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Hello, and welcome to the All Eighties Movies Podcast, the
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podcast where we talk about the blockbusters, the flops
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and everythink in between from one of the freshest decades for movies,
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the nineteen eighties.
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I'm your host Bill Bant. Along with me on this
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journey revisiting eighties movies is my co
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host Jason Masek. Hello, Jason, Hey, hey, hey, hey, Now,
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don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because remember,
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no matter where you go, there you are.
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That's right.
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Listeners, we are discussing with spoilers of plenty, the nineteen
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eighty four cult classic The Adventures of Bukaro Bonzai Across
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the Eighth Dimension. It was produced by Sherwood Productions and
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distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. The movie stars Peter Weller,
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John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldbloom, and Christopher Lloyd. Directed
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by W. D. Richter, This movie is rated PG with
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a running time of one hour and forty three minutes.
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So what is this movie about? What's in the box?
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If you grew up in the nineteen eighties and what's
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your local video store? To rent this movie? You would
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find this description on the back of the VHS box.
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It is what's in the box, Take it away, Jason.
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Almost immediately after its release, The Adventures of Buckeroo Bonzi
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earned the status of an instant cult classic. It's not surprising.
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Buckeroo Bonzai is a dynamic marriage of camped up sci
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fi and edge of the seat suspense. It's a larger
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than life hero in an unforgettable quest, colorful, crazy, and
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fabulously entertaining. Buckeroo Bonzai is a top neurosurgeon, race car driver, rockstar,
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and comic book hero and probably the last hope of
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the human race. His latest experiments have opened the door
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to the Eighth Dimension and have unwittingly begun an inner
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stellar battle for the world. On one side are the
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Red Lectroids, whose leader inhabits the body of Doctor Lizardo.
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On the other, the Black Lectroids and our hero Buckaroo,
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backed by his rock and roll commandos, the Hong Kong
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Cavaliers and his sweetheart Penny Pretty best of luck Team Banzai.
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.
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The Adventures of Bukaroo Banzai across the Eighth Dimension. That's right,
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So that was what's in the box that Jason I
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just gave us and Jason Newrom the first time you
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saw this movie.
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I just saw it for this podcast for the very
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first time, and man, I can't wait to talk about it.
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I do have to give a shout out to Rob Huckstadt.
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He was one of my great friends in high school
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and he always said this was his favorite movie, and
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I never knew why because I never watched it and
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I'm a bad friend, So sorry, Rob. But now I've
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watched it and I still don't know why it was
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his favorite. I might, actually I might, but I'm just
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making a joke here, miss you. Rob. He used to
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call me Iceman and he was archangel. But anyway, what
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when When did you see this first bill Band?
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I believe it was March of nineteen ninety one because
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it was part of my twenty five movies in five
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days my first spring break in college. I had no money.
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My parents decided to fly me back home from the
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University of Miami, so I had nothing to do. I
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had no plans, so I went over to Budget Video
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and just started reddit movies I had missed from the eighties,
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movies like The Adventures a Buck, Rubh's I Across the
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Eighth to Mension, Black Moon Rising, the Wraith movies like that,
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and for five days, that's what I pretty much did
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and catched up on old La Law episodes.
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That was my week. Heck, yeah, I can't wait to
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cover The Wraith Man. That's one of my oh yeah favorites.
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That's a crazy movie. That would definitely be a good
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one two punch this one for sure. Yeah right right,
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But I always love you when you talk about that,
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the twenty five movies. It's just that's a lot, man,
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that's a marathon for sure. Yeah.
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I wish I could do that again someday. But we
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don't have video stores anymore. So that really made me
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miss video stores because I think because of that, I
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probably never would have seen a movie like this. I
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didn't know anybody that had seen it before, and I
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don't even remember someone at school talking about it. But
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it was just because of the cast. I was like,
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all right, I got to check this out and everybody
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in this movie. I have to watch it. And if
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I tried to find this on streaming, forget it. I
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mean streaming has its place, there's some good things about it.
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But I do miss going to a video store because
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if I made that trip to go out there. I
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wasn't coming back empty hand it. I was finding something right,
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and sometimes you find gems like this The Adventures of
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Buck Group onsidea yea, indeed. All right, So let's talk
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about the movie and what are impressions of buckru Bonzai. So, Jason,
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I'm going to ask you first before we get into it.
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How many times did you watch the movie for the podcast?
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Okay? So I watched it all the way through once,
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But technically, if you count the number of times I
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had to rewind scenes and play them again to figure
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out what the hell was going on, I probably watched
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it three times. I'm exaggerating. I've probably watched that. I
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was going to ask two times.
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But yeah, how long did it take you to somewhat
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understand the story?
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And so what? Yeah?
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this movie was stressing me out because I'm like, oh
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my god, we got to talk about this on the podcast,
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and I'm not even sure I'll tell the audience what
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this movie is about. Outside of buckru Bonzai is a neurosurgeon,
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rock and roll physicist.
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And don't forget martial artist.
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Yes, I had no idea what was going on and
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how to explain it. So if you have never seen
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this movie before, don't worry if you're confused, because you
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will be is very confusing. How did this get produced?
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Because if you had given me this script, if you
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wrote this Jason, and you gave it to me, how
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many questions would I have had for you?
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No less than a thousand?
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Yeah, we would have had at least a three hour
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conversation going through this me asking you to explain everything, like, right,
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why is he need to be a rock star with
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these blue Blazers? How do you become a Blue Blazer?
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There's so much in this movie it almost makes it
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feel like I missed part one or part two correct,
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Wait, was this based on a book? Was there something
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else that I'm missing? Exactly exactly?
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Just assume what's going on? But it's not. This is
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an original screenplay that was somehow put on screen. I'm
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not saying that in a bad way, But there's no
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way this movie would get made now. There's no way
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we get through the studio system. It would have to
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be someone would have to finance it themselves. That's the
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only way it would get made. Right, It literally bankrupt
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a studio, and I'm not surprised. So I was really
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curious to see if you kind of knew what the
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plot was, could you even explain it under five minutes.
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Because it's so I could. Yeah, I think I could,
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only because Bill Bant. I sat here in my apartment
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and rehearsed it probably six or seven times, because not
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on purpose, like I wasn't rehearsing it as if I
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was going to do this on the podcast. However, I
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just may now. I was saying it out loud to
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explain it all to myself, so I had some comprehension
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of what I was watching and what was happening, And
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then of course I read the plot through on Wikipedia
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to confirm that. I mean, it is the major complaint
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I have for the film, and I enjoyed this. I
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enjoyed this, But my big complaint is that the plot
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is way too convoluted and it's just too much. What
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I wrote down first and foremost was that it feels
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like a bunch of ten year old boys got together
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and said, hey, let's make a movie, and they just said,
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we're going to put every single one of our cool
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ideas in it. Yes, and that's what it feels. It
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feels like a young boy's wish fulfillment film. And here's
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another issue I had. We'll get back. Sorry, I don't
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want to get two sidetracked because we got so much
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to talk about, because I want to do want to
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talk about the plot. However, I went into this film
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not knowing anything about it. I hadn't read anything about it.
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I literally had no clue what the tone of this
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film was, what the genre was, So I had no
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idea it was going to be an action sci fi comedy,
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so that this film is actually parodying many other sci
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fi films that came before it. So I caught on
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somewhat quickly. I'm like, oh, this is meant to be
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super campy and things like that. But then and then
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I started really having fun with it. But getting back
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to the plot, now, that's where I just started getting
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I got lost and I felt like I was missing things.
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And I think if you do the research, you would
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read that there were things that were taken out of
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this film. There's different versions of this movie, and that
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kind of turned it into a plot mess. Yeah, So
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I mean I can give it a shot and try
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to explain it in sixty seconds actually or less. All right,
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go for it, all right? Well, of course it's stars
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are Bukaroo Bonzi, who is a man of many talents,
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a neurosurgeon, a test pilot, molish martial artist, and a
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rock star did I say rockstar already? But he's joined
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by his band of fellow super stars and just all
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around badass. Is called the Hong Kong Cavaliers. But the
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point is Bukaroo Bonzai and his all his genius and
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his partner, Professor Hikita. Professor Kikita and Bukaroo have developed
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this technology called the oscillation overthruster, and it is this
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little piece of its gadgetry that allows you to penetrate
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a solid object and enter that object and thus enter
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what is called the eighth dimension. And we see this
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in the opening of the film. They go inside of
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a mountain through using the jet car which is powered
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by this oscillation overthruster. Now, this technology, when used, has
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alerted an alien race called the Electroids, and they are
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from outer space. But we also learn that these Lectroids
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have been trapped within the eighth dimension for a reason
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because on planet ten, somewhere out in the galaxy, these
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Lectroids had some sort of civil war of you if
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you will, and the Black Electroids imprisoned the Red Electroids
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in this eighth dimension, which happens to be on Earth
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within the Mountain. I guess. However, now because of this
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technology being developed, it may fall into the wrong hands,
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which would be John Lithgow's character, who happens to be
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wants or happens to want to free the Red Electroids
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from this eighth dimension. And if John Lithgow's character, Lord
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John Wharfin gets a hold of Buckeroo's oscillation Overthruster, then
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he will be able to release the evil Red Electroids
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from the eighth dimension, and then they will fly back
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to Planet ten and exact the revenge on the Black Electroids.
