THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI: The Best Movie You Never Saw

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  • THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION is one of the movies that gave birth to the term "cult film". A huge theatrical flop upon its initial release in 1984, VHS gave this film a second life in the eighties and it quickly became something of an underground pop culture sensation. The story of a neuroscientist-test pilot-rock star-superhero named Buckaroo Banzai (a pre-Robocop Peter Weller), who frequently saves the world and belts out hard rocking tunes with his buddies the "Hong Kong Cavaliers" (including Jeff Goldblum and Clancy Brown), the movie defies easy classification. If definitely features the weirdest John Lithgow performance you've ever seen - that's for sure! So what exactly is BUCKAROO BANZAI? We get into it on this edition of The Best Movie You Never Saw!
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  • @ragecage462
    @ragecage462 Před 2 lety +128

    This was my dad's favorite movie ever. He was a dork and I now too love this movie. Rest in peace, Pops.

    • @ZestonN
      @ZestonN Před 2 lety +3

      Me and My Mom loved this movie!❤

    • @daddystabz
      @daddystabz Před 2 lety +2

      RIP

    • @David-iv6je
      @David-iv6je Před 5 měsíci

      I'd be friends with your dad. I saw this when it came out and it remains one of the all-time favorites

  • @danielrowan4716
    @danielrowan4716 Před 2 lety +114

    I saw this movie in the theatre when it was released. I cannot describe my disappointment that the sequel never came to fruition.

    • @TomTermini
      @TomTermini Před 2 lety +6

      Also saw in the theatre, when it debuted!
      Big Trouble ILC was the “sorta” sequel.

    • @danielrowan4716
      @danielrowan4716 Před 2 lety +8

      Tom, I recall hearing on some channel somewhere on here that Bonzai was in the same universe as all of the Carpenter films (The Thing, BTiLC, and Prince of Darkness) but can’t remember where. Big Trouble is possibly my favorite movie of all time. If nothing else they are thematically the same.

    • @biguy617
      @biguy617 Před 2 lety +4

      Starring Robocop Peter Weller

    • @dunkelfels
      @dunkelfels Před 2 lety +4

      I tried to buy the comic after the film. I was offered bonsai breeding magazines. I got the comic at some point.
      bonus: dune trailer ran before.

  • @ended7688
    @ended7688 Před 2 lety +20

    This came out when I was 6, and my dad took me. This movie has stuck with me ever since. The look of sheer adoration on another nerds face years later, when I was asked if I had seen BB? I replied, "oh you mean, The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension"? And we've been friends ever since.

  • @robertdochter277
    @robertdochter277 Před 2 lety +50

    "Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life."

    • @MementoMorituri
      @MementoMorituri Před 2 lety +6

      "Hello Doc. Who are we today, Albert Einstein?"
      "Lord John Whorfin. If there's one thing I hate is to be mistake for somebody else."

    • @spacedinosaur8733
      @spacedinosaur8733 Před 2 lety +4

      "History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark." ~ Lord John Whorfin

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 Před 2 lety +1

      *don't really see that one very often on greeting cards do ya?*

  • @MementoMorituri
    @MementoMorituri Před 2 lety +38

    "I don't care if you went through a mountain in Texas. This is New Jersey, and when you play my joint you're just another act."
    Edit: You know you're an 80's kid when you have your favorite movies memorized.

  • @MisterCreative
    @MisterCreative Před 2 lety +17

    BB was my late uncle Michael's best movie from a creativity standpoint. Goonies, Lethal Weapon, The Color Purple, Ironman 1, and Django were all great for their own reasons but BB is where his creativity as a production designer really shines. There are moments in all his films where his humor informs the style of the picture wether it is the gadgets in goonies, the tooth on the wagon on the spring in Django or the robots in Tony's garage in Ironman, but the ships and the look and feel of BB are his best work imho. Great video and thanks for mentioning him, even Tarantino "forgot" to mention my uncle being killed on his set of Django at the Oscars.

  • @rottensquid
    @rottensquid Před 2 lety +4

    It takes an incredibly deft hand to make a movie this funny without including any jokes. But the magic of this film is partly that to this day, it's not clear how serious or how funny it was intended to be. That, I think, is the secret to it's success. It's a perpetual mystery.
    As a case in point, Weller's casting seems to me to work not because he's so cool, but because he's so incredibly understated. He approaches his roles with this extreme detachment, never chewing scenery or trying to add drama. He trusts in the script. So his rocket-scientist brain-surgeon samurai rockstar presents himself without a drop of ego or grandiosity, but in the driest, most understated way imaginable. That's why his performance is so funny and magnetic. He's the most over-the-top character in the most over-the-top B-movie imaginable, and he's playing it all like a guy getting on with his job. Like he has no idea he's literally the coolest person in the world, and if he did, that fact would be of no interest to him. And that just makes him cooler.

