Watched it in black and white
I turned the color down on the TV. The movie worked a lot better this way! I reccomend others watching it like this too! The 50s vibe works a lot better and it definitely feels like a bad (but fun) Ed Wood movie!
shareSome people really like B&W, and maybe it works well that way, but just to be insufferably technical, it's not really a spoof of a 1950's B&W SciFi movie. It's based on some very colorful trading cards from 1962:
http://www.tkinter.org/Stuff/MarsAttacksCards/index.htm
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I know it's based on the Topps cards. But it is such a loose adaptation. They are both completely different things.
Burton's film ditches the serious, almost disturbing tone of the cards and instead goes for a silly, fun and comedic spoof/parody of 50s sci-fi movies.
One day I would like a new film version which is closer to the material.
but just to be insufferably technical, it's not really a spoof of a 1950's B&W SciFi movie. - virgiltx
The scene in which the Martian spaceship knocks the Washington Monument to and fro is a direct cop/parody/homage of the 1956 B&W sci-fi flick Earth versus the Flying Saucers. First thing I thought of when I first saw this movie.
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