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And so that's the gist of it. There's even more
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to it if you can believe it, but I'm going
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to leave it at that right now, right a little
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over a minute to explain it, just yeah, you can
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have to. That was just that's the whole podcast right there.
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You're gonna have to edit that down, good luck, man.
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Sorry, but I did like that they tied in orson
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well and the uh War of the worlds.
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That was a cool aspect for sure.
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Saying that the famous radio drama that people thought was
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real then it came out to be a hoax might
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actually real because that's when the Red Lectoids did come
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to Earth and then brainwashed orson Wells into saying that
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it was a hoax.
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Mm hmm. That was fun. I did enjoy that little
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nugget that they put in there. Yeah, man, I mean,
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this movie is a wild and weird trip. I've used
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the expression fever dream before and it kind of feels
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like that type of movie. This is one of the
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ultimate you just have to go with it type of
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movie I mentioned. It feels like it was just made
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by a bunch of ten year old boys. You know.
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We just got to get into the cast, I think,
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and start talking about some of these characters and these actors,
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especially characters like John big Booty. I mean, boute b
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that is a character in this film played by none
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other than Christopher Lloyd. What. And we're going to get
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into the cast right now. And my biggest question, I
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think I went over my biggest complaint. My biggest question
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is how did they get all of these actors to
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be in this movie. I saw some of the casting
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in the research behind, you know, the scenes research, but
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it still doesn't explain like this is an incredible cast.
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Well, you think about it. It's nineteen eighty four and
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I thought about this too, And this is part of
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the reason why I do like this movie. It's just
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because of everyone that is in it. A scene does
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not go by where you're like, holy crap, that's blah
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blah blah, and I was like, Okay, So Peter Weller
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who plays Buckaroo buckerou Bounds, we didn't really know him
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until RoboCop, so this is pre RoboCop for him. Plancy Brown,
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no one knew who he was at the time. Really
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the big names of Jeff Goldbloom because big Chill, but
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he wasn't a name name yet he does exactly what
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we know him for. The quirky side character wasn't carrying
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movies like The Fly at that time, Ellen Barkin Diner.
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That was about it, true, John Lithcow. I think the
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only other movie he might have done up to that
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point was The World According to Garb before or after Footloose,
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So he's still pretty early in his acting career. Yeah,
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so yeah, I got to give the casting director a
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lot of credit to and the producers for pulling in
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all this talent. Did you realize the president was Ronald
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Lacy from raisl lost Ark? Oh?
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Okay. I recognized the name when I went over the cast,
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but no, I didn't even think about that. Wow.
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I had no idea until I had to read the cast.
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I did not recognize him at all, And at first
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I thought, oh, maybe it's a mistake, but yes, why
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can't I think of his character from Maise lost Ark,
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the one who grabs the medallion and has it burned
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on his hand. Doesn't look anything like him? Oh my god,
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not at all. No. I literally just watched that scene
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again just to see what kind of resembled. I'm like,
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it's really hard, like you can tell it's him. But wow,
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if I didn't see in the credits, I've been like, oh,
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maybe it is, Maybe it isn't.
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Now I have to I just got to go back
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and look at it. That's crazy, right, I just didn't.
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I never ever would have put that to Kaila.
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actresses in this movie. Everyone else is male. H Outside
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the bar scene, do you see women in there, but
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I was like, holy moly, this is very male dominated movie.
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I don't know why that seemed to surprise me so much.
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Yeah, no, it's a great point. Again, ten year old
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boys made this movie clearly, and we made a great
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point about the casting as well. Absolutely, they were not
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who we know them to be today, So at that time,
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it's not like they were asking for millions of dollars
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to be in this movie or anything like that. So
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I love the names of these characters, all of the
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I mean all these characters. We've got Buckero Bonzi, We've
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got the Hong Kong Cavaliers, what a great name. And
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we've got Reno Perfect, Tommy Rawhide, Penny Pretty New Jersey
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is Goldbloom's character. I love that all these guys, of course,
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are just like best buds in a rock and roll
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band that happen to be badasses running around saving the world.
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They're basically dudes in cool threads running around with guns.
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I don't know how they got the authority to do
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what they do, but they have it. And obviously Buckaroo
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has a direct line to the President as well. It's amazing,
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like who are these guys? But it's super super fun.
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attached to Buckaroo, but we have these Blue Blaze Irregulars
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that are basically like a Bucker Bonzai volunteer force that
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can be called upon at any time. And then we
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see a father son duo actually join the mission throughout
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this movie that are they're they're like citizens. There were civilians,
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but they are part of the Blue Blaze Irregulars. I
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thought that was real cool. But like, if you're listening
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right now, you can see how overloaded this film is already.
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I mean, it's just there's so many different aspects, but
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they're just a lot of great fun sci fi aspects
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to I mean, I mentioned the electroids. They are are aliens,
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which are the good guys and bad guys in this movie.
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We've got red electroids, black electroids. They're all named John
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for some reason, because that's the name they decided to
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take when they came to Earth. But anyway, I just
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wanted to cover the names a little bit. They're just
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a lot of fun.
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Yeah, there's a lot of interesting nuggets in it. And
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I know you're one that like, oh they read this again,
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this would have to be a television show, ah, right,
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like a six part series to try to get all
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this information into what they're trying to c him into
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an hour and forty three minutes. Yeah, it's too much,
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it really is. It's too much, major complaint of mine.
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But Peter Weller looks fantastic. He's an absolute stud in this.
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I was just last night watching the robodoc about the
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making of RoboCop, which is absolutely amazing, and he briefly
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mentions backer Ubonzai being a wonderful experience. Jeff Goldbloom is
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Jeff Goldblum, always simple, nothing complicated about his character except
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he looks super goofy. He literally is dressed as a
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cowboy that's.
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Never explained, like why are you in that cock? It's
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like a comical adaptation of what a cowboy should look like.
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And there's only one reference like where's your spurs? And
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then that's it and he just swears it for the
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rest of the movie.
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You're like, why, Yeah, it's how you would dress up
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as a cowboy for like a children's fair, Yes, you know,
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for like the pony rides and stuff, like, I mean,
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it's completely like this, And then we get Lewis Smith
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playing Perfect Tommy, who's a super handsome dude. Like, why
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do I know this guy? He looks he has real
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like James Franco vibes. He just has that square jaw
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on that kind of pretty boy face. And he really
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didn't do.
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Much outside of this from one other thing, yeah, the
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Heaven Ken, which I saw the drive inn. It was
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on the bill. It wasn't the first movie. I think
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it was like the second or third movie we saw
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that was a heaven Kid. That was the first and
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only time I've seen it.
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There you go, Clancy Brown. I love this guy, man,
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I love him. I actually liked his character raw Hide
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a lot in this and well, I won't say it now,
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maybe you have it in a favorite scene. Well I'll
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wait for it later. But always a pleasure, always pleasure
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to see Clancy Brown. Can we talk about Ellen Barkin
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though for a second? Go ahead. First of all, super talented,
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wonderful actress. I have to ask, though, is there any
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female actress that exudes more sexuality and sensuality? I know
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we talked about this in Sea of Love, but I mean,
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she is on fire and I was thinking maybe Gina
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Gershan was another one for me today could be Scarlet Johansson.
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But more importantly, the reason why I want to talk
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about her for a second is, holy shit, she's really
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strange in this. I don't know what her character is.
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I know who she's supposed to be in the movie,
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and I know she's supposed to be part of the
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relationship aspect of this, bringing some romance into the film,
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being bucer Ubonzai's romantic interest. But it's just weird. Did
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you think she's really emoting a lot her sexuality in this?
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And I did? It felt like she was in a
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different movie sometimes.
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Yeah, I didn't really like her character in this. Yeah,
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I don't even know why she was in it, correct,
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But again, I'm watching her on screen. I'm like, I
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would not have a poster of Ellen Barkin on my wall.
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But if I was somewhere and she walked into the room,
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all eyes turn. I find her incredibly sexy, But I
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don't think she's attractive, if that makes sense.
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Okay, all right, I'll disagree with you on that, but
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I but I get what you're saying.
