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As Kate said elsewhere:

OHMIGOD, I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT JEFF GOLDBLUM WAS IN BUCKAROO BANZAI!!! What a freaking great film. He always plays
bizarre sexy-nerd scientist types, doesn't he? No wonder I find him bizarrely attractive. It's not the actor, it's the role.

-- Possibly Kate Again (masonicboo...), June 9th, 2004. (later)

...which led me to realize that the film itself really deserves its own thread.

"WHERE ARE WE GOING?"
"PLANET TEN!"
"WHEN WILL WE GET THERE?"
"REAL SOON!"

http://www.btinternet.com/~jd.gosling/wotw/graphics/banzai3.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!

I so nearly bought this movie for £6 in a film geek shop the other week, but the queue was too long, so I said the heck with it. Now I wish I had persevered!

It actually made me apply to med school when I was a teenager. Because I seriously wanted to be a Rock'N'Roll Neurosurgeon! OK, I only got as far as the rock'n'roll bit, but still.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

one of my co-workers has a YoYoDyne patch on his jacket.

I love this movie.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched this movie religiously on TV in the early eighties, it was one of those "It's on HBO, I'm there, seeya everyone" experiences. Getting the DVD the day of release was a treasure and a half.

"Why is there a watermelon there?"
"...tell ya later."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Bigboo-tay!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not seen it in far too long. I might just have to go back and buy it, maybe tomorrow.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonaroo and Buckaroo threads next to each other right now - END TIMES

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i watched it a lot when i was a kid, because my mother had taped it (on our BETAMAX). it really confused me but i assumed that it was a case of things going right over my 6-7 year old head. i watched it again in college and was just as confused. then i read that at least half an hour of the finished movie had been chopped almost by chance, without regard to the storyline, and i felt a lot better about my inability to comprehend.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

SINED

SEELED

DELIVERED

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

And who knew that Joust was really the Buckaroo Banzai arcade game?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Fun Fact: according to IMDB, they were working on a script for the Buckaroo sequel, which eventually got reworked into another modern classic, _Big Trouble in Little China_

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

at the end of the movie there is a title that says something like "stay tuned for the next BUCKAROO BANZAI adventure - BUCKAROO BANZAI and the LEAGUE OF JUSTICE" or something.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Pinky Carruthers,
Blue Blazer Regular,
reporting for duty

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(not that I'm posting here anymore)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(Rah Begs. :-))

The next promised movie was "Buckaroo Banzai Versus The World Crime League"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

that's it, thanks Ned.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Bought it. Didn't like it. Didn't get it. MY APOLOGIES. Now I'm even more broke than before. Who wants to buy my copy?

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it on DVD? I'll buy it!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

VERY much on DVD, with commentary and extra features and an Easter Egg about the watermelon (sorta) and...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, my foolish brain! You already knew that and were asking Francis.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I was talking to Francis. If it's DVD and you're UK or will accept UK cash, I will buy yours off you!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, Kate. I knew you'd ask, but I'm all the way down in the Caribbean. It would probably cost more to ship it than to buy it. I got it for 10 smackeroos and am willing to let it go for 5, but hey...

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ach, oh well, it was worth a try.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

But if anybody in the US wants it, hey!, HOLLA AT ME.

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

dude you know I want it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Any films with Thomas Pynchon references in them are fine in my book.

And someone simply must talk about the end credits sequence.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Doo doo doo doot, doo doo de-doo de-doo...

Famous San Fernando demi-landmark, that place, it's some sorta flood control thing I think. Elvis T. would know more. I was an extra in a BP commercial filmed there in 1989 and felt like I had been on a pilgrimage (the graffiti was long gone).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

dude you know I want it.
-- hstencil (hstenci...), June 9th, 2004.

Haha! But... are you willing?

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the flesh is willing, but the wallet is weak.

seriously though, $5 plus shipping, I can swing that.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"BP commercial filmed there in 1989"

May I inquire as to what BP stands for?

the flesh is willing, but the wallet is weak.
seriously though, $5 plus shipping, I can swing that.
-- hstencil (hstenci...)

Cool beans, hstencil. Send me an e-mail. But gimme a while, so I can list other DVDs on here which I'm trying to get rid of and that perhaps I could interest the other posters in.

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

May I inquire as to what BP stands for?

