The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
August. 15,1984 PGAdventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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Very best movie i ever watch
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
I totally forgot about this movie. I grew up on it as a kid. Ready Player One mentioned it so I looked it up and watched it. Great movie, you can see Back To The Future, Earth Girls Are Easy, DR Who, Howard The Duck, a bit of Robcop and Leviathan too in it.
Remember, no matter where you go - there you are. No doubt about it, Banzai Buckaroo is a cool character and some of the members of his team work well for days. The problem is you have these interesting characters in a film that sort of, kind of su&ks. But that is all thanks to the villains of the film whom more than wear out their welcome which means the director is probably the one to blame but let me just confirm that via IMDB really quick. Yup, the director was to blame. I could tell it was the director because the source material seemed good enough and the cast used for the film is freaking phenomenal in terms of star power. Whatever, long story short this is a cult classic because fans of the source material are willing to over look all the film's shortcomings.
Well, I tried watching it again over the weekend. As you get older, some films you tried earlier in your life, and didn't like, begin to make sense. Some, like Sunset Boulevard, get infinitely better. Some, like Time Bandits, get worse. You start to see flaws where you didn't before, or touches of brilliance that had been hidden from your perceptions. For me, Buckaroo Banzai wasn't that great when it came out and still remains so, so it's comforting to know that some films remain consistent across your life. I don't understand what I'm looking at, I don't get the story, or why the characters do what they do, I don't get their motivations. I don't understand what the aliens want or what their plan is. What is that thing circling the earth? Why is Jeff Goldblum dressed like a cowboy? As a fairly astute consumer of films for over forty years, I'm accustomed to a certain degree of lucidity, linear progression, and clear presentation of ideas in my entertainment, and at every turn this film zigs when you expect it to zag. It's indefinable, which is fine as a standalone film that embraces irreverence, but the cost is confusion. I couldn't be alone in my assessment of this train wreck, given hollywood's current lust to remake everything under the sun except for this film. It's not entirely awful, however, with John Lithgow and his outrageous Italian accent, or Christopher Lloyd's ice-cold ownership of every scene he appears in.In another twenty years I'll watch this film again, maybe it will finally make sense to me.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a best thing since anything ever. I had ever loved this so much at a film this truly is one of the combine of science fiction and comedy in a unique way that had never done before like the other science fiction comedy movies that i loved.It fuses two cultures together with several disciples and throws in fascist aliens and mixes in with interdimensional fun for a awesome laugh.Welding the pieces together is a delirious, kinetic script by Earl M. Rauch.The film, although essentially a spoof of science fiction films and comic book superheroes, remains a delightful, inventive enigma of eighties cinema. The look of the picture is quite good, and (considering it's meager budget) highly-digestible. Given that the film never found a mass audience, it is surprising that so many individuals seem to remember it. substantial basics of storytelling and characterization is deemed imperative. I will rate this movie: Take my money out of 10.