, so good.
Speaker 2:Because you think the second time he's going to pull out something else like not a ray gun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, and then like no applause, no birds.
Speaker 2:Yes, and the side.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I do wonder do you think like they just really hate birds Because multiple times in here they shoot birds over?
Speaker 2:shooting a human. I feel like on their planet, that they've just been attacked by birds all the time.
Speaker 1:Does Mars have birds? Are there Mars birds, or is it something that just freaks them out? They're like what the hell is this in the sky? I?
Speaker 2:think that's what it is. It's like what? Yeah, because like nothing lives on Mars.
Speaker 1:Just pissed them off. They're like, oh, we'll kill them all. They're like, what the fuck is that? Yeah, so this. It's kind of crazy that this is a Tim Burton movie.
Speaker 2:No, I think this is his best movie. Yeah, I put it probably like in his top five, for sure, okay.
Speaker 1:But I'm trying to think what this is. What came out right after, I believe, is this after Edward Scissorhands oh, okay, edward Scissorhands was better. So yeah, you're right, let's see, let's get his filmography up here, alright. So actually this is oh yeah, that's right, this came after man. I don't know if this is in his top five either. Well, cause, he got Beetlejuice and that's that's my favorite of his. It's very good. It will always be my favorite, then he. Then he does Batman and then Edward.
Speaker 2:Scissorhands.
Speaker 1:This is a run. Then we have Batman Returns and then we have his probably best like in terms of Oscar-worthy movies. I guess in Ed Wood have you ever seen it? It's about the guy that makes really bad movies, like Plan 9 from Outer Space. It's about that director. He made like the worst movies. It's all about that. And just like Johnny Depp plays him movies. It's all about that.
Speaker 2:And just like johnny depp plays them, and it's probably one of my favorite johnny depp roles wow, I haven't seen that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you should watch it well, I spoke too soon. It's a legitimately good movie but then after maybe like making his best, like prestigious movie or whatever. But it's so, tim burton. Still he goes mars attack. God, it's so funny. And then sleepy hollow, which I love sleepy hollow was good man, one day I'll actually finish that whole movie instead of falling asleep.
Speaker 2:I watched it all the time as a kid. I always loved, like his, whenever he put on his like spectacles with the head, like the oh yeah, all the different yeah yeah, those are neat. I love that bit. I love that part about Tim Burton's movies, like it's. So it's like kind of steampunk a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just this weird gothic thing that he loves. I don't know. I just feel like everything in any of his movies. He's like been drawing since he was a kid. And I think that's where all his ideas come from. Fuck yeah, it's whenever he was the weirdo in high school with no friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was the goth kid People hated him.
Speaker 1:But, then, after Sleepy Hollow, he really screws up with Planet of the Apes. Yeah, but then comes back, sean, with Big Fish. You like Big Fish?
Speaker 2:I barely remember that movie. I saw it one time. I do remember liking it.
Speaker 1:He'll make you cry God, and then he just kind of goes downhill from here. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride. What a snoozer. I liked Corpse Bride. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Speaker 2:Corpse Bride. What a Snoozer. I liked Corpse Bride. Really Excuse me, sir, I thought it was so boring you should watch the documentary about making it.
Speaker 1:It's an hour and 10 minutes and I was like this movie's too long.
Speaker 2:Maybe I just loved the Nightmare Before Christmas so much. Maybe I liked that.
Speaker 1:That's what I feel, because I was like, oh, this is going to be like more Nightmare Before Christmas. Then I watched it and I was like I don't know, these characters are boring.
Speaker 2:But if you watch the documentary they really go into the puppetry a lot. Oh yeah, and it's super interesting, especially how they made her dress kind of flow like with their shots. Yeah God, it's incredible.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, no, I mean, the movie looks great. Is this like what are?
Speaker 2:we doing Sure. This is Jack and Sally Sure.
Speaker 1:Then, after Course Bride, he comes back strong with a music video of the killers called Bones.
Speaker 2:That's like a dope music video Wow, I've never seen it. You've never seen it. It's so good.
Speaker 1:I had no idea he directed it and then he sucks. You got Alice in Wonderland. That sucks.
Speaker 2:What's the bad? Bad oh it's terrible.
Speaker 1:I don't know what you're talking about Dark. Shadows sucks. I haven't seen it. Good idea, but just isn't fun or funny. I like Frankenweenie though.
Speaker 2:I loved Frankenweenie. I had no idea that was a Tim Burton movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, it's so cute. That was actually one of his first films. Short films was Frankenweenie, and it was. I think it was a real dog, though.
Speaker 2:Cause I was so in love with wishbone. Remember that that dog that read storybooks. Yeah, I love that dog and that's why I saw. When I saw Frankenweenie I was like holy shit, it's another wish.
Speaker 1:Then he did Big Eyes. I like Big Eyes. Never saw that one. And then Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, boring, dumbo, boring. Then he had Wednesday. Everybody loved it. It could. The series, yeah, the show.
Speaker 2:I liked it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I liked it Could have been better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, could have been Sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Beetlejuice, beetle. Some people love it. Some people think meh.
Speaker 2:I feel like Tim Burton's got a lot of meh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know I mean I still like over half his movies. So it's just he went through it. It's as soon as he started. It's probably this movie. He just started doing CGI and everything. It is none of it ever looked as good. As you know, his old stuff.
Speaker 2:But I also believe, like, especially like in Beetlejuice and this movie they have, like they got so many people, actors, interested in making it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That it just was so fun. Everybody seems like they're having a really great time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everybody, everybody at this point, everybody wanted to work with Tim Burton. That's how we got all these people. They're all like yeah, we'll do anything you want. Yeah, like Danny DeVito is like do you have anything for me? He's like do you want to be called a character called Rude Gambler?
Speaker 2:He said sign me up. I'm the trash man I'm going to be doing. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, thank God. God bless the fact that that happened.
Speaker 2:That is the perfect character, I know. I mean, we named our.
Speaker 1:Roomba Trash man. Well, actually someone else named it, and then we got the Roomba from them. And we're like okay, well, there's no reason to no reason not to Alright. So did you know this is based off trading cards? No, yeah, so um, it says it like in the in the opening, but it's called the tops.
Speaker 2:They're the company's called they're the ones that put the little stick of glass chewing gum in their back Weird, Because it was so brittle that you try to chew it and it cuts your mouth. Oh God.
Speaker 1:That sounds terrible, yeah, but so I guess the company released a series of trading cards in the early 1960s on which the movie is based. If you had the whole set and looked at them in sequence, they told a story about a martian invasion of earth and the eventual efforts of mankind's fight back. It's badass. There was a lot of extremely controversial things because uh, uh, some of the cards were like kind of sexual and also very uh, violent whoa.
Speaker 2:So yeah, like people cards. Where are they?
Speaker 1:they're like getting slaughtered and tortured by aliens. And, yes, one of the more gruesome images featured the Martians ripping a man heart out of his chest, while a caged, half naked woman looks on in horror. Yeah, and parents were like don't, this is a baseball. This is why Satanic panic. This is how it happened.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I love that idea. I want these cards now. Yeah, they're probably really rare and expensive. Yeah, they definitely probably are.
Speaker 1:We should look them up on eBay and see what happens.
Speaker 2:We'll look it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so also the inclusion of Perump Nevada is just a big inside joke, because I know you know who this is. But Art Bell, this is where he, I guess he records his, his radio thing that he always did you know he was like the alien guy? People like call in about ghosts and aliens or something.
Speaker 2:Not Wizards of the Coast, it was a coast to coast, coast to coast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's which you know, you're into stuff that you just like know that guy and you know we hear them talk about it on the last podcast on the left all the time, especially when they get into the aliens one, which is great.
Speaker 2:So we're able to find it. Oh yeah, these. So I've got a couple. They're really not that expensive. Oh, really cool. Well, some of their coming. They're like comic books with trading cards included, so, but the complete set of mars attacks trading cards is two thousand one hundred and seventy dollars on ebay. Are those like the originals?
Speaker 1:yes, whoa, that's not that bad. I'd be really bummed out if I those like the originals.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Whoa, that's not that bad. I'd be really bummed out if I was like they're already used. If I was like a kid in the 60s and I grew up and I'm like these aren't worth anything. They made a movie on it.
Speaker 2:I know, yeah Well, the base card set is only $104.95.
Speaker 1:Yeah, anyway, incredible. Yeah, so this here. All right, let me know. So we have the aliens. Now they're cgi, but do you think they'd be better as stop motion aliens? Because that's interesting that's what he wanted to do. He wanted to do like five foot that would have been stop motion aliens, like because you know all the like dinosaur films back in the day and stuff, they're all stop motion things. I think he wanted it to be kind of like that with the aliens but mixed in with like real video of everything else.