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies Před 2 lety +5

    I have seen this movie more than a dozen times, thank you.

  • @seanbrazell6147
    @seanbrazell6147 Před 2 lety +6

    There simply is not enough Peter Weller in the world. That he is also an active, teaching professor of Roman History is just NEAT.

  • @diogogomes3238
    @diogogomes3238 Před 2 lety +45

    This movie is a pure masterpiece. I love everything about it. You cant be more 80s and awesome than BUCAKROOO BANZAIIII

  • @Colorcrayons
    @Colorcrayons Před 2 lety +62

    I dare you to take a walk after watching the end credits of this movie, and not have that wistling beat form the tempo of your steps. Bonzai fans know what im talking about.

    • @BabbleOn777
      @BabbleOn777 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Can't be done, especially when you have the soundtrack in your bright yellow Walkman...
      The waterproof one.
      Lol, good comment.

    • @JamesJones-zt2yx
      @JamesJones-zt2yx Před 6 měsíci +1

      And fans will also remember that at one point New Jersey is playing that glorious closing theme on the piano at the Institute. (I *do not* understand why there wasn't a soundtrack CD released.)

    • @Domozorro
      @Domozorro Před 2 měsíci

      I always walk and whistle like that

  • @briansands9957
    @briansands9957 Před 2 lety +15

    "Give her your jacket Tommy."
    "Why do I have to give her my jacket?"
    " 'Cause you're perfect."
    Perfect. I loved this flick.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Před 2 lety +33

    This movie use to be on HBO all the time back in the day.

  • @thomas6502
    @thomas6502 Před rokem +3

    The power of the world crime league is apparent even forty years later and this film is both a gem and a time machine. Can't wait to watch it again, in fact...

  • @davethetaswegian
    @davethetaswegian Před 2 lety +5

    Nerdy, yet amazingly cool characters. One of my favourite movies.

  • @Judymoe
    @Judymoe Před 8 měsíci +3

    In 1988, my husband and I played the end theme of BB at our reception. Our families were confused, but our nerdy friends? They got it, and they all danced to it. We also played the wedding march from the movie Flash Gordon which really confused the older folks.

  • @jasonscottjenkins
    @jasonscottjenkins Před 2 lety +6

    I saw this on HBO so many times in the mid 80's. Still waiting for the sequel.

    • @michaelmartin8337
      @michaelmartin8337 Před 2 lety +3

      With how they make films nowadays -don't hold your breath.
      AND STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS - YOU SAW WHAT THEY DID TO GHOSTBUSTERS

  • @the_bunse
    @the_bunse Před 2 lety +10

    Unique and crazy, I saw this on rental and bought the Laserdisc, cost me a fortune to buy this on dvd later in the UK. Innovative 80's movie, once you see it you will never forget.

    • @thepayne7862
      @thepayne7862 Před 2 lety +1

      It's one of those movies when I recommend it to people and they ask me what it is about I just tell them."No description I give it will do it justice, you just have to watch it."

  • @jessecastillo3841
    @jessecastillo3841 Před 2 lety +2

    This was one of my favorite movies to watch. When I was going up. Great movie.

  • @imustbecrazy5626
    @imustbecrazy5626 Před 2 lety +79

    I made my wife watch this about a month ago.
    The look on her face the entire time was funnier than the movie ever was.

    • @imustbecrazy5626
      @imustbecrazy5626 Před 2 lety +1

      @Shoenheim 😆

    • @alucard624
      @alucard624 Před 2 lety +9

      My parents likely had the same look, especially my mom. She still thinks it's one of the stupidest movies ever made but always cracks up at "No matter where you go, there you are."

    • @NevilleRollerDrome
      @NevilleRollerDrome Před 2 lety +3

      My wife fell asleep three times when she tried to watch it with me. She now refuses to entertain even sitting down to watch it.

    • @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
      @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 Před 2 lety +3

      i let my wife watch it..she said 'what the F was that?"
      BUT
      she recognized every scene in NJ, so i got a pass

    • @MyMarsham
      @MyMarsham Před 2 lety +2

      As it should be.

  • @baconhussy8794
    @baconhussy8794 Před 2 lety +58

    Love this movie! My Dad still chirps "not my planet, monkey boy" when shit goes wrong. I also ordered things at a local Brand Names under the name John Smallberries approx. 30 years ago because of this movie. Outstanding move IMO.

    • @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679
      @carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 Před 2 lety +3

      you an i can be friends."
      I have said what your dad saidin corporate meetings.
      Always makes them pause

    • @spacedinosaur8733
      @spacedinosaur8733 Před 2 lety +5

      I have a friend that gives out business cards for Yoyodyne Enterprises.

