I loved the movie. With that said, the problem of the movie is they wanted it to be the apex of a franchise that never existed. Instead of having a multi media franchise that the movie could reference they hoped that the movie would spawn the backing material to fill in the gaps. Instead they relied too heavy on a non existent backstory that made the movie a mess.
Growing up in the 80’s this movie was played at every sleepover i went to … when it would come in , I would just read the comics that everyone brought to party instead .
The movie at our sleepovers was Strange Brew. It was my bud's favorite movie. We played it so much his mom started saying "eh" like she was a native of Thunder Bay instead of from Muskogee, OK.
This should be remade because better direction and effects and some script improvement could make something out of the characters. It is also important to remember this came out the competition of low-to-mid budget sci-fi were The Dead Zone, Krull, Death Race 2000, Zardoz, etc.
The only ad I saw for this movie was two posters at the indie art-house movie theater that I only saw because that theater had free movies on Wednesday mornings during Summer break. I didn't get to see it until two years later when it aired on USA or TBS. Mostly, what I remember this movie for, is that it was one of those "so bad it's fun to watch the train wreck" movies and that the creators of Battletech loved the movie so much they ported team Banzai into the Battletech universe (sort of/kind of, but not exactly - rights issues and all that).
I rented this on VHS as a kid I had no idea what it was. I had no idea what was going on but it was weird and it stuck with me so I rewatched it several times over the next few years and liked it more each time I watched it. I love this movie. I can't think of anything wrong with it. I highly recommend.
I love this nutty, unabashedly weird movie. I watched it on loop as a kid but didn't get it. I saw it years later and some of my memories were accurate but others were wildly off. I really enjoy the JoJo style male fashion too. I so wish there was a whole series of these movies
Intro, the nightclub band scene, and end are great. Everything in between those is so dry, which even if it is on purpose, is not "fun". But I love the visual style of it, like a live action Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (probably the closest we'll ever get to that). If you want another weird divisive movie check out Zardoz (1974). John Boorman, director of The Deliverance, asked for no-questions-asked financing of a project after Deliverance did so well. He made a post-apocalypse far future sci-fi movie with Sean Connery wearing a mankini, gogo boots, and massive ponytail --- it's about a barbarian warlord that accidentally discovers a utopian city of immortals comprised of the elites, scientists, and their offspring still alive after the war that destroyed the world.
It's kinda like when some people come off as 'Nerd by Committee' where everything they call their fave nerd choice of every category is essentially the Approved Choice.
This was 88. I saw the 20th anniversary presentation of this in a double feature with Robocop in 2008 in Silver Springs AMC. "Laugh while you can monkeboy!"
Apparently the novelization is amazing. Look it up. This movie partly inspired The life aquatic with Steve Zissou. That movie ends with direct homage to the Buckaroo Banzai ending.
I remember a while back I was talking music with a friend, and he listened to an album I said that I liked, and reported back that it sucked. "I said I liked it, I didn't say it was good." I like Buckaroo Banzai, I didn't say it was good. There's some art that you're really not allowed to dislike. You can't dislike Handel's Messiah. You can't dislike the Godfather. You're not allowed to dislike Hamlet. Buckaroo Banzai is decidedly NOT in that category, even for frickin' nerds. I'm into model trains. Have been since I was a kid. I never evangelize for getting into trains or even talk about it a lot. You're either born with the brain wiring to like trains or you're not. Most people aren't. Buckaroo Banzai is like that. You either have the wiring to appreciate it or you don't, and you really can't argue a person in or out of it.
When I was growing up there was a comics shop that closed down and they donated a longboxes to the local YMCA. The highlight was Shooter era Valiant comics, but I also remember the Buckaroo Banzai comic and it was awesome. I saw the movie later because of the book and I wasn't impressed.
John Lithgow gets possessed by evil aliens in both, I think. Buckaroo Banzai is definitely better, though. The thing that ruins Howard the Duck is the Duck puppet.
