Buckaroo Banzai. He's a nuclear physicist, brain surgeon, race car driver, musician and he's able to hear pretty women crying in the middle of his set. What a guy.
I actually quote this all the time. The actual meaning, to me, is that you are your only constant in life. You cannot escape you. Thus, wherever you go, there you are. You must learn to like yourself.
This scene is played so straight and yet is subtly so hilarious at the same time is what makes it sooo amazing and memorable. Buckaroo Banzai has to be the coolest cat that ever existed on celluloid and is played so well by Peter Weller. The end part where the whole band pulls out their concealed weapons is just too much for me, a band packing heat like that is something i’d never imagine for all of my life! 😂😂😂
The band all pulling out weapons makes this my favorite scene of the movie as well. It's all part of the Buckaroo Banzai mystique - these guys are great musicians but they still have to be ready for anything.
This is how great Buckaroo is, when he says, firmly but gently, "...Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean." Reminding us that wherever we go, there we are, and that our values go with us
This movie deserves a resurgence. I just so happened to hear it mentioned on a podcast some time a go and then caught it on TV last night. It's so ridiculous but actually really funny too, and playing it straight works so well for it.
@@garrethenderson9695 The studio replaced him with an inferior directory of photography. One of the worst blunders ever made by a studio. My understanding is that it was a contractural thing. But imagine what this movie would have looked like if Cronenweth had done the whole thing.
Clancy's one of my favorites. Just watched him as an alien clone on the Outer Limits and being convinced to shoot himself in the face several times in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
...so, if you're new to this: Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers are a) a varied bunch of world-renowned geniuses who like to work together, b) an International Crime-fighting Syndicate, and c) a Really Cool Band that's ready for anything :-D
I feel like it's perfect the way it is. We drop in to an established world full of straight played nonsense characters, and we leave just as it gets started. It's kind of perfect that way.
There was supposed to be a sequel, but the movie flopped. Such a strange and funny show. My brother and I watched it in a 1st-run theater and liked it.
@@karkazziochoocho6379 Much more than that. You either get it, or you don't. Yes, it's hilarious. But if "ridiculous" is what you want to call it--maybe the distinction is meaningless to you. If you enjoy it, that's just fine.
This scene features three actual musicians. In addition to the pianist and bass player, Peter Weller was already an accomplished guitarist prior to making it as an actor. His playing in this scene is live. While the other non-musical actors were feigning their parts, Weller actually played his solo for the scene.
@@isaackellogg3493His character name is Pinky Caruthers and his real name is Billy Vera. When his big hit (featured on “Family Ties”) “At This Moment” dominated the charts, I had the opportunity to interview him. And when I mentioned how much I enjoyed Buckaroo Banzai, he was over the moon.
I hadn’t watched this movie since around ‘86, but always had quotes and scenes in my head. Finally watched it again a few months ago. This is an 80’s masterpiece!
The line "No matter where you go, there you are" was my quote in the high school yearbook senior year in 2006. I'm glad I used it, but I don't think anybody ever got it or had seen the movie. That's how weird I was, and people had such disregard that I was a closet nerd at the time. I'm nerdy and proud now!!!
I'm a massive RoboCop fan, and I loved Lewis Smith in The Heavenly Kid, so when I looked up other movies that these gentlemen have starred in, this movie kept coming up. I can't believe it has escaped my radar for so long, it seems like a classic 80s flick that anyone from that decade should watch! Thanks for posting 😀✌
When I moved to Dallas, I located all the locations where they filmed RoboCop. Couldn’t locate where they filmed the hospital scene. Factory scenes were in Pennsylvania.
