#The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension

[lonelytuatara]

my dad named the family cat after Buckaroo Banzai and so for fathers day I painted him a little parody of the theatrical poster

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

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Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

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Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 | Dir: W.D. Richter

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Arthouse Muppets

The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension featuring Kermit And Link Hogthrob

Art by Bruce McCorkindale

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Peter Weller - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

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hey is everyone aware there's a 1984 movie called The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension where Jeff Goldblum looks like this

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Jeff Goldblum's cool glasses and cowboy look in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension " 1984.

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Michael Kaluta's illustration from the 1984 movie (turning 40 today) The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Featuring Hanoi Xan (the arch nemesis of Buckaroo Banzai).

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Something I love

about the movie Buckaroo Banzai is that it's set in a world where people are free to wear literally whatever the hell they want.

Another thing I love is the end credits sequence, in which the abovementioned fashion choices are on display. Here it is, without all those names that used to get in the way:

Oh MAN. I could listen to those synths all day.

[lonelya1ien]

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) is one of the coolest movies I’ve ever seen my life and I can’t believe I didn’t know about this when I was a kid.

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DVD pick ups fer the week.

So psyched to rewatch ‘The Blob’.

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movies I recently watched

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller) — yes that’s his name — is a neurosurgeon / rock star / racecar driver who sometimes works for the US President and also does weird science experiments. After he drives his rocket-truck through another dimension a mad scientist (played by John Lithgow as a crackhead with a bad Italian accent) tries to steal his technology thingy to free a bunch of alien war criminals trapped inside a mountain, and the other aliens are going to start a nuclear war with Russia if Buckaroo B. doesn’t stop them in time. Meanwhile he falls in love with a random lady who tries to shoot herself at one of his concerts and might be his dead wife’s identical twin. The film also features Jeff Goldblum as a doctor who dresses like a cowboy and Christopher Lloyd as an alien named “John Bigbooty”. And Clancy Brown, too!

There is way too much going on in this movie but it’s still kind of fun, and the weird cast makes it worthwhile. 6.5/10

Vesper (2022)

Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) is just your average girl who became a self-taught biogenetic engineer in hopes of gaining entrance to one of the Citadels where all the rich people live in comfort and safety from the world they destroyed. Her dad has Bedridden Movie Parent Disease but he controls a floating robot head that follows her around. This is one of those indie films starring a bunch of people you’ve never heard of except That One Guy (in this case Eddie Marsan as Vesper’s creepy uncle who I think wants to marry her? ewww). I enjoyed it except for one weird scene where Eddie Marsan kinda fingers a sci-fi lady’s neck vagina.

The plot is a hurricane of sci-fi tropes we’ve seen before, but the acting and production design are so good it doesn’t matter. 8/10

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) is a Chinese-American laundromat owner who just can't seem to get along with her gay daughter, her annoying husband, her disapproving elderly father, or the IRS. Naturally she’s also the chosen one who has to save the multiverse by brain-hijacking alternate versions of herself who have done way cooler stuff than her. Also James Hong, Sigourney Weaver and the guy who played Short Round are there.

This is a movie where Michelle Yeoh rides a teppanyaki chef down the street like a bicycle, desperately kung fu fights a man to stop him from shoving something up his ass, and has a passionate sapphic relationship with her IRS auditor in a universe where humans have hot dogs for fingers. What else can I say about it? It’s like Rick and Morty but somehow stupider and way more optimistic. Ultimately it’s less about the road not taken and more about connecting with the people in your life, here and now. I liked it. 9/10

Nope (2022)

OJ & his sister Em (Daniel Kaluuya & Keke Palmer) are trying to keep their dad’s movie stunt horse ranch afloat, but thar’s aliens in them thar hills. Along comes Ricky Park (Steven Yeun), a failed child actor / theme park owner who lost his capacity for good decision-making when he witnessed a chimp murder at the age of 9, to make everything worse. With the help of the world’s most dedicated Geek Squad member and a pretentious Hollywood filmmaker who talks like a chainsaw that smokes five packs a day, can the siblings get a video of the aliens and get rich? And, y’know, not die?

This is one of those movies where everything is a spoiler, but that somehow doesn’t reduce its rewatch value. A horror film in the truest sense of the word. It probably won’t jumpscare you, but you’ll be thinking about it for days. 9.5/10

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2023

I re-watched The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension (1984)

This was a movie I regularly watched as a kid. It taught me that some movies are so bad they're good, and that others are so ridiculous they're inexplicably awesome.

A half American half Japanese rockstar neuroscientist surgeon, and his band of amazing dudes, take on aliens and a mad scientist after experiencing the 8th dimension while passing through solid matter. Phew.

From the opening scroll of information about who Buckaroo Banzai is, till the end credits which is just a scene of the band walking to the main theme, Buckaroo Banzai never stops being one of the weirdest and most entertaining movies to come out of the 1980's.

The movie, like it's lead hero, is just a bunch of cool shit smashed together to create some fort of amazing sci Fi comic book story.

The amount of up and coming stars is pretty amazing as well. Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, Clancy Brown, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd, Ellen Barkin, etc... All of them signing on to this strange nonsense movie for whatever reason.

The plot is overcomplicated in the best way. What other movie gives you other dimensions, two kinds of aliens (some of them named after butts), a rock and roll show, a mad scientist, assassination attempts, a romance with a girl named Penny Priddy who happens to be the twin sister of Buckaroo's dead wife, etc...etc...

Obviously, due to is general weirdness and difficult to follow plot, the movie was a financial and critical flop. It's a messy and weird mish mash of stuff happening. But, it just so happens that all that stuff is pretty fucking fun to follow along with.

The jokes and dialogue make sense, I guess. But, everything is so strange feeling that it's like living through a fever dream of sorts. It makes sense, I promise you it does, but it might feel like you missed something along the way.

Buckaroo Banzai is an attempt at world building that takes very little time to ingratiate you to the world it's building. The movie comes from the universe where Buckaroo Banzai is super famous, and this is just one of his many many adventures against a world of wild villains.

This other dimension out there, where this movie spawned endless sequels and merchandise and became one of the great franchises, is part of the fun of the movie. It's even a little bit part of the story and lore of Buckaroo Banzai that everyone, including you, knows who he is. Even if you don't.

There is something so honest and earnest here that it feels like someone asked a kid to make a movie. Yes there are some things you could see as problematic, but the intention was so innocent, you can't explain exactly how it bothers you.

The movie shouldn't work, and in many many many ways it doesn't work. It could be considered terrible on its face and that wouldn't be a wrong assessment. But it's not terrible. In fact, it's fantastic on a level. Whenever you think it's too bad, it just doubles down by throwing more strange and ridiculous shit at you.

The special effects are cheap and rubbery and silly. And I mean very very cheap lol. The costumes stretch from cool 80's suits to full cowboy outfits and silver alien future wear right out of 1950's sci Fi. The bad guys are goofy, yet a tad bit creepy and gross. John Lithgow is absolutely over the top as Dr. lizardo.

Overall, it's just an incredibly cheesy adventure that somehow got made, despite the fact that no one involved seems to have known what was happening while making it.

Plus, Ellen Barkin is at prime hotness. That's just a personal plus for me.