Speaker 1:Yeah that would have been so wouldn't have been great. Yes, and they. He planned on doing it because he really liked the 40s and 50s style, obviously because how the film looks. But and they were supposed to originally have like over 100 million budget but then the producers slashed it to 80 million, so then he had to go and do it with CGI.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like remember how much work it was to make Nightmare Before Christmas. Yeah, he's like oh shit. Yeah, you're right. It's like yeah, but I didn't have a hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, he didn't. And apparently they started filming with using those things until their budget got cut and they're like well, fine, yeah, that's cool, I want to see that cut. I know Like, give me any of that. I hope that maybe that's in the Remake, it Tim Burton.
Speaker 2:It's the only time I want you to remake something. Yeah, well, I just like to have a DVD with that stuff on it. Yeah, it's like extra. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1:I don't know why I don't own this. I just need to buy all his. I don't really own a lot of his movies, even though I own a lot of his movies.
Speaker 2:Is there like a set of just Tim?
Speaker 1:Burton stuff. I'm sure they have a box set somewhere. I don't know how old it would be, but so let's talk about how that came up with it. Hell yeah, so.
Speaker 2:Hey, what if they just say ACK, ack.
Speaker 1:So apparently the effect was achieved.
Speaker 2:Give that man a raise, yeah.
Speaker 1:Who thought of this? Give him 20 million of our 80 million dollar budget. This man's a genius A quarter of a budget. So the effect was achieved by taking the sound of a duck quack and playing it backwards. It makes so much sense. It's incredible, yeah, with some subtle sound mixing to give it an otherworldly vibe. If you're wondering where the act idea originally sprang from, there are varying accounts. Burton has said in interviews that the script didn't specify any actual dialogue for the characters. Instead, it just said Martian commander speaks. Therefore, during the process of assembling a storyboard reel, the words yak, yak, yak were simply used to indicate that the aliens were talking. According to his version. That seemed oddly fitting and was therefore kept. Meanwhile, scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who did an uncredited rewrite of the script, claim that they came up with ack, ack, ack as temporary dialogue to assist them in establishing the rhythm and scenes featuring the characters. Who's? But you know, we don't know who's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't care, it's great, it's like it's funny. No, I'm the know who's right. Yeah, I don't care, it's great, it's like it's funny.
Speaker 1:No, I'm the one who came up with a silly idea. No.
Speaker 2:I'm the one that had the silly idea.
Speaker 1:I say I'm the one that says act. Well, I said yak.
Speaker 2:I say act all the time.
Speaker 1:Here. Let me get my wife on the phone. I promise you she'll talk about how I'm always saying yak and she's like gosh shut up. It's like he won't shut up about yak. This is why I divorced him five years ago.
Speaker 2:We're not married. Is that why?
Speaker 1:you put that in the film.
Speaker 2:Yes, it sounded like the Charlie Brown noise. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So the hotel that imploded in the movie yeah, that was a real hotel, oh that really imploded movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was a real hotel. Oh, that they were going to demolish, yeah, and Tim Burton was like ooh can we film this?
Speaker 1:And they were like yeah, hell, yeah, yep.
Speaker 2:For free, for free, yeah, do you really have to ask? Yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, and the bummer. So this movie tanked Like it did not do good at all and at the same time this movie is being made, independence Day was being made. Ah yes, part of the reason why this movie tanked. Much cooler movie, I would say. Not as good of a movie. Well, I.
Speaker 2:they're so different yeah.
Speaker 1:One has Jeff Goldblum. That's the only thing that this movie does not have.
Speaker 2:It should have Jeff Goldblum in this movie.
Speaker 1:It should have been. You put Jeff Goldblum in this movie.
Speaker 2:It would have been as good, it would have been perfect. It would have been different, it would have been perfect. Jeff Goldblum is way more serious.
Speaker 1:Well, he could have just been like one of the side characters. It's like uh, uh, martians.
Speaker 2:Like.
Speaker 1:Danny DeVito's brother. Yeah, that Making Independence Day. We're like shit. We have two movies coming out. One's kind of a parody movie about aliens. We better get ours out way before this one, because this one originally had an August release date, but Independence Day was like let's get this one out real quick during Independence Day, the 4th of July, so they could have the long weekend. So they did.
Speaker 2:And this led to people being like well, we don't want to see, we have this awesome serious one, it's Will Smith.
Speaker 1:We don't want to go see this silly Mars attack one. And because Independence Day did so good, they ended up pushing this movie to December. Oh nice, Going against some pretty decent Best Picture movies too.
Speaker 2:Hey, there could be two movies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but apparently well, moving it to Christmas, it was a crazy idea.
Speaker 2:It's not a good idea.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, because we're freaks. But for most people they're like we don't want to see an alien movie, we got to go see our, but the skeletons are green and red, but they're going to go see their Christmas. They want to see their. Back in the day. We used to go see Christmas movies in theaters.
Speaker 2:But I don't think Grandma's Boy is a Christmas movie. Yeah, it did come out on Christmas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but like so, here's some of the movies it had to go against. So it had it opened against Tom Cruise's movie, jerry Maguire.
Speaker 2:Oh damn, Show me the money.
Speaker 1:It's like the best movie of that year. So yeah, the Preacher's Wife, I don't know that one. 101 Dalmatians fuck the first Star Trek movie. So I mean all that in one weekend, just had no chance, damn no chance that's too bad, and. Roger Ebert. It didn't also get the best reviews. It got mixed reviews well, roger Ebert he's a piece of shit. Well, he's dead. Rip.
Speaker 2:He's our greatest film critic so let's some respect on him.
Speaker 1:He was just there we didn't have internet. Apparently, he suggested, a movie like this should be a lot better or a lot worse. What yeah? So I guess it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't so bad.
Speaker 1:It was funny and it wasn't so good that it was good. He just hated that he enjoyed it. The weird thing is is now like I feel like you could probably people that might like mars attack, because I remember buying um independence day with some friends around. I owned it and they were like, oh, you like that movie, that movie's dumb and cheesy.
Speaker 2:Those are not your friends, I'm like what.
Speaker 1:This movie, yeah, but it like the white house explodes.
Speaker 2:It's kind of crazy man, it's great, but do they try to kill a bunch of Boy Scouts with the Washington Monument? No, no son.
Speaker 1:Yeah, didn't think so. Independence Day Get off Earth. So the whole bit of Slim Whitman exploding everybody's brains all the aliens. Well, it turns out Howard Stern, like over 10 years before, like 10 or so years before this movie came out, had a bit on one of his shows called Slim Whitman vs the Midget Aliens from Mars. Fuck yeah.
Speaker 1:And it involved. It guess what. Slim Whitman music warding off aliens and apparently he went to go see the movie like opening weekend and he was pissed. And apparently he went to go see the movie like opening weekend and he was pissed. He said he freaked out because he's like what the heck?
Speaker 1:all my ideas in this movie and then I guess tim burton way later went on his show and was like oh whoa, no way, you probably should have sued me. But he said it was all completely like just coincidence and like none of it. He like he didn't, he didn't do it on purpose. It's a wild coincidence, and just just a small one. Yeah, just for the last one. So the reason that the skeletons are green and red, because of Christmas.
Speaker 1:Because of Christmas they moved it to Christmas, so Tim Burton thought it'd be funny to make them red and green. That's awesome. That's the whole reason. Apparently.
Speaker 2:That's what the trivia says man, if they would have added a few Christmas lights in there on the alien ship with like them messing around, totally could have been a.
Speaker 1:Christmas movie, with how colorful it is and their little outfits.
Speaker 2:They're very, very like the surgeon outfits with like bright red.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're like little elves yeah, I mean like their little underwear, their green suits. Yes, one guy's got, the main guy is purple the.
Speaker 2:They might as well be second man's red. Yeah, they might as well be Christmas elves.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's great, love them. Can we remake this movie as elves or Mars attacks?
Speaker 2:the North Pole, santa saves Earth from Mars. Or how about this Santa?
Speaker 1:and his elves get revenge.
Speaker 2:Santa versus Mars they go to Mars.
Speaker 1:Yes, hell yeah, and it's called North Pole Attacks. Fuck yeah, man. But then it ends with Santa and them all. Tm TM TM. It ends at the very end. Santa's like all right, let's have peace here.
Speaker 2:I brought you presents and then they're like they're bombs Knock, knock, knock, knock yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he reads it, it's like, oh, y'all got a present for me too. Pulls out a gun. And now, even scarier, mars has reindeers.
Speaker 2:They put Rudolph's head on Santa, I would watch this movie at all. Dude when the chihuahua starts whenever all the chokin' him.
Speaker 1:That's exactly what a chihuahua would do Poppy man.
Speaker 2:she deserved the medal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, too bad she RIP. She drowned in the ocean, or whatever.