    • @brorjordas1979
      @brorjordas1979 Před rokem +3

      🤣🤣👍🏻
      Lloyd was so damn phenomenal with his not my planet line.

    • @WillowGlen-hh7vp
      @WillowGlen-hh7vp Před rokem

      Ive always gone with "Shut up, Big-booty, you coward. You are the weakest individual I ever know."

  • @jerrypeacock2234
    @jerrypeacock2234 Před 2 lety +24

    ''Why is there a watermelon in there?'' I still want to know.

    • @jasonblalock4429
      @jasonblalock4429 Před 2 lety +5

      The writer answered that years back, but it's not particularly exciting. The Banzai lab was doing horticulture research, breeding fruits and vegetables to be stronger for easier transportation. So they were stress-testing a watermelon they'd grown.
      The real-world answer is kind of funny, though. Midway through filming, the studio simply stopped sending the filmmakers any notes or feedback whatsoever, and the crew started to suspect the studio wasn't even paying attention to them any more. So they inserted the ridiculous watermelon bit, knowing that if anyone above them was actually watching the dailies, they'd get a note about it. No note came, so they took that to mean they could do anything they wanted since no one at the studio apparently cared.

    • @MementoMorituri
      @MementoMorituri Před 2 lety +5

      "I'll tell you later."

    • @mrgreatbigmoose
      @mrgreatbigmoose Před 2 lety +1

      Make a watermelon rind so strong it can be airdropped. Now make a knife so strong it can cut open a watermelon rind so strong it can be airdropped...I'll tell you later.
      Oh. And Rawhide is still alive.

    • @jerrypeacock2234
      @jerrypeacock2234 Před 2 lety

      It was really a rhetorical question, Joshua got it.

    • @jamesbarnes3832
      @jamesbarnes3832 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Isn't that obvious?
      The follow up line is "I'll tell you later."
      It is kind of the point of the whole movie.
      "Don't question what is going on, just go with it."

  • @AldentheBlue
    @AldentheBlue Před 2 lety +5

    One of my favorite movies that my parents introduced me to. I can watch it almost at any time and it's a definite "feel good" movie.

  • @vorpal120
    @vorpal120 Před 2 lety +79

    Luv this one! The part that always gets me is, “The President wants to know what’s going on with the aliens….or should he just blow up the Russians? …..Which one is yes? Blow up Russia or number two?

    • @Murrlin27
      @Murrlin27 Před 2 lety +2

      HEY I was just thinking about that line!!

    • @shinankoku2
      @shinankoku2 Před 2 lety

      This line was featured in a trailer that I saw when I went to another movie. At the time I was twelve and had NO IDEA what I was looking at … me and my friend decided it must’ve been an apocalypse movie based on this line … never did see it in the theater until about five years ago.

  • @clayratliff7727
    @clayratliff7727 Před 8 měsíci +1

    I loved this show from the first time I saw it. I was working at a movie theater as a projectionsit when it was released. Back when the reels had to be spliced together, part of the job was to watch the entire movie to make sure that it was put together properly. After that first viewing, I couldn't tell you how many times I watched it before I packed it up and sent it on its way.

  • @geo386
    @geo386 Před 2 lety +11

    I have watched this hundreds of times. It is one of my all time favorite movies. I have a poster, t-shirts, a coffee mug, identification badges, pins and five copies of the movie on DVD. This is the best movie I watch and obsess about. It is perhaps the best movie I ever SAW. I can sometimes be heard quoting lines from the movie. I now have two screen accurate Oscillation Overthrusters for my Buckaroo Banzai collection.
    I have no less than 5 copies of the movie on DVD, two tshirts, a movie poster, a fridge magnet, several cosplay identification badges, quite a few pins, a copy of the Marvel comic book adaptation and the topper is a YoYodyne Propulsion Systems coffee mug. To this day the movie remains my favorite of all time. I might attend a Comic-con soon and get a pic with Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller). Buckaroo Banzai was my first real action hero even before they were called that. Peter Weller in an interview once said Buckaroo isn't a superhero and is made better by the people he surrounds himself with. Those hard rockin' Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroos most trusted inner circle. Turning 60 this year reminds me that next year the movie celebrates its fortieth anniversary. I even have my eye on an Oscillation Overthruster.
    Update: I actually now have a screen accurate Oscillation Overthruster
    I am a bit slow on things sometime, though it gets to my noggin eventually. I was listening to Legendary Labels: Sun Records and just like that the light went on. The Ike Turner song Rocket 88 is the Buckaroo Banzai intro to the short musical piece in the film. Yes, I know it is spelled Rockit 88 in the movie.
    The Oldsmobile 88 and its Rocket 88 V-8 motor are legendary performers. In fact, they were immortalized in the 1951 hit record, "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, who cut the tune that has been called the first rock 'n' roll recording.