You’re absolutely correct. Everything about this scene is just completely engaging and amazing and superb. I could ramble for ages about the ridiculously simple and inventive cinematography at work here for hours. It could very well be the perfect film scene, maybe even the perfect film premise. Consider; this is a 1984 science fantasy adventure film written for some reason with employ of the genre mannerisms of old pulp serials and “polymath genius protagonist” fiction like Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage, and The Avenger. (Yes, singular, look him up.) The main villain is played by the same dude who played Lord Farquad in Shrek. I promise it’s as good as everyone says it is. The stupendous direction and absolutely mindbogglingly good writing treatment this film premise received is absurd when compared to what it earned at the box office. It hardly earned back its budget! Why did it bomb? What was going on at that point in 1984? An anti-science fantasy adventure film protest or something? This was the ultimate, the filigree of the genre! And I guess everyone missed it and went to go do other things or whatever. But the fact of the matter remains; this entire film is basically just perfect in my estimation, but this scene in particular is indeed literally something else, I can hardly believe this was actually directed by a human being trained to direct films and not some algorithmic neural network forced to watch ten thousand hours of old adventure serials, 1980’s pop culture and science, and Basil Rathbone Holmes films. The introduction of these wacky looking dudes who’d fit in any JoJo episode chilling in the green room looking good in just killer suits at a jazz club and the raw charisma of Pepe Serna with the little sand trick is amazing. It says something that this scene is basically 55% music - sometimes language just does not suffice when you want to communicate beauty of a certain luminous sort to an audience. Favorites particulars; Clancy Brown aka Mr. Krabs masterfully playing the piano, the dude in the mullet with the double saxophones, how some random lady just casually gives Buckaroo a kiss on the way to the stage (and that whole tracking shot to the stage in general), Peter Weller’s beautiful rendition of The Skyliner’s “Since I Don’t Have You” to Penny Priddy, a few bits of Lewis Smith’s just pleasantly north of friendly-homosexual vagueness and continuation of the “Perfect Tommy is Concerned About Buckaroo” subplot to the film. Textbooks would have a field day revising all their advice on scene direction and line reading and say goodbye to the three act structure, here’s this film, aha, say hello to the four act structure with eight micro-acts, dude. True auteur work. Kevin Smith described it best at the interview and Q&A regarding the film he ran wit Weller and John Lithgow; I don’t have the quote right here in front of me, but he essentially just declared Buckaroo Banzai an art film, which is exactly what it is. Criterion should release some new rendition of it, anything! Massive change in current artistic thought would transpire if we could somehow popularize this scene alone, to dissect - it strikes me as something that might be interesting to look at re-animated. (I’d start out a venture like that if I could afford too.) All things to love, at any rate. But to be honest, the entire film this scene comes from is stupendous, as well. Highly recommend it if you haven’t seen the whole thing. Why? Because you’re perfect.
There is definitely a reason Kevin Smith loves this movie so much (though I'm not sure his project with it is ever going to come out). The entire movie is a product of it's time and something that can absolutely never happen again. THESE are the types of comic book movies I love, not Marvel. I find myself going back to 80's cinema time and time again instead of hoping for something to come close to this now.
@@NerdRush More to love, because there always is; the way Buckaroo spins around in preperation, does a little jump forward, and sort of straddles the air while he solos; the barely perceptible "wow!" one of the extras tosses in after Buckaroo delivers the "no matter where you go..." line; the brief little strand of saliva Penny leaves on the flask; how EVERY band member is packing and ready at a moment's notice, particularly the drummer's inexplicable uzi (note: Perfect Tommy's reaction is shown first, and even though his face is only visible for half a second, Smith's expression just speaks volumes); the fact the dance club is called "Artie'z Artery" and it's barely called attention to aside from it being on the back wall, obscured by the band, in that distinctive "red duct-tape" the Hong Kong Cavaliers I guess are partial to the aesthetic of; and the bizarrely Jeff Goldblum-esque dancer featured prominently at 0:45 (oh yeah, and JEFF GOLDBLUM is also in this movie. He shows up later. Wearing bright red cowboy duds. Ten-gallon hat, spurs, everything. Really.)
@NerdRush I need a favor my friend. My Buckaroo Banzai interest has skyrocketed and I'm trying to write actually good BB fanfic in the spirit of Earl Mac Rauch. But I need to know; what is the name of the actor who plays the character on stage with the crazy jerry curl mullet playing the double saxophones?! Right next to Reno while Perfect Tommy loads up with his guitar. What is that cool guy's name 😂
Like Shakespeare, the Taj Mahal, and striped toothpaste, things like this film only come along once in a while. Maybe so we realize how rare and special they are.
Buckaroo Banzai wasn’t opposed by an anti-sff movement, far from it. It was actually done in by a glut of fantastic sci-fi competitors-Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Ghostbusters, which were all in theaters when Buckaroo Banzai premiered on August 15, 1984. Also, there were no tv commercials for this film-just giveaways at starcons, which targeted science fiction fans, but limited the overall exposure.
