10 Things You Didn't Know About MarsAttacks

When Humans finally land on Mars, their first transmisison back to Earth should be, "Ack! Ackackack!"

Such an underrated movie. Two of my favorite cult classic movies: Mars Attacks and GalaxyQuest

When I saw this as a kid in the mid 90's, I was terrified of it. But as I got older, I come to appreciate it in not only as a sci-fi thriller esk but as a comedy as well.

The end of Mars Attacks where they are defeated by music also felt a bit like an homage to the end of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes as well, as in the end of the movie, the tomatoes lose their powers and get turned back into regular tomatoes when the hear the “worst song ever made”, called “Puberty Love”, which is sung like the singer’s voice is changing while he singing the song.

This was by far one of the best videos you have shared ! Slim Whitman & his family were long time friends of mine . From what I understood at the time ; Burtons production company called them and asked them for permission to use his music in the film . Slim thought it was a wonderful idea , he loved it Shortly before the film came out he was telling us about it all during his concert in my home town in 1995 , we were all very excited waiting for it to premiere at the theaters . Both Slim & his wife Jerry have both since passed on but, his music lives on through his son Byron Whitman .

I remember both this and Starship Troopers being rather unappreciated at the time.

Minty you forgot a very cool important fact! The buildings in Las Vegas that were being blowned up were actualy demolished. The old buildings were already old and schedule to be demolition so they actually blew them up for the movie. So when you're actually watching the movies and these buildings go down they were actually being demolished. I know this because I actually went to Las Vegas after the movie was released. They talked about it.

For such a smaller film, this had such a huge cast. That’s what stood out to me about this movie when it came out.

My doctor told me I have Tom Jones disease. I said “is that common?” He said 🎶 It’s not unusual 🎶

I'd always thought that Mars Attacks was a funny response to Independence Day - but I stand corrected. Funny movie, though - and nice to see Jack Nicholson do that type of comedy.

Minty, I doubt you’ll ever see this but I just wanted to thank you. I’ve been going through a rough time and binge watching your videos has been a big help! Thank you so much, buddy!

The first time I saw Mars Attacks in theaters, the film melted just as it was about to see the defeat of the martians. At first we thought it was one of the gags in the film, but nope, it really did melt!!! We got our money back and then went to see it again at a later time! I have always loved the film from day one, and it was disappointing that it failed at the box office. I bought it on laserdisc, and again on DVD. Elfman ' s music is great. I bought the CD as soon as it was available. Actually, if I remember correctly, I had to preorder it at one of the music stores back then. It is among my top five Elfman scores. In no particular order: Batman, Mars Attacks, Nightbreed, Spider-man, Batman Returns.

Mars Attacks! is still one of my favorite comedies of all time. The music added a great deal to that humor. Watch the original "The Day the Earth Stood Still" which had that wonderful lead theremin instrument, that was the inspiration for the music in Mars Attacks. Another fun fact: the "Ack ack ack-ack" dialog for the Martians was a place-holder scratch track that Tim Burton and his sound guy recorded that they intended to replace with a re-recorded version in post. But, they just were not able to recreate a version they liked as much as the temp. scratch track no matter how hard they tried so, they wound up just using their original temp scratch track.

Interestingly, Mars Attacks was released one month after Space Jam, which like Mars Attacks was distributed by Warner Bros as well as featuring aliens and Danny Devito, and Honestly, both Space Jam and Mars attacks are truly epic!

To be 100% honest iv'e watched Mars Attacks so many times more than Independence Day...and i think it's because of the great comedy, great CGI, and bigger cast...this movie was released in 1996 and it's one of those movies that looks like it was made more further future ahead in time like terminator 2 which blend in well with modern movies with great CGI and it's becoming more noticeable and more popular as years go by....and for movies like Mars Attacks it can take years for a film like this to become a classic which i think it already is. I was a kid when i first watched it and i grew up with this movie...i love it and it's a work of art.

I collected the Dinosaurs Attack cards! I think I have a full set. They were brilliantly campy, just like Mars Attacks, and would still make for a great movie. I always felt like the PlayStation game "Destroy All Humans!" was a spiritual homage to Mars Attacks. You're absolutely right about the soundtrack. Theremins for the win! Not to nitpick, but it's "THE Nightmare Before Christmas", not "A Nightmare Before Christmas".

#11 - The Donut Jokes In the movie, there are numerous references to donuts that seemingly come out of nowhere. Why was this a thing? As it turns out, Tim Burton just thinks donuts are super funny, so threw some donut jokes in for the lols.

The "Martians Blowing Up Congress" and the reaction is on a loop, as my screen saver.

My friend actually had most of the Dinosaurs Attacks cards. They were surprisingly graphically violent and the story it told was weird lol.

I had a floppy disc with a Mars Attacks game on it where you tried to help martians by fixing their suits. It was fun to find ways it kill them. My favorite was shattering their helmet completely and watching them cough then collapse.