In celebration of Buckaroo Banzai -- HONG KONG CAVALIERS UNITE

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.

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

I wish I had these as a kid:

http://mlkshk.com/r/LIM1

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

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

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

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

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

wait, "flying smurf"?

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

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.

omg no

I'm already fearing the ads.

should i watch this now y/n

you're an adult make your own decision jfc

deciding to take that as a no

I am reluctantly passing on a 35mm screening tonight

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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.)

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

👍🏽

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

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

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