My favorite movie of all time. I have a few items related to the film. I have no less than 5 copies of the movie on DVD, two tshirts, a movie poster, a fridge magnet, several cosplay identification badges, quite a few pins, a copy of the Marvel comic book adaptation and the topper is a YoYodyne Propulsion Systems coffee mug. To this day the movie remains my favorite of all time. I might attend a Comic-con soon and get a pic with Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller). Buckaroo Banzai was my first real action hero even before they were called that. Peter Weller in an interview once said Buckaroo isn't a superhero and is made better by the people he surrounds himself with. Those hard rockin' Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroos most trusted inner circle. Turning 60 this year reminds me that next year the movie celebrates its fortieth anniversary. I even have my eye on an Oscillation Overthruster.
Remarkable film. Saw it the week it was released and I still watch it today. I believe if social media had existed when it was released that it would now be one of the biggest cult favs of all time.
Agreed. But then again, it's still hands down one of the most offbeat science fiction films ever made and is pretty hard to explain in some ways. I just tell people who have never seen it when they ask what's it about to just watch it and go along for the ride.
I was a sophomore in HS when this came out, I saw it sometime in the 2 weeks that it ran in the theaters here. Own it on VHS and DVD...its a shame that the rights got tangled with the author causing any sequel to die stillborn.
Their hit songs include, The 8th Dimension Of Loving You, Overdriven to You, Frisk Me To No End, Driving Through Your Mountain, Jersey Shuffle and Penny Pretty.
I was 15 when it hit theaters. I am 50 now and I'm sure I've seen it well over a hundred times. I STILL spot things in it that I never noticed before. It is jam packed with tiny little details. I'm glad it's finding a new audience.
Funny aa..i just remembered this i found it on a cassette tape ? Peoples this was great move for its time...back to the future ..came from this move the ...time converter, like the old King Kongs. Remake. Like usuelle some peoples think they know all...but nothing right.
Buckaroo Banzai is a Top notch Movie. A superb slice of film art. Top Level in all ways. Easily A List worthy, yet too often undiscovered and/or unknown… One of my long time personal favorites for sure. Hands down. For the record. & For whatever its worth…! 💯🌅
@@vapormissile Because you take your problems with you no matter where you go, so you might as well face them so they won't continue to get in the way.
That band is so cool. Two guitar players, drummer, two trombones, a trumpet? WTF Buckaroo is so sensitive, so empathetic... yet he can't remember her name. :P "Can we get a light, a spot light... I don't have hopes and dreams, and I don't have plans or schemes..."
Yeah kind of like the biggest jerk thing to do to be honest 😂 Just keeps everyone's attention on her and then sings a depressing song 😂 ...it literally drove her to the edge and he's like "heyyyy don't be mean" 😂😂😂😂😂
Reminds me of Total Recall. What's exactly the same about every vacation you've ever taken? YOU! No matter where you go, it's always the same ol' you....
As a kid I rented this movie when it it first came out and absolutely loved it and nobody ever heard of it , it was my little secret, and then Kevin James did this whole sit down comic con special and now it’s not mine anymore…greatest kept 80s secret!
If anyone's interested, the instrumental they start the set off with appears to be (or is at least based on) "Rocket 88" -- which can be found here: ua-cam.com/video/WcFIj8OuIEI/v-deo.html
I'll have to watch 'em back to back... but this scene and the bar scene from Near Dark are really, really amzing pieces of film work (from script to post production). Hadn't thought about this one in quite awhile, but immediately it took me to Near Dark.
back in 2002 when I was in Film School I used this Scenes sound track to cut a Trailer as a assigned Project the day after my presentation the class was watching BB in the lunch room. No Mater Where You Go!
I LOVE this scene! Except for the hair styles and clothes, but that's beside the point. I love how the Hong Kong Cavaliers are all looking at Buckaroo when he's talking to Penny already anticipating his words of wisdom and the way they respond to the gun shot ready to lay down their lives for him. There should have been more movies!
Buckaroo Banzai. He's a nuclear physicist, brain surgeon, race car driver, musician and he's able to hear pretty women crying in the middle of his set. What a guy.
He learned everything he knew from our man Flint.
Yeah, but he's no Ace Rimmer. What a Guy.
… huh. Interesting …
Forgot crime fighter
@@lordgoblyn and comic hero!
“No matter where you go…there you are.”
What a insightful quote.
Shakespearen
Its Zen.
I actually quote this all the time. The actual meaning, to me, is that you are your only constant in life. You cannot escape you. Thus, wherever you go, there you are. You must learn to like yourself.
I think was Groucho Marx, but not sure
We don't have to be mean
“I’m gonna sing this song for you Peggy”
“Penny”
I always love the comedic timing/delivery of those lines
Oh, who cares?
