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Monday
Sep282015

Beauty vs Beast: Fourth Rock From the Sun

Hi there everybody, Jason from MNPP here with this week's edition of "Beauty vs Beast," wherein we ask you to choose your poison -- good against bad, hero versus villain. Well... except this week. We're using the occasion of Ridley Scott's film The Martian, which is out in theaters on Friday, to take a look back at two of my favorite movie visitors from Mars...

And as it turns out they're all positively wicked, the lot of 'em. Whatcha gonna do? Man and movie-kind's been almost always terrified of that red dot in the sky since time immemorial. So I guess think of this week's question this way -- who do you think you'd stand a better chance against? The Tripods from War of the Worlds (you're fine with either version) or the Martians from Tim Burton's Mars Attacks? And tell us why in the comments...

PREVIOUSLY Last week we wandered dreamily around a Tokyo hotel with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation - but who'd we end up bringing back to our room? By the narrowest of margins (less than 2%) it was Bill we wanted whispering in our ears. Said STinG:

"I feel like when a movie that is semi-autobiographical to Sofia Coppola still intellectually favors the Bill Murray character for his unspoken existential pains than her still interesting surrogate in Charlotte. Well, it's no contest for me. Bobs all the way!"

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the pros & cons on MARS ATTACKS is my favorite thing this week (other than CAROL which i just say and which is sublime)

September 28, 2015 | Registered CommenterNATHANIEL R

ACKACKACKACKLOLOLOLOL

The martians from Mars Attacks win for their Frankenstein-ian experiments ALONE.

September 28, 2015 | Unregistered Commenterdenny

The best Martians are in Geoge's Pal 1950's classic adaptation of "War of the Worlds"

September 28, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJaragon

Ew, was I really that grammatically incorrect?

Oh well... ACKACKACKACKACKACKACKACK

September 29, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterSTinG
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