I walked out of this film. I was willing to tough it out but my buddy couldn’t take it. I think around the 30th minute and I remember being bored. Never felt the need to revisit it.
I completely agree with your analysis. This is a total mess of a movie, especially as a story. I still struggle with who the bad guys are when I watch it. All that said I still watch this movie from time to time. For some reason, it's like that weird ugly dog you can't help but love. Part of it is the casting, they are a very watchable crew of actors and seem to be having fun.
I think it was '83 or '84. But I first saw it that summer because it was constantly being replayed on cable tv. I saw it in bits and pieces but I remember it was weird as fuck. The end credits WERE awesome.
Now that I heard your take, I'm wondering if appreciation for this movie was dependent on the age you were when you saw it. You were 10, and immediately thought it looked stupid. Anyone over 25 back in that time probably thought it was shit. I think I was in the sweet spot of being 16 or 17, and I loved it, as did my friends. We watched it more than once for sure, and again on VHS, and always liked it. We didn't take it seriously at all - we just thought it was a weird, quirky, almost satirical. I haven't seen for probably 35 years and I'm guessing I'd agree more with your take now than not, but I'm not in that sweet spot.
Never seen this one. The name BUCKAROO BANZAI is a very memorable phrase that sounds cool and exciting, and that it's attached to some very skillful actors is the only reason its remembered.
"Big Boo-TAY! TAY, TAY, TAY!" At the age I saw the movie, it was novel (and amusing) to me that a minor villain was so petty that mispronouncing his name over several years would eventually make him snap. Even henchmen need a little respect.
May I offer you two optional ways to interpret the movie? If it was an 80s anime, would a single thing be out of place? Also, you can imagine it's anime as made by a westerner but live action. Either way, it's still very fun to me
My gf likes it. I don’t remember if we tried to watch it and I fell asleep, or if I just remember scrolling through streaming options and her saying she liked it. Either way, all I know is Peter Weller is in it
When I was a teenager I was super into comics and sci fi movies. But when I heard the title I knew it was just peak 80s nerd porn. They were slapping together a bunch of random things that geeks liked without understanding why they liked them. No body at the comic shop could work up any interest so we didn't go see it. I forced myself to watch it on cable one day and I am pretty sure I had the same expression on my face that my dad had when I did something disappointing but not disappointing enough to bother commenting on. It could have been "something" with a better director and a tighter script and a real editor. But it still wouldn't have been forgettable.
I liked John Lithgow in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011); but he was pretty heavily dialed back in both of those films. I do think 3rd Rock From the Sun was the perfect outlet for his brand of comedy, though. I remember the media push for Buckaroo Banzai, when I was 11 years old, and I thought it looked stupid. I then watched it on VHS a few years later (I vaguely remember a second big media push for the film after Robocop hit it big) and I wasn't impressed in the slightest. Nothing about this movie was appealing or memorable to me.
It's a typical cult movie. A patchy endeavour with fun moments, that throws away some cool ideas that stir the imagination, and evoke a phantom movie in your head which is ten times better and the thing its fans actually seem to be praising. It's interesting that the guy who wrote this also wrote 'Big Trouble in Little China' an equally wacky film that 95% works. It's all in the reflexes- sorry, I meant execution.
I’m not Buckaroo Banzai, but I’m busting out as I say the kind of rhymes that make MCs wish that I’d die… LL COOL J. That’s my only connection with this 😊.
Something about using real company names and the aliens using, “John” as a greeting for their names, too was cute. Lithgow and Lloyd’s performances were hysterically frenetic, so, I’ll disagree with you on this one, Zack. It was a blast to see this movie at the different cultures movie theaters when I was much younger. It is one of those B-Rated movies that was fun. Again, if you enjoy B, and worse movies out there. It was a fun and silly movie, the comic was not the greatest.