This scene is played so straight and yet is subtly so hilarious at the same time is what makes it sooo amazing and memorable. Buckaroo Banzai has to be the coolest cat that ever existed on celluloid and is played so well by Peter Weller. The end part where the whole band pulls out their concealed weapons is just too much for me, a band packing heat like that is something i’d never imagine for all of my life! 😂😂😂
You've never been to a metal show in the DC area, have you...
The band all pulling out weapons makes this my favorite scene of the movie as well. It's all part of the Buckaroo Banzai mystique - these guys are great musicians but they still have to be ready for anything.
@@CrazyBear65 or any club in Texas.
@@CrazyBear65better than getting robbed by scumbag bookies or methhead openers I suppose
he gets her name wrong on purpose as well
Can you imagine how beautiful this whole film would have looked like, if they had kept this scene's cinematographer for the entirety of the shoot?
True but in some ways it has more character that makes these scenes stand out more.
Oh
This scene is pure 80s. I only liked the scenes with Peter Weller in.
On a side note: Peter Weller should have played the lead in a movie about Ronald Reagan.
@@Bebtelovimab Fine by me, considering that the majority of the film's most memorable parts were shot in the style of Blade Runner.
Hey hey, hey, hey now. Don't be mean, we don't have to be mean.
'Cause remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Just discovered this film and it's amazing philosophy.
The Tao of Buckaroo Bonzai
@@willrueb9573 Where do you think the ideas of the flux capacitor and a car-as-portal came from?
Did you say Peggy?
@@RandomWhiteBoy Nooo...
My name's Penny. Penny Priddy!
I get SO much milage out of this phrase...my friends think its so genius. they get a little upset when I tell them I stole it from a movie.
I don't play a Stratocaster because Clapton, Hendrix, or Beck played one. I play it because Buckaroo Banzai played one.
This is how great Buckaroo is, when he says, firmly but gently, "...Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean." Reminding us that wherever we go, there we are, and that our values go with us
Gunshot goes off.....every guy in the band is packin'....
Makes me laugh so hard. They all have guns
This movie deserves a resurgence. I just so happened to hear it mentioned on a podcast some time a go and then caught it on TV last night. It's so ridiculous but actually really funny too, and playing it straight works so well for it.
I think it might have cost $11.22 for all of the props. I love this movie and that's one of the reasons.
And what a cast
it'd definitely ridiculous. but also a great innovation
The Skyliner's song, "Since I Don't Have You", I discovered in the movie; AND, it blows my stuff away every time.
It would be too polished, clean, and pretty (as opposed to Priddy). It would lack heart and soul, and just be a cynical cash grab.
This scene was shot by Jordan Cronenweth before he was fired, its why it looks so different and much better to the rest of the film.
I haven't noticed myself, I will keep an eye out next time I watch it. Movies are shot nonsequentially
Why the hell was this guy fired?
I always wondered why this scene looked so good while the rest of the movie, arguably, looked like dogshit by comparison.
He also did some little movie called Blade Runner.
@@garrethenderson9695 The studio replaced him with an inferior directory of photography. One of the worst blunders ever made by a studio. My understanding is that it was a contractural thing. But imagine what this movie would have looked like if Cronenweth had done the whole thing.
Fun Fact: Clancy Brown's mom was a concert pianist, so he's playing for real here.
That’s Peter Weller not Clancy Brown
Greg Goat Clancy is on the piano at the beginning and Weller is on it when singing to Penny. Clancy Is the Kurgen, ya know.
Billy Vera’s up there, too.
Clancy's one of my favorites. Just watched him as an alien clone on the Outer Limits and being convinced to shoot himself in the face several times in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Can't believe I never noticed The Kurgan playing piano!! Awesome!
("Of course you are!" -- The Kurgan 🤣)
4:13 "This is weird" Yeah, Buckaroo Bonzai gets that a lot, but I like it.
...so, if you're new to this: Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers are a) a varied bunch of world-renowned geniuses who like to work together, b) an International Crime-fighting Syndicate, and c) a Really Cool Band that's ready for anything :-D
that's really all there is to it lol
Oh and that girl looks like his girlfriend that died
Because it was secret twin sister
The possibilities are endless
The correct answer is: Yes.
Such a shame this franchise never took off. SO much potential.
I hope they will reboot it.
I gotta say... I am almost glad they didn't. Catching this lightning in a bottle again? Leave it to my imagination.
I feel like it's perfect the way it is. We drop in to an established world full of straight played nonsense characters, and we leave just as it gets started. It's kind of perfect that way.
