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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)

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