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But there is a shot of her when Buckaroo sees
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her in the prison and she walks over and she
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gives us look and I'm like, wow, yeah, that I
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was like super hot. Like her, her skin is flawless
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and it doesn't look like there's any makeup, and I'm like, wow,
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she has great skin. She has great legs too. I
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would never consider her pretty per se, she's just sexy.
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Yeah, I mean, it's just it's it's just who she is.
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And but the character, the character is wildly bizarre. She's
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acting a little bit like a lunatic. In the first
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we understand that she has some emotional issues from the
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start because she's attempting suicide in the club scene. But
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then after Buckeroo gets her out of prison, then she
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is immediately actually attracted to him and really really wants
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to to be with him, And then we understand that
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she is sort of just lost in the world. She
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doesn't know who she's supposed to be, and she might
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be his wife's twin, the wife that he lost. I
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don't know. Do we know how he even lost his wife? Nope,
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we never find that out. And his wife's name was Peggy,
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but her name is Penny, so it might be a twin.
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And we find she's adopted. Like it's just all these
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character things are thrown in there, but nothing is really resolved.
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It's it's and she's just kind of being weird as wild.
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Yeah, because when he first sees her at the club,
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you would think he would have more of a reaction
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because he would recognize her thinking it was his wife
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and freaking out about and he just seems so calm
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about it. And then the rest of the group's kind
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of like, holy shit, this girl looks exactly like Peggy
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m He doesn't really seem phased about it until she
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keeps it act him like, why is there a picture
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of me in your house? It's like, oh, that was
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my wife.
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She's dead. That's over. Like what, Yeah? They just keep
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adding layers. How about we move right into then another
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wild performance in this movie, The Indelible John Lithgow, Oh
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my god. He plays the character Emilio Lozardo doctor Emilio
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Lizardo slash John Wharfin, and right from the get I
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was like, what is he doing? What is happening? He's amazing,
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He's amazing. He is really fun to watch. All of
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his physical movements, the way he turns his head and smiles.
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He's got these really messed up teeth and he's got
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this weird greenish face and you really you learn why,
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but still it's he must have had an absolute field
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day playing this role, because he's playing it so over
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the top, so exaggerated in every facial express moment, and
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he has a very heavy Italian accent on top of it,
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as he's this crazed Italian doctor of some kind. I
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don't know, what do you think about John Lithgow in this.
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Oh, he was so much fun. I think, Yeah, you'd
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be so excited to just have that kind of roles,
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just like, just do whatever you want, just do whatever
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you want and just have fun with it. And he's
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a blast. He is so freaking bizarre. Yea, every scene
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you can't take your eyes off of him. He's just
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so It's like, how did you come up with this?
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I did see a couple of the interviews that they
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had with some of the actors looking back on it,
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and all of them said the same thing. They had
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a blast making this movie. They had no idea what
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the movie was about, but they just had a blast
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doing it.
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Yeah. I love that. I love that he has some
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wonderful lines, and I actually think his character has some
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really good writing. Some fun writing because he basically screws
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up every like classic expression or thing. You could say,
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something like he'll say home is where you hang your
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hat instead of home is where the heart is kind
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of thing. And there's several times he does it in
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the movie, and it's pretty funny if you pick up
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on it. One line, though, I have to say, and
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just beware, I understand there's a racial overtone to this,
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but I couldn't believe he said it. But then I
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understood why because his character is talking about the electroids
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in this, but he literally is at the final action
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sequence when he's at the Yo Yo Dyne Propulsion Industry's
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headquarters where all the red lectroids have been residing and living.
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It's like their nest. He is trying to get them
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riled up and gives this just this big speech, and
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he says, blacks are on this planet here in New Jersey,
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coming to destroy us. And of course he's talking about
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the black lectroids, like holy crap, man, but wow.
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And then he keeps calling humans monkey boys, which makes
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sense because you know, he supposedly evolved from primates. So
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I'm like, that's hilarious, monkey boy.
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He's deranged in this and you do find out why,
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and I'm going to talk about it in a little
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bit here, but love him in this.
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Yeah, all right, So this movie did bomb. Now do
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you think if this movie was made now, which I
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don't think it would be made, do you think with
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all the superhero stuff and all that, do you think
474
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this movie would be have a better chance making it
475
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now than it did back then?
476
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I think so because of streaming, for sure. I think
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it would be critically acclaimed and it would get enough
