Do you love Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension?

[Ryujin]

yeah a tried rewatching Sledge Hammer! (David Rasche) a couple of years ago and it just wasnt funny anymore

The comedy is about as subtle as a baseball bat to the back of the head. Still, sometimes I'm in a mood for that.

 

[payn]

yeah a tried rewatching Sledge Hammer! (David Rasche) a couple of years ago and it just wasnt funny anymore

The pilot is hilarious and stands up, but yeah it completely falls off after that. Pretty common in 80's-90's TV. Im gonna get run off the internets for this but, Briscoe County Jr. is much the same.

 

[Ryujin]

The pilot is hilarious and stands up, but yeah it completely falls off after that. Pretty common in 80's-90's TV. Im gonna get run off the internets for this but, Briscoe County Jr. is much the same.

Yup, you're going to get run off the intarwebs, for sure.

 

[jdrakeh]

Who is also the screenwriter, I believe!

Correct-o-mundo!

 

[Clint_L]

I know the feeling. I remember watching certain movies and cartoons when I was much younger and enjoying them. But if I was to watch them now, I would look at them more critically and wonder why I watched them in the first place.

Yeah, my kid wanted to know what made the X-Files so great, so we started watching it. We made it two episodes. Should not have started in Season 1. It was still finding its feet.

I should have started him with "Home" and scarred him!

 

[Autumnal]

I love both Buckaroo Banzai and Repo Man, and think they belong in the same world.

Trivia note: the soundtrack composer, Michael Boddicker, also played keyboards for Laura Branigan.

 

[Rabulias]

There's a book. Unfortunately, I can't recommend it. The author has need of a strong-handed editor, or maybe an league of editors.

(The original novel, though, was quite good!)

Agreed with all of the above. I will also say the second novel was quite bizarre, and not in a good way.

That's ironic, because they're both written by the same person.

Yes, Earl Mac Rauch. The same person, but 37 years older.

 

[Rabulias]

Trivia note: the soundtrack composer, Michael Boddicker, also played keyboards for Laura Branigan.

He was also a session musician for Michael Jackson, as well as for many others, notably Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, and Olivia Newton-John.

 

[Mad_Jack]

Im gonna get run off the internets for this but, Briscoe County Jr. is much the same.

Eh, they kind of jumped the shark on that one when they started to get all mystical about everything and then made it about time travel and destiny. Up until that point, it was awesome.

Buckaroo Banzai totally should have been one of those films that eventually suffocated under the weight of its twenty-seven sequels.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Eh, they kind of jumped the shark on that one when they started to get all mystical about everything and then made it about time travel and destiny. Up until that point, it was awesome.

Buckaroo Banzai totally should have been one of those films that eventually suffocated under the weight of its twenty-seven sequels.

There is a parallel universe in which the fanbase are decrying the quality of The Thirty-Eighth Dimension right now!