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 years ago) link
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 years ago) link
I love this movie.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago) link
"Why is there a watermelon there?""...tell ya later."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:51 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:06 (twenty years ago) link
SEELED
DELIVERED
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:41 (twenty years ago) link
The next promised movie was "Buckaroo Banzai Versus The World Crime League"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
And someone simply must talk about the end credits sequence.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
Haha! But... are you willing?
― Fr4ncis W4tlingt0n (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
seriously though, $5 plus shipping, I can swing that.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
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 years ago) link
British Petroleum. You know, the GOOD oil company. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
(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 years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
Anglo-Iranian - which was renamed The British Petroleum Company in 1954
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.hammerposters.com/pics/ger10061.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
"...you got a point there."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
SPACEMEN 3! Oh wait.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Possibly Kate Again (kate), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link
"And you are? JOHN SMALLBERRIES!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Smug and Pious (kate), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― shieldforyoureyes, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
-- 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 (nineteen years ago) link
this film is awesomazing.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fire and Worms (kate), Sunday, 4 February 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
I'M A DIPLOMAT! I FAILED FLIGHT SCHOOL!!!!
Just watched this again last night. Pure class.
― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 7 August 2008 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Listening to the soundtrack today, because I can.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
what the watermelon for
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 June 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Tell ya later.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.eggcityradio.com/?p=315
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MqJ3iGBdOo
― Milton Parker, Friday, 19 June 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
Work.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2013 06:44 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
xpost -- haha. New Dr. Who, yes.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
I wish I had these as a kid:
http://mlkshk.com/r/LIM1
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 19 January 2013 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
I feel so break up, I want to go home!
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 January 2013 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
wait, "flying smurf"?
― epistantophus, Sunday, 20 January 2013 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
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 (eight years ago) link
omg no
― Οὖτις, Monday, 16 May 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
I'm already fearing the ads.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 May 2016 19:13 (eight years ago) link
should i watch this now y/n
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
you're an adult make your own decision jfc
― kurt schwitterz, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:03 (seven years ago) link
deciding to take that as a no
― spud called maris (darraghmac), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
Yeah go for it. (Distance dates many things about it even more than ever, but yet.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
"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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
https://doddlenews.com/buckaroo-banzai-director-speaks-about-film-and-lawsuit/
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
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 (five years ago) link
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 week ago) link
Better late than never! And that's an interesting comparison...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 February 2025 23:46 (one week ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sT4XGyz.png
https://i.imgur.com/AoeaxUD.jpeg
― mark s, Saturday, 1 February 2025 23:59 (one week ago) link