I love the movie but realize why many have issues with it. I read the sequel book and sweet Jesus is it bad. The cherry on top is it ends on a cliffhanger. Rausch doesn't have the decency to give us a self contained story. And he brings John Worfin back. Just a terrible, self indulgent novel, overly long.
growing up it was one of those movies where people couldn't fahtom how you didn't like it or were just meh with it, I fall into the it's okay not my favorite I prefer beast master and the worms in the bersekrers ears or when the patagia people turn people into jell-o
BB is one of those 80's movies that are so bad that they are actually amusing. Think Megaforce, Ice Pirates, Battle Beyond The Stars... Good times! And they didn't have to spend 200 million and destroy entire franchises to get a good laugh!
I myself love this movie, but i can also see how AGGRESSIVELY 80s it is. If it didnt have so many awesome performances from John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd and Clancy Brown, it would have sucked too much to be so bad its good. I mean the marvel comic about the movie, was in the movie itself. But yeah i can see how grating it is.
Noice! ‘Get Smart’ next?? Edit. I have been putting off watching this one because of friends with similar responses about the movie but I’m gunna watch it now and come back.
am halfway through buckaroo banzai versus the world crime league. sometimes i just feel like reading something written by a crazy person. aside from the long stream of consciousness rants what strikes me is the optimism. there is an alien death armada nearing earth. but we are not afraid because buckaroo has his friends and a rocking guitar. sci fi has been in a morbid apocalyptic circle jerk for too long. this is refreshing. the original movie tried too hard to be a cult hit. you cant be a cult hit on purpose.
I love this movie. Yeah, it’s stupid, but that’s part of the appeal for me… but I love “Howard the Duck” too, so I’ll admit up front that my taste in movies isn’t great.
If you hated the screenplay, you would have LOATHED the novelization--written by the screenwriter (Earl Mac Rauch, who also wrote the snoozeville Scorsese flick New York New York), it was the epitome of that twee/snark attitude of the film's that you despise--with copious footnotes! (?!?) I could never finish it, and--now to my chagrin--ditched it/chagrin only because someone would pay top dollar for it now (but what do I know? I used to have two copies of Hulk #181 at one point...). I had seen BB when it came out originally in 1984, and NAH; it couldn't stand up to Ghostbusters, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Terminator, Repo Man, Gremlins, The Karate Kid, et al. But at the time, I thought it was ohhhhhh-kay. It was unique enough *at the time* , and trying to see it wasn't that easy (for me). Dude, no VCRs. Only three channels! I was *starved* for weirdness--even the bogus kind.... However, the unnatural (very forced/or maybe fooling itself that five fans were five million) revival in the 1990s? Nope. The Last Starfighter (also 1984) deserved more of a revival that BB. [I'll defend TLS; no, not perfect, but I have very nostalgic feelings towards it. Of course, I haven't seen it in, ohhhh, decades.] More Splatto please! Thanks!
I don't remember seeing anything about this movie. I first heard about it after my dad taped it off of HBO (or one of the other movie channels). He watched it over and over and over again for years, needless to say he loves it. and you're right it's not even remotely a good movie, it's just silly. But it's inoffensive, there a much more painful movies out there.
i keep a running list of all the things from my childhood hollywood has destroyed. star wars, star trek, terminator, alien, x-men and on and on. i live in fear they will re make big trouble in little china. for all it's flaws i still liked buckaroo banzai. an unmolested 80s movie is an endangered species. please leave it alone.
I like it and I don't. I appreciate the wacky tone and some of the effects, but it also isn't a coherent movie at all. It's more of a wild ride than a movie.
Me and my mate watched it last year. Its absolutely terrible. There's no adventure in the 8th dimension. Its all filmed in one warehouse. It introduces all this nonsense at the beginning that Doesn’t mean anything because you know nothing about the guy. It was on amazon prime and there seems to be a pattern with shit on that streaming service, anything that I've not seen from the 80s or 90s, I haven't seen it for a reason, it's shit.
I very much despise this movie. What a waste of talented actors. Grew up in the 80s, didn't like it then, hate it even more now when I re-watched it a couple years ago.
Lord of Heaven, make the Purifying Asteroid fall and free us from our miserable and corrupt existence with its Redeemer Fire...we are not worthy of the Miracle of Life. 🙏
Splatto Del Gato: "What's "Wrong" With BUCKAROO BANZAI?"