    • @Knight3rrant
      @Knight3rrant Před 9 měsíci +1

      I hear the song of my people when you speak.

  • @dll_Rhemuth948
    @dll_Rhemuth948 Před 2 lety +9

    “Big Boo-Tay, Tay, Tay!” Actually watched this film in my high school physics class. Love it to this day!

    • @WarrenSapir
      @WarrenSapir Před 2 lety

      My family shouts this at each other on occasion! 😂

  • @kilotun8316
    @kilotun8316 Před 2 lety +38

    Fun fact, even Battletech, set literally a thousand years in the future, still feels the impact of Buckaroo Banzai and his Hong Kong Cavaliers.

    • @VenlyssPnorr
      @VenlyssPnorr Před 2 lety +5

      I remember reading the 3050 tech readout and cracking up at the description of the Axman.

    • @tmseh
      @tmseh Před 2 lety +2

      Big Booty and the overthruster.

    • @kilotun8316
      @kilotun8316 Před 2 lety +4

      @@tmseh Big Boo-tay

    • @tmseh
      @tmseh Před 2 lety +2

      @@kilotun8316 D-OoooooooH! Thank you. I love this movie, the cast is epic.

    • @mbryson2899
      @mbryson2899 Před 2 lety

      Right down to the watermelon.

  • @SeanobLulz
    @SeanobLulz Před 2 lety +1

    I used to watch this movie all the time as a kid. It was regularly shown on Saturday afternoons on the UHF stations outside of DC in the late 80s/early 90s. My dad and I would watch it together, and it's one I always watch when I can to this day.

  • @RaptureMusicOfficial
    @RaptureMusicOfficial Před 2 lety +1

    This is one of my fav movies! We recorded it onto VHS in 80s over night, and I watched the movie the next day... and I was blown away! Super crazy scifi comedy musical satire stuff! One of the best movies ever made imho.

  • @craiglortie8483
    @craiglortie8483 Před 2 lety +2

    loved this one and Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins that came out the next year!

    • @arthurpendragon3000
      @arthurpendragon3000 Před 2 lety +1

      Loved Remo Williams because I loved the Destroyer books as a teenager. I just wish the movie had a bigger budget to do things right.

  • @davidsande2342
    @davidsande2342 Před 2 lety +3

    A fantastically fun movie,saw it in a theatre and it just blew me away.
    Saw it again a few years later at a double feature with flash Gordon, great fun.

  • @quattrobajeena135
    @quattrobajeena135 Před 2 lety +4

    So weird my customer just recommended this to me the other day. I had never heard of it then this video comes out

  • @xxxjordandangerouslyxxx
    @xxxjordandangerouslyxxx Před 2 lety +1

    I saw this as a kid on cable, and instantly loved it.

  • @ZestonN
    @ZestonN Před 2 lety +5

    Dude, I've watched the hell out of this movie for almost 40 years. 😀
    It's one of my favorite movies! 😀

  • @karenm.2185
    @karenm.2185 Před 2 lety +5

    Still one of my faves! It was a very unique film to say the least.

  • @bleeneo101
    @bleeneo101 Před 2 lety +7

    "Just remember, wherever you go,...there you are." RIP RMD 🙏

    • @gringofett3944
      @gringofett3944 Před 2 lety +1

      Which was later in 1986 rephrased in "Platoon" as "Where ya head goes, ya ass will follow".

    • @chiefscheider
      @chiefscheider Před rokem

      If you're gonna quote an iconic movie line, Bruce...get it right.

  • @TheJtyork420
    @TheJtyork420 Před 2 lety +3

    I watched the movie right after this and was not disappointed. I absolutely loved every min of Buckaroo Banzai and as a DrWho fan I could really feel the similarities between the 2. Thank u sir this was probably the best sci-fi recommendation of my life.

  • @aldoushuxley2107
    @aldoushuxley2107 Před 2 lety +1

    LOVE LOVE Buckaroo Bonzai- was working on my 2nd PhD when The Movie Channel had this gem on constant rotation lol
    My grandkids LOVE this classic 😊

    • @bacht4799
      @bacht4799 Před 2 lety +1

      I don’t know what is most awesome.. that you sir love this movie and would tell it here on this site or your grandkids love it too.. I think it’s both.. have a great day sir and take care 😊

  • @thepayne7862
    @thepayne7862 Před 2 lety +41

    I own the movie both digitally and on bluray I watch it once a year. It's my favorite Peter Weller movie, sorry Robocop you are number 2.
    It's a shame it wasn't more successful the first movie setup a great cinematic universe that they could have done future stories in.

