atomage:

oldschoolteenflicks:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) dir. by W. D. Richter

The dao of Buckaroo.

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Props

They had so much fun making this movie.

Um; why on Planet 10 is Tumblr flagging this post as “sensitive”? I think Hanoi Xan may have infiltrated Tumblr and hacked the sensitive-content algorithm as part of a plot to defeat Buckaroo.

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They had so much fun making this movie.

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caeric-arclight:

It looks like there’s a rule that if you’re on Tumblr you have to do a GIF thing so here’s my attempt. I don’t think my cranky ol’ computer will be talking to me again for awhile because of this.

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Buckaroo’s celebrity.

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hello-zombie:

true facts

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capt-infinity:

Seeing Jeff Goldblum on the Craig Ferguson show a few days ago reminded me that 2014 is the (holy crap) 30th anniversary of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, aka The Greatest Movie of All Time.

And while I know it’s irrational, since nearly everyone is still available I’m still holding out hope for Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League.  You can’t stop me.

(My most profuse apologies if I have left your favorite cast member out of this montage.  Everyone in the movie deserves recognition, I just got tired of Googling and Photoshopping.)

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neilcicierega:

buncha tweets I just made. please consider, @syfy and @CW_network

I actually think this would be a joy to watch, and I’m serious about the musical/fashion show aspect of it. And the non-continuity, just only make even numbered episodes.

All of these ideas are excellent.

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There are many weird wonderful movies that we’ve all seen by this point in our lives. In 1984, I’m 14 years old, this is the most weird and wonderful thing I’ve ever seen.

It is a movie that defies every possible genre and convention of the genre that it pretends to dance with. This movie is so fucking individual it just sweeps you off your feet. I was just taken away. It is a movie that does not conform to any traditional storytelling that you’re used to from years of watching movies.

It doesn’t give a shit whether you know what’s going on or not. It dumps you right into the middle of an existing universe that things have happened in before, and the movie accepts the fact that hey, our audience might be bright enough to catch up. And when they do they’ll really enjoy it. If not, they’re just going to be stupefied by everything that’s going on. Maybe they’ll catch it second time.

It takes you weird, wonderful places that few films that I’d ever seen at that point in my life, certainly, and even to this day, have ever done. By virtue of that, there is no better definition or label for this movie, if you have to put a label on it, than art film. This is a true piece of art. It doesn’t give a fuck what you bring to the table. It brings itself to the table and says, “Figure it out.”

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– Kevin Smith at the 49th New York Film Festival screening of Buckaroo Banzai

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joeartguy:

Michael Boddecker – Buckaroo Banzai End Credits

Speaking of the 1980s weirdness I miss, here’s one of the slickest end credits sequences ever, from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). I was listening to this on tape 30 years ago, despite the fact that there has never been an official soundtrack to this movie. I am listening to a version on my iPod tonight.

I loved how cheap interesting summer movies were cranked out in the 80s. To use my target year, 1984: people have pretty much forgotten that (in today’s dollars) films like Top Secret!, The Terminator, and The Karate Kid cost less than $20m to make. Beverly Hills Cop and Buckaroo Banzai were middle-of-the-road films, budgeted at just under $35m. Big budget special-effects films like The NeverEnding Story and Ghostbusters came in under $70m.

Yes, those are all in today’s dollars — Ghostbusters cost $30m to make in 1983 bucks, Terminator $6.4m. As a result, a lot more films were made, and more experimental stuff was tried and released. If you could make a film for $4.2m (a whopping $9m in today’s dollars), then what the hell, go ahead and make Red Dawn or Night of the Comet. As much as I love today’s Marvel films, you could use part of the catering budget of one of them to make Repo Man.

I can’t help but think there’s just too much money being dumped into films today, turning potential moderate successes into borderline-to-guaranteed losers. The original RoboCop (1987) cost $13m ($28m) to make and brought in $55m ($117m). The remake this year cost $130m — more than four times as much, and more than the original made in its theatrical run. I’m kind of amazed that the new one still turned a profit. R.I.P.D., with the same budget, didn’t, and that film is actually fun to watch.

There was no soundtrack to Buckaroo Banzai because the whole property was in some kind of crazy legal morass — in part, according to the moviemakers, because of the involvement of producer/embezzler David Begelman. Hollywood, right?

Ask me how much I love the Buckaroo Banzai end credits.

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