Me: "Nothing!"
Nothing is wrong with it, it's a masterpiece.
I loved the movie. With that said, the problem of the movie is they wanted it to be the apex of a franchise that never existed. Instead of having a multi media franchise that the movie could reference they hoped that the movie would spawn the backing material to fill in the gaps. Instead they relied too heavy on a non existent backstory that made the movie a mess.
Growing up in the 80’s this movie was played at every sleepover i went to … when it would come in , I would just read the comics that everyone brought to party instead .
The movie at our sleepovers was Strange Brew. It was my bud's favorite movie. We played it so much his mom started saying "eh" like she was a native of Thunder Bay instead of from Muskogee, OK.
This should be remade because better direction and effects and some script improvement could make something out of the characters. It is also important to remember this came out the competition of low-to-mid budget sci-fi were The Dead Zone, Krull, Death Race 2000, Zardoz, etc.
Zardoz. Ugh, poor Sean Connery.
When I watched this movie it felt like there were supposed to be 2 previous movies that I should have viewed beforehand.
The only ad I saw for this movie was two posters at the indie art-house movie theater that I only saw because that theater had free movies on Wednesday mornings during Summer break.
I didn't get to see it until two years later when it aired on USA or TBS.
Mostly, what I remember this movie for, is that it was one of those "so bad it's fun to watch the train wreck" movies and that the creators of Battletech loved the movie so much they ported team Banzai into the Battletech universe (sort of/kind of, but not exactly - rights issues and all that).
I rented this on VHS as a kid I had no idea what it was. I had no idea what was going on but it was weird and it stuck with me so I rewatched it several times over the next few years and liked it more each time I watched it.
I love this movie.
I can't think of anything wrong with it.
I highly recommend.
Not that ending theme, that's for damn sure.
Weird.This is one my favorites of all time.
I know I asked this before, but have you seen To Live and Die in L.A.? its one of my favorite movies.
I love this nutty, unabashedly weird movie. I watched it on loop as a kid but didn't get it. I saw it years later and some of my memories were accurate but others were wildly off. I really enjoy the JoJo style male fashion too. I so wish there was a whole series of these movies
Intro, the nightclub band scene, and end are great. Everything in between those is so dry, which even if it is on purpose, is not "fun". But I love the visual style of it, like a live action Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (probably the closest we'll ever get to that).
If you want another weird divisive movie check out Zardoz (1974). John Boorman, director of The Deliverance, asked for no-questions-asked financing of a project after Deliverance did so well. He made a post-apocalypse far future sci-fi movie with Sean Connery wearing a mankini, gogo boots, and massive ponytail --- it's about a barbarian warlord that accidentally discovers a utopian city of immortals comprised of the elites, scientists, and their offspring still alive after the war that destroyed the world.
Don't watch Zardoz. Once you see it, you'll never look at Sean Connery the same way. It cannot be unseen, it's forever etched in your mind.
Insert meme: It was perfect. Perfect. Everthing, down to the last minute details.
It's kinda like when some people come off as 'Nerd by Committee' where everything they call their fave nerd choice of every category is essentially the Approved Choice.
This was 88. I saw the 20th anniversary presentation of this in a double feature with Robocop in 2008 in Silver Springs AMC. "Laugh while you can monkeboy!"
Apparently the novelization is amazing. Look it up.
This movie partly inspired The life aquatic with Steve Zissou. That movie ends with direct homage to the Buckaroo Banzai ending.
I remember a while back I was talking music with a friend, and he listened to an album I said that I liked, and reported back that it sucked.
"I said I liked it, I didn't say it was good."
I like Buckaroo Banzai, I didn't say it was good.
There's some art that you're really not allowed to dislike. You can't dislike Handel's Messiah. You can't dislike the Godfather. You're not allowed to dislike Hamlet. Buckaroo Banzai is decidedly NOT in that category, even for frickin' nerds.