    • @rottensquid
      @rottensquid Před 2 lety +3

      I feel like this film walks such a delicate tightrope, a second one might ruin it. What if they stuck in more jokes, or added more budget to the special effects, or something like that? It just wouldn't be the same. I find stuff like this is so magical because it almost feels like no one could have deliberately thought of it. It feels like a happy accident.

    • @thepayne7862
      @thepayne7862 Před 2 lety

      @@rottensquid I get that and apparently there is going to be a comic book or a book that is titled what the sequel was going to be.
      But yeah a sequel to Buckaroo Banzai might caused the original to lose some of it's charm.

    • @rottensquid
      @rottensquid Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@thepayne7862 I mean, I'm not too worried about that. I tend to take films individually as much as I can. I can enjoy a good sequel to a bad film, or a good film with a bad sequel. I just fear that Buckaroo Banzai's time has past, and though that cover looks pretty gorgeous, I worry it's just going to be a sad echo of a long-gone moment. With something like this, even at the time, the creators themselves seemed not entirely sure how it all came together, how much of it was deliberate and how much of it was accidental. I think with film it can be like that. It's a collaborative medium, and that means the chemistry between the collaborators has to be just right to capture the magic again. I hope the new book is great, but I'd be just as happy to leave Buckaroo Banzai as the one-off little masterpiece it is. I don't think people do that enough.

  • @KonElKent
    @KonElKent Před 2 lety +1

    There is an almost 19 year age difference between me and my oldest brother; so by the time I reached my mid-teens he was reasonably well established in life. Figuring that it was better for me to "rebel" at his house than on the streets, he gave me access to his place. He had a wall full of VHS tapes of various cult classics. That's where I was introduced to Buckaroo Banzai (and Ice Pirates and Battle Beyond the Stars and...) I've been a fan for over 20 years now.

  • @MattsBaseballWorld
    @MattsBaseballWorld Před 2 měsíci

    Film way ahead of its time. Glad friends pulled me along to go see it when it came out, just a classic you never get tired of watching.

  • @torquetheprisoner
    @torquetheprisoner Před 2 lety +5

    that was a blessing in disguise that kev smith didn't do a seaqual

  • @aarjaycee3601
    @aarjaycee3601 Před 2 lety +4

    Love this movie Caught it once by pure chance decades ago (mid/late 80s) on TV and was instantly hooked Nobody I spoke to at the time saw it and very few have heard of it. Doesn't stop it being a slice cinematic cult classic gold. Nor did it stop me seeking out and buying the DVD release, yeah that's how highly I rate Buckaroo Banzai. And now, thanks to this video I learn there's a book coming out as a follow up. New album from Iron Maiden, a Buckaroo Banzai novel coming out, 2021 is finally starting to get good

  • @godzilla2721
    @godzilla2721 Před 2 lety +3

    I have definitely seen this one a lot. A truly wonderful movie that should have had 10 sequels. Best closing credit sequence ever

  • @WaspandUnicorn
    @WaspandUnicorn Před 2 lety +3

    I own this on VHS and DVD! One of my all time favorite movies! John BigBooty?! John Manyjars? Classic!! This was ages ahead of it's time.

  • @robgraham5697
    @robgraham5697 Před 2 lety +1

    Saw this in the theatres. Loved it.
    I was waiting in line with a friend who was a drummer. He had an early drum machine and was practicing riffs on it. I was reading the latest issue of 'Scientific American'. We started discussing one of the articles on quantum physic.
    Guy behind us in the line remarked, "You guys are plants, aren't you?" He thought we were some form of marketing.
    We were just nerds.

  • @TheNecronacht
    @TheNecronacht Před 2 lety +1

    "No matter where you go.., there you are..." I used to say this randomly to friends back in the day after seeing this flick in the theater. My friends would look at me like 🤔. Then 🤯 when they got it. Loved this movie, and still watch it when I catch it on TV now and then.

  • @jliller
    @jliller Před 2 lety +32

    I watched this movie for the first time a few years ago. I was curious about it ever since I learned Star Trek made numerous references to it. Having seen it, I completely understand why it was a box office bomb. It's so quirky and odd that it was born to be a cult classic. It was really ahead of its time. Lots of fun, thanks in no small part to Peter Weller being perfect in the role and John Lithgow chewing scenery with reckless abandon.
    Given all the 80s nostalgia in recent years I'm really surprised this hasn't been remade, especially by Netflix or another streaming service where it could probably be very successful. The most important factor would be casting the right person for the title role and I'm not sure who could do it. I wouldn't mind Nic Cage going full Nic Cage as Lizardo.

    • @donalny
      @donalny Před 2 lety +2

      Kevin Smith said he dropped out of the remake he was set to write and direct because the rights are actually in dispute.