Speaker 2:She was the best.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, bro, you ready? Yeah, let's get it. It's time to start our review of the plot of Mars Attacks. I don't know why I'm saying it like this All right, god, I love Mars attacks. I don't know why I'm saying it like this.
Speaker 2:All right, so the movie starts off with two men just hanging out.
Speaker 1:One of them's a little racist because he's like you make a Korean barbecue or whatever, or I smell you cooking something right now. He's like, hey, dude, like chill out. But then we see running down the road a bunch of burning cows, A herd of cows on fire. I love it. So when did these cows get burned? Is this like pre-Martian attack? No, because the UFO was there in the field.
Speaker 2:It raises up above the house.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true. I completely forgot, they were just doing shenanigans. This whole intro completely leaves my brain every time I watch it. I do not know why I love it.
Speaker 2:These are like the aliens of planet shenanigan, and I love it so much.
Speaker 1:So apparently, the movie is going to be a little more violent, but to stay away from the r ratings pretty violent already, yeah well, so they're supposed to be things like the cows were supposed to trample these two guys, oh cool, and uh, the ray guns. They're going to do more than just like slowly eviscerate them.
Speaker 2:They're going to, like rip body parts off and like shoot holes through them and stuff that would have been cool.
Speaker 1:But it was going to give them R rating, so they had to turn it down.
Speaker 2:Let's just have them. Evaporate them in the skeletons, although I still kind of liked it. Yeah, I like, I love it.
Speaker 1:There's nothing better than when they get evaporated and they turn into green and red skulls. It's so good. Then we get the long intros with UFOs showing them coming from Mars. It's great. Love it. Love the shape of the UFOs. It's great.
Speaker 2:They're old school and it's amazing. It's so old school and like what time is this on Earth? Is it 90s? It's the 90s but it's also the 60s, it's the 90s, dressed up as the 60s. Well, so it definitely does take place in the 90s I believe oh, yeah, for sure, because that's what everyone I mean like the kids are playing video games, so it's obviously not the 60s, but it's, he just wanted to look like the 60s yeah, I love that part it reminds me of it follows a little bit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what it's like. What?
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly, you never know yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we see the president looking at all the pictures of the UFO.
Speaker 2:Jack Nichols is so good and I love the pictures of them.
Speaker 1:They're so like blurry and stuff. And then you got General Decker who wants to immediately start shooting. He's just constantly yelling about let's kill them. All Turns out he's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sort of Except he just doesn't know how to do it properly.
Speaker 1:Then we got General Casey. He wants to act peacefully. Then you got Donald Kessler says that the advanced species are not barbaric, because if you're advanced you can't be barbaric. Oh man, yes, god, I love it so much Because when you're super smart and can have time to space travel, there's no such thing as evil, apparently.
Speaker 2:It's violence. Yeah, there's no need for violence.
Speaker 1:It's like are we sure these guys didn't kill people on a planet and steal all these UFOs?
Speaker 2:It's like if Beavis and ButHead got shot off the planet to another planet when everyone thought they were sexy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and like you I mean, it's essentially a bunch of spoiled brat teenagers got a bunch of. Ufos stole their mom's cars and went to Earth.
Speaker 2:Their dad is like here's some science go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then you have jerry. The press secretary wants to go straight to the media short, oh man, he's so incredible and the president agrees because this is a big day, everybody's gonna love it, which is like okay, I mean this kind of already happened, but like nobody cared. It's kind of wild. Except there was no visitation, which would. I just feel like we need that right about now.
Speaker 2:Let's have some, let's have some good news, but maybe they're not visiting because they're already here and they've been here the whole time and they're orange Hell yeah, our president. Our tangerine Mussolini.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then we meet the first lady and his and his daughter. Taffy and Glenn Close. Essentially is this Nancy Reagan. Oh yeah, natalie Portman. The first housewife of because Nancy Reagan, I guess, was kind of like the first, the housewife of oh yeah, because she made a look incredible.
Speaker 2:yeah, um, especially that chandelier.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's like, why don't you leave the roosevelt room the way the roosevelts wanted it? They had shut up natalie they had too much of affection for monkeys, apparently. Um, and then we cut to the president making his speech announcing the existence of aliens. Hell yeah, let's have it, yeah. And then we cut to after, because it's like this long speech and during all this you have like a bunch of, we kind of are meeting all our characters and they all start watching it. There's so many that it takes forever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got it all coming right here, we cut to Natalie Lake and Jason Stone, two media personalities jason stone has like a the cnn version.
Speaker 2:Michael jace box.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so good and then you have natalie lake, who's got this like fashion.
Speaker 2:Yes, news channel, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah it seems to me like whatever monday, like um weekday morning television yeah, she would have been covering the housewives of whatever. Yeah, but later we'll see that Natalie ends up getting an interview with Donald Kessler.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's like it's some science guy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some science guy and, like Jason, gets super upset because he didn't get the interview. I'm a true journalist. I love the dog, though Dog just like screw you, jason, I hate you.
Speaker 2:But she calms him down immediately.
Speaker 1:Quiet down. See immediately. Poppy Poppy. I love the dog. She's so cute, oh my God. But so during the president making a speech, you know, in a little bit, before we meet all these guys, we meet our cast, including donut shop employee.
Speaker 2:Richie.
Speaker 1:Norris. I love him, and we also will eventually meet his older brother, billy Glenn.
Speaker 2:It's a ridiculous name Jack.
Speaker 1:Black and I love the parents with these two because they have a very much. The wrong kid died, vibe to them A little later. Wrong kid died. And then you have this flamboyant casino operator, Art Land, played by Jack Nicholson.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hell, yeah, I love this character.
Speaker 1:He's the owner of the Galaxy Casino.
Speaker 2:He's so good.
Speaker 1:And then he has a hippie wife named Barbara, played by Annette Bening, which also may be one of my favorite performances in this whole thing, because she's so funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's hilarious. So I met a guy who I was at a strip club one night, yeah, and this guy was in the smoking section dancing and he had this incredible suit and it looked like in Jack Black's or not Jack Black Nicolas Cage's character, jack Nicholson. Jack, god damn it. It's OK, you're not Nicolas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nicolas Cage's character. You're crushing it. Everybody thinks this is hilarious, sorry crushing it everybody. This is hilarious. Sorry, I've had a couple beers. I've been grieving.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, for america and I was like, hey, nice suit man. And he looks at me and goes you probably couldn't afford it yeah, it's like damn, you know what. You're right, you're right right, I'm in shorts and a t-shirt. My man, you win, dude you got me God man.
Speaker 1:I want to be able to say that.
Speaker 2:Just like this character though.
Speaker 1:I want to be able to say that one day, just go walk into a restaurant and say, hey, nice clothes, you can't afford it.
Speaker 2:Go sit in a VIP section, just stare at them the whole rest of the day, don't fucking talk to me you pee on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're just filth in my eyes um. So then we meet divorced ex-boxer byron williams, played by jim brown, the famous running back hell yeah. Um, who is so cool? Uh, we'll find out a little later. He's trying to get a raise to take care of his family and get back to with his former wife, louise, and who is he supposed to?
Speaker 2:be dressed as um king tut yep yeah, right that seems legit even though king tut was famously like an inbred, like little person who died at the age of 13.
Speaker 1:no, he was a boxer, he could beat up a holy fool or whatever. Um louise is uh, played by pam gre. And then their children are Cedric, also Ray J, the maker of my earbuds. Nice Really, and a relatively famous clip, that kid made earbuds. Yeah, man Ray J yeah.
Speaker 2:Raycons, raycons. Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 1:And he also had sex with Kim Kardashian, at least once.
Speaker 2:And it is very viewable everywhere. I've had sex. It's pretty cool. Yeah, okay, I'm as cool as him.
Speaker 1:This is, and he also has a brother named Neville, played by Brandon Hammond, and I have zero information about him. So anyways, so Byron works as a prop, as is essentially a prop, in the casino in Las Vegas. Luis is a public bus driver in Washington DC. Byron is looking to take leave to go back to his family in Washington, and then Luis I love the part when she gets on she's driving the bus and then she sees her kid, because the kids have been missing for two days apparently.
Speaker 2:And then she just like goes off on them, and then everyone claps yeah, and everybody's like that's fucking right hell yeah, man, and she didn't even have to beat him or anything yeah, she just like.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean I would say, uh, shaking him a lot.
Speaker 2:No, that's fine yeah, as long as they're not babies, that's sure.
Speaker 1:Shake him as much as you want you can't get nick problems or any head trauma from shaking she's also not like a linebacker.
Speaker 2:Yeah sure If a Byron was doing this. No, it's a very funny scene though.
Speaker 1:I mean especially if your kids have been skipped school for two days and hasn't been seen for two days.
Speaker 2:That is the least of what I would do. I would spike them like footballs, hell yeah, and be in prison.