Netflix would fuck it up real good but I'd watch.
There was supposed to be a sequel, but the movie flopped. Such a strange and funny show. My brother and I watched it in a 1st-run theater and liked it.
Possibly the most underrated and sorely unwatched films in the history of Hollywood. Thanks for posting!
no..surely one of the most ridiculous films ever made...just that!
I introduced my mother to this movie recently... I think she enjoyed it...
@@karkazziochoocho6379 Much more than that. You either get it, or you don't. Yes, it's hilarious. But if "ridiculous" is what you want to call it--maybe the distinction is meaningless to you. If you enjoy it, that's just fine.
Similarly, Mad Max took a while to catch on.
You’ll get zero argument from me...
Every band member packing heat !!! gotta love this film...
This scene features three actual musicians. In addition to the pianist and bass player, Peter Weller was already an accomplished guitarist prior to making it as an actor. His playing in this scene is live. While the other non-musical actors were feigning their parts, Weller actually played his solo for the scene.
Jeff Goldblum is quite an accompanied pianist himself.
Clancy Brown's also playing for real.
Billy Carruthers is a band leader. His band, Billy and the Beaters, did the theme song for The King of Queens
@@isaackellogg3493His character name is Pinky Caruthers and his real name is Billy Vera. When his big hit (featured on “Family Ties”) “At This Moment” dominated the charts, I had the opportunity to interview him. And when I mentioned how much I enjoyed Buckaroo Banzai, he was over the moon.
@@monicaballard4825 sorry, remembered wrong 🤪
I hadn’t watched this movie since around ‘86, but always had quotes and scenes in my head. Finally watched it again a few months ago. This is an 80’s masterpiece!
God I love this movie! The 80's were awesome!
never gets old.
The number of jacket-and-tie combos in the audience makes me think this is a business-district-after-work club.
No matter where you go, there you are.
The line "No matter where you go, there you are" was my quote in the high school yearbook senior year in 2006. I'm glad I used it, but I don't think anybody ever got it or had seen the movie. That's how weird I was, and people had such disregard that I was a closet nerd at the time. I'm nerdy and proud now!!!
I don't think enough is made of the fact that this is a very well-armed band...
I'm a massive RoboCop fan, and I loved Lewis Smith in The Heavenly Kid, so when I looked up other movies that these gentlemen have starred in, this movie kept coming up. I can't believe it has escaped my radar for so long, it seems like a classic 80s flick that anyone from that decade should watch! Thanks for posting 😀✌
When I moved to Dallas, I located all the locations where they filmed RoboCop. Couldn’t locate where they filmed the hospital scene. Factory scenes were in Pennsylvania.
Imagine Peter Weller doing those guitar riffs while wearing his Robocop suit.
That would break the internet.
"Stop sobbing quietly or there will be...trouble."
RoboRiffs✌
LMFAO
or those bugle riffs lol
You’re absolutely correct. Everything about this scene is just completely engaging and amazing and superb. I could ramble for ages about the ridiculously simple and inventive cinematography at work here for hours. It could very well be the perfect film scene, maybe even the perfect film premise. Consider; this is a 1984 science fantasy adventure film written for some reason with employ of the genre mannerisms of old pulp serials and “polymath genius protagonist” fiction like Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage, and The Avenger. (Yes, singular, look him up.) The main villain is played by the same dude who played Lord Farquad in Shrek. I promise it’s as good as everyone says it is. The stupendous direction and absolutely mindbogglingly good writing treatment this film premise received is absurd when compared to what it earned at the box office. It hardly earned back its budget! Why did it bomb? What was going on at that point in 1984? An anti-science fantasy adventure film protest or something? This was the ultimate, the filigree of the genre! And I guess everyone missed it and went to go do other things or whatever. But the fact of the matter remains; this entire film is basically just perfect in my estimation, but this scene in particular is indeed literally something else, I can hardly believe this was actually directed by a human being trained to direct films and not some algorithmic neural network forced to watch ten thousand hours of old adventure serials, 1980’s pop culture and science, and Basil Rathbone Holmes films. The introduction of these wacky looking dudes who’d fit in any JoJo episode chilling in the green room looking good in just killer suits at a jazz club and the raw charisma of Pepe Serna with the little sand trick is amazing. It says something that this scene is basically 55% music - sometimes language just does not suffice when you want to communicate beauty of a certain luminous sort to an audience. Favorites particulars; Clancy Brown aka Mr. Krabs masterfully playing the piano, the dude in the mullet with the double saxophones, how some random lady just casually gives Buckaroo a kiss on the way to the stage (and that whole tracking shot to the stage in general), Peter Weller’s beautiful rendition of The Skyliner’s “Since I Don’t Have You” to Penny Priddy, a few bits of Lewis Smith’s just pleasantly north of friendly-homosexual vagueness and continuation of the “Perfect Tommy is Concerned About Buckaroo” subplot to the film. Textbooks would have a field day revising all their advice on scene direction and line reading and say goodbye to the three act structure, here’s this film, aha, say hello to the four act structure with eight micro-acts, dude. True auteur work. Kevin Smith described it best at the interview and Q&A regarding the film he ran wit Weller and John Lithgow; I don’t have the quote right here in front of me, but he essentially just declared Buckaroo Banzai an art film, which is exactly what it is. Criterion should release some new rendition of it, anything! Massive change in current artistic thought would transpire if we could somehow popularize this scene alone, to dissect - it strikes me as something that might be interesting to look at re-animated. (I’d start out a venture like that if I could afford too.) All things to love, at any rate. But to be honest, the entire film this scene comes from is stupendous, as well. Highly recommend it if you haven’t seen the whole thing. Why? Because you’re perfect.