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media attention that people would know what they're getting into
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when they were watching it. I think that's just the
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nature of the business today that you'd find out so
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much about The trailers would give out probably a lot
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more information. I don't think it would be a huge
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hit at the box office, I do not, but I
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think it would be critically acclaimed and so it would
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get a lot more eyes on it.
486
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Yeah, I did watch the trailer. Trailer gives you nothing.
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But if they made this, maybe even a decade later,
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with that same cast, at that point, you know who
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everybody is. Yeah, I think that definitely gets it more
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00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:15.240
butts for sure. But in that case, how do you
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promote this movie. It doesn't make any sense.
492
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It's a campy sci fi parody, is what it is.
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I mean, And I like that aspect of it because
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it doesn't take itself seriously. It's very fun. There's aspects
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00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:29.640
of this that in moments felt like it was a
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Zucker Brothers movie. When the President pulls out the declaration
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of war the short form, yes, now we got these
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little gags in here, just like a Zucker Brothers movie.
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And I was like, Wow, that's funny. Why does now
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this feel like a naked gun or something like that?
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So that's great, that's really fun. They definitely wanted this
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to be a bigger thing. They were really going for
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the multimedia aspect within the movie itself. Unfortunately, it just
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didn't work out that way. Like you said, it bankrupted
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this But you know, I'm going to save my other
506
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:06.359
complaints for later for that segment. But it just took
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me a minute to understand that this was a total campfest.
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And I think this is part of the draw off
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00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:15.839
for the movie is because you do really have to
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00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.240
watch multiple times. You just have to watch it twice
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00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:20.920
just understand the plot, and then once you figure that out,51200:28:21.079 --> 00:28:24.759
that's when you start catching the lines or the site51300:28:24.759 --> 00:28:27.440
gags and all that other stuff. Every time you watch it,51400:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.799
you're going to catch something different. Yeah, and I lied.51500:28:30.839 --> 00:28:32.920
Actually, I'm going to step on my complaints a little51600:28:32.920 --> 00:28:35.759
bit here and say that the issue I had too51700:28:35.960 --> 00:28:39.559
is just that I felt like some of these actors51800:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.920
and characters are in different movies. And then also Peter51900:28:42.960 --> 00:28:46.240
Weller himself kind of plays it sincerely, like there are52000:28:47.079 --> 00:28:50.000
there's some sincere aspects to this movie that feel like52100:28:50.079 --> 00:28:52.960
it was actually going to be a true sci fi52200:28:53.079 --> 00:28:56.720
action adventure film. But then it just takes these random52300:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.319
left turns and some weird things happen, and so it52400:29:00.480 --> 00:29:02.440
becomes a little bit of a bumpy road for me.52500:29:02.559 --> 00:29:04.000
The tone kind of goes up and down.52600:29:04.240 --> 00:29:06.519
Oh see, I'd like to I felt like he kind52700:29:06.519 --> 00:29:09.599
of played it straight throughout. Yeah, and just all this52800:29:09.680 --> 00:29:12.440
weirdness is happening, and to him it just seems like52900:29:12.480 --> 00:29:14.119
an everyday occurrence.53000:29:14.640 --> 00:29:17.440
Yeah, maybe that's probably the way he should have played it.53100:29:17.519 --> 00:29:19.920
Yeah, Yeah, all right, do you want to move on53200:29:19.960 --> 00:29:22.039
to favorite scenes or moments or he has anything else?53300:29:22.119 --> 00:29:24.119
Yeah, let's do it. No, let's go, let's get down53400:29:24.160 --> 00:29:24.359
with it.53500:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.599
Yeah, favorite scenes or moments and I believe you and53600:29:27.680 --> 00:29:32.079
I have the same for the first one, which is53700:29:32.119 --> 00:29:36.319
the deck car test. Heck, yeah, so this had to53800:29:36.359 --> 00:29:39.319
be interesting to you because you had no idea what53900:29:39.480 --> 00:29:40.480
the hell is going on?54000:29:41.039 --> 00:29:41.279
Right?54100:29:41.319 --> 00:29:43.720
And I even thought about this too. If you're watching54200:29:43.759 --> 00:29:47.039
this movie for the first time, they're like, okay, rocket car,54300:29:47.400 --> 00:29:50.160
all right, makes sense. And then next thing you know,54400:29:50.920 --> 00:29:53.839
Buckeroo drives it off road and then drives it through54500:29:53.880 --> 00:29:56.759
a mountain and all this weirdness happens and you're like,54600:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.680
what the fuck was that? Then you still have everyone54700:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.000
in the lab watching this, and they all seem to54800:30:04.039 --> 00:30:06.119
know that this was supposed to happen, or at least54900:30:06.160 --> 00:30:06.799
most of them did.55000:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.359
H It's so bizarre.55100:30:09.519 --> 00:30:12.079
It takes it right into it like this movie is55200:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.920
gonna be different from anything that you've seen, And now55300:30:15.960 --> 00:30:19.440
you're scrambling going, what the hell is going on? Yeah,55400:30:19.559 --> 00:30:22.799
whyser slim all over his car like Ghostbusters, what the55500:30:22.839 --> 00:30:25.119
hell is grab on to the underneath of his car,55600:30:25.279 --> 00:30:28.960
this little pod thing? What the hell hit his car55700:30:29.079 --> 00:30:31.240
while he was We don't know what's the eighth dimensioned55800:30:31.240 --> 00:30:33.240
at that point, but it's just really weird.55900:30:33.519 --> 00:30:35.359
It is a hell of an intro. It is one56000:30:35.400 --> 00:30:38.000
hell of an intro. I like the way it was shot.56100:30:38.079 --> 00:30:40.519
I like the way it was paced. It is again56200:30:40.920 --> 00:30:44.920
just like, yeah, give me a rock and roll Like56300:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.599
I guess it's a Ford three point fifty I read56400:30:47.839 --> 00:30:50.279
with all this stuff loaded on top of it, with56500:30:50.319 --> 00:30:53.039
a giant jet engine on the back, and it's just56600:30:53.240 --> 00:30:57.200
cruising through the wide open desert. It looks fantastic. I56700:30:57.279 --> 00:31:01.160
love Peter Weller's entrance, bucker Ubond's entrance. You do not56800:31:01.400 --> 00:31:04.039
see Peter Weller's face for the first eleven and a56900:31:04.079 --> 00:31:06.559
half minutes of this movie. You see him doing his57000:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.119
neurosurgeon thing, but he's behind the mask and he's talking57100:31:09.200 --> 00:31:11.559
to gold Bloom's character and recruiting him for the Hong57200:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.519
Kong Cavaliers. Meanwhile, everybody's waiting for him because he's supposed57300:31:15.559 --> 00:31:17.680
to be the test pilot for this jet car, and57400:31:17.759 --> 00:31:20.000
they got this great music and build up and they're like, well,57500:31:20.000 --> 00:31:22.200
we got to go without him, And then all of57600:31:22.240 --> 00:31:24.359
a sudden, of course, he appears right on the scene57700:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.319
magically and gets in the car and you have all57800:31:27.359 --> 00:31:32.240
the mission control speak in the background. They're like, just cool, gadgetry, cool,57900:31:32.240 --> 00:31:34.920
gadget tree. It's fun, but you're right when he goes58000:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.759
off track and then all of a sudden, the oscillation58100:31:37.880 --> 00:31:40.079
overthruster kicks in and you see the kind of laser58200:31:40.160 --> 00:31:43.480
beam shootout which softens the rock of the mountain and58300:31:43.559 --> 00:31:46.000