British Petroleum. You know, the GOOD oil company. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

BEYOND petroleum, Ned.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my forgetful mind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

well it sure wasn't BEYOND shit in 1989, so don't fret.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it *really* "Beyond Petroleum"? Really? You're making that up! It's British Petroleum. Or is that one of those things that happened while I was away, like we can't call the Post Office Tower the Post Office Tower, we have to call it the BT Tower.

(And has BT been changed to Beyond Telecoms now, because that's right about appropriate for them.)

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

BEYOND PETROLEUM is their crap (yet somehow effective with the yokels) marketing campaign.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, officially, the only thing it says about their name (that I can find) on their official website is this:

Anglo-Iranian - which was renamed The British Petroleum Company in 1954

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It may be a "rebranding" rather than an actual corporate namechange. Oh, how the British love to rebrand.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

yes it is a rebrand.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

BACK TO FILM PLEASE.

http://www.hammerposters.com/pics/ger10061.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh the hottness. I can barely stand it.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Because you're perfect."

"...you got a point there."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

(Actually at this point I'm waiting for Elvis T. to notice this thread, then two hundred posts in two hours.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm beginning to sense a real common thread between all the BB enthusiasts...

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm beginning to sense a real common thread between all the BB enthusiasts...

SPACEMEN 3! Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, it's for, like, people who like Rock with their astrophysics and astrophysics with their Rock.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

And a fair amount of Michael Moorcock.

"And you are? JOHN SMALLBERRIES!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

history is made at night!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Comments
From Richard Lane:
Buckaroo Banzai was the SF franchise that never happened. Created by writer Earl Mac Rauch and directed by W.D. Richter, it was based around a genius neuro-surgeon /rock star/ cultural hero Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller), and his band, the Hong Kong Cavaliers. There was also a network of over 6,000 civilian supporters/aides de-camp called the Blue Blaze Irregulars, ready to rise to the occasion. Intended as a multi-media series across films, novels, comic books, etc., the box office failure of the first film nixed those plans.
Earl Mac Rauch used Pynchon's corporation Yoyodyne as the name for the company run by the evil alien race of Red Lectroids. Another tip of the hat appears to be the naming of John Lithgow's character, the alien Lord John Whorfin, and its loose proximity to Pynchon's seventeenth century playwright Richard Wharfinger in The Crying of Lot 49. As Lord Whorfin is rather fond of himself, his workers are subjected to countless bizarre homilies, quasi-Marxist exhortations, and egocentric PSAs over the Yoyodyne public address system, including this quote from Pynchon's V., itself an old movie title: "History is made at night!"

In an unusual twist, Pynchon returns the favor, and 1990's Vineland appears to reference the movie -- the band "Eddie Enrico and his Hong Kong Hotshots" pops up in the novel. (Also note the alliteration of the singer's name.) Further proof may be gleaned by the mention of Ramon Raquello on the same page -- the name of the fake orchestra leader that is "interrupted" during the fabled Orson Welles 1939 production of "War of the Worlds." In Buckaroo Banzai, Yoyodyne is based at Grover's Mill, the actual site in New Jersey where Welles had his Martian invaders land.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord, fan art:

http://www.angelfire.com/hi3/Highlander2000/CBArtBB.html

"A GROWING EXCITED COMPANY." Goddamn I love this film.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I met Clancy Brown once!

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I *need* to see this film as an adult even more. I knew I loved it as a teen. Now I might actually get all the jokes. Crikey.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember at the time thinking the band's music wasn't so bad, now it's all 'oh, early eighties bar band generic hash' -- BUT! Weller's minitrumpet solo is some kinda genius. As is the moment when Penny Priddy misfires her gun and the entire band is revealed to be packing heat.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the band isn't bad! I'd rather listen to them than John Cafferty or Huey Lewis or some other crap.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think their advantage was that for the 'rockin' number it was an instrumental.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

it's kind of cool, that instrumental. I like the ascending horn lines.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ellen Barkin here
attained maximum hottness
(as did Carl Lumbly)

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Begs severely and completely OTM re: Ms. Barkin. I suspect this is where my regard for short-haired blondes comes from.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ernestcline.com/screenwriting/bbawcl/bbawcl-poster.jpg

http://www.ernestcline.com/screenwriting/bbawcl/sfw.htm

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the kooky theme song a great deal. Now THAT is all kinds of greatness. I can hum it in my sleep even.

― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how at one point Goldblum is playing the song on the piano at the lab.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I still have my Team Banzai headband (they were giving them out at the Atlanta Fantasy Fair).

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd think I'd be Pinky Carruthers, but I guess not.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Get Photoshoppin'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Godfuckingdamn I LOVE this movie

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Famous San Fernando demi-landmark, that place, it's some sorta flood control thing I think. Elvis T. would know more.

It's the Sepulveda Dam and Flood Control Basin near the northwest corner of the 405/101 interchange

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yoyodyne itself is the old Uniroyal Tire Factory off of the 5 freeway. The factory building was still intact when the movie was made, but has since been demolished. The Assyrian facade and walls are still intact though and it's now an outlet mall.

http://www.laavenue.com/aroundtown1/citadel.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, that's beautiful.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyone is aware of http://www.banzai-institute.com/, right? RIGHT?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Many years ago, I took a college class in recent US history (Matt M. was in the class too) and when we got to the Nixon years and Watergate we saw the names John Dean, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell, and John Sirica and in a perfect sartorial moment we shouted "OMG Buckaroo Banzai!"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.videopremiereawards.com/ReviewPics/adventuresofbuckaroobonzai.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.javelinamx.com/carstars/banzai1.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Godfuckingdamn I LOVE this movie

Ah, see, I was right!

One of the retrospectively beautiful things about this film is that at no point during my early/mid eighties obsession with it did I realize that it was not in fact filmed anywhere near New Jersey despite being mostly set there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And now I'm fucking kicking myself that I didn't recognize Yoyodyne! I've passed it god knows how many times!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

yah i was obsessed with this movie as a kid and the dvd extras were all wonderful.... i was always dissapointed in Buck's band though they sucked!

― chaki_burger (chaki), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

A perfect sartorial moment?

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just gone back and bought it on DVD. (Got it in a twofer deal with Spinal Tap, heh heh.) I shall watch it for the first time as an adult, and report back on this thread as to how it stands up.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahhhh, what a great film. Now I really really really wish I had the bonus disc.

(Though it's right, too bad about his band. It would have been so much better had they actually sounded like scientists... though what would scientists sound like? Kraftwerk? neubauten?)

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the band! Y'all are crazy!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i always liked how they gave the kid an AK47...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"GET OFFA THAT CAR OR I'LL DRINK YOUR BLOOD!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I really really really wish I had the bonus disc.

Hm, bonus disc? My edition is a one disc with a slew of extras, but has there been a further version?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone out there who saw this movie for the first time as an adult? 'Cause I just saw it a few weeks ago for the first time, and...well...it has its charms and some cute ideas, but it's somewhat of a mess. I can't help but think that I'd like it a lot more if I had seen it as a youngster first. Now I must go and sit by the window and stare outside wistfully, remembering my youthful innocence, now lost.

How does ILX regard Ice Pirates? That was another movie that people seemed to dig when they were kids, but I only saw it as an adult...and it was really wretched (and don't get me wrong, I love good trash). I bet Anjelica Huston shivers to this day at the thought of it.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I probably didn't see it until in my 20's. I haven't seen it since the first time. I enjoyed it, but I remember almost nothing about it except John Lithgow. I definately wouldn't mind seeing it again, though.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Ice Pirates and Spacehunter, classic growing-up HBO fare.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

BB >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> donkey balls > Ice Pirates

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Time Bandits is a rulin' early-HBO flick tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The band are RUBBISH!!! They're worse than the band in Light of Day (and they're only redeemed by having Joan Jett in them)!

I was under the impression the US disc had a second disc, or at least bonuses. There are no bonuses on my disc except the theatrical trailer. ugh. I want to know WHAT IS UP WITH THE WATERMELON!!!

it's funny, I think had I seen it for the first time as an adult, I would have find the 80s cheese factor intolerable, but I can remember being a teenager and thinking the 80s idea of cool was cool, if you know what I mean.

It's more the whole IDEA of the film that's so great. This gang of rock'n'roll scientists who go around saving the universe. They live in a big mansion, but instead of having the usual rock cliches, guitar shaped swimming pool and all that, they have, like a science lab and a mathematics wing and all that.

Plus, some of the greatest scenery chewers from 80s sci fi funnies. Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow and Jeff Goldblum, all out-mad scientisting each other.