Speaker 1:I will give you. I will put the address to his house no In the description. Call the police please.
Speaker 2:No, we don't need CPS, they're so problematic. I may be next.
Speaker 1:All right, and then back to Barbara. Barbara is a climate activist and believes that the Martians have come to save the planet. We see Jerry pick up some prostitutes.
Speaker 2:Is she a climate activist though?
Speaker 1:No, she's a fake hippie.
Speaker 2:I mean, I like her character, I think it's great whenever Jack Nicholson she's upset about she's an alcoholic and he's like all we do is hang out in bars. This sucks, you, suck, fuck you. But he gives her some chips and she's like thank you.
Speaker 1:And then we cut to Jerry. We see him pick up some prostitutes because his job is very stressful so stressful and then it's time for the interview with Natalie and Kessler. They are totally wanting to bone each other. Sarah Jessica Parker and Pierce Brosnan are so funny.
Speaker 2:They're really funny.
Speaker 1:They're so good. They have so much chemistry. It's crazy. I know it's like, I know they're trying to overdo it, but I'm like these guys might actually have sex after this scene.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:It's such a fun love story and it's like when she says these aliens, isn't it weird? It's like, yes, it is weird. Sounds like Tim Walls yeah, so they have like a little flirty relationship. During this interview, jesse Stone's watching. He's like, hey, he's flirting with my wife. But then during the interview, the TVs go static and all of a sudden the Martians are revealed and they ugly as hell super weird dangly things on their cheekbones and glenn close's character.
Speaker 1:She's like oh, they ain't coming into my house, take no, because since I'm the president, they're expected to be here. Yeah god, glenn close is so fucking funny. It's wild, this movie, other than maybe jim brown performance sometimes. Everybody knows it. Even Jim Brown says pretty good for a football player. Yeah, I thought he did great. And this is where we get the man. I wish I could be in theater the very first time we hear knock, knock, knock, knock.
Speaker 2:This is when everybody's like what. So we tried watching this movie several years ago with my oldest daughter, and she was terrified of the aliens and their noises.
Speaker 1:Not enough, my Little Pony's in it.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, Like I get it though.
Speaker 1:They're scary looking. They're very aggressive. You know what it is it's the eyes.
Speaker 2:The eyes make no sense. It's everything about their face and their sounds.
Speaker 1:It's like how are they moving their eyes? Their eyes are just outside of the face.
Speaker 2:And they're always like darting this way and that way, Like but it's wild how little face they have.
Speaker 1:but yeah, they're so expressive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Isn't that wild I guess it's all the eyes and the eyebrows or back thereof their constant smile of what it like evil smile. Yeah, gross, dangly glands on their face, that's honestly the grossest part to me.
Speaker 1:I'm so cool with the brain, but it's the the hengi stuff? Yeah, I was like is it wet or is it dry? Is?
Speaker 2:it wet or is it dry? Is it wet or?
Speaker 1:is it dry? It's like if I touched it I would be like, yeah, you would. So Kessler says that. Then we go to this like whole thing where they have like a diagram of them, now that they know what they look like. Kessler says they breathe nitrogen and that they have the potential of telepathic powers. Right, because their brains, because they're brains and they're like, is that true, potentially?
Speaker 2:They know nothing.
Speaker 1:They know nothing. That's what I love. They absolutely know nothing.
Speaker 2:Kessler continues yeah.
Speaker 1:And then he continues that because they're advanced species, that they are peaceful and that we are the ones who aren't peaceful.
Speaker 2:We're the ones to be worried about.
Speaker 1:We're the dumb ones, yes, and then probably my favorite piece of technology comes up, because then we see a man has made a communication device. Yes, I love this machine. I love it so good. It's like all the little things he's got to twist himself and it sounds terrible.
Speaker 1:It's so 50s and then essentially you have this like whole line. Oh OK, so here's what the aliens say, all green of skin. Eight hundred centuries ago. Their bodily fluids include the birth of half breeds. For the fundamental truth, self-determination of the cosmos where dark is the suede that mows like a harvest, general Decker.
Speaker 2:What the hell does that mean yes?
Speaker 1:Well, so are we to believe. So 800th century goes hilarious. Their bodily fluids include the birth of half breeds. Is that saying that?
Speaker 2:they made us or we made them. I think they were made.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Maybe, Maybe the previous their ancestors were like messing around with shit and they're like oh shit, what have we made now?
Speaker 1:It's gross, Dude, just like if you just constantly look at the quote of this it gets it's more it's more and more funny.
Speaker 1:It's so good, but I love whenever Jack Nichol in here is 800 centuries, he goes what? Everything we know is a lie. He's so funny, yeah. So then we cut to billy. Um, billy volunteers for the army and is heading off. Richie is asked by his parents to drop his. Oh, and this is where it's like why don't you ever do anything, richie? It's like you should be going out there. Where it's like why don't you ever do anything, richie? It's like you should be going out there too. It's like be more like your brother. You're a piece of shit.
Speaker 2:Essentially there's like we hate you.
Speaker 1:You're not a part of this family. Go die.
Speaker 2:I thought it was interesting when he was doing the wepping, disassembly and reassembly thing. Yeah, he's like two under two and a half minutes. That's incredible, the actual time that you're allowed for that is way less Blindfolded, oh not blindfolded. I forgot that he was blindfolded. Yeah, they don't make you do that, because that's dumb.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I guess, if you're out at night and you had a disassembled yeah, okay, so I'll take it back. That's pretty good for blindfolded yeah, um, but I love it because at first, like you immediately know, it's jack black. But like soon as he gets it right and he takes off his blindfolds like it's completely jack black, yeah, he goes all jack black in this movie.
Speaker 2:I love it like as a kid. Of course I didn't know anything about jack black. It's just his first movie.
Speaker 1:I don't know, but like he looks crazy with a crew cut, yeah, and then later we see him like putting stuff down when all the Martians are about to be there and his butt cracks out and it's.
Speaker 2:Shag Black. It's always been Shag Black. Yes, that's his brand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, love it so much, but after he goes off to the army, richie's asked to advise him.
Speaker 2:His girlfriend is immediately yeah.
Speaker 1:He's immediately going to cheat on him. She's like, oh, he's gone, yeah, um, so richie's asked to drop off grandma at her retirement home.
Speaker 2:I love grandma. I love this adventures with grandma story it's the best it does not get enough time oh yeah, I know like I could just sit there and watch her listen to music all day.
Speaker 1:She looks so happy, yeah, um, and we learned that the grandmother really loves richie because she gets confused easily.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she keeps calling the other guy Thomas, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then this is where the joke of it's like it's like wow, this must be really exciting for you, grandma getting to live long enough to see Martians. This must have been as scary as when they invented the railroads.
Speaker 2:How old do you think I am. So it's like she's at this age where you, I feel like I can't wait to get to this age where you can pretend to be lucid or not.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm just going to call everybody one name because I don't want to remember him anymore.
Speaker 2:I cannot wait until people have enough respect for me to not call me out on that shit. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So they get her to the retirement home. We meet Muffy, her stuffed cat.
Speaker 2:That cat looks beautiful, though. Oh, I have a dog named Muffy.
Speaker 1:And then Gam Gam listens to some music. Yep, gam, gam, gam Gam, but the stuffed pet. That's so Tim Burton, that's so funny, it's very Tim Burton, I know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my, have you ever? My grandmother had a baby doll when she was real, into dementia I?
Speaker 1:know she was really into it. She had a stuffed baby doll.
Speaker 2:She had a baby. That was stuffed Like it was so sad. Oh my God, oh God it just made it funny.
Speaker 1:Yay, mars attacks. It makes your Making dementia funny, yay.
Speaker 1:Since the 90s, in control of our country. In control of our country. So while byron is out for a run, while art comes to him, um, so yeah, byron's out on a run, art comes up to him in his limo, tells him to get in. He's asking him to be the heavy and intimidate someone who owes him money or something like that. Um, but he says no because apparently this is the type of thing that split him and his wife up a long time ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we find out that the aliens are coming on May 1st or May 13th in Parham Nevada. It's a desert, the God, I'm all over the place. Now the president decides to give the aliens a red carpet welcoming and General Casey is put in lead. Love, general Casey, yeah, he's. So. He's such a little teddy bear Because whenever he's like driving, you know, because, yeah, we'll decide, it's time for all the action to happen. You see all the helicopters and armies, like kind of going to the desert, general Casey, he gets a call from his wife and apparently his whole goal was like, yeah, I'm just going to sit there, make no big waves and just kind of be around and be a yes man and I'll eventually be promoted. And it finally happened.
Speaker 2:Yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, and that's in the military. That is the best you can hope for.