I'm into model trains. Have been since I was a kid. I never evangelize for getting into trains or even talk about it a lot. You're either born with the brain wiring to like trains or you're not. Most people aren't. Buckaroo Banzai is like that. You either have the wiring to appreciate it or you don't, and you really can't argue a person in or out of it.
The way Zack feels about Buckaroo Banzai is how I feel about some anime.
I look forward to these reviews. Not enough of them, thanks YaBoi
When I was growing up there was a comics shop that closed down and they donated a longboxes to the local YMCA. The highlight was Shooter era Valiant comics, but I also remember the Buckaroo Banzai comic and it was awesome. I saw the movie later because of the book and I wasn't impressed.
This is the epitome of try too hard.
Yeah love that closing song. I didn't think the movie was that great, but if you like stoner movies that are "wtf am I'm even watching" this is it.
I remember watching this once after Hercules and Xena (the Kevin Sorbo and Lucy Lawless shows).
That's all I remember; I watched it once.
I put Buckaroo Banzai down with Howard the Duck.
John Lithgow gets possessed by evil aliens in both, I think. Buckaroo Banzai is definitely better, though. The thing that ruins Howard the Duck is the Duck puppet.
I walked out of this film. I was willing to tough it out but my buddy couldn’t take it. I think around the 30th minute and I remember being bored. Never felt the need to revisit it.
I completely agree with your analysis. This is a total mess of a movie, especially as a story. I still struggle with who the bad guys are when I watch it. All that said I still watch this movie from time to time. For some reason, it's like that weird ugly dog you can't help but love. Part of it is the casting, they are a very watchable crew of actors and seem to be having fun.
The bad guys are all named John.
I never saw it and for kind of the same reason. Every time I had an opportunity to watch it I just didn't feel like spending the time.
I remember wanting to like this one way more than I did.
I think it was '83 or '84. But I first saw it that summer because it was constantly being replayed on cable tv. I saw it in bits and pieces but I remember it was weird as fuck. The end credits WERE awesome.
Now that I heard your take, I'm wondering if appreciation for this movie was dependent on the age you were when you saw it. You were 10, and immediately thought it looked stupid. Anyone over 25 back in that time probably thought it was shit. I think I was in the sweet spot of being 16 or 17, and I loved it, as did my friends. We watched it more than once for sure, and again on VHS, and always liked it. We didn't take it seriously at all - we just thought it was a weird, quirky, almost satirical. I haven't seen for probably 35 years and I'm guessing I'd agree more with your take now than not, but I'm not in that sweet spot.
I could never hate a movie starring Peter Weller. 🤷♂️
Maybe it's because I'm in the UK, but I have never ever heard of this film
Never seen this one. The name BUCKAROO BANZAI is a very memorable phrase that sounds cool and exciting, and that it's attached to some very skillful actors is the only reason its remembered.
John ya ya
John Parrot
John Smallberries
John Little John
John Parker
Saw it in the theater. I liked the goofiness, but it desperately needed a big action sequence.
"Big Boo-TAY! TAY, TAY, TAY!"
At the age I saw the movie, it was novel (and amusing) to me that a minor villain was so petty that mispronouncing his name over several years would eventually make him snap.
Even henchmen need a little respect.
May I offer you two optional ways to interpret the movie? If it was an 80s anime, would a single thing be out of place?
Also, you can imagine it's anime as made by a westerner but live action.
Either way, it's still very fun to me
My gf likes it. I don’t remember if we tried to watch it and I fell asleep, or if I just remember scrolling through streaming options and her saying she liked it. Either way, all I know is Peter Weller is in it
Any plans to review ‘Logan’? I really liked it, but I’d like to hear your thoughts on it.
I swear i watched this video like 5 years ago
When I say I don't like One Piece people look at me strange, but when I say I like Buckaroo Banzai nobody says anything 😄
I know it was stupid but ive always loved that movie one of peter weller’s first movies.