There is definitely a reason Kevin Smith loves this movie so much (though I'm not sure his project with it is ever going to come out). The entire movie is a product of it's time and something that can absolutely never happen again. THESE are the types of comic book movies I love, not Marvel. I find myself going back to 80's cinema time and time again instead of hoping for something to come close to this now.
@@NerdRush More to love, because there always is; the way Buckaroo spins around in preperation, does a little jump forward, and sort of straddles the air while he solos; the barely perceptible "wow!" one of the extras tosses in after Buckaroo delivers the "no matter where you go..." line; the brief little strand of saliva Penny leaves on the flask; how EVERY band member is packing and ready at a moment's notice, particularly the drummer's inexplicable uzi (note: Perfect Tommy's reaction is shown first, and even though his face is only visible for half a second, Smith's expression just speaks volumes); the fact the dance club is called "Artie'z Artery" and it's barely called attention to aside from it being on the back wall, obscured by the band, in that distinctive "red duct-tape" the Hong Kong Cavaliers I guess are partial to the aesthetic of; and the bizarrely Jeff Goldblum-esque dancer featured prominently at 0:45 (oh yeah, and JEFF GOLDBLUM is also in this movie. He shows up later. Wearing bright red cowboy duds. Ten-gallon hat, spurs, everything. Really.)
@NerdRush I need a favor my friend. My Buckaroo Banzai interest has skyrocketed and I'm trying to write actually good BB fanfic in the spirit of Earl Mac Rauch. But I need to know; what is the name of the actor who plays the character on stage with the crazy jerry curl mullet playing the double saxophones?! Right next to Reno while Perfect Tommy loads up with his guitar. What is that cool guy's name 😂
Like Shakespeare, the Taj Mahal, and striped toothpaste, things like this film only come along once in a while. Maybe so we realize how rare and special they are.
Buckaroo Banzai wasn’t opposed by an anti-sff movement, far from it. It was actually done in by a glut of fantastic sci-fi competitors-Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Ghostbusters, which were all in theaters when Buckaroo Banzai premiered on August 15, 1984. Also, there were no tv commercials for this film-just giveaways at starcons, which targeted science fiction fans, but limited the overall exposure.
Approaching my 52nd birthday, saw it in Louisville when I was 15. A guiding light from then til now. "Buh..buzz off."
Happy Birthday Alan !...I'm 42 and have yet to see this ....I really wish my first time could be a theater or drive-in.
My favorite movie of all time.
I have a few items related to the film.
I have no less than 5 copies of the movie on DVD, two tshirts, a movie poster, a fridge magnet, several cosplay identification badges, quite a few pins, a copy of the Marvel comic book adaptation and the topper is a YoYodyne Propulsion Systems coffee mug. To this day the movie remains my favorite of all time. I might attend a Comic-con soon and get a pic with Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller). Buckaroo Banzai was my first real action hero even before they were called that. Peter Weller in an interview once said Buckaroo isn't a superhero and is made better by the people he surrounds himself with. Those hard rockin' Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroos most trusted inner circle. Turning 60 this year reminds me that next year the movie celebrates its fortieth anniversary. I even have my eye on an Oscillation Overthruster.
I so love this film and think of all the great scenes this is my favorite. I wish I could get a copy of them doing the full song. So beautiful.
