Synopsis
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.
1984 Directed by W.D. Richter
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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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God bless whatever Fox exec fell asleep on the job and accidentally pressed the greenlight button* for this movie clearly without having read the script
*that’s how Hollywood works. People press a button and then a movie gets made. Everyone knows that.
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…
We need more movies that introduce outlandish original characters with no origin story or anything, just "check out this cool dude who's a rock star and brain surgeon and uh oh here come some aliens!" We also need more movies where the ending credits are just all of the main characters strutting around to some really sick music.
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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!
Don’t you hate it when you’re handling the oscillator overthruster and you inadvertently summon Lectroids from planet ten by way of the eight dimension?
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…
I've been ionized, but I'm okay now.
-Buckaroo Banzai
The 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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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?"
Me being me, I thought I’d indulge myself in some cult classic sci-fi for my birthday today. I think I made the right choice for the occasion! Woah don’t I feel outta sync being 22 now!
The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension is an extraordinarily dazed oddity, blasting the audience off up its escalator to nowhere with an alien madness that’s infectiously funny and energising. A pulpy adventure serial given the 80s B movie kick by director W.D. Richter, and even though it falls short in a number of ways, this is my jam! The lower budget restrictions do class this as a cooler than cool premise unable to fire its full potential at will, yet somehow…