Mars Attacks!
Movie Quote Quiz

Taffy Dale: Guess it wasn't the dove.

Richie Norris: Should I go get Grandma?
Richie's Dad: Oh forget Grandma! She's halfway into space already.

Rude Gambler: You wanna conquer the world, you're going to need lawyers, right?

Billy Glenn Norris: Bye bye, Grandma.
Grandma Florence Norris: Goodbye, Thomas.
Billy Glenn Norris: It's Billy Glenn, Grandma.
Grandma Florence Norris: I know, Thomas.

Grandma Florence Norris: They blew up Congress! Ha ha ha ha.

Richie Norris: Wow, he just made the international sign of the doughnut.

President Dale: 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?

Sue Ann Norris: I'll tell you one thing, they ain't gettin' the TV.

Grandma Florence Norris: Richie, I think these guys are very sick.

Martian Translator Device: All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the swathe that mows like a harvest.
General Decker: What the hell does that mean?

Richie Norris: I want to thank my Grandma for always being so good to me, and, and for helping save the world and everything.

Martian Translator Device: We come in peace! We come in peace.

Professor Donald Kessler: We know they're extremely advanced technologically, which suggests - very rightfully so - that they're peaceful. An advanced civilization, by definition, is not barbaric.

Richie Norris: I bet you're psyched about the Martians coming Grandma? I mean, you've seen a lot of crazy stuff already. Everyone must have been real scared when they invented the train.
Grandma Florence Norris: Come on kid I'm not that old.

President Dale: Rest assured that we will soon come out at a very real outcome.

President Dale: What do you think, Marcia?
First Lady: Kick the crap out of 'em.

Art Land: I'd been thinkin' about Mars when there wasn't no Mars.

President Dale: General Decker, if you do not shut up I am going to relieve you of your commands.
Gen. Decker: We have to strike now, sir! Annihilate! Kill! Kill! Kill.
President Dale: Shut UP! shut UP! shut UP.

Deliberate mistake: At the end just before the president is killed he fixes his tie, but it keeps on getting fixed to messed, to fixed, etc. Deliberate homage to "A Few Good Men", but worth looking for nonetheless. (00:28:15)

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Trivia: This is just something interesting - during the movie there are 2 aliens that are referred to as "Ben Der" and "Dun Dat" (been there, done that).

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Question: I heard this movie was a remake or a compilation of different themes used in 1950's mars B-movie remakes. What are some of the themes of the movies that this movie takes? Such as, In Mars Attacks they use the music to kill the aliens I believe is a rip from a 50's movie where they use sound waves to down martian spaceships. What movie was that?

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Chosen answer: While the movie is a parody of the 50's sci-fi B-movies, the film is actually based on the Topps 1962 science fiction trading card collection called "Mars Attacks!", which tells the tale of the Martians' attack.

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