Speaker 1:Just do the job you're told to do and don't yell or anything, don't make waves. Along with Casey, we got billy glenn. He's there preparing uh the place, getting it set up. Uh, the media is there with jason and natalie, and civilians are ready to watch, uh like with barbara and a few of the other characters. Um, and then it's here. The aliens are landing. You got this dope tongue ramp.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the tongue ramp.
Speaker 1:They come out looking fresh as hell.
Speaker 2:I love their style.
Speaker 1:They have great style. And then Casey goes up to him trying to greet them with a handshake, but they're just like looking around. And then the Martians speak and say that they come in peace.
Speaker 2:We come in peace, we come in peace. Yeah, we come in peace, we come in peace With this totally accurate language.
Speaker 1:Yeah Like if we just had that forever, that'd be dope it reminds me of the language thing from the.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's this famous thing like the Simpsons did it, they did it, they did do it. Oh yeah, with the baby talk. I love it, I love it, I love it Well, they didn't get it right. Tuesday so were they trying to be disingenuous, or was the technology just bad?
Speaker 1:No, I think they're just little pranksters.
Speaker 2:I feel like these are the aliens.
Speaker 1:They've been watching the Earth live TV show for a long time and they're like, why don't we just or? They saw Punk'd yeah.
Speaker 2:Why don't we just kill them? Yeah, let's just get it over with.
Speaker 1:We could just kill all of them. We created them 800 centuries ago. Let's just get them over with. But yeah, so they come in peace, everybody's happy, they're cheering and then Hippie says they come in peace and throw a dove in the sky.
Speaker 2:God, god damn it. I love that part so much.
Speaker 1:And then the Martians attack. They immediately killed Casey Billy goes in trying to be a hero, grabs a gun, tries to fire. Immediately all the bullets fall out. He grabs American flag, says I surrender, I surrender.
Speaker 2:And gets shot and the parents are watching this on live television. Yeah, they're like oh my god no, then chaos is happening. All these army people can't shoot, worth of crap. Oh man, we have tanks. We have helicopters, everything they only like kill one the whole time, everything all of and I love how all of the all of our munitions and like tanks and stuff they look like toys. Yeah, I mean it might be like stuff we used in World War II, which is.
Speaker 1:I mean, it all looks like. It just looks like old equipment.
Speaker 2:This is super old. I think that was intentional. Yeah, I love it, though, cause it's just so, because it's so one-sided the fight.
Speaker 1:You know it felt very like all the army stuff feels very what's the?
Speaker 2:little, very antiquated.
Speaker 1:What's the little army men?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Dang, what were they called?
Speaker 1:I think they're just called army men. Yeah, the little army men you played with as a kid Little guys. But then after Billyy we have jason and natalie. They kind of explode and all that thing. They all just kind of fall off their vans and are running to each other and then they kind of fall and then for some reason, instead of getting up and like yeah, getting to each other and running away. They're like just slowly crawling. I'm like none of y'all got hurt no, I know, but that's what's.
Speaker 2:I think funny about it. It's like he could have just crawled a little further, could just got up. He could have just walked or crawled or anything.
Speaker 1:Um, but then jason gets a ray gunned and natalie gets kidnapped with her dog but I love when poppy picks up his hand, yeah, and runs away.
Speaker 1:It's like what? Why? Good, doggy Dude, that's such a Chihuahua thing, though. Really One of the funniest things ever with Gracie is. So me, Natalie and a couple of our friends in Murfreesboro, we were just kind of cooking out on a grill and I guess we dropped a hamburger at some point, and then we just see, like at some point Gracie was outside, got it and we see her running. We're like Gracie, this giant hamburger in our tiny toy chihuahua's mouth, and you could tell she was so excited.
Speaker 2:But she also did not want to get caught, because you could tell she was just really running with it and it was one of the funniest things ever Because running with it and it was the one of the funniest things ever because it was like as big as is bigger than her head, yeah she's tiny, a small dog that gets something that they know they're not supposed to have is the funniest so good.
Speaker 1:So the president looks on scared. Kessler tries to convince him that this may have just been a cultural misunderstanding.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's give him another shot, Taffy says maybe doves mean war.
Speaker 1:They did say we come in peace. They just completely dismantle your entire army and you're like this was probably just a misunderstanding. They're like no, wait a misunderstanding.
Speaker 2:They're like no wait, maybe we got it wrong. Yeah, maybe our. I don't know. I think Jesus is just so funny. I just can't. I don't know, I just can't explain it. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But then, kessler and the president, they decide to send a message to the Martians that they will are still willing to work together even after all of this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like the ants telling humans like hey look, we're cool. Yeah, it's like it's OK. I'm sorry we put firecrackers in your anthill but we're still good.
Speaker 1:And then we cut to the Martians hanging out in their undies. We see that they are doing experiments. You got like a hand walking around, that's very timbered.
Speaker 2:I love this fucking shit. Them like messing with lipstick and they twist it and it comes out and they're like ah, we see the main Martian is in a purple robe.
Speaker 1:Purple means royalty, if you didn't know, of course. They read the president's message and start laughing. And then he goes back and reads his playboy, and then, after he looks at it enough. He then looks over at Natalie and it's like uh-oh, oh dang. And then we cut to Art. He is still going along with his hotel casino because he says they're going to need a place to stay.
Speaker 2:And then Barbra starts drinking again when he's giving the presentation. Everybody else is like hey, wait a second. All the aliens are destroying shit behind them and he can't see he's like wait, hold on, I'm not done yet.
Speaker 1:Um, and then, uh, we see the kessler's doing an alien autopsy. That part's rad.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so funny. And like you, look, they're like these aliens are super weird because they've got the bubbles on their heads. We also have the bubbles on our heads and then he's like he's. He has the assumption that they're all super smart and intelligent and like great. And then he goes, if you go to the brain here, and he's just like it's full of these glands, but when he reaches in, pulls them out. It's just goo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just like evil goo.
Speaker 2:Well, he did get blown up. Their brains are just goo. Yeah, they don't.
Speaker 1:they're not smart, they're all. They're just evil as hell. They're teenage boys. Yes, I'm just kidding, it doesn't matter. So then back to the aliens. We see that they have put Natalie's dog's head on her body and show her, show her and show her with her head in a glass container. It's very Simpsons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very Futurama, futurama, that's what it is, futurama.
Speaker 1:So good. And then we are at Billy Glenn's funeral, where the parents wish that it was Richie that died, and then, I love, they start doing the 21 gun salute.
Speaker 2:And I'll just jump in every time.
Speaker 1:And that's kind of how it is. That's the most like realistic thing in this movie. It happens like every movie where there's a funeral like this With their blanks, they're loud. Their blanks. So Luis and Byron talk. He is supposed to be arriving in Washington tomorrow to see her and his kids. They are apparently going on. The kids are apparently going on a field trip to the White House. Maybe not the best time to have field trips.
Speaker 2:I know I love the fact that they're still having everything normal.
Speaker 1:Nothing is changing, everything is normal.
Speaker 2:I know, and even like Jack Nicholson goes into it I think not right now, but he's like. We need everyone to know that everything's normal, like trash is going to be taken out.
Speaker 1:That's a little later, when everything goes haywire. Yeah, so I just like let's say that happened, you going to work the next day If aliens came. If they attack like that, but then like flew off.
Speaker 2:It's like I'm not going to get paid if I stay home. Home, we're gonna be expected to just be like nothing weird happened, right.
Speaker 1:Well, let's just go. Let's go to our cheese factory. No, I'm not going to work. Yeah, I'm just like.
Speaker 2:No, I'm sorry I got podcasts to listen to about this. Yeah, now, if they start putting out, stop putting out content. I'm gonna have to do something. Yeah, I'm gonna have to do something. Let's go to. That's why we're here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bowron tells his wife that he loves her, or his ex-wife, and it's kind of a sweet moment. It is very sweet, it's very sweet.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh, there's something they're trying to make it work. Yeah, for the kids.
Speaker 1:It's like they. Yeah, because he said he was like you know, this is what ruined it before. I'm a big tough crimey man. Yeah, I mean, if you're a boxer and then you're getting done with boxing, what are you going to do other?
Speaker 2:than beat up people. It's like Rocky yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Kessler gets a message from the Martins. They issued a formal apologies. The aliens want to speak to Congress. It's like, are you kidding me? And they buy it. Let's get all the congress. Yes, can I get all your leaders?
Speaker 2:in one place, please. I promise, nothing weird will happen.
Speaker 1:I would send my decoy that day and let's make sure we have no protection in that room.
Speaker 2:So it's the big day we see signs, I don't check them for weapons nothing we saw.
Speaker 1:We see signs outside of Congress that say no applause or birds. The aliens arrive and greet Congress. At first it just looks like he's going to give a speech because at first he pulls out.
