In celebration of Buckaroo Banzai -- HONG KONG CAVALIERS UNITE

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

He wasn't named Mookieproof, I tell you!

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!

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

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

this film is awesomazing.

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

Just watched this again last night. Pure class.

Listening to the soundtrack today, because I can.

what the watermelon for

Tell ya later.

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.

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

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

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?

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)

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

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

Work.

Work.

Work.

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

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.

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.

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

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.