allows him to enter into the solid form and into58400:31:46.000 --> 00:31:50.240
the space within the mountain. You're like, what, literally, that's it? What?58500:31:51.799 --> 00:31:54.079
But man, it's like, Okay, where are we going to58600:31:54.160 --> 00:31:56.880
go from here? Yeah? Now it's just trying to catch58700:31:56.920 --> 00:31:59.759
up what's going on. Oh, there's one fun thing with58800:31:59.799 --> 00:32:02.079
this I wanted to mention during I read this in58900:32:02.119 --> 00:32:04.880
the trivia during the jet car test, the computer screen59000:32:05.279 --> 00:32:08.359
has those graphics that show three different words like it's59100:32:08.359 --> 00:32:11.079
a progression cuts back to this screen and in the59200:32:11.079 --> 00:32:14.839
car it says signed, and then it says sealed, and59300:32:14.880 --> 00:32:19.839
then delivered is the third one. Again, weird subtle thing59400:32:19.880 --> 00:32:23.039
they put in there for this campy comedy. It's weird.59500:32:24.400 --> 00:32:26.759
And then what do you have next for a favorite scene?59600:32:26.960 --> 00:32:33.079
I've got doctor Emilio Lozardo's flashback again. What you recognize59700:32:33.119 --> 00:32:35.960
John Lithgow right away, but he's got this weird makeup59800:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.279
on on these really dirty, messed up teeth and the59900:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.440
kind of spike weird hair going on, and it's just60000:32:44.039 --> 00:32:47.880
how he actually it's not even it's not even like60100:32:47.920 --> 00:32:50.200
a they do this flashback in this weird way. I'm60200:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.039
at a loss for words. It's just so confusing because60300:32:53.039 --> 00:32:56.640
he attaches like these electrodes, like with sponges or whatever,60400:32:56.720 --> 00:33:00.319
onto his tongue and other things onto his head, and60500:33:01.039 --> 00:33:03.400
it takes you back in time, like you're going back60600:33:03.440 --> 00:33:06.640
in time in his mind, as if he is shocking60700:33:06.720 --> 00:33:11.880
himself back into his memory to nineteen thirty eight where60800:33:12.599 --> 00:33:15.880
he was part of a failed test of his own60900:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.440
oscillation overthrust that was missing a part and thus entered61000:33:20.440 --> 00:33:26.519
the eighth dimension but only halfway and got basically beat61100:33:26.599 --> 00:33:30.960
up by some red lectroids and possessed by the leader61200:33:31.000 --> 00:33:34.440
of the Red lectroids, and that's why he's insane. It's61300:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.599
like a fun sequence just to watch Lithgow being a61400:33:37.640 --> 00:33:41.920
mad scientist and rushing through the test, even though Hikeda61500:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.640
is there, the young professor, young version of Hikda is61600:33:45.680 --> 00:33:50.480
with him, and it's just that cool contraption where it's61700:33:50.519 --> 00:33:53.839
he's strapped to that car that goes along the tracks61800:33:53.880 --> 00:33:56.799
and you know, he's supposed to go inside the wall,61900:33:57.240 --> 00:34:00.160
but he actually is thrown off and goes only half way,62000:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.720
and it's kind of scary. Actually, it's really creepy and weird.62100:34:03.359 --> 00:34:05.960
It's a fun scene and the GW is just going62200:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.480
for it. He's just going for it. So I had62300:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.760
fun with that. I enjoyed watching that a couple of times.62400:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.360
Yeah, you can't talk about this movie without trying to62500:34:14.360 --> 00:34:17.480
do a favorite scene with John Liscow And yeah, yeah,62600:34:17.519 --> 00:34:20.800
the flashback one is pretty funny because yeah, he goes62700:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.840
in he's not even normal to begin as a professor,62800:34:23.880 --> 00:34:26.239
and then he goes into the eighth or halfway goes62900:34:26.239 --> 00:34:29.079
through the eighth in mass and somehow comes out even weirder.63000:34:29.639 --> 00:34:32.719
Yep. And also I liked the when because he's like63100:34:32.719 --> 00:34:35.280
in this what is it the Trenton Home for the63200:34:35.519 --> 00:34:40.320
Clinically Insane or something like that, and we get to63300:34:40.320 --> 00:34:43.639
see Jonathan Banks in this as the nurse, the male63400:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.199
nurse like taking care of him, and it was great63500:34:46.199 --> 00:34:50.800
to see him. And there's that great line that he63600:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.800
calls it like you would kind of refer to he63700:34:53.880 --> 00:34:56.920
says Jonathan Banks as he's walking off, laugh of while63800:34:56.920 --> 00:35:02.320
you can monkey boy, so a lot of fun in then.63900:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.280
So scene moment for me that it just made me64000:35:06.400 --> 00:35:10.280
laugh out loud is when Buckero gets the message from64100:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.760
the leader of the Black Lectroids and I think that's64200:35:13.880 --> 00:35:17.199
John M. Dall and in order to watch the message,64300:35:17.199 --> 00:35:23.480
they're basically have bubble rap over their faces with lenses64400:35:23.559 --> 00:35:28.280
put in, and they're basically telling Buckeroo, you have to64500:35:28.320 --> 00:35:32.199
stop John Wharfin John Lithgow's character, or else we're gonna64600:35:32.199 --> 00:35:34.599
blow up your planet because we can't let the red64700:35:34.679 --> 00:35:35.960
leactoids leave the planet.64800:35:36.280 --> 00:35:36.519
Right.64900:35:36.719 --> 00:35:40.599
And in the middle of watching this, another conversation is65000:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.840
going on about Ellen Barkin's character Penny. Now they can't65100:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.199
find her. Just in the middle, I don't know because65200:35:47.239 --> 00:35:49.880
it's so deadpan, it made me laugh out loud, where65300:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.719
buck Crew says, well, everyone please shut up so I65400:35:52.719 --> 00:35:54.679
can hear the rest of this thing. It's not a65500:35:54.679 --> 00:35:57.239
funny line, but in the circumstance and just because this65600:35:57.320 --> 00:36:00.360
movie is so bizarre and he's wearing bubble rap on65700:36:00.440 --> 00:36:02.239
his face, I lost it.65800:36:02.480 --> 00:36:05.639
I think I wrote down that they look like jelly65900:36:06.320 --> 00:36:11.239
red light masks with goggles attached. Yeah, if you know,66000:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.519
have you seen those red light masks, the red light66100:36:13.559 --> 00:36:17.159
therapy masks. Yeah, people were, but this is like the66200:36:17.519 --> 00:36:22.159
like that jelly version, and it looks so weird. It's66300:36:22.199 --> 00:36:26.079
so rudimentary. And again it looks like kids found stuff66400:36:26.119 --> 00:36:28.400
in their backyard and put it together and they're like, okay,66500:36:28.679 --> 00:36:30.760
that you put on this mask and now you can66600:36:30.760 --> 00:36:33.760
see a hologram. Pretend, pretend like that's the power of this,66700:36:33.880 --> 00:36:35.760
that this mask, you know what I mean. Like, it's66800:36:35.800 --> 00:36:39.639
just feels like kids playing with toys and that's the way.66900:36:39.679 --> 00:36:43.119
And it just looks so cheesy this scene. It's funny67000:36:43.159 --> 00:36:46.280
you brought up the interruptions too, because I'm trying to67100:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.519
follow along with the plot this John m Dallas saying,67200:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.320
laying it all out for you, and it keeps cutting67300:36:53.360 --> 00:36:57.000
away to missus. Johnson is now entering and asking and67400:36:57.039 --> 00:36:59.239
talking about Penny, and I'm like, what, I can't hear.67500:36:59.400 --> 00:37:01.920
I can't hear what she's saying. And then Peter Weller67600:37:02.000 --> 00:37:05.079
literally says, can you all shut up? So I'm like, yes, please,67700:37:05.119 --> 00:37:09.000
But you actually miss lines because they're cutting away and67800:37:09.039 --> 00:37:12.800
other people are talking, and I'm like, this is already confusing.67900:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.039
Why why are you shooting like that? I love they68000:37:15.039 --> 00:37:18.880
brought it up for everybody. That was awesome too. Yep,68100:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.679
good old Uh who was it? John? The other the68200:37:22.760 --> 00:37:28.000
good the black electroid? Uh? Electoid or electroid? I say68300:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.119
electroid because I think of electrodes or electroids, because right,68400:37:31.159 --> 00:37:35.440
that's okay, I've heard you say electoid. That's why that's okay.68500:37:35.440 --> 00:37:40.000
I'm not uh for a second, maybe I had it wrong. Okay, Yeah,68600:37:40.039 --> 00:37:46.880
that's a John Parker, Yes, who also that is a Rastafarian. Yes,68700:37:48.760 --> 00:37:50.960
that's what my questions like, Why are all the black68800:37:51.000 --> 00:37:57.000
electroids actually Jamaicans? What a choice? Yep?68900:37:57.840 --> 00:37:59.199
All right, So of course I had to pick a69000:37:59.280 --> 00:38:03.880
John Lycal scene for my favorites, and it is when69100:38:04.320 --> 00:38:09.039
they kidnap Penny and they're about to torture her and69200:38:09.079 --> 00:38:14.320
he calls Bukaroo to try to get the isolator or yeah,69300:38:14.400 --> 00:38:15.360