Plus, a WAAAAYYY cooler interdimensional car than Back To The Future.

(I so nearly bought Time bandits in the twofer deal, but decided to go with Spinal tap instead.)

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno Kate, Deloreans are pretty cool.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Deloreans are not cool. Deloreans are especially not cool when they have Michael J Fox driving them. MICHAEL J FOX HAS NO ELVIS IN HIM!!!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

He's got a little Elvis Costello in him.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

DELOREANS ARE TOTALLY COOL BECAUSE OF GULLWING DOORS AND JOHN DELOREAN GETTING BUSTED FOR COKE.

I like all three of the Back to the Future movies.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

EVEN PART III!?!?!?!?!

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, ZZ TOP.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Buckaroo Banzai could kick Marty McFly's tiny little lillywhite ass to the Eighth Dimension and back. No competition.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Time Bandits is a rulin' early-HBO flick tho.

Unquestionably, saw it twice in theaters, and was my introduction to both Gilliam and Monty Python and through them the whole idea of 'British comedy' in a modern film/TV sense.

Kate: nope, no second disc, just one disc with, as noted, a hell of a lot of extras.

Back to the Future I never cared for.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost - yeah but CRISPIN GLOVER!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

CRISPIN GLOVER WAS NOT THE STAR OF THE FILM, WAS HE?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, he's had top billing in so many films. Let's see, there's Twister and that one about rats...

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

also, was Jeff Goldblum the star of Buckaroo Banzai? (Kate don't answer that)

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Weller rules. Michael J. Fox less so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS IN BOTH FILMS.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I am not gonna pick sides between "John Bigboo-tay!!!!" vs. "1.21 Gigawatts!!!!" they are both awesome.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Christopher Lloyd + John Lithgow = scenery munching goodness. Christopher Lloyd + Michael J Fox = DRAGGED DOWN BY THE HEAVY SUCKAGE.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Lloyd in BB = perfect ensemble casting; Lloyd in BTTF = you imagine him and Glover smoking out between takes and wondering if they're the only two sane people on the set.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you mean "only two INSANE people on the set"?

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned I have never seen this side of you before, and I'm not sure I like it.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord, man, define what this 'side' of me is supposed to be!

Don't you mean "only two INSANE people on the set"?

WONKO THE SANE TO THREAD.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Insane is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, if you are trying to make a movie with MAD SCIENTISTS in it, I would say that it is URGENT AND HIGHLY KEY.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The side where you don't like Back to the Future.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I also crush puppies and eat dead babies on a regular basis.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

don't get me wrong, NA, the third one is the weakest one of the series, but I still like it for some reason. Prolly the ZZ TOP cameo.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, a few months back, I was going to start a thread about the changing role of science and especially scientists in 80s comedies (BTTF, BB, Ghostbusters, Weird Science things like that, where mad scientists are seen as generally benevolent or even actively good) as opposed to their predecessors in 50s and 60s films where the classic mad scientist is evil, a descendent of Dr. Frankenstein.

But I didn't think there would be the interest...

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Are there many mad scientists these days? Does Jackman's Van Helsing count?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Helsing (or rather his assistant) is getting there. I'm trying to think of recent movie scientists, but I don't see many current films. I'm more thinking about 80s mad scientists vs. 50s/60s mad scientists. Like Buckaroo Banzai vs. Quatermaster or however you spell it.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I called in to a radio show on NPR about "the concept of destiny in movies" a couple of months ago to ask about the Back to the Future movies (and time-travel movies in general). I was on the radio.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

how could anyone not like "you...are...my...density!"?!?!?!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

destiny vs. density

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

duh Ned that's like the entire gist of the scene.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I was referring more to NA vs. your posts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah but that's the whole joke in the movie in that Marty tells George to tell Lorraine that she is his destiny but he fucks up and says density hahahaha OMG ROFFLE nerds are funny!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Crispin de Bergerac

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

See, that's why BTTF is just crap. There's that whole stupid romantic comedy subplot to it, while BB has GOOD VERSUS BAD ALIENS!!! FIGHTING TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE!!! And the romance is just totally bizarre and thrown in an afterthought and unexplained.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

totally wrong, Kate! The romance between Buckaroo and his dead wife's sister is INTEGRAL to the plot! And it's not a subplot in Back to the Future, either: if Marty fucks up in 1955, his parents don't meet and fall in love and thusly he doesn't exist! How is that SUB-anything?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The romance between Buckaroo and his dead wife's sister is a footnote to the plot! They could have left it out and the movie would have still been just the same.

