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"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" is 40 years old.
Still wondering what that watermelon is doing there....
Aug 13, 2024 4:12 PM
jarable
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"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" is 40 years old.
Still wondering what that watermelon is doing there....
icanc4
"Where are we going?" "PLANET TEN!!"
"When?" "REAL SOON!!"
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Saw tht in the theater, loved it
RadiDaddy
I’m overdue for a rewatch. Great movie.
spattr
What a sausage fest
WhichEndDoITypeIntoAgain
Absolutely one of my fave sci-fi movies of all time. Always upvote Buckaroo Banzai!
HeNeverSawMollyAgain
tangent
That's one of those lines that could just sound corny and crap, but his delivery is perfect
BuddhasBodyguard
Always upvote Buckaroo Banzai. ALWAYS.
HeNeverSawMollyAgain
astromoondoggie
tinydog
yruchasnmecuzuruninyurunincuzuchasnme
DocZero
Hotdoghotdoghotdiggitydog
Just saw this for the first time a couple weeks ago and I think it is the most insane, unpredictable movie of all time. Not that that's bad.
c3l3x
Fun fact: The music wasn't ready when they shot this scene (which was shot well after principal photography was complete), so they did the walk to "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel.
ActionJohnnie
Uptown girl is 129 beats per minute and 4 beats per bar. Very easy to overlay video to that song.
spiderjohn36
My phone's ringtone is the movie theme.
kitterskills
Please send!
CoarseAndSalty
Today I learned that the actor that played Perfect Tommy didn't go on to be a major actor. I had mistaken other actors for him for like 30 years.
2015Camry
He’ll always be perfect to me.
TheCarolingian
My interesting fact about Buckaroo Banzai - James Saito played Buckaroo's father in the film, but his scenes were deleted. James Saito later went on to play the original Shredder in 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Fanner50
And Jamie Lee Curtis played Buckaroo's mother in a flashback, but this scene was deleted
spiderjohn36
Laugh while you can, monkey boy!
tenbeershimself
It’s not my goddam plant.
Understand. Monkey boy
TheDaharMaster
“Where are we going??”
“The 8th dimension!”
“When?!?”
“REAL SOON!!!”
RadiDaddy
jarable
That's a very young Jonathan ( Breaking Bad's Mike Ehrmantraut ) Banks as the attendant
BuddhasBodyguard
I think that was "IT'S NOT MY PLANET, MONKEY BOY!" and it's one of the best lines I've ever heard in a movie. (Yes, it's writer's envy.)
spiderjohn36
spiderjohn36
Have you ever read the novelization? It's a good read.
BuddhasBodyguard
Wait, seriously, there was a novelization?!? ON TO AMAZON, FINE STEED ...
RadiDaddy
c3l3x
We need more weird movies like this, and not just esoteric art house or ultra processed corporate blockbusters.
kitterskills
Yes!
RadiDaddy
According the DVD extras, the watermelon was being tested for its resistance to impact as part of a plan to airdrop impact-resistant watermelons in areas suffering famine and starvation.
TechnoWeasel
Did the DVD also mention WHAT theat contraption was? My ex worked at the company that made those.... to test the thrust of the Space Shuttle's rockets -- (the quote from my ex Where the HE11 tit they get that? ). Or more inportantly, where in LA were they sooting that?
TheHuntedSnark
A likely story.
Burke616
Watermelons are big and heavy, airdropping a bunch of them would be like a low-level carpet-bombing (no explosions, but I sure wouldn't want my stuff to be under one!).
RadiDaddy
They were intended to be dropped from low altitudes and in open areas to minimize the “bomb” effect, but then the problem becomes that of trying to open a fruit that can withstand being dropped from an airplane.
Burke616
It's an engineering problem more easily solved by a pallet of crates with some parachutes on it.
RadiDaddy
Awww, but that’s not near as much fun as impact-resistant watermelons!
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Honestly you want them to break on impact to absorb the energy.
bearded3d
Is that Goldblum?
RadiDaddy
Yep
Funwithbears
That's a 10/10 deep dive.
The72ndRaven
I love this movie. It makes little to no sense and it's perfect.
vintagebroad
my favorite all time quote
memesis
A song whose music video recreates the end credits walk - She’s a Tease - Fiebre de Jack
https://youtu.be/TXwgCzH6a00
Tiredofbuttons
One of my favorite movies of all time. My wife is not a fan, but just laughs when I watch.
icanc4
"It's not my goddamn planet! Understand, monkey boy?"
labyrinthconvention
better check your oscillation overthruster
Qmanchu62
Great movie. I wish they would re-release it.
Ffann
I love how this movie feels like it was made 15 minutes before everyone in the cast got famous.
trippingthelightfantastic
ExTechOp
There are so many not-yet-famous-at-the-time actors in it. I'm still waiting for the sequel with Hanoi Xan.
Rapt0rman
And the homage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2x4gtyNPk
SpaceCoyote300
This was the song at my wedding.
BarnegatLight
Fun fact: they're actually marching to Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" right here.
RARusk
Yep, the composer said that he didn't have the end credits piece ready yet but said to use that song for the filming since it had the same tempo.
WhoUhz
30-minute version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IkB73FO2vc
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
And we've never gotten the soundtrack album. There's a pretty good cover though.
spitfires2000
Later he shot some guy in his dick!
Toqom
You see the extended scene?
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Burke616
What was some guy doing in his dick?
spitfires2000
Maybe he thought it was the exhaust tube? I dunno...
SpaceCoyote300
funken77
Can be watched with a prime membership.
alcaray
Also without a prime membership.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
I tried, but Jeff Bezos appeared and put his hands over my eyes.
iggylights
I understand this movie less any time I watch it. It's like a brain drain. I want so much to like it for it's anti culture significance but it's the epitome of schlock.
Funwithbears
Wait. Hold on. Is someone crying?
icanc4
SkamanSam
I think the key is to be someone who genuinely appreciates the weird just for being weird. Don't think of it as a coherent movie, but a series of bizarre events and scenes that just happen to kind of tell a story.
mbghost
That’s how I always felt. You just need to accept the oddness and to me it nonsensically makes perfect sense.
fateeverywhere
I explain it to people like this:
Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension is another universe's Avengers Endgame. We got the final part of the ensemble piece. We didn't get any of the lead-up, no individual films for the various characters, no origin story. We didn't get the comics they were based on.
The film just dropped into our world, one piece of a foreign media empire.
iggylights
I will watch with a new set of eyes
Grapeape2000
They give us the punch line - the setup can be derived from first principles.
RefurbishedArcReactor
Oh, like a DC movie.
Unclescam
I've never seen this and that sounds cool as fuck....
redsmerf
It also reads like an 8 year old went "I wan to be a ____, _____, ____ and a ____ when I grow up!"
Dxoh
That's something I miss about 70s and 80s films. They didn't feel the need for constant exposition, origin stories, or even just really making sense. You came away from watching them filled with this sense of mystery and wonder.
heartlessninja6
I’m glad it exists but I can’t get past 20-30min mark. Keep trying to find something in it for me. I try every few years.
BrockEffingSamson
I managed to sit through it. It was tedious. I think people were so hungry for sci-fi back then that they were willing to settle for mediocre products like this, or Krull.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
camp, not schlock.
iggylights
+1 for the correction
RyanH42
sleepinggreenidea
Everything's comin' up Milhouse!
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digitalaaronscustoms
There are six different characters in this film named "John".
ChickenChickenBurningBright
every Lectroid is named John. https://www.figmentfly.com/bb/badguys3.html
digitalaaronscustoms
My statement is still technically correct. :P
ChickenChickenBurningBright