what is it?69400:38:15.480 --> 00:38:17.559
The oscillation overthrust.69500:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.519
Her, overthrust her and he starts off the call normal69600:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.920
and then just as the scene goes on, he just chewing,69700:38:24.159 --> 00:38:26.719
chewing and chewing and chewing, chewing, and then there's a69800:38:26.760 --> 00:38:29.639
moment where he takes the phone and gives it to69900:38:29.719 --> 00:38:32.280
Penny and Penny starts screaming.70000:38:32.239 --> 00:38:34.320
Don't come get me, Buckaroo.70100:38:34.440 --> 00:38:38.039
And of course, weller again just super dry, Penny, get70200:38:38.079 --> 00:38:46.440
out the phone. Yeah it's great. She is super scared. Yeah,70300:38:46.480 --> 00:38:47.719
and he's just like, get out the phone.70400:38:48.880 --> 00:38:50.639
Now. This is making me think if I had watched70500:38:50.639 --> 00:38:53.199
this with you or a group, like a group of70600:38:53.239 --> 00:38:56.920
guys probably like our buddies, our phone, like, we probably70700:38:57.000 --> 00:38:58.800
have a lot lot more fun watching this.70800:38:59.480 --> 00:39:02.159
I agree that one hundred percent, because it's so bizarre,70900:39:02.239 --> 00:39:03.400
we'll just all be picking.71000:39:03.199 --> 00:39:06.519
Out different things. Yeah. Yeah, but yes.71100:39:06.760 --> 00:39:12.840
Another just scene chewing display by johnath Cowan that oh yeah, yeah,71200:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.000
he's fantastic and it's not even one of his biggest ones,71300:39:16.039 --> 00:39:17.840
but I just like that one.71400:39:17.960 --> 00:39:20.400
No, but there's just a whole every little moment is great.71500:39:20.519 --> 00:39:23.679
Buck rub being super dry again. Yeah, it's a good call.71600:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.519
That is funny. It's a funny line. All right. So71700:39:26.880 --> 00:39:28.920
I think I'm am I up next? Or do you71800:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.599
have one more? Okay, so I'm going straight to the end.71900:39:31.639 --> 00:39:34.400
I just have fun with the final action sequence, but72000:39:34.559 --> 00:39:40.599
especially when the red Electroid ship, the mothership if you will,72100:39:40.800 --> 00:39:43.559
has taken off and has failed to go into the72200:39:43.559 --> 00:39:45.760
eighth dimension. So they're basically I guess just trying to72300:39:45.760 --> 00:39:48.800
fly away and into space, but they're still in our72400:39:48.880 --> 00:39:53.559
atmosphere and flying through the sky. And somehow it's some72500:39:53.719 --> 00:39:58.480
good action here, some cool set design within the ship,72600:39:59.119 --> 00:40:03.519
the electroid ship, some weird it's just all of it.72700:40:03.559 --> 00:40:07.880
There's a lot of detail actually, and fun moment when72800:40:08.639 --> 00:40:12.239
we've got Christoph Lloyd as John Big Booty or Bouta.72900:40:12.519 --> 00:40:14.800
He keeps getting mad throughout saying boot Te, it's boote,73000:40:14.880 --> 00:40:18.440
it's boute And then finally John Wharfin Lithgow, he turns73100:40:18.440 --> 00:40:22.159
around shoots him. That's fun and the reason why this73200:40:22.280 --> 00:40:25.559
is actually I've chosen as my final favorite scene is73300:40:25.559 --> 00:40:31.519
that of course Bukeru Bonzi and John Parker have boarded73400:40:31.519 --> 00:40:34.519
the ship and they managed to basically well, they're actually73500:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.840
jettisoned by Lithgow, so now they're in a smaller ship73600:40:39.320 --> 00:40:42.639
and they end up using the laser gun to shoot73700:40:42.639 --> 00:40:45.480
the main ship and kill John Wharfin finally and those73800:40:45.480 --> 00:40:48.360
red lectroids aboard that ship. My favorite moment though, is73900:40:48.400 --> 00:40:52.119
now John Parker is going to use this jettison pod74000:40:52.599 --> 00:40:56.719
to fly off, and at some point Bukeru Banzai had74100:40:56.760 --> 00:41:01.039
ejected from the pond and He's now in a parachute74200:41:01.320 --> 00:41:06.880
descending and he's waving, waving to John park He's waving74300:41:06.920 --> 00:41:11.039
to the spaceship as it's taking off, and it's the74400:41:11.159 --> 00:41:16.079
cheesiest looking shot, and that made me laugh, if not74500:41:16.119 --> 00:41:18.519
out loud, I was definitely laughing on the inside. But74600:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.920
he's dropping in the parachute. Literally, it looks like he's74700:41:21.920 --> 00:41:23.800
thirty thousand feet in the air too. By the way,74800:41:23.920 --> 00:41:26.360
there's no he could breathe, and he's just dropping in74900:41:26.360 --> 00:41:31.079
the parachute through the clouds, waving to the spaceship that75000:41:31.239 --> 00:41:36.280
is taking off. It's it's insane, but it's fun. That75100:41:36.400 --> 00:41:38.760
made me laugh too. I could he's basically in the75200:41:38.800 --> 00:41:41.960
studio being hung six inches off the ground and it's75300:41:41.960 --> 00:41:45.360
probably just rear screen projection of clouds. Yeah. I'm like,75400:41:45.400 --> 00:41:45.719
oh my.75500:41:45.679 --> 00:41:49.159
God, this looks so bad. This looks so bad. But75600:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.159
the design is so weird. There's one point there in75700:41:53.199 --> 00:41:58.960
the escape hut and it's leaking like this milky substance75800:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.039
right in. Parker's like, Oh no, no, that's fine, that's normal,75900:42:02.199 --> 00:42:06.239
don't worry. It's insulating liquid. Yeah, And I was like,76000:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.480
wait a minute, are they going to be encased in76100:42:08.559 --> 00:42:10.679
this is the liquid going to fill the entire ship,76200:42:10.719 --> 00:42:13.480
and they're going to be able to be insulated by it,76300:42:13.519 --> 00:42:17.920
so they would be able to withstand the shock waves of.76400:42:17.880 --> 00:42:20.599
The or turbulence of the ship or something. But that76500:42:20.760 --> 00:42:23.960
number happens, right. I didn't even realize there was in76600:42:24.000 --> 00:42:28.719
a ship within the ship, yeah, until I got objected.76700:42:29.440 --> 00:42:31.840
How did even how did lift out even know they76800:42:31.880 --> 00:42:34.480
were on board either too? I didn't understand that there's76900:42:34.519 --> 00:42:35.119
a lot of those.77000:42:35.440 --> 00:42:42.000
Yeah, all right, this takes us to our Swiss cheese77100:42:42.000 --> 00:42:42.960
and complaint department.77200:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.360
And why do we call it Swiss cheese? Because although77300:42:45.400 --> 00:42:49.440
this movie is delicious, it does have peggy pretty pant holes.77400:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.880
Yes, if it doesn't have those piggy candles.77500:42:53.519 --> 00:42:56.000
Right, is it Penny? I should have said Penny, Sorry,77600:42:56.039 --> 00:42:57.679
Penny pretty pant holes? All right?77700:42:57.719 --> 00:43:01.039
If it doesn't have those Penny pretty holes, we just77800:43:01.159 --> 00:43:03.000
filed complaint with the complaint department.77900:43:03.360 --> 00:43:06.599
What do you have, Jason, Yeah, well I did choose78000:43:06.639 --> 00:43:09.360
Penny pretty pant holes because she's wearing I don't know78100:43:09.400 --> 00:43:11.679
what those pants are she's wearing at the end of78200:43:11.719 --> 00:43:14.000
the movie, because they're just there.78300:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.400
It's almost like she wrapped sheets around her somehow.78400:43:18.039 --> 00:43:22.360
Yeah, she's almost naked, and I'm not complaining, but it's78500:43:22.360 --> 00:43:26.400
a weird design choice for the pants. So here's one78600:43:26.440 --> 00:43:31.280
of my other complaints, obviously, but like bigger complaints. I78700:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.119
was really looking forward to listening to Bacca Robanzi and78800:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.800
the Hong Kong Cavaliers perform their music as rock stars.78900:43:38.760 --> 00:43:40.840
Only get two minutes of it, not even not even79000:43:41.159 --> 00:43:43.159
I don't think he even sings at all with when79100:43:43.199 --> 00:43:45.719
they're doing the rock song, then he gets on the piano,79200:43:46.320 --> 00:43:49.280
and then I'm not even sure Peter Weller is a79300:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.039
great singer, but then he sings a little bit, So79400:43:52.079 --> 00:43:54.079
we don't really get to see them do their rock thing.79500:43:54.199 --> 00:43:56.320
But it feels like that should have been a big79600:43:56.360 --> 00:44:01.360
part of this for some reason. Later on with the79700:44:01.400 --> 00:44:04.920
Big Booty and his partner, they're torturing Penny with like79800:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.000
ants and honey and they even attempt to drown her,79900:44:08.119 --> 00:44:12.480
but it doesn't happen. Like there's a lack of follow through,80000:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.119
is my point. I wanted to see things. You get80100:44:15.239 --> 00:44:18.079
led down a certain path, or you are about to80200:44:18.119 --> 00:44:22.960
think oh or Bakaru Bonzai, you know. Inside the World80300:44:23.039 --> 00:44:27.519
Watch one commands traveling Command Center Win a bago, which80400:44:27.519 --> 00:44:30.079
is pretty awesome. I love the idea of that. We80500:44:30.159 --> 00:44:31.760
know he's supposed to be a martial artist, and we80600:44:31.800 --> 00:44:33.800
see him at like the end of the meditation with80700:44:33.920 --> 00:44:36.599
his sword and he puts it away, and I'm like, oh,80800:44:36.760 --> 00:44:40.639
does he do any martial arts in this at all? No? Right,80900:44:41.599 --> 00:44:44.440