Speaker 2:He starts going yeah, that's exactly what the other guy yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He pulled out a gun. Yeah, exactly, and then it looks like a little big row of condoms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it's weird and then everybody thinks they're gonna be safe, and then he pulls out a gun and starts shooting everybody, and so it's chaos.
Speaker 2:They essentially kill all of congress but if you look at some of the skeletons they have, like their hand covering their face, like oh my god really that's awesome.
Speaker 1:So but uh, kessler tries to stop them and they just knock them out and kidnap them. Um, and then you have one of the best lines in the whole movie, because it cut to grandma at the retirement home. She says they blew up congress. And then we cut to a little later. The president meets in the war room. He says he's going to take charge. Decker says they have to start to kill. They have to kill now. He's right, he wants to use the nukes.
Speaker 1:But, then the president goes off on him because Decker is very pushy and is constantly screaming, and so the president says that the country will act normal and keep acting like everything is normal. We would come out of this with a very real outcome. It's one of the best lines.
Speaker 1:It's like he didn't say anything. He just said words that mean yes, the outcome of this will be an outcome. So then the Martians are mocking the president and they give like a chicken sign. So so then the Martians are mocking the president and they give like a chicken sign. So that means the Martians know what chickens are.
Speaker 2:Well, they see the presidential seal Because they're watching his speech, because at the end they're like oh no, it's that they must think it's like the war bird or whatever, that all birds mean war. Yeah, which they do.
Speaker 1:And then we see kessler is completely disassembled and like you have that was fucking great arms, hands, and then you just got his head floating thing. He talks to natalie, whose head is on her dog body now that's so good and they talk about how much they like each other.
Speaker 2:I feel like the only point of this, of these scenes, are to show like her head attached to a dog and how a dog or the would react. Yeah, with a head attached to it, it's great.
Speaker 1:It's so good, it's very simple. So, tim burton, all this stuff on the ship is so tim burton I know I love it.
Speaker 2:I love everything about ships.
Speaker 1:All the crazy like technology and like just nonsense, like them in their underwear and they're all like falling asleep on the job and everything they're looking at porn.
Speaker 2:They literally do not care because they know that they could easily destroy the planet if they wanted to.
Speaker 1:And then, oh, and then we get to one of my favorite parts of the whole movie. This is the part that I remember the most when watching it as a kid. It's like we cut to a woman who looks to be floating outside. She gets picked up by Jerry, who is very stressed right now, and I love it. Oh, so a fun fact about this. So that was the girl that plays it was a model.
Speaker 1:And it was Tim Burton's girlfriend at the time. Oh shit, yeah. And so her dress to make it look so like form-fitting and kind of like I don't know, it had to like fit perfectly, so it looked like she was floating, so it could have no zipper or buttons, so every time she put it on they had to stitch it together.
Speaker 2:Dang. That's cool, that's crazy. I love the way she walks.
Speaker 1:It's like she was on a platform.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like yeah she's, I'm pretty sure that's probably what it was, um.
Speaker 1:So he takes this big-haired woman to the white house, um, and so it's so 60s, it's so, uh, what's clinton? Not clinton, uh, kennedy, kennedy yeah, yeah, because we're about to get to the Kennedy room and so they're going to the Kennedy room.
Speaker 2:Kennedy room oh, the Kennedy room. Here's what.
Speaker 1:I love so when they first walk in. I bet they do have a kidney room, though they probably do when they first walk in and kind of Jerry gets a little further than her and then all of a sudden her floating stops and then she does this like weird little run Dude. It's like the funniest thing ever. I love it so much.
Speaker 1:It's just like her face doesn't change at all and it's just like her little wiggle with it. It's so funny. It's so funny. I want to know how many takes it took for Tim Burton to be like no, it's kind of like this, but as soon as I saw it I'm like this movie is perfect.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so they're going to the Kennedy room they flip over in the bust of John Kennedy and they press the button.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's because people thought this was an actual thing, that there might be because the man had sex a lot in that White House. He did with other people than his wife, and so we see that she has an eye ring, though it's really dope so that the people on the ship could see. It's very fun.
Speaker 2:It's so funny yeah. So, he takes her in there to make sweet love to her.
Speaker 1:He tries to kiss her, but she has gum in her mouth and for some reason he tries to put his whole hand in her mouth to take out the gum. Let me get that gum out of your mouth some reason he tries to put his whole hand in her mouth to take out the gum. Let me get that gum out of your mouth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she bites the finger off it's so cool, but it also this causes her to rip part of her face off I remember that being very scary as hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I was like robot and like the whole time she's chewing gum but like the teeth never move. So I don't understand that element. Just she's breathing in, yeah, the nitrous, yeah, so I guess she can chew gum but can't open her mouth yeah, most women can't yeah, so the uh, the martian then tries to assassinate the president by sneaking into the room. But they kind of wake up last second and scream, and then the dog starts barking and they shoot the dog.
Speaker 2:Poor pup, hell yeah dog.
Speaker 1:Poor pup. Hell yeah, Golden Retriever damn it.
Speaker 2:But like the animals, save the president. They do Because they see the bird they're like oh fuck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the Martian gets a gun to the president's head, but because a bird chirps, the alien shoots it and gives an opening to be killed and the Secret Service kills him. And then all the Martians on the ship are pissed and are suiting up and they got their little the music was done by Danny Elfman.
Speaker 1:And it was apparently I guess they had a little feud before this movie, or like for a little bit. And before this movie they went and had a conversation, said let's never talk about our feud again and let's be friends.
Speaker 2:And they said okay okay, here's a bunch of money yep, um, but I love when they're suiting up.
Speaker 1:You got one martian going into that giant robot and then another martian comes up and throws them lunch a lunch bell so good and it's like another day's work, yep, and now it's time.
Speaker 1:The aliens are invading hell yeah, we see them attacking the was Monument that's so great. Trying to have it land on the kids, they keep trying to move it, it's so good. The kids are like, ah, ah, ah, they get into the White House. The Byron and Louise kids are there, are getting a tour at the time. It's kind of crazy that they're there and take advantage when they find alien weapons on the ground.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, they've been playing like an alien game.
Speaker 1:They are quickly able to start killing Martians.
Speaker 2:Get that president out of here.
Speaker 1:The first lady is crushed by Nancy.
Speaker 2:Reagan's chandelier. They're like, oh, no danger, get the president out. And they completely leave Glenn Close alone. She's dead. She's so worried about the chandelier. Yeah. Well, it's falling on her Well she looks at, she's like oh no, the chandelier.
Speaker 1:And this is where we're having art, is having an investment meeting, and then the aliens invade Las Vegas. Oh shit, yeah, this is where, like, everybody's like uh, behind you and he's like hold on, hold on, I'm not done, just wait to hear what I have to say, yeah, these aliens are going to need somewhere to relax.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1:But then he gets blown up. No, it was great.
Speaker 2:He gets crushed by the earth. The earth, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's so good. It's like damn Art, you didn't even die by the aliens. You died by Earth. And then we cut to Tom Jones' concert.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, I love Tom Jones.
Speaker 1:And then you have the aliens take over for the backup dancers yeah, they get in there and start dancing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 1:So apparently to get Tom Jones to be in this movie, he went to a Tom Jones concert Tim Burton did to ask him to be in this movie. Oh wow, oh wow. And tim tom, uh, tom jones was like my backup singer's being it too and I'm like, yeah, and so those are the actual backup singers not the aliens but before the alien it was such a cool scene though I loved it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so entertaining um, and then you have byron, barbara, danny devito because he has no name and tom jones, and for some reason, a random waitress just walks up right at the right time yeah, um because they are planning, because they are planning to use Barbara's plane to hide in some canyons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they never said anything about Cleopatra, did they?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, she's at the beginning for like a couple lines. She's just very small. Yeah, I think it's probably because producers were like half-naked woman.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we need a hot lady. That's the only thing I could think of. I was like they we need a hot lady, that's the only thing I could think of I was like they just need to like a half-naked woman running around right? Is that what the point of this is?
Speaker 1:yeah, you have to, because she barely has lines after this she does have one bit where she's like pulling on the wrong door and that's kind of funny. Um, so we have mass destruction everywhere and it looks great.
Speaker 2:It's like the ships look awesome, they're bowling, bowling over the Easter Island statues, and then you have, like the 1950s army in their army trucks. They just look like they're from the 1950s movies exploding, falling all over.
Speaker 1:The practical stuff looks so good in this and then you have them and I guess they cut out a scene where the aliens kill the guy that created the machine that has that talks that can translate. So that's why they have it.
Speaker 2:This is where we have them shooting someone and saying don't run, we're your friends, yeah.
Speaker 1:As chaos is everywhere. So funny, they blow up the donut shop.
Speaker 2:And all the cops come running out yeah yeah and um they're like what kind of trope. We don't have every trip, yeah, and then when?