    • @michaelmcfarland1716
      @michaelmcfarland1716 Před 2 lety +6

      Please don't pray for a remake. Everything great they try to remake turns to crud. Let them remake the truly shitty movies that aren't cult classics. Let the writers show they know what their doing by turning bad dialogue and plotting into a good movie, not just rehashing the same plot and watering down for todays low thinkers.

    • @donalny
      @donalny Před 2 lety

      @@michaelmcfarland1716 I hate to tell you, but most cult classics are shitty.

    • @robzilla730
      @robzilla730 Před 2 lety

      John Cusack as Banzai with Cage as Lizardo?

    • @michaelmcfarland1716
      @michaelmcfarland1716 Před 2 lety

      @@donalny but at least they watchable, and entertaining in a so bad their funny way.

  • @durrtyjerzeeable
    @durrtyjerzeeable Před 2 lety +2

    This is a fav of mine...one of the few that when somebody asks about...I just say Watch It and so far never fails off the cast going full crazy is always worth it

  • @michellejones2416
    @michellejones2416 Před 2 lety +1

    I love “ Buckeroo Bonsai” and the “ Hong Kong Cavaliers “. Love it!!! The Lectroids, just love it. John, big Booté, oh yes 🙌🏼. All of the John’s. Thank you so much for sharing 💝

  • @nigel-Rollercam-channel
    @nigel-Rollercam-channel Před 2 lety +1

    I remember my Dad took me to the 1984 V-Con, the Vancouver Science Fiction convention held at UBC. It's a faint memory but I recall Yoyodyne coffee mugs and other weird memorabilia offered for sale from Buckaroo. I have had a fascination with this movie ever since but still cannot remember where I saw it the first time. I have a release on DVD but need to get the Bluray

  • @MIKELIN8
    @MIKELIN8 Před 2 lety +1

    I have loved this movie since I was one of around six people in a theater in center city Philadelphia watching it. When it finally came on cable, I taped it with my VCR. Since that technology has been surpassed, I now have it copied on my DVR.

  • @trekkiexb5
    @trekkiexb5 Před 2 lety +1

    I SAW this...and this is where I fell in love with Jeff Goldblum and Peter Weller. And John Lithgow...WOW!!! Heck, there wasn't any bad acting in here.

  • @TheFilthy13
    @TheFilthy13 Před 2 lety +3

    " Use more honey ", " Laugh now Monkey boy " Classic lines from this movie .

    • @Mandrake55
      @Mandrake55 Před 8 měsíci

      The ones that stick in my mind are; "It's not MY planet, Monkey Boy," and "Was that 'yes' to pastrami, or 'yes' to the end of the world?"

  • @deformemvita
    @deformemvita Před 2 lety +1

    Buckaroo Banzai has been one of my favorite moves since the first time I saw it back in 1990.

  • @drewfrizzlexd2273
    @drewfrizzlexd2273 Před 2 lety +2

    I love this movie so much and it kills me when my friends have no clue what it is.

  • @leovalverde1508
    @leovalverde1508 Před 2 lety +9

    "History is made at night. Character is who you are in the dark." -Lord John Whorfin

    • @mitchellhodgemeyer1950
      @mitchellhodgemeyer1950 Před 2 lety

      The second sentence is a quote attributed to 1930’s evangelist Dwight L. Moody. That movie pulls stuff from the most random sources.

  • @tooruoikawa8985
    @tooruoikawa8985 Před 2 lety +8

    When I was a kid this guy who was comic book guy in real life from The simpsons told me to watch this movie. I was not disappointed. Definitely a great cult classic movie

  • @AkuTenshiiZero
    @AkuTenshiiZero Před 2 lety +1

    Gonna have to give this one a watch someday...So many actors that I love are in this.

  • @henrya3530
    @henrya3530 Před rokem +5

    This is still one of my all-time favourite movies. I saw it when it came out in 1984 and have it on DVD in my collection.
    Definitely a work of genius. Other movie makers have tried (and failed) to replicate elements of Buckaroo Banzai in their own works but nothing really comes close.

  • @djkarmad
    @djkarmad Před 2 lety +7

    New Jersey: “Why is there a watermelon there?”
    Reno: “I’ll tell you later.”

    • @warrmalaski8570
      @warrmalaski8570 Před 2 lety +1

      He was trying to make a watermelon that could be thrown out of a plane without a parachute and not explode. To make an no waste disaster relief food.

    • @mitchellhodgemeyer1950
      @mitchellhodgemeyer1950 Před 2 lety +1

      I’d heard it was because, being both tired of notes from producers and convinced they weren’t actually reading the script being picked apart, Richter and Rauch inserted that scene to test whether or not the aforementioned producers were paying attention. No notes came back, discussing it, so it was kept in as a kind of ‘screw you’ to studio interference.
      I don’t know if that’s true, but it’s what I heard and it amuses me to think it so.