we're just kind of led on a little bit and81000:44:44.480 --> 00:44:45.760
then there's no follow through.81100:44:46.519 --> 00:44:49.400
I wrote down nothing for Swiss Cheese a complaints departament,81200:44:49.559 --> 00:44:54.119
just because this movie is so cheesy. I didn't know81300:44:54.119 --> 00:44:56.599
where to begin. I didn't know where to begin. There's81400:44:56.679 --> 00:45:00.599
just so much. It's so bizarre and weird. Movie itself81500:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.039
is cheesy. It's just it's just a big thing of cheese.81600:45:03.559 --> 00:45:06.239
Yeah, it's just we're led to believes that there's gonna81700:45:06.239 --> 00:45:08.239
be all these cool things that are gonna happen, and81800:45:08.320 --> 00:45:11.280
a lot of them just don't. So that was a complaint.81900:45:12.239 --> 00:45:14.960
I had some really simple other ones. I thought there82000:45:15.079 --> 00:45:19.119
would be better security at the Trenton Home for the Clinically, say,82100:45:19.519 --> 00:45:23.440
I think Jonathan Banks is literally the only person working there. Yeah,82200:45:23.480 --> 00:45:28.400
apparently seems like Yeah. Also, Buckeru Bonsai can just get82300:45:28.440 --> 00:45:31.440
people out of jail by saying hey let her out.82400:45:31.760 --> 00:45:36.840
How does that work? He's a world celebrity, it seems Yeah,82500:45:36.840 --> 00:45:40.480
oh completely, I was just confused.82600:45:40.719 --> 00:45:44.480
You can't explain it? Yeah, yeah, what what was everyone's role?82700:45:44.559 --> 00:45:46.960
Like Rawhide was kind of the right hand man and82800:45:47.280 --> 00:45:50.960
mm hmm. But like what does perfect Johnny do or82900:45:50.960 --> 00:45:51.599
perfect Tommy do?83000:45:51.719 --> 00:45:55.039
Yeah, perfect Tommy right reno? Yeah? What what are they83100:45:55.079 --> 00:45:57.280
supposed to do there? Again? Just supposed to be all83200:45:57.320 --> 00:46:01.840
around badasses. They just walk around with they're button down83300:46:01.880 --> 00:46:04.199
shirts and jeans and a gun tucked in their pants.83400:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.519
That's what they just do in case something goes Hey,83500:46:07.519 --> 00:46:09.639
why are they get called in to take care of it?83600:46:09.880 --> 00:46:11.480
And then once in a while they'll be on a83700:46:11.519 --> 00:46:15.119
computer analyzing something or doing some kind of tech work83800:46:15.440 --> 00:46:18.000
in the world watch one command center in the Winnebago83900:46:18.119 --> 00:46:20.119
or whatever. You know. It's like, I don't know, Yeah,84000:46:20.159 --> 00:46:21.960
there's nothing in them. And why is why is the84100:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.920
president in traction? Or what happened to him? No idea,84200:46:26.440 --> 00:46:30.800
you've recently just had back surgery. I don't know. Yeah, again,84300:46:30.960 --> 00:46:34.320
it's a wild choice. Yep, all right, we can move on. Yeah,84400:46:34.880 --> 00:46:35.840
you just had to go with it.84500:46:35.880 --> 00:46:37.679
That's that's all there is, too you just had to84600:46:37.719 --> 00:46:40.519
go with it and pay attention to try to understand84700:46:40.559 --> 00:46:41.360
what the how the plot is.84800:46:41.800 --> 00:46:44.239
That's all. Yeah, yeah, and that's yeah. When I started84900:46:44.239 --> 00:46:46.519
watching this and I was taking it seriously, I was like,85000:46:46.599 --> 00:46:50.159
oh no, this is a terrible movie. This is after85100:46:50.199 --> 00:46:53.840
the jet car sequence. I'm like, this is really bad. Like, oh,85200:46:54.079 --> 00:46:56.880
it's bad on purpose. I get it. At least we85300:46:57.400 --> 00:46:59.000
think it is. I don't know.85400:47:00.119 --> 00:47:03.119
Yeah, all right, I'm kind of excited about this segment, Jason,85500:47:03.199 --> 00:47:05.440
because I really want to know who you picked, because85600:47:05.679 --> 00:47:09.199
literally every scene you could pick someone for this, and85700:47:09.239 --> 00:47:13.599
we're talking about, Hey, it's that actor. So in this segment,85800:47:13.719 --> 00:47:16.239
we spotlight a character actor you have seen in many85900:47:16.280 --> 00:47:19.119
other films, an actor making their big screen debut, or86000:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.000
an actor it makes an oncredited cameo. It's hey, it's86100:47:22.000 --> 00:47:24.159
an actor. Who do we choose this week?86200:47:24.559 --> 00:47:27.920
Well? Bill Ban did we choose John David Ashton? Did86300:47:27.920 --> 00:47:32.719
we choose Jonathan Banks? Did we choose Hm? Who was86400:47:32.840 --> 00:47:37.119
Dan HYDEA? You could just keep going, but this week86500:47:37.199 --> 00:47:42.039
we chose for our Hey, it's that actor Yakov Smirnoff.86600:47:42.960 --> 00:47:47.920
He plays the National security advisor. Uh, love me some86700:47:48.039 --> 00:47:53.719
Yakov smeirenof. Yakov was born in Odessa or Ukrainian SSR USSR,86800:47:54.079 --> 00:47:57.800
which is now just known as Odessa, Ukraine. He is86900:47:57.840 --> 00:48:00.800
an actor, writer, and stand up comedian. I have very87000:48:00.800 --> 00:48:03.920
fond memories of watching his stand up as a kid,87100:48:04.800 --> 00:48:08.360
when he would perform as a naive Russian immigrant, of87200:48:08.400 --> 00:48:11.880
course with a heavy Russian accent, and his trademark line87300:48:12.039 --> 00:48:16.679
was what a Country? So talking about the US, here's87400:48:16.719 --> 00:48:19.480
his eighties as an actor. He was in Moscow on87500:48:19.480 --> 00:48:22.559
the Hudson in eighty four This and Buckle Robonds. I87600:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.960
obviously here in eighty four Brewsters Millions. He plays Vladimir.87700:48:26.000 --> 00:48:27.800
That was in eighty five. He's in the Money Pit87800:48:28.239 --> 00:48:31.280
plays shut Off. That was in eighty six. Then he87900:48:31.320 --> 00:48:33.679
did twenty six episodes of the TV series What a88000:48:33.679 --> 00:48:36.119
Country from eighty six to eighty seven. He was in88100:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.440
five episodes of one of your favorite shows, Bill Bent88200:48:39.639 --> 00:48:43.840
Night Court. I remember Yakov. Yeah, there you go, Yakov Korolenko.88300:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.239
That was from eighty four to ninety over that time span.88400:48:46.480 --> 00:48:48.280
After that, he only acted in a few other projects88500:48:48.320 --> 00:48:51.079
based out over the next thirty years, and although in88600:48:51.119 --> 00:48:55.320
twenty seventeen he was in an episode of Dice starring88700:48:55.480 --> 00:48:58.320
Andrew Dice Clay, and I mentioned that only because fun fact,88800:48:58.360 --> 00:49:03.119
he was once upon a time Andrew Dice Clay's roommate. Now,88900:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.599
I do love Yakov Samirenov in this because as he89000:49:06.679 --> 00:49:11.599
is playing the National Security Advisor, he has a line89100:49:11.639 --> 00:49:14.159
and he flubbs it and they kept the take in.89200:49:14.519 --> 00:49:16.599
It's great. You gotta go watch it because he says89300:49:16.960 --> 00:49:23.159
Strategic Space Command now reports all surveillance satellite communication is jammed.89400:49:23.559 --> 00:49:26.719
He totally messes it up and it's just left in89500:49:26.760 --> 00:49:30.599
the movie. Hilarious. I do want to mention this one89600:49:30.679 --> 00:49:33.360
piece of trivia because I think this is a really89700:49:33.480 --> 00:49:36.599
nice thing here. After the September eleven, two thousand and89800:49:36.599 --> 00:49:38.719
one attacks on the World Trade Centers, he began working89900:49:38.760 --> 00:49:41.320
on a mural to commemorate the event, just in time90000:49:41.320 --> 00:49:44.159
for the first anniversary of the event. The mural was90100:49:44.239 --> 00:49:46.440
printed on a huge banner with the quote the human90200:49:46.480 --> 00:49:48.239
spirit is not measured by the size of the act,90300:49:48.679 --> 00:49:50.719
but by the size of the heart. It was hung90400:49:50.760 --> 00:49:52.760
from a nearby building where it was clearly visible from90500:49:52.760 --> 00:49:56.159
ground zero for over a year. Yakov financed the banner90600:49:56.159 --> 00:49:59.199
with one hundred thousand dollars of his own money, but90700:49:59.280 --> 00:50:03.039
kept his donate anonymous for fear that people would see90800:50:03.039 --> 00:50:05.719
it as a joke because of his reputation as a comedian.90900:50:06.199 --> 00:50:09.079
Yakhov'smeir enough or hey, it's that actor this week.91000:50:09.679 --> 00:50:12.119
It is funny because when I was watching that scene,91100:50:12.199 --> 00:50:15.480
I was like, Wow, that looks a lot like spair Enough.91200:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.679
I'm like, oh, that can't be and then the credits91300:50:18.679 --> 00:50:22.000
are my, holy shit, that was That's hilarious. Yeah, yeah,91400:50:22.039 --> 00:50:23.559
I guess there's a whole bunch of people in that scene.91500:50:23.599 --> 00:50:25.719
I was like, I can't believe that's those people. Well,91600:50:26.159 --> 00:50:29.679
and Yakov's sma enough sharing a scene, right, Uh. Time91700:50:29.679 --> 00:50:31.480
to move on to facts and trivia. What are some91800:50:31.480 --> 00:50:35.079
facts in trivia we have about the adventures of Bakaru91900:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.280
Bonzai across the Eighth Dimension.92000:50:37.880 --> 00:50:40.280
Well, let's get into it. There is a scene in92100:50:40.320 --> 00:50:42.960
the movie where Reno and New Jersey go through a92200:50:43.039 --> 00:50:45.760
room with a watermelon in a machine. Really out of92300:50:45.760 --> 00:50:49.119
place for the scene. Reno actually says, I'll explain it later.92400:50:49.440 --> 00:50:53.000