Wow, not one annoying cell phone in the audience!
Remarkable film. Saw it the week it was released and I still watch it today. I believe if social media had existed when it was released that it would now be one of the biggest cult favs of all time.
Agreed. But then again, it's still hands down one of the most offbeat science fiction films ever made and is pretty hard to explain in some ways. I just tell people who have never seen it when they ask what's it about to just watch it and go along for the ride.
And it would have been the first of a series...
It was 35 years too early.
I was a sophomore in HS when this came out, I saw it sometime in the 2 weeks that it ran in the theaters here. Own it on VHS and DVD...its a shame that the rights got tangled with the author causing any sequel to die stillborn.
Good take
Their hit songs include, The 8th Dimension Of Loving You, Overdriven to You, Frisk Me To No End, Driving Through Your Mountain, Jersey Shuffle and Penny Pretty.
August 10, thirty-four years ago, Buckaroo has been a Fender man!
Many years ago, this movie made me love Clancy Brown. One of my favorite actors. Ever.
He is the combination of doctor who and Sherlock Holmes.....why has no one ever mentioned this person to me ?!?!!
I was 15 when it hit theaters. I am 50 now and I'm sure I've seen it well over a hundred times. I STILL spot things in it that I never noticed before. It is jam packed with tiny little details. I'm glad it's finding a new audience.
In the late 80s and early 90s, it was on TV all the time on cable. I feel like they played it 3 times a day every other day.
I've always wanted an action figure of the Rasta drummer with the Mac-10!!
Funny aa..i just remembered this i found it on a cassette tape ? Peoples this was great move for its time...back to the future ..came from this move the ...time converter, like the old King Kongs. Remake. Like usuelle some peoples think they know all...but nothing right.
my whole bands packin
I swear this movie is so funny it doesn't even give you the time to process what you think is funny 😭😭😭😭😭
I wished that Buckaroo Bonzai made an LP I would have bought it
Can we talk about Peter Wellers singing in this scene? Like I don’t know about you, but I think he has a great voice!
agreed
That's also actually him actually playing lead guitar and trumpet :-)
I know he's a good Trumpet player, but I bet that he at least practiced a lot of the guitar parts in order for it to look authentic
"Dead or alive, you're coming with me."
@@CodenameAlejo no dood: that's actually him playing :-D
"Why me?"
"Because you're perfect."
"You got a point there."
When he breaks out the pocket trumpet, that's amazing.
Buckaroo Banzai is a Top notch Movie. A superb slice of film art. Top Level in all ways. Easily A List worthy, yet too often undiscovered and/or unknown… One of my long time personal favorites for sure. Hands down. For the record. & For whatever its worth…! 💯🌅
Bet a lot of lines were done in the bathroom of that club.
dont be mean...cause no matter where u go there you are.😎
you can't escape yourself
@@vapormissile Because you take your problems with you no matter where you go, so you might as well face them so they won't continue to get in the way.
The most profound statement a human can come to understand.
You'll only catch up to face yourself...
I’ve been to a bunch of concerts, when I was really sad. And none of the Artists ever did this for me.
The buckaroo references in the Odyssey 5 series were gold! 💛
That band is so cool. Two guitar players, drummer, two trombones, a trumpet?
WTF
Buckaroo is so sensitive, so empathetic... yet he can't remember her name. :P
"Can we get a light, a spot light... I don't have hopes and dreams, and I don't have plans or schemes..."
Yeah kind of like the biggest jerk thing to do to be honest 😂
Just keeps everyone's attention on her and then sings a depressing song 😂
...it literally drove her to the edge and he's like "heyyyy don't be mean" 😂😂😂😂😂
This is so American.....everyone in the band was packin' heat. Love this.
They are a special task force who do literally everything you can think of, how many people do you think want buckaroo and his gang dead
@@RG-zt4ox Yeah but Elvis was packin' heat too so it wasn't just you had to be some super-trooper taskforce thingymajig.
@@LandersWorkshop Elvis was also a secret agent
@@RG-zt4ox Motorhead also?
One of the greatest movies of all time! I watch it since the 80s! :)
"No matter where you go, there you are." Damn, there is so much truth to that.
Wow
No matter what you comment, there it is
word
Reminds me of Total Recall.
What's exactly the same about every vacation you've ever taken? YOU! No matter where you go, it's always the same ol' you....
Buddhist wisdom.
I have a hard time trying to define a "favorite" scene from this movie. It's just awesome from beginning to end.