BTTF is a romantic comedy dressed up as a science fiction film and therefore dud dud DUD DUD DUD!!!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't like romance?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Romance sucks big hairy moosecock. Oh, and romantic movies suck, too.

Tell me how the romance of Buckaroo and Penny was integral to the plot. How?

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, not integral, but definitely good comic relief.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Pointless. OK, she satisfies the hot babe quotient, but really. There's no point for her to even be there, except to flag up the weirdness surrounding Buckaroo's past. Which is actually a pretty good reason for her to be there. But anyway, I'm not arguing this. I'm arguing that BB is a better film because it's NOT a stupid dumb horrible sucktastic romance.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

her getting kidnapped is a pretty decent plot device to drag out the ending, tho.

Kate, I weep that you don't like romance.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread needs to include My Science Project...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Kate, I weep that you don't like romance.

I'm with Kate in that I don't like crap romance; however there have been far crappier romances than BTTF's.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean I'm not a huge fan of romance, but a good one is a good one. Do you people not like Katherine "My Head's a-Wobblin'" Hepburn flix?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Crappy romances stuck in to provide babe action in otherwise decent sci fi flicks suck big hairy moosecock. If I wanted to watch a romance, I would have rented one, except I didn't cause I'm not a dumb chick flick chick. Why can't they just stick in stong, good, female characters in, for the sake of having good female characters. Like Ivanova in Babylon 5. If you're going to have romance in a sci fi film, have it be integral to the plot. Like, erm, the captain and the alien babe in Babylon 5.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, so not thinking much of BTTF and its romance plot means I hate Hepburn? I don't think so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Barkin's character isn't nearly as cookie-cutter sci-fi babe-ish as most bad sci-fi stuff. Big juggs + engineering = happy sci-fi nerds.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

no Ned, I'm just saying that a good romance is just as good as anything else. The crap that is probably 80% of the genre ain't any different from the crap that is 80% of sci-fi.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

They showed the auction of Hepburn's things on the news this morning. All these fans were going "This is an outrage, how can you exploit her like this?" like dumbasses until the auction house pointed out that she SPECIFIED IN HER WILL SHE WANTED HER BELONGINGS SOLD WHEN SHE DIED. But anyway... Hepburn is the sort of strong, interesting character who is in films because she belonged in the film and was integral to the plot. She was never shoehorned in to provide babe action.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

no way, this was supposed to be an action-safari flick:

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post... hey, I'm saying that Barkin is less offensive than most romance subplots. that's what makes BB better than BTTF. but the fact that you say she's better than most sci fi babes indicates that you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about and complaining about.

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of which, I have, like 600 channels of digital TV in the other room. I should stop mucking about on the internet and go see if I can find some bad sci fi!

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just saying that a good romance is just as good as anything else

Define 'good.' Which is incredibly obvious but is also the entire point -- everyone will differ.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

c'mon that sorta nitpicking is sub-Raggettian at best.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay radical subjectivism!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

; )

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Buckaroo Banzai 3: Into The Fountainhead

― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Thursday, 10 June 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

"It looks like one of our thermopods...but it's a VERY bad design..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

who besides me read the book?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I am told that The Life Aquatic contains several extended homages to Buckaroo Banzai.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I read the book! Long before I saw the movie. I should dig it out and read it again probably.

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

there's some homage going on there, that's for sure

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

FR-HOMAGE!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Lord. (However, the idea that Mr. Anderson is paying homage to Buckaroo makes me think more of him.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

where ever you go, there you are

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ending credits sequence, among other things

― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 8 January 2005 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

sweet jesus i hate this film. despite the rasta guy having my name.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 8 January 2005 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have . . . anything . . .since I don't have . . . yooooooooooooooooooo

― J (Jay), Saturday, 8 January 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

sweet jesus i hate this film. despite the rasta guy having my name

He wasn't named Mookieproof, I tell you!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 January 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

six months pass...

I am told that The Life Aquatic contains several extended homages to Buckaroo Banzai.

I picked up a bit on that, and I haven't even seen TLA.

My self and some friends watched this today. I'd seen it before, two of them hadn't, and had had a glass or so of wine beforehand. They said that watching the film made them feel like they were way drunker than they were, which was fair enough.

