Buckaroo Banzai

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“Because I’m busy”
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“Because you’re perfect”
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“Because it might be boobie trapped”

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I’m sorry… did you imply there was something wrong with Robocop?

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where’re we going today, doc? the moon?

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Exactly! I caught those 3 and have wondered if there are more – but I never really settle down and listen for more.

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Not only is he a neurosurgeon and the leader of a crime-fighting rock band, he is also a nuclear physicist.

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I’m pretty sure those are the only occurrences, and three, well that’s just the right amount.

There’s only two kinds of people in this world.

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In the closing credits it’s called the Jet Car, manufactured by Thrust Racing.

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touché. I seem to be remembering it wrong. but i was right about the “jet” part, so I guess I’m only half dumb. consulting the files on the DVD reveal that I was full of derp on that post, since it was a Ford F-350 (1982), not a 150 as I said.

gettin’ old…

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Yes, but consider the alternative.

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So what. Big deal.

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If you can find the book get it. It’s great too.

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I can’t miss an opportunity to comment about what is perhaps my favorite film.

When I saw Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou”, I was coming unglued with nerdglee at the closing sequence. My wife still doesn’t quite understand why.

And that’s still a melody I find myself whistling from time to time. If they’d only do a BluRay transfer.

And no, I can’t accept the theory that Big Trouble in Little China started out as the Buckaroo Banzai against the World Crime League script.

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Many years ago, I was luckly enough to see this at a film festival (Boston SFF; a 24 hour marathon of s/f that still runs today) with the director in attendance, W.D. Richter. He talked a bit about the making of - there was conflict with the producers who kept asking -why- certain things needed to be in the film. So, they responded by adding -more- absurd elements - e.g., the scene with the watermelon; BB’s red glasses.

So now you know why that watermelon was there

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