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Beings from Another Dimension have invaded your world.
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 Directed by W.D. Richter
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Peter Weller John Lithgow Ellen Barkin Jeff Goldblum Christopher Lloyd Lewis Smith Rosalind Cash Robert Ito Pepe Serna Ronald Lacey Matt Clark Clancy Brown William Traylor Carl Lumbly Vincent Schiavelli Dan Hedaya Mariclare Costello Bill Henderson Damon Hines Billy Vera Laura Harrington Michael Santoro Jonathan Banks Robert Gray Gary Bisig Kent Perkins John Ashton Ken Magee James Keane Show All…
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Las aventuras de Buckaroo Banzai a traves de la octava dimension, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, Buckaroo Banzai, Buckaroo Banzai - Die achte Dimension, As Aventuras de Buckaroo Banzai, Приключения Бакару Банзая в восьмом измерении
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Here's the quintessential PG cool movie. Peter Weller is a brain surgeon / scientist / race car driver / rockstar / piano playing / bandana wearing badass. Only the 80's could bring us a movie like this. Yet, to me, it feels about 30 years ahead of its time.
I think every single person involved in this movie smoked some serious drugs. Jeff Goldblum dresses like Howdy Doody. John Lithgow sells crazy. The baddies look like bootleg versions of Admiral Ackbar. Ellen Barkin plays the Princess to Weller's Mario. Vincent Schiavelli looks like an alien already. Lewis Smith as Perfect Tommy is cool as fuck. Clancy Brown as Rawhide is a badass motherfucker and my favorite character. The crazy thing…
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Film #10 of the March Madness 80s Sci-Fi Movie Challenge!
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....................................................................................................................................I don't know if I'm the right gender to appreciate this! Hell I don't even know if I'm the right species!
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After watching, and enjoying, Galaxy Quest the other night, and thinking that it could gain status as a brain dead dudeflick, suddenly I thought of my ultimate dudeflick, Buckaroo Banzai.
I first saw it on Pay TV many years ago when I was in my 20’s, shortly after its failed theatrical release, and immediately fell in love. At first, I didn’t quite know why. I’ve never been a comic book or superhero kind of guy, but this film didn’t really fit into those genres. It was something different and unique. Then it hit me .. this is EXACTLY what I used to fantasise about back when I was in elementary school. In fact, my best buddy and I even drew…
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I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.
-Buckaroo BanzaiThe film was so ahead of it's time that almost 30 years later we still haven't caught up to it. It's absurdest science-fiction that manages to make no sense and complete sense all at once. The characters utter dialogue that baffles the mind, but it's the kind of nonsense that could only be written by someone with actual talent... or a demented mind.
The plot is ridiculously fast paced and doesn't stop for a single moment to give you a breather. Within the first 20 minutes of the film, Buckaroo Banzai performs brain surgery, test pilots an experimental rocket car, discovers an alternate dimension, plays a gig with his band (Buckaroo…
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Wirre Story(?), schräge Charaktere, schrullige SciFi-Kulissen: Buckaroo Banzai gehört für viele ja zum 80s-Kult-Film. Ich habe ehrlich gesagt nicht verstanden was der Film von mir will. Die Gags zünden nicht, die Charaktere sind eindimensional, die Action nicht nennenswert und der Film besitzt kaum zusammenhängende Szenenübergänge. Für Trash zu teuer, für einen guten SciFi-Film zu langweilig, unbeholfen und albern.
Meinen Kultstempel bekommt er nicht, sorry.
Mehr dazu im Schaubefehl-Podcast.
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Messy story(?), weird characters, quirky sci-fi backdrops:Buckaroo Banzai belongs to the 80s cult film for many. I honestly didn't understand what the film wanted from me. The gags don't click, the characters are one-dimensional, the action is not worth mentioning and the film hardly has any coherent scene transitions. Too expensive for trash, too boring, awkward and silly for a good sci-fi movie.
It doesn't get my cult stamp, sorry.
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Jersey represent. My dad loves this movie because New Brunswick nj, which is where he’s from. I love it because I worked in new Brunswick nj at Rutgers and got trashed with rando frat house people who I hated but free booze n drugs so... yeah. Imagine the beach bum but Peter Steele strolling into a frat party with a employment pass lol.
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Peter Weller as the titular hero is the coolest guy in the world by reputation — an astrophysicist, stunt driver, kung fu master, secret ops spy… and on the weekends a rock star and impromptu faith healer with damsel Ellen Barkin. Charisma comes easy for Weller, who is so good in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension that it should maybe have launched him into huge stardom (with “Robocop,” critics carped the suit did the acting, thus, his career was never as interstellar as it should have been). Directed by W.D. Richter, this movie/crapola comes off though as an almost too deliberate cult item that has a wacky start and exuberant finish but a very shaggy middle.…
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"We're not in the eighth dimension! We're over New Jersey!"
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension feels like a movie written by a 15 year old growing up at the end of the Cold War, an adolescent fantasy of a renaissance man who's a neurosurgeon and a rocket scientist and a rock star all at once, who gets caught up in both his own little blue planet's threats of mutually assured destruction and in a much larger intergalactic inter-dimensional crossfire, a rock & roll super genius who saves the world from both alien invaders and the Kremlin, and yes of course it's silly, that's the point, it's the kind of ego-fueled day dream that a young boy would…
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Before I say anything else, let me just get this out of the way: yes, I did watch this solely because of Ready Player One. Judge me all you want but that deliriously fun movie put this obscure sci-fi flick on my radar years ago and it's the major reason why I finally took the plunge and watched it. In a twist of fate, despite my fondness for Spielberg's nerdgasm blockbuster, I've finally found something I don't love about it: the fact that it encouraged me to watch The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai...blah blah.
This myopic mélange of half-baked niche sci-fi nonsense is incomprehensible. Every time you think you have a grasp on what the point of it all is,…
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Possibly the greatest collection of weirdo 1980s actors ever assembled: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barkin, Dan Hedeya, Vincent Schiavelli, Lewis Smith, Clancy Brown and, of course, Yakov Smirnoff.
A space epic founded on Zeno's Paradox: the space between things is infinite, so where ever you go, there you are.
The New Wave counterpart to Repo Man's punk rock.
"Why is there a watermelon there?"
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is one of those rare films that one can only describe as bonkers yet daring, its absurdist wit and messy nature adding to its lovably goofy charm along with the wonderful characters, pitch-perfect comedic delivery, top-notch cast, rock-solid special effects, and uniquely quirky script.
