The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2023-06-28 18:03:12 +0000 UTCHi everyone! Here's what our winner of the June Member of the Month draw, Baal, picked for a watchalong reaction! I have to be completely honest, I had NEVER heard of this movie in my life lmao. And I was SHOCKED by how many bigger name/well known actors are in this! [Direct link here.]
I'll be doing the July draw on the first Friday of the month, as always. It happens to be right after I get back from my vacation which is great timing. I'll be releasing the monthly newsletter that same day too.
Please enjoy! And thank you again Baal for this movie pick!
✦ KL
Comments
I do what I can Bryan
Baal Firenze
2023-07-09 02:56:41 +0000 UTCFollowing up ... what'd you think of the movie?
kaiielle
2023-07-09 02:53:58 +0000 UTCThe character does seem to have quite the built-up backstory and character sheet. 😅
kaiielle
2023-06-29 01:33:16 +0000 UTCI love this ridiculous film. It's a strange attempt to do an 80s update of pulp magazine characters of the 1930s like Doc Savage (who also had team of quirky assistants and was an influence on characters like Batman and Superman). The writers just pretended that Buckaroo was this long established character with an extensive history but this film was pretty much the first and only time the character appeared anywhere. The writers did apparently have a massive catalog of lore about the character's previous adventures that they had invented while writing the script (which you can see traces of in the film).
Nicholas Bielik
2023-06-29 00:16:07 +0000 UTCNeat! And I definitely don't retain minor characters faces all that well to recognize them across movies all the time. 🥲 Appreciate that!
kaiielle
2023-06-28 23:24:02 +0000 UTCFunny you should mention that the opening feels like Back to the Future. Buckaroo Banzai was co-produced by Neil Canton, who would go onto not only produce the Back to the Future trilogy, but I believe it was also Canton who helped put Christopher Lloyd on the list of potential actors for Doc Brown, because they had enjoyed working together on this movie. You've seen one other cast member here before: actor Bill Henderson, who played Casper Lindley, father of the young Blue Blaze Irregular Scooter Lindley, was in Clue, playing the police officer witnesses the fake "fooling around" everyone pretends to be doing in order to cover up the murders.
Tyler Foster
2023-06-28 23:15:50 +0000 UTCThe distinction is kind of vague, but although you could watch the movie with the original opening restored on the DVD, that was considered more of a DVD extra rather than an "official" alternate version of the movie (it's not ported to any of the Blu-rays).
Tyler Foster
2023-06-28 23:10:05 +0000 UTCYou'll be able to tell by the runtime!
kaiielle
2023-06-28 20:33:00 +0000 UTCWow, I haven’t seen this movie in over 30 years. I guess I know what I’m watching tonight.
Absher
2023-06-28 19:11:15 +0000 UTCGreat Scott!!!
Jedi Mandalore (Dylan)
2023-06-28 18:38:53 +0000 UTCThanks, then it's probably the theatrical version.
Allen Bond
2023-06-28 18:25:54 +0000 UTCI didn't know there was more than one. It's whatever version is on Amazon Prime Video. I also link to JustWatch.com on the website page for this.
kaiielle
2023-06-28 18:24:49 +0000 UTCDoes anyone know which version this is?
Allen Bond
2023-06-28 18:24:03 +0000 UTCBaal, I have no idea who you are but you have excellent taste in movies.
Bryan Dempsey
2023-06-28 18:22:47 +0000 UTCAwesome pick!
Allen Bond
2023-06-28 18:20:42 +0000 UTCAnd Doctor Emmett Brown!
kaiielle
2023-06-28 18:19:22 +0000 UTCI've never seen this film but you had me at the thumbnail. Lex Luthor, The Grandmaster and Robocop all in the same film!!!!
Jedi Mandalore (Dylan)
2023-06-28 18:13:15 +0000 UTC