    • @chrisbaker8533
      @chrisbaker8533 Před 2 lety

      This is one of the great unanswered questions of life.

    • @chrisbaker8533
      @chrisbaker8533 Před 2 lety

      @@warrmalaski8570 That's a really stupid idea.
      If it's strong enough to survive an impact, what will it take to be able to crack it open and eat it?

    • @warrmalaski8570
      @warrmalaski8570 Před 2 lety

      @@chrisbaker8533 That's precisely why he hasn't released it to the public yet.

  • @BlackDoveNYC
    @BlackDoveNYC Před 2 lety +4

    I saw this on VHS shortly after it came out. I just remember a few things (1) the movie was nuts (2) I didn’t know what I was watching but I wasn’t ever bored (3) the name John Bigbooté and (4) Rosalind Cash looked beautiful.

  • @laranaarana
    @laranaarana Před 2 lety +1

    I bought this movie on VHS back in the 80s and then on DVD as soon as I saw it at my local Walmart. Weird but wonderful.

  • @shallendor
    @shallendor Před 2 lety +1

    This is one of the best movies of all time! Most people i know. love this movie! This is one of the most talked about movies by nerds! The cast is so wonderful and talented! I've seen it so many times!

  • @NevilleRollerDrome
    @NevilleRollerDrome Před 2 lety +1

    Saw it in the theater! I was hooked immediately.

  • @rafaeltogami
    @rafaeltogami Před 2 lety +8

    What I like about this movie is how light hearted it is… friendships seem genuine and the final walk is really nice, they seem to be enjoying what they were doing.

  • @danwebber9494
    @danwebber9494 Před 2 lety +3

    BB always seems like part 2 of a trilogy that doesn’t exist. It makes references to things you feel like you should know. But in a good way.

  • @SirSmoldham
    @SirSmoldham Před 2 lety +10

    YES! I was waiting for this one. LOVE THIS MOVIE! Hell, I still have a Buckaroo Banzai headband. Still waiting for the rumored sequel that adds Jack Burton from "Big Trouble in Little China."

  • @collectmybrains
    @collectmybrains Před 2 lety +2

    Love this movie. Part of me wants it rebooted properly and part of me says "do not tamper"

  • @hectorheathcote9495
    @hectorheathcote9495 Před 2 lety +1

    Saw this in theaters in 1984. Bought it on VHS then DVD when it came out. Love it just as much now as I did 37 years ago. Kind of a bummer we didn't get to see "Buckaroo Banzai Vs. The World Crime League".

  • @digiacomtech5589
    @digiacomtech5589 Před 2 lety +1

    Saw it and loved it, watch it again every now and then. Classic 80s movie fare! ;)

  • @JozeeWalz
    @JozeeWalz Před 2 lety +1

    Proud to say I saw it on opening weekend and've been a devoted fan ever since.
    The origin info was quite interesting thanks!

  • @zsandmann
    @zsandmann Před 2 lety +2

    That end hero walk is still the best

  • @promnightdumpsterbaby9553

    I love the cast in this film. One of my childhood favorites. Owned it vhs lol peter weller is the friggin man!

  • @kylefukumoto5811
    @kylefukumoto5811 Před 2 lety +2

    Earl Mac Rauch not only wrote the screenplay and sequel novel, but also several comics for Moonstone, Buckaroo Banzai The Prequel (2008), BuckarooBanzai: Big Shot and Buckaroo Banzai: Origins with director W.D. Richter, both in 2009.

  • @NeonPhyzics
    @NeonPhyzics Před 2 lety +1

    I saw this film as kid during a special press screening (my geek culture aunt got tickets) and the audience loved it - critics called it "Monty Python meets Star Wars"

    • @NeonPhyzics
      @NeonPhyzics Před 2 lety +1

      I also had the movies poster on my wall all the way through high school (6 years later)

  • @randomrangoon5476
    @randomrangoon5476 Před 2 lety +1

    Remember my dad showing me this movie and still enjoy it today

  • @glazdarklee1683
    @glazdarklee1683 Před 2 lety +1

    I saw this when it came out. I have never stopped quoting it, if only to myself.

  • @patraic5241
    @patraic5241 Před 2 lety +1

    A wonderfully entertaining flick. One of my favorites.

  • @MattGarZero
    @MattGarZero Před 2 lety +1

    I've seen this one! This is one of my favorite 80's movies!

  • @Mcflurry420
    @Mcflurry420 Před 2 lety +3

    Dude “) your taste in 80’s movies is spectacular

  • @alro2434
    @alro2434 Před 9 měsíci

    One of the BEST movies I ever saw. Thanks.

