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

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

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

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

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

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

Get Photoshoppin'

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

Godfuckingdamn I LOVE this movie

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

oh man, that's beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A perfect sartorial moment?

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

Hurrah!

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

I like the band! Y'all are crazy!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I dunno Kate, Deloreans are pretty cool.

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

He's got a little Elvis Costello in him.

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

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

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

dude, ZZ TOP.

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

xpost - yeah but CRISPIN GLOVER!

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

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

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

Peter Weller rules. Michael J. Fox less so.

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

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD IS IN BOTH FILMS.

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

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