The fourth gentleman kept spotting things that have become quotes as they appeared, and at one point mentioned that it was so full of these lines that he was almost finishing them before the cast. At this point he was reminded that he'd seen it 10 years ago.

John Lithgow RULES in this film. Jeff Goldblum is also pretty great (particularly when he's taken a whiff of the alien-revealing gas, and is freaking out at the rasta).

My friends identified one of the aliens (the one who wasn't Dan Hedaya or Christopher Lloyd) as "Ted from scrubs" (on the left here)

http://www.nba.com/media/warriors/loyd_van_fitz.jpg

but of course he's Vincent Schiavelli, legendary character actor.

http://triviana.com/film/afilm/buckb3.gif

So far so mistaken, but it turns out that Ted is actually played by Sam Lloyd, Christoper Lloyd's nephew. Explain that, science!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Saturday, 16 July 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I am currently watching this for the first time. I'm probably about 20 minutes from the end, and unless something's about to change drastically, it is FUCKING AWFUL and YOU ARE ALL NUTS.

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Jim, I weep for you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Jim, I support you 100%

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

YOU DIE

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

such a stain on jeff goldblum's otherwise impeccable resumé

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

you're insane, i even side with ned on this one.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

it's like i don't even know you anymore!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Ned, Stence and I in agreeing on something that isn't dronerock shockah!

― Smug and Pious (kate), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

The evils of disliking BB will be addressed in due course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

BB's primary influence is Doc Savage of course.
Freelance crime fighter / scientist / neurosurgeon / concert violinist,
with a band of similar weirdos, living in a big science-lab / crime fighting
headquarters....

― shieldforyoureyes, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

such a stain on jeff goldblum's otherwise impeccable resumé

-- mookieproof (mookieproo...), September 13th, 2005.

indeed, for its mere existence smites such triumphs as "Holy Man" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park".

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

wow - I never caught any of that Pynchon stuff before. I are dum.

this film is awesomazing.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

"There they are."
"There who are?"
"Don't you see them?"
"See who?"
"There! Evil PURE AND SIMPLE by way of the Eighth Dimension!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

No matter how many times I see it, it gets better and better.

― Fire and Worms (kate), Sunday, 4 February 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's perfectly set for a time like today too. We need more humorous paranoia.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

I'M A DIPLOMAT! I FAILED FLIGHT SCHOOL!!!!

Just watched this again last night. Pure class.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 7 August 2008 09:12 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

Listening to the soundtrack today, because I can.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:05 (sixteen years ago)

what the watermelon for

― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 June 2009 16:06 (sixteen years ago)

Tell ya later.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:07 (sixteen years ago)

May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.

― Carroll Shelby Downard (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 19 June 2009 19:21 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.eggcityradio.com/?p=315

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJ3iGBdOo

― Milton Parker, Friday, 19 June 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

anyone alive when this came out, can you explain the brouhaha re: this movie? There was some sort of pre-backlash against it for attempting to be a deliberate cult movie or something, so it's got like Barry Bonds asterisks when you see its entry in cult movie books?

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 19 June 2009 19:40 (sixteen years ago)

I was a little kid when this came out and totally loved it. My brother sent away for the Blue Blaze Irregulars package and everything (I don't think he has it anymore)

― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 June 2009 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

I was too young to be aware of any marketing nuances of "backlash" though.

― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 June 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

If you're in/near Dallas and not going to see this on Saturday night you're nuts.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:44 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

Work.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2013 06:44 (thirteen years ago)

Fun post about BB in pop culture -- some of these I knew but not all

http://www.thegeektwins.com/2013/01/10-ways-buckaroo-banzai-has-infiltrated.html

Also the Institute is on FB

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Banzai-Institute/119214478147645

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:07 (thirteen years ago)

Don't know why I didn't post a year ago to say I went to that screening. Lithgow had a family emergency and couldn't make it, but Weller was an absolute peach. He went to school in Denton, and with Robocop filmed in Dallas his roots here are strong. Told lots of personal stories about the filming of Buckaroo and the friendships that came out of it, and asked anyone who understood what it was about to please explain it to him. Very dry and funny man.