Speaker 1:richie gets back to the uh, the trailer park, he tells his family it's like they blew up the donut place.
Speaker 2:No, but they're not gonna get my tv but richie is super worried about the grandma. And the parents are not.
Speaker 1:The parents are like screw grandma, God damn, I love.
Speaker 2:Richie, so much.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Richie, he's a really nice guy. I like that. You know what he feels like the Tim Burton stand-in. He's a weird kid. The parents don't like him.
Speaker 2:It's like nobody seems to like him, but grandma, I love, I love in the beginning when he, in the very beginning, he brings home donuts and they're like. She's like, how old are they? Oh, they were made made fresh monday oh yeah, made fresh monday. Oh, that's only six days ago.
Speaker 1:Give me some, well she's like oh, six days ago, all right, I'll have some um so, uh, the president. We see the president of the war room. He gets a message from france.
Speaker 2:They say that they made peace I love it, though, because he's just sitting there completely defeated yeah france is like hey, we reached an agreement, they're right here and they said they're gonna work with us. Yeah, he's like no, get out of there as fast as you can, but then they're already getting shot and then you see it cuts from them being totally like chill in a room to like the empire's, not the empire's table, the uh, eiffel tower just getting blown up so good crowd, everyone's dead man is it like not the best when you see like our, our monuments in the world get exploded.
Speaker 2:Just toyed with so fun. This is not even Carmen San Diego.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so the president is defeated and he finally agrees to use nukes. Because Decker walks up like how about you just sign this now?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Because I've been trying to tell you he's like fuck it. Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1:So what do they do? They fire the nukes into space.
Speaker 2:They're all so hopeful yeah.
Speaker 1:A giant balloon comes out. Essentially, when it explodes, it sucks up the entire explosion and then the Martians inhale the balloon like it's helium, and then they have a high pitch.
Speaker 2:And they just have a good laugh at Erk's bits. So good, why only watch Launch 1, nuke we? Have like a billion yeah.
Speaker 1:Launch 1. It's such a good bit. It is so good though it's such a good bit.
Speaker 2:God, they're like you, little tiny little ants. Yeah, you're so funny.
Speaker 1:And then this is where we just get kind of the Martians is having a good old vacation because they carve their faces into Mount Rushmore. It's so fun they take pictures at the Taj Mahal.
Speaker 2:Burning.
Speaker 1:They bowl the stone heads the Maui.
Speaker 2:Moau the Easter.
Speaker 1:Easter Island. Yeah, stone heads. They have like a specific name, I don't know, I don't know how you'd say it, and they also watch Dukes of Hazzard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because, why not?
Speaker 1:They're pro-Confederate, flash that's so fucking awesome. So the aliens are now attacking Richie's trailer. But he runs out to go get grandma. But the giant robot picks up a bunch and just starts crushing all the trailers together Like the little kids toy cars and for some reason, this, this giant robot, specifically wants Richie to die.
Speaker 1:Hell, yeah, dude, yeah. So and then you got the plane gang. They're heading to the plane, they need a video. They cut through like this Um, it's apparently like a. I think it's like a neon sign museum. I think it's like a real thing in Las Vegas, where you can see all the old neon signs. It's like a dump for neon signs. I don't know.
Speaker 2:But he's getting mad Signs are expensive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Danny DeVito, he gets mad because he's like we're going the wrong way. This is all dumb and he wants to go to the hotel. But but when he runs away he runs into an alien. He pleads with him and offers to be his lawyer, and he offers to give him his watch. Then he gets shot. Hell yeah, Poor Danny DeVito. But then in return the alien quickly gets shot by Byron.
Speaker 2:I think there's something that actors, like great actors, aspire to is a funny-ass death. I think Jack Nicklaus does it great all the time. He's done it several times and it's always been funny, even in the Departed not a funny movie at all. That movie's hilarious, but his death is fucking hilarious.
Speaker 1:I think you should re-watch the Departed. That movie's very funny. Mainly Mark Wahlberg, that movie is very funny. I mean, yeah, mainly Mark Wahlberg, oh yeah, and Jack Nicholson, he's like eh, all the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right, man, we should do the Departed. So where are we? Where are we? Yeah, the alien gets shot. So Richie makes it to the retirement home after making a giant robot run into power lines. Hell yeah, the aliens are so little snotty brats, little shits, that they have this giant ray gun and they're pushing it down the hallway. And then they see the grandma sitting in a chair with headphones on and they put this giant machine like an inch from her head. They're lining it up, it's sober up and they're all like. They're snickering to each other like, but for some reason grandma's headphones get disconnected and then the yodeling music starts, making the brains explode. So good, now we know how to kill them and then we cut back at them.
Speaker 2:It's not our biology that we've earned it's the music.
Speaker 1:Their brains are so big that they can't handle yodeling.
Speaker 2:I guess it's the glass cases too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's probably like reverberating the reverberation. Yes, it's like me listening to our podcast cases too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's probably like reverberating the reverberation.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's like me listening to our podcast. Oh snap, fucking got us. Man, got my own self on that one. So, back at the war room, though the president is being attacked, we just see a globe thrown into the room and then they're like, okay, they're all expecting to be blown up. But then the royal martian kind of comes in, reveals it's just a snow globe. Um decker gives this speech. It's essentially kind of similar to the speech that um yeah, british guy, I did a, I did a presentation over him. Uh, can't we all just get along? What I know it's like. It's the one Deckers do, like yelling. We'll fight them on the beaches.
Speaker 2:Is it Winston Churchill? Yeah, Winston.
Speaker 1:Churchill Hell, yeah, I forget names. And then he gets shrunk and then stepped on, and then all of a sudden everybody starts shooting at the aliens.
Speaker 2:He's like let's trust, we can trust them. Right, he gives him a handshake. Oh no that's after.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, that's after, because this all goes down first, and then he gets shrunk, and then he gets stepped on.
Speaker 2:And they all start shooting at the aliens.
Speaker 1:and now they're bulletproof, I'm assuming it's the royal guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like the Dune thing. Just make them all bulletproof so they attack, they kill everybody in the room and then the president gives a speech. Leader to leader. President dale, why are you doing this? Why isn't the universe big enough for the both of us? What's wrong with you, people? We could work together. Why be enemies because we're different? Is that? Why think of the things that we could do. Think how strong we could be, earth and mars together. There is nothing that we could not accomplish. Think about it. Think about it. Why destroy when we can create? We can have it all. We can smash it all. Why can't we work out our differences? Why can't we work things out, little people? Why can't we all just get along? Oh shit, yeah. And then he sends his hand for the handshake. It comes off.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's similar to how the joker kills somebody in the batman yeah, it's like he literally does this, but now it happens to him so good. And then I love it because, like the flat, it's like it turns out, it's a flag, yes, and like their whole motion was just the circle of their flag and it was so funny like the.
Speaker 2:Um, if you look at old cartoons like looney tunes cartoons, that's the flag, yeah, that comes out like marvin the martian. They always had that little flag, that little thing that put out the flag.
Speaker 1:It's the flag of mars yeah wow I need to really look at that flag um.
Speaker 2:So then? Well, it's not the same one, it's just like that's the similar.
Speaker 1:That's what happened, yeah so Richie and Gam Gam are driving around with a giant speaker she's having the best.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's going.
Speaker 1:I love this music. They're driving around with giant speakers killing all the aliens with the music. They successfully make it to a radio station and play the music for everyone to play. It's great. The plane gang they get in the plane. Tom Jones is like what's this song? And they see that they're ready to get out. But apparently there's a bunch of Martians on the runway and Byron says it's time for a hero and he says he's going to go out there and distract them.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, I love that. The aliens at this point are just like they're all just weaklings pieces we can all do. We can just take them. Yeah, like they're all just ants beneath our boots. And then byron comes up and he's like let's go this bodysuit thing taking off his costume. Oh, you're hell yeah it's like let's fight baby, and the aliens are like I've seen movies. I know this means we don't shoot. We probably have seen the movies. Yeah, they probably have.
Speaker 1:They're like oh yeah, this is a part of the third act where we drop our guns and have a fist fight.
Speaker 2:They could have just shot him.
Speaker 1:So Byron challenges the ambassador to fist fight, where he quickly beats his ass. But is eventually taken over by the group of aliens and looks to be killed.
Speaker 2:They got him.
Speaker 1:And then we get shots of everywhere People using the music to pop the alien's head, even in their spaceships. They're popping, they're all crashing into each other. Yeah, and then it cuts in the ship where the royal alien's head explodes.
Speaker 2:You got the puppy strangling another alien in the human body. She gets so many treats after this.
Speaker 1:Then we see Natalie and Kessler rolling on the ground Because their heads become detached Just Kessler's head, and then you got just Natalie's head and they tell each other they love one another and they kiss as the ship sinks in water, yeah, as the plane is crashing the heads kind of accidentally. Start like wiggling around. They close for a kiss.
