It's funny how his film has better special effects than Mars Attacks
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Killer Klowns from Outer Space
weasel_evil — 13 years ago(July 20, 2012 09:26 PM)
Both "Killer Klowns from Out Space" and "Mars Attacks" are both films that pay homages to 1950's science fiction B films but I find it funny that even though this film has a 2 million dollar budget and "Mars Attacks" has a 100 million dollar budget this film has way better special effects. The cgi in Mars Attacks is just plain awful.
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hurricanehorton — 13 years ago(July 27, 2012 03:54 AM)
That's because they wasted their budget getting every big-name actor they could get to appear in it. Mars Attacks is actually a really bad movie. The cast list is the only thing about it that's even worth discussing.
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mk_82 — 13 years ago(September 18, 2012 10:15 AM)
CGI was not in its early stages. Look at JURASSIC PARK which was released 3 years earlier and the effects in that film still look better than most anything that's released today.
Regardless of how "real" it looks, I think the effects in MARS ATTACKS are pretty fun. -
brodiebruce_405 — 13 years ago(September 15, 2012 02:57 PM)
Too right. Both films were made by director who were former or were at the time special effects people. The Chiodos made the effects themselves for KK at very little cost!
Generally I prefer practical to CGI anyway but here it's definetely true.
Mars Attacks! captured the look of the trading cards fine, I guess, but everything else stank. The script was awful. Jack Nicholson was totally wasted in two roles with about two laughs between them (you'll laugh more at The Shining, it's true). It's a spoof of 1950s Invader films like EARTH VS THE FLYING SAUCERS, also a big influence on Independance Day at the time (leading some to call Mars Attacks a spoof of ID4, Tim Burton said it was the "Mad magazine version")
Killer Klowns is a riff on THE BLOB and man is it funny. I think my favourite part, and it's SO deadpan, is when Royal Dano says "I'LL TEAR THIS PLACE APART WITH MY BARE HANDS!" then gets electrocuted.
Plus, how can you not love all those endings to scenes with just a clown's face either laughing or saying some nonsense word - "Myunda!", "RAAWWWWOOOO!". -
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R_Redbeard — 10 years ago(October 30, 2015 06:48 PM)
The special effects in this seemed like the same type they used for Ghostbusters If only there were better actors involved.
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