When I was a teenager I was super into comics and sci fi movies. But when I heard the title I knew it was just peak 80s nerd porn. They were slapping together a bunch of random things that geeks liked without understanding why they liked them. No body at the comic shop could work up any interest so we didn't go see it. I forced myself to watch it on cable one day and I am pretty sure I had the same expression on my face that my dad had when I did something disappointing but not disappointing enough to bother commenting on. It could have been "something" with a better director and a tighter script and a real editor. But it still wouldn't have been forgettable.
I just know it had better not get a reboot, although I do want a remix of that end credits song.
Bakaroo is supposed to be a Japanese version of what a cool American would be in the 1980’s. You have to see it with that lens
Clancy Brown, Jeff Goldblum , and Carl Lumbly ( martian Manhunter from JL cartoons) were in this
I liked John Lithgow in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011); but he was pretty heavily dialed back in both of those films. I do think 3rd Rock From the Sun was the perfect outlet for his brand of comedy, though.
I remember the media push for Buckaroo Banzai, when I was 11 years old, and I thought it looked stupid. I then watched it on VHS a few years later (I vaguely remember a second big media push for the film after Robocop hit it big) and I wasn't impressed in the slightest. Nothing about this movie was appealing or memorable to me.
i think i recall hearing about walking dead coming out like 6 months before it's release
Compared to the shit that Hollywood shits out these days? Buckaroo Banzai is fuckin' Shakespeare.
Pazuzu John Lithgow was the worst part of that movie
It's a typical cult movie. A patchy endeavour with fun moments, that throws away some cool ideas that stir the imagination, and evoke a phantom movie in your head which is ten times better and the thing its fans actually seem to be praising. It's interesting that the guy who wrote this also wrote 'Big Trouble in Little China' an equally wacky film that 95% works. It's all in the reflexes- sorry, I meant execution.
The directing is flat but the plot is fun if you look at it more like a made for televison movie and not a theatrical epic lol
I’m not Buckaroo Banzai, but I’m busting out as I say the kind of rhymes that make MCs wish that I’d die… LL COOL J. That’s my only connection with this 😊.
What's wrong is that we're still waiting for Buckaroo Banzai v World Crime League....
Something about using real company names and the aliens using, “John” as a greeting for their names, too was cute. Lithgow and Lloyd’s performances were hysterically frenetic, so, I’ll disagree with you on this one, Zack. It was a blast to see this movie at the different cultures movie theaters when I was much younger. It is one of those B-Rated movies that was fun. Again, if you enjoy B, and worse movies out there.
It was a fun and silly movie, the comic was not the greatest.
My favourite movie! There is nothing wrong with it!
Saw it in the theater on release. Didn't hate it it, but never had a yen to see it again.
I love the movie but realize why many have issues with it.
I read the sequel book and sweet Jesus is it bad. The cherry on top is it ends on a cliffhanger. Rausch doesn't have the decency to give us a self contained story. And he brings John Worfin back. Just a terrible, self indulgent novel, overly long.
growing up it was one of those movies where people couldn't fahtom how you didn't like it or were just meh with it, I fall into the it's okay not my favorite I prefer beast master and the worms in the bersekrers ears or when the patagia people turn people into jell-o
BB is one of those 80's movies that are so bad that they are actually amusing. Think Megaforce, Ice Pirates, Battle Beyond The Stars... Good times! And they didn't have to spend 200 million and destroy entire franchises to get a good laugh!
Ice Pirates was awesome!
I myself love this movie, but i can also see how AGGRESSIVELY 80s it is.
If it didnt have so many awesome performances from John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd and Clancy Brown, it would have sucked too much to be so bad its good. I mean the marvel comic about the movie, was in the movie itself.
But yeah i can see how grating it is.
How many issues did it take Walking Dead to crack ten thousand copies? Ishtar had a HUGE publicity push, how did that work out ?
Noice! ‘Get Smart’ next??
Edit. I have been putting off watching this one because of friends with similar responses about the movie but I’m gunna watch it now and come back.