Speaker 2:And it's beautiful yeah.
Speaker 1:Such a love.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like oh, y'all met each other, yesterday, the wrong time, but it was. It's also like the right time.
Speaker 1:It's like you know what If you found true love at the end of the world? There's no wrong time for love.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly that's the real message of this movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah canyons where apparently. Well, they said they were going to a cave in Tahoe, yeah, something like that. Yeah, and we see Tom Jones.
Speaker 2:Barbara which, how would you fly a plane to a cave in? I don't know it's pretty crazy.
Speaker 1:And then the waitress, they all come out to a scene in Snow White where birds and deer, all these animals, are coming out singing and chirping.
Speaker 2:Tom Jones is singing to them.
Speaker 1:And then Barbara puts her hand out and a dove just lands on her.
Speaker 2:It's all beautiful. Tom Jones puts his hand out and, like an eagle, went yeah.
Speaker 1:And they kind of pan around. There's a lake full of UFOs and then we cut to. In front of the destroyed Congress building we have a mariachi band playing while Taffy gives a congressional medal of honor to Grandma and Richie.
Speaker 2:I, like the guy playing the trumpet, has a broken arm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so Richie and Grandma get a congressional medal of honor. It's very wild that they're doing it in this.
Speaker 2:It's so funny.
Speaker 1:And it seems like the Taffy has a little crush on Richie. And then Richie gives a powerful speech thanking his grandma, thinking he didn't do much, and he says that they should build teepees instead of houses. And then he goes back to Taffy's like how'd I do? And then she's like you got a girlfriend and it's like I don't know, man, y'all both lost your mom and dad. So let's take a couple days and maybe just not think about having sex.
Speaker 2:Now's the time.
Speaker 1:That's immediately what I said. I was like your parents died.
Speaker 2:Love is the answer.
Speaker 1:Two days ago for both of you. Y'all are both orphans.
Speaker 2:Both of them, though, had shit parents who didn't give a shit about them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true, I feel like the president probably cared he did.
Speaker 2:A little bit. He cared about Taffy yeah.
Speaker 1:Because when they're all like running away when they got separated, he's like where's Taffy? And then the mom's like let's just go.
Speaker 2:But then they leave the mom behind and then they all leave anyway, yeah, so it's just kind of an afterthought, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we cut to Washington. Then our boy Byron shows up in Washington because he's alive.
Speaker 2:He shows up crushing a skull. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1:And then Tom Jones and some animals sing and dance. Hell yeah.
Speaker 2:The end. It's incredible. The best way to end the movie Hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, great, let's immediately go into our categories, the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. It's where we talk about the good of the film, something we like. The bad, something we didn't. The ugly, something that didn't age well. The fine, something that did age well. So what do you? Got for the good?
Speaker 2:The good, the slapstick. Yes, alien comedy. I love it so much.
Speaker 1:For me. I put the actors they crushed For me. I put the actors they crushed. Yeah, Tim Burton being in his bag in this one, yeah, and just you know, not everything has to be just a dark alien invasion movie. Sometimes we can have some damn fun in this movie.
Speaker 1:It's fun. We can make fun blockbusters everybody. Not everything has to be Well. I guess technically this wasn't a blockbuster because it didn't make over 100 million dollars, but uh, and I just love the concept for the aliens, the knack, knack, knacks, the best thing ever. Um, because she had. So let's see, I put for the bad.
Speaker 2:I said it feels long it was a long movie hour and 41 minutes, which isn't even long, but it felt longer. It did feel long because I feel like they got so caught up on Although they were just trying to like introduce these all these different characters, all these different hard hitters, characters like actors and stuff, like they were trying to create this, like gather up all these stories, just maybe they spent too long.
Speaker 1:Maybe it took a little too long, but then also, when I think about it, I'm like I don't really want anything cut. I know I still enjoyed it. Like maybe the only one that I would cut would be the art stuff. Yeah, just because like nothing comes of it right, it's not really. There's no point of it. We could have cut like five minutes from the movie maybe sure, yeah, but like, but it's also funny.
Speaker 2:So it's like, yeah, it's all, it's all, it's all just comedy yeah, I don't really have anything else that I disliked about it. I thought it was great when, in a movie that's so satirical like it's, it's hard to find like you can just tell that everything is just meant to be wrong and funny yeah, exactly because, because they're making fun of everybody and it's, oh, it's so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's great um the ugly, anything that didn't age well, no, yeah I don't really, I don't really think. I can't think of anything. I don't really know anybody if they did anything bad in this movie, um, and it's so like out of place in time that it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, about age, and I think that's the technology or anything yeah, and that's like a beautiful thing about merging these two different like periods of time. They're like 30 40 years apart. Yeah, it's just like it. It's so ridiculous it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, also great directors make us question when things are set. It's so much fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it follows this.
Speaker 1:It's like I'm so confused and I love it. Yes, so I put for the fine some of the age. Well, the cast and, honestly, the CGI kind of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the CGI wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if the intentions was to kind of make it look a little sillier, then they crushed it. Yeah.
Speaker 2:It looks cool. It looks just as silly as the rest of the movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you know like.
Speaker 2:Oh, they meant this. I'm not asking for some.
Speaker 1:District 9 spaceships. Here I'm asking for some goofy, goofy ass.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah, district 9 was so good. I wish they would have brought these aliens back, they might open up the big alien spaceship.
Speaker 1:They're just like ah, ah. Then you have the little baby one. Oh, they should have showed us some kid aliens in this. I have something that didn't age. Well, we didn't see any kid aliens. That would have been hilarious.
Speaker 2:Well, maybe I feel like these species. They just clone each other and they just come out of the tube fully grown, yeah.
Speaker 1:Um, and then we're going to hit our final category called double feature, a movie we recommend to watch alongside this movie. What do you got?
Speaker 2:Rat race. Hell yeah, because another star studded movie that's just about comedy and being comedy and running all over the place.
Speaker 1:Love that movie. The guy made the tongue Got the tongue piercing. So good yeah me and. Natalie love that movie. So good, I chose Killer. Clowns from Outer Space oh shit, I haven't seen that one. You've never seen it, uh-uh. It's about aliens who look like clowns, come from outer space and terrorize a small town. This movie, when I watched it as a kid, gave me ideas for movies that's awesome there's this one where?
Speaker 1:so the movie's super goofy. There's this one kind of really creepy scene with a. These clowns look hilarious, dude, like they're so goofy and it's just like at a bus stop and I don't know. Is this really creepy looking? And I was like I have horror movie ideas, you should honestly, I think I don't even think it's what's it right, it's PG-13. You should. You should watch this with your oldest kid. Hell yeah, I think they'll find it hilarious, because that clowns look so goofy. I'm just watching the trailer right now.
Speaker 2:Actually I want to, since I still had to buy Mars Attacks or rent it. Actually I've got 48 hours with it, so hopefully I'm going to try to watch it tonight with the kids and see what they think. Maybe this is their older, they won't be so terrified. Yeah, it won't be too bad for them.
Speaker 1:It's all so goofy looking, they should be able to handle it yeah. And then y'all should watch Killer Clowns from Outer.
Speaker 2:Space, and let's just get a clown.
Speaker 1:There might be blood in there, I don't know. That's fine.
Speaker 2:You may want to look at the. Oh yeah, We'll make it happen.
Speaker 1:And I do have a second one because most it's a fantastic film.
Speaker 2:I haven't seen it. Not enough people have watched it.
Speaker 1:And I want to watch it now. That's it. We attacked Mars.
Speaker 2:And Mars attacked us.
Speaker 1:We won, oh my gosh. And then join us next time, because we're doing Tony Scott's last film he ever made. This is Ridley.
Speaker 2:Scott's brother Before he died horribly in a train accident.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Except I don't think he died of a train accident. No, because we're doing the movie that's on HBO, max, or just Max, now called Unstoppable starring Chris Pine and Denzel Washington. It's about a train that is unstoppable it's, but it is possible.
Speaker 2:Yes, you can't pause it. This movie goes. It's good. I can't wait. I haven't heard of it.
Speaker 1:It's just, you know, about two guys trying to stop a train from destroying an entire city. It's yeah, you'll be like, oh, wow. And it's also about how they are firing. You know older people in the train business. The other ages and putting young people in their jobs instead.
Speaker 1:Um no, but this movie is so much fun we're gonna get I love it there's, I think there is a little bit of questionable cgi, but you know that's a movie made in the 2000s. Um, make sure you join us for that. That seriously, the movie is really good. If you haven't seen it, I recommend you seeing it. For this podcast, please, and I'll also. Can you tell your friends about this podcast? All our listeners, seriously, please, let's get some.
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