MARSATTACKS

Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American science fiction-comedy film directed by Tim Burton and written by Jonathan Gems. Based also on the cult trading card series of the same name, the film was also inspired in part by a parody bit that Howard Stern did in the 1980s on WNBC, in which the premise involved Martians attacking and the discovery that the only way to kill them was to play Slim Whitman songs to make their heads explode. The film features Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Short, Natalie Portman, Rod Steiger, Michael J. Fox, and Christina Applegate, in a parody of science fiction B ...

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Mars Attacks

Mars Attacks is a science fiction trading card series released in 1962. The cards feature artwork by science-fiction artists Wallace Wood and Norman Saunders and tell the story of the invasion of Earth by cruel, hideous Martians. The cards depicted futuristic battle scenes and bizarre methods of Martian attack, torture and slaughter. The story ends with a combined Earth invasion fleet attacking Mars by landing on the planet and destroying it.

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