  • @caldodge
    @caldodge Před 2 lety +1

    I bought the Shout! Blu-Ray. The "making of" video is longer than the movie was. It's awesome.

  • @CourtneyGruenholz
    @CourtneyGruenholz Před 2 lety +1

    Gawd I love Buckaroo Banzai !! I like movies that are a little off kilter with no specific genre and this just takes the cake. Peter Weller is just so cool as a rock and roll scientist and I am just so into Lewis Smith as Perfect Tommy.

  • @BenChanNYC
    @BenChanNYC Před 9 měsíci +2

    (9:55) The musical sequence is important because it does what most musical numbers do in a musical - it's a narrative shortcut, but one that's important to the plot. It introduces Penny in a way that imprints her importance in a short amount of time in a movie that doesn't have time otherwise to establish the romantic interest. It's actually a super-economical way to invest an audience.(then they threw in the twin sister thing too, but it still would have needed a way to get the audience emotionally invested) The film doesn't stop so Peter Weller can sing. That scene introduced the main female character in a place where she's at her lowest and ends with her trying to kill herself. It's an important scene if you're able to focus on someone other than Buckaroo.

  • @jacobwebb2623
    @jacobwebb2623 Před 2 lety

    THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! This is my all-time most favorite movie of all time! EXCELENT review!!!!!!!!

  • @matthewronson5218
    @matthewronson5218 Před 2 lety +1

    I loved, loved, loved The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and recall there was a sequel intended or at least talked about, which went away as sadly as it did in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Along those lines of awesome 'failures' in my viewing included Howard the Duck and Hudson Hawk.

  • @bigneon_glitter
    @bigneon_glitter Před 2 lety +1

    If you were an '80s kid & had cable, you watched _Buckaroo Banzai_ & _Big Trouble In Little China_ at least once or twice week _for years_ - whether you intended to or not. They were always on.
    Favorite bit: during the climax when Buckaroo storms the alien complex, the aliens' automated alarm system is saying "There are monkey-boys in the building!" on repeat.

  • @ralfmaximus4295
    @ralfmaximus4295 Před 2 lety +1

    I saw BB in a theater on opening day and the crowd was... not kind. I remember walking out of it thinking the whole thing was dumb, a waste of time. My roommate at the time agreed and we bitched about how stupid the movie was on the drive home.
    But I couldn't stop thinking about it.
    A week later I paid again to see it in that same theater (crowds almost zero) then bought the VHS when it came out to show anybody who would sit still for 1 hour and 43 minutes. To this day it's one of my favorite films.

  • @jr2904
    @jr2904 Před 2 lety +1

    This movie was a trip. I watched it after seeing the reference to it in ready player one. Need to watch it again

  • @andrewensign5830
    @andrewensign5830 Před 2 lety +1

    Such an incredibly unique and fun film so grateful I got to see it in the theater when I was 16!

  • @ABuffTV
    @ABuffTV Před 2 lety +1

    The end credits sequence alone is worth watching this movie for

  • @kimwelch4652
    @kimwelch4652 Před 9 měsíci +1

    Oh, I saw it. I saw it on opening night with my Buckaroo Banzai headband -- something they were handing out.

  • @makegeorgeorwellfictionaga9268

    I have loved since I was a kid, its intelligent and just strange as hell and thats its charm

  • @LucyLioness100
    @LucyLioness100 Před 2 lety +1

    Truly an underrated movie. I finally watched it a few weeks ago & it’s balls to the wall nuts and fun

  • @leonswan6733
    @leonswan6733 Před 2 lety +1

    Who never saw it well that's too bad. I enjoyed this weird movie as a kid in the middle 80`s. The first thing that got my attention in the beginning of the movie was the Jet Car that went though the stone hill ( some how ). Monster Trucks, Top fuel dragsters and Jet cars was the rave for young boys those ages back then ( I was a Jet Engine Mechanic in the U.S. Air Force ). It was very weirdly entertaining and I never forgot it. I still enjoy watching it at 42 and beyond. A+

  • @spoogemop
    @spoogemop Před 2 lety +1

    "It's not my goddamn planet! Understand, monkey-boy?"
    "What's that watermelon doing there?"
    "It flies like a truck!" "That is good! What is a truck?"
    Flawless, even now.

  • @virginia7191
    @virginia7191 Před 8 měsíci

    I have seen this movie many times! Love it! Love the music too! All of the music!

  • @getsugatenshou4309
    @getsugatenshou4309 Před 2 lety +1

    Yes yes! I love this movie. I have it on several Hds , backed up just in case!!
    I keep the comic adaption in sealed plastic bags.