As a kid I rented this movie when it it first came out and absolutely loved it and nobody ever heard of it , it was my little secret, and then Kevin James did this whole sit down comic con special and now it’s not mine anymore…greatest kept 80s secret!
That escalated quickly.
Just think how much nicer the world would be if we could all be a little more like Buckaroo Banzai. ❤
Just follow the 5 Stresses, the 4 Beauties, and the 3 Loves- the guiding precepts of Team Banzai
Best line that has always been a tagline of mine. “No matter where you go…there you are.”
Never ever forgot that line. The movie speaks for itself.
Really wish they'd made an entire recording of Rocket 88 so it could have been on a DVD extra
wow - never knew the name of that... thanks!
@@GlueTubber It's a syncopated version. Original was by Ike Turner. Look it up!
@@michaelmbutler - yeah, looked it up last year, that guy really knows how to hold a beat....
Widely considered the first rock and roll song
Lol! What did I just watch? This was so awesome!
+EliezerConcepcion The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (check it out on imdb.com
Brilliant, genius, one-of-a-kind movie. Terrific. Watched it on my birthday this year! 🎉
"Is somebody out there not having a good time?" So much fun.
fun line. he detected a problem with the universe
I'm slowly growing to love this movie and a week form today spend ten on this movie I can feel it love ya Pete wish your were my dad
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This movie means a lot to me, saw it in theater when it was first run. And later night theater for years after.
Ive watched it regularly since.
I had such a crush on Ellen Barkin from this film!!
I'm gonna sing this song for you, Peggy. 😂
If anyone's interested, the instrumental they start the set off with appears to be (or is at least based on) "Rocket 88" -- which can be found here:
ua-cam.com/video/WcFIj8OuIEI/v-deo.html
urge to watch movie for 500th time intensifies....
501....502...503....
504...505...506...
507...508 ..
“The one, the only, the amazing Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers.”
With the comic book version based on the film, technically it could be in the "Marvel Universe".
I £ove this scene 2 Especially the walk 2 the stage...so much genuine swagger
Greatest movie ever committed to film.
I'll have to watch 'em back to back... but this scene and the bar scene from Near Dark are really, really amzing pieces of film work (from script to post production). Hadn't thought about this one in quite awhile, but immediately it took me to Near Dark.
best 5 minutes ever. thanks BB
This was a great movie and most definently the best scene yet
A shame we didn't get to hear a proper rendition of rocket 88
Great post thanks for posting
If you were lucky enough to buy the dvd when it was out (I was) it one of the coolest movie ever. Just wished they would have done a sequel.
“You want it, Artie? ::tosses rice::
You got it.
Here because this is also my favorite scene in all of cinema.
Lol your favorite? 🤣
Thank you Ready Player One to bring me here. You were awesome too
Peter Weller is the best for the role.
Nice cover of the song Rocket 88! Which is referenced on the license plate of the Jet Car.
The song played this gig is Rocket 88 which by some music experts is the first Rock song recorded in 1951.
back in 2002 when I was in Film School I used this Scenes sound track to cut a Trailer as a assigned Project
the day after my presentation the class was watching BB in the lunch room.
No Mater Where You Go!
...and Penny? She's beautiful! That's Ellen Barkin, eh?
She was gorgeous in this movie.
Like all her movies. CF "Diner"
I am glad I am seeing this part fully holy crap the gun
Murderface on sax there.
Yup
Totally thought that too.
Sax is the foundation of the band!
Ha! Pretty rocking song here!! Guitars and piano are on fire!
"Somebody crying?"
Could this be any more 80’s?
Grown up Dustin from Stranger Things on the Sax
"This is weird."
Yeah, ain't it great?
and Peter Weller actually played all those instruments except the piano but he mimicked that good.
Didnt know that Robocop took LSD before joining DPD
I LOVE this scene! Except for the hair styles and clothes, but that's beside the point. I love how the Hong Kong Cavaliers are all looking at Buckaroo when he's talking to Penny already anticipating his words of wisdom and the way they respond to the gun shot ready to lay down their lives for him. There should have been more movies!
My girlfriend says Clancy Brown was so handsome before he shot his face off (Surly/Curly Joe in TBoBS)
Surly Joooooooe
Surly Joooooooe
Oh, where he's gambling now we don't knoooow
Banzai, dammit. Bonsai is a dwarfed tree,
IT´S SAID THAT MUHAMMAR GADAFI LIKED THIS FILM VERY VERY VERY MUCH... Me too ;)