Zack: this movie sux
Counterpoint: No, it doesn't. Shut up. 😄👍
Ellen Barkin was so sexy back then. Now she's just another deranged Twitter lefty. 🤷🏼♂️😬
am halfway through buckaroo banzai versus the world crime league. sometimes i just feel like reading something written by a crazy person. aside from the long stream of consciousness rants what strikes me is the optimism. there is an alien death armada nearing earth. but we are not afraid because buckaroo has his friends and a rocking guitar. sci fi has been in a morbid apocalyptic circle jerk for too long. this is refreshing.
the original movie tried too hard to be a cult hit. you cant be a cult hit on purpose.
I love this movie. Yeah, it’s stupid, but that’s part of the appeal for me… but I love “Howard the Duck” too, so I’ll admit up front that my taste in movies isn’t great.
If you hated the screenplay, you would have LOATHED the novelization--written by the screenwriter (Earl Mac Rauch, who also wrote the snoozeville Scorsese flick New York New York), it was the epitome of that twee/snark attitude of the film's that you despise--with copious footnotes! (?!?) I could never finish it, and--now to my chagrin--ditched it/chagrin only because someone would pay top dollar for it now (but what do I know? I used to have two copies of Hulk #181 at one point...).
I had seen BB when it came out originally in 1984, and NAH; it couldn't stand up to Ghostbusters, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Terminator, Repo Man, Gremlins, The Karate Kid, et al. But at the time, I thought it was ohhhhhh-kay. It was unique enough *at the time* , and trying to see it wasn't that easy (for me). Dude, no VCRs. Only three channels! I was *starved* for weirdness--even the bogus kind....
However, the unnatural (very forced/or maybe fooling itself that five fans were five million) revival in the 1990s? Nope. The Last Starfighter (also 1984) deserved more of a revival that BB. [I'll defend TLS; no, not perfect, but I have very nostalgic feelings towards it. Of course, I haven't seen it in, ohhhh, decades.]
More Splatto please! Thanks!
I don't remember seeing anything about this movie. I first heard about it after my dad taped it off of HBO (or one of the other movie channels). He watched it over and over and over again for years, needless to say he loves it. and you're right it's not even remotely a good movie, it's just silly. But it's inoffensive, there a much more painful movies out there.
i keep a running list of all the things from my childhood hollywood has destroyed. star wars, star trek, terminator, alien, x-men and on and on. i live in fear they will re make big trouble in little china. for all it's flaws i still liked buckaroo banzai. an unmolested 80s movie is an endangered species. please leave it alone.
yup, a "comedy" for people who don't know what comedy is
Count me with those who don't "get" this movie.
I like it and I don't. I appreciate the wacky tone and some of the effects, but it also isn't a coherent movie at all. It's more of a wild ride than a movie.
Love this film but can totally understand why some wouldn't. It's a mess, but a beautiful, interesting mess imo, largely carried by its amazing cast.
1984
Me and my mate watched it last year. Its absolutely terrible. There's no adventure in the 8th dimension. Its all filmed in one warehouse. It introduces all this nonsense at the beginning that Doesn’t mean anything because you know nothing about the guy.
It was on amazon prime and there seems to be a pattern with shit on that streaming service, anything that I've not seen from the 80s or 90s, I haven't seen it for a reason, it's shit.
I very much despise this movie. What a waste of talented actors. Grew up in the 80s, didn't like it then, hate it even more now when I re-watched it a couple years ago.
Yeah, this movie sucks. It's like the story created by a kid as he's playing with a bunch of action figures that aren't from the same IP.
this movie sucks, and i really wanted to like it.
Agreed. I absolutely hated it. Tried to watch it again a year ago. Still unwatchably stupid.
There was a script?
I liked it and it sucked. Yet, it was better than mcu phase 4. Now go see Earth Girls are Easy.
I saw this movie the other day and I didn't like it at all.. .All over the place like bird shit.. .
It's a terrible movie
Lord of Heaven, make the Purifying Asteroid fall and free us from our miserable and corrupt existence with its Redeemer Fire...we are not worthy of the Miracle of Life. 🙏