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:12 (thirteen years ago)

Hahah nice. Can't wait to see him in the new Star Trek movie, that's inspired casting. Always was bummed he never became as big a star as he deserved to be.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:14 (thirteen years ago)

Anyway, this all prompted by bringing over my DVD to a friend's last night -- she'd be talking forever about how her son finally needed to see this (very much a geek family, hers), but she didn't have a copy of the film around. Her son took to the film pretty quickly -- I found it interesting how he did so; when I saw it at about his age, a little younger (14 or so), I remember thinking it was cool but it took a couple more viewings on my part for it to fully sink in. But he's been primed by everything from new-Who to video games to everything else to roll with humor, weird details and explaining-as-you-go rather than everything-on-a-plate just like that. I do think new-Who was key for sure, though!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:17 (thirteen years ago)

Ned, I don't know what new-Who is - Dr. Who, Townshend, Daltrey et al, something else? Will this deficit cause problems when I rescreen?

― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:20 (thirteen years ago)

This was the first movie I ever saw on VHS; my mom rented it and a VCR for my 12th birthday. I was in love with it in the first 5 minutes. Cool clothes, rad car, aliens and rock and roll. I can't ask for much more.

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:25 (thirteen years ago)

xpost -- haha. New Dr. Who, yes.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:27 (thirteen years ago)

I wish I had these as a kid:

http://mlkshk.com/r/LIM1

― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:43 (thirteen years ago)

I feel so break up, I want to go home!

― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:22 (thirteen years ago)

Forgot this song was in it: Songs where it's fun to say HOOS in place of the actual lyrics

― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:33 (thirteen years ago)

Wellers commentary track on Naked Lunch made me love him for all time. So exciting to hear that he's in the new movie !

― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 19 January 2013 22:54 (thirteen years ago)

No one on this borad commented that the music supervisor and sound designer was Bones Howe?KPLOK

― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:27 (thirteen years ago)

Don't know what KPLOK is. The spirit of Don Martin momentarily seized control of my keyboard.

― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 January 2013 23:28 (thirteen years ago)

wait, "flying smurf"?

― epistantophus, Sunday, 20 January 2013 01:33 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

Hey, Blu-ray en route, no word on extra features yet

https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/action-adventure/the-adventures-of-buckaroo-banzai-across-the-8th-dimension-collector-s-edition

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 May 2016 17:31 (ten years ago)

But on the HORRIBLE DOWNSIDE

http://io9.gizmodo.com/kevin-smith-is-making-an-adventures-of-buckaroo-banzai-1776882034

Smith also says he’d want to cast himself in the John Bigbooté role.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 May 2016 18:46 (ten years ago)

omg no

― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 May 2016 18:51 (ten years ago)

I'm already fearing the ads.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:13 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

should i watch this now y/n

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:51 (nine years ago)

you're an adult make your own decision jfc

― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:03 (nine years ago)

deciding to take that as a no

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:11 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

I am reluctantly passing on a 35mm screening tonight

shd I do $3 on Amazon? haven't seen since its first run

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:23 (seven years ago)

Yeah go for it. (Distance dates many things about it even more than ever, but yet.)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:45 (seven years ago)

"You had bitterwatchoutforme, John Bigboote!" That's from memory, 35 years.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 01:01 (seven years ago)

Distance dates many things about it even more than ever

these would be washed away by the fun of a 35mm screening with an appreciative audience imo

― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 02:10 (seven years ago)

This is not news, but just to clear up the Kevin Smith thing from a few years ago:

https://deadline.com/2016/11/kevin-smith-buckaroo-banzai-tv-series-no-longer-involved-mgm-1201860756/

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:29 (seven years ago)

https://doddlenews.com/buckaroo-banzai-director-speaks-about-film-and-lawsuit/

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:34 (seven years ago)

With all due respect to W D Richter, the most important thing he did in Hollywood was the script for Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. (Slither is pretty good, too.)

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:57 (seven years ago)

five years pass...

so is syndrome in the incredibles a deliberate ringer for john lithgow's emilio lizardo? is this something everyone but me already spotted and knows?

in my defence i only just watched this movie for the first time ever just now

👍🏽

― mark s, Saturday, 1 February 2025 23:39 (one year ago)

Better late than never! And that's an interesting comparison...

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 February 2025 23:46 (one year ago)

https://i.imgur.com/sT4XGyz.png

https://i.imgur.com/AoeaxUD.jpeg

― mark s, Saturday, 1 February 2025 23:59 (one year ago)

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