But in the Blu Ray audio commentary, filmmakers explained that92500:50:53.039 --> 00:50:56.599
they had a confrontational relationship with one of the producers92600:50:56.960 --> 00:51:00.400
when they stopped receiving notes from the production, they decided92700:51:00.440 --> 00:51:02.960
to put the watermelon in a scene with no mention92800:51:03.079 --> 00:51:06.039
about it anywhere on the script. When they received no92900:51:06.159 --> 00:51:08.400
questions about it, they deduced that no one was screening93000:51:08.400 --> 00:51:10.920
the dailies anymore and they could keep making the film93100:51:11.159 --> 00:51:13.440
the way they wanted as long as they remained within93200:51:13.480 --> 00:51:18.039
the budget. So strange. Yeah, I love it though. So.93300:51:18.760 --> 00:51:23.079
Jamie Lee Curtis played buck Ru's mother in a flashback,93400:51:23.119 --> 00:51:25.760
but the scene was deleted, but the scene is available93500:51:25.920 --> 00:51:29.360
on a DVD release as an optional prequel or a93600:51:29.360 --> 00:51:32.280
special feature, and Jamie Lee Curtis is visible in a93700:51:32.280 --> 00:51:34.320
photo on the dashboard of the jet car in the93800:51:34.360 --> 00:51:38.199
wide screen version. Now, the version I saw did have93900:51:38.440 --> 00:51:41.079
that opening scene with James Lee Curtis as the mom,94000:51:41.519 --> 00:51:44.920
and it's basically a home movie footage of Buckeroo as eight,94100:51:45.480 --> 00:51:51.480
and it basically shows one of the tests for the oscillator.94200:51:52.119 --> 00:51:54.320
Buckeru's dad, I think, is supposed to be the driver94300:51:54.920 --> 00:51:58.320
and it was sabotaged. His parents died in an explosion.94400:51:58.639 --> 00:52:01.079
O got it? Yeah, that's cool. You got to see94500:52:01.079 --> 00:52:05.000
it though. Yeah. In the film Star Trek First Contact,94600:52:05.360 --> 00:52:08.880
the oscillation Overthruster is also on the bulkhead of ZEPHYRM.94700:52:08.920 --> 00:52:13.480
Cochrane's ship when he William Riker and Jordi LaForge launch94800:52:13.559 --> 00:52:16.400
on his ship. It's right there next to Commander Riker's head.94900:52:16.519 --> 00:52:19.760
In another Star Trek connection, the quote no matter where95000:52:19.840 --> 00:52:23.559
you go, there you are appears on the dedication plaque95100:52:23.599 --> 00:52:25.119
on the USS Excelsior.95200:52:25.519 --> 00:52:30.920
John Lithgalo's dialect coach, Roberto Terminilli, was a tailor on95300:52:31.000 --> 00:52:34.599
the twentieth century Fox Lot with a heavy Italian accent.95400:52:34.760 --> 00:52:37.960
John had Roberto speak his lines from the script into95500:52:37.960 --> 00:52:41.599
a tape recorder, which he then used to practice the accent.95600:52:42.079 --> 00:52:44.360
John then got him credit in the movie as a95700:52:44.400 --> 00:52:45.679
dialect coach for his help.95800:52:46.039 --> 00:52:49.320
Love It, Absolutely, Love It. I mentioned that there are95900:52:49.320 --> 00:52:52.079
a lot of cool names in this movie. Well. Many96000:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.320
names and terms were taken from Thomas Pinchon's book The96100:52:55.400 --> 00:52:58.639
Crying of Lot forty nine, most notably the company name96200:52:59.000 --> 00:53:02.119
Yo Yo Dyne. To this day, there is a Yo96300:53:02.199 --> 00:53:05.280
Yo Dyning dot com which serves as a fan site96400:53:05.320 --> 00:53:08.719
for the film. Yo Yo Dne itself was Pinchon's thinly96500:53:08.840 --> 00:53:13.199
veiled reference to rocket Dine, a major defense industry contractor96600:53:13.199 --> 00:53:16.559
and manufacture of rocket engines, founded just after World War Two.96700:53:17.480 --> 00:53:20.559
I went to the website. It's still up, oh nic.96800:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.400
It's just a very simple page and you can click96900:53:23.440 --> 00:53:27.000
on things that will lead you to Buckero Bonzi stuff,97000:53:27.360 --> 00:53:29.559
But it's kind of funny Yoyo dyne dot com.97100:53:29.840 --> 00:53:32.440
When it came time to film the end title sequence97200:53:32.800 --> 00:53:35.360
where Buckeru and his friends are walking around a dry97300:53:35.440 --> 00:53:38.599
Los Angeles aqueduct and step to the music, the music97400:53:38.639 --> 00:53:42.519
wasn't ready, so composer Michael Bottaker told the film crew97500:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.440
to use the song Uptown Girl by Billy Joel as97600:53:45.440 --> 00:53:49.079
a placeholder because it was the exact same tempo, and97700:53:49.119 --> 00:53:52.039
the scenes were filmed with Uptown Girl blaring from a97800:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.639
boonbox tied to the back of the comic truck. And97900:53:54.679 --> 00:53:57.639
if you go on YouTube, someone did this. They put98000:53:57.760 --> 00:54:01.920
Uptown Girl corusic over the so you could see that, yes,98100:54:01.960 --> 00:54:02.920
it does work.98200:54:03.039 --> 00:54:06.320
That's great. Well, this might be why there's a little98300:54:06.320 --> 00:54:09.440
bit of confusion happening with just the making of this movie.98400:54:09.480 --> 00:54:12.159
The original director of photography of the film is Jordan98500:54:12.280 --> 00:54:16.639
Cronin with who famously shot Blade Runner. The filmmakers specifically98600:54:16.679 --> 00:54:18.599
wanted their film to be rich in color and texture,98700:54:18.599 --> 00:54:22.000
for which cronin With was specifically known. However, several weeks98800:54:22.039 --> 00:54:26.079
into filming, producer David Begelman had cronin With replaced with98900:54:26.239 --> 00:54:30.199
Fred J. Cohne and camp against the wishes of the crew,99000:54:30.239 --> 00:54:33.760
including director WD Richter, in order to give the film99100:54:33.760 --> 00:54:37.639
its campy, flat visual appearance, which the filmmakers had never99200:54:37.760 --> 00:54:41.679
originally intended. Scenes shot by Croninwe still remain in the99300:54:41.679 --> 00:54:44.719
final cut, including the famous nightclub scene featuring the line99400:54:44.719 --> 00:54:46.480
wherever you go, there you are okay.99500:54:46.639 --> 00:54:50.440
Time to move on to box office. So The Adventures99600:54:50.480 --> 00:54:53.440
at buck Ru Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension hit theaters99700:54:53.480 --> 00:54:56.800
on August tenth, nineteen eighty four, opening on a whopping99800:54:56.840 --> 00:54:59.440
two hundred and thirty six screens stationwide I mean an99900:54:59.519 --> 00:55:03.480
estimated budget of seventeen million. The movie went on to100000:55:03.519 --> 00:55:06.519
earn just six point two million at the North American100100:55:06.559 --> 00:55:09.480
box office when it debuted. The movie opened in the100200:55:09.639 --> 00:55:12.800
sixteenth spot at the box office during a crowded summer100300:55:12.840 --> 00:55:16.119
pack with hits such as Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and Templeo100400:55:16.199 --> 00:55:19.280
Doom and Star Trek three The Search for Spock. By100500:55:19.360 --> 00:55:22.320
the end of its theatrical run, it ranked as the100600:55:22.559 --> 00:55:27.239
one hundred and first highest grossing movie of nineteen eighty four.100700:55:27.599 --> 00:55:32.199
Despite its disappointing theatrical run, Bakuru Bonzai slowly found life100800:55:32.239 --> 00:55:36.280
on cable TV and home video, then moving on to reviews.100900:55:36.320 --> 00:55:38.800
When growing up in the eighties, we would watch sneak101000:55:38.840 --> 00:55:41.360
previews with Geene Cisco and Roger Ebert to hear their101100:55:41.360 --> 00:55:44.800
reviews and watch clips of upcoming movies. Their review of101200:55:45.000 --> 00:55:48.639
the Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension was split.101300:55:49.360 --> 00:55:52.920
Rogers stated it was bad but never gives up. He101400:55:53.039 --> 00:55:57.079
reluctantly gave it a thumbs down with admiration for its101500:55:57.119 --> 00:56:01.559
flashes of brilliance. Gene enjoyed the film creativity and offbeat101600:56:01.639 --> 00:56:05.360
humor and predicted it would become a cult film. Both101700:56:05.360 --> 00:56:10.039
acknowledged that it's bizarre storytelling might confuse mainstream audiences. They101800:56:10.119 --> 00:56:13.800
especially praise the cast, including Peter Weller and John lithgals101900:56:13.840 --> 00:56:17.320
widely over the top performance. Ron Tomatoes gives it a102000:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.519
meter score of sixty eight percent, with a popcorn Meter102100:56:20.639 --> 00:56:24.360
score of seventy five percent. It also has an IMDb102200:56:24.519 --> 00:56:27.920
rating of six point two, so this takes us to102300:56:28.039 --> 00:56:31.360
additional thoughts and questions. We have any additional thoughts or102400:56:31.440 --> 00:56:33.320
questions about Buckeroo.102500:56:33.880 --> 00:56:36.960
Let's see, we talked about one of your favorite scenes,102600:56:37.719 --> 00:56:41.880
which is with John Mdall. Is that is that correct? Yes,102700:56:42.559 --> 00:56:45.360
kind of laying out the whole plot here in a102800:56:45.400 --> 00:56:50.320
way and one aspect, and I was just thinking, why102900:56:50.360 --> 00:56:54.639
didn't the Black Lectroids in their spaceship just come down103000:56:54.679 --> 00:56:59.079
to Earth and kill John Warfin themselves? Why charge Buckeroo103100:56:59.480 --> 00:57:02.280
with the tap of taking out Wharfin and then the103200:57:02.320 --> 00:57:07.119
whole convoluted plot of the Black Electroids having to attack103300:57:07.400 --> 00:57:12.360
Small and Scrussia, thus triggering a nuclear war which would103400:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.880
take out the Red Electroids. Why didn't they just come103500:57:15.920 --> 00:57:18.880
down and take care of business themselves. They sent John103600:57:18.920 --> 00:57:22.320
Parker down to help Buckeroo bond Zi.103700:57:22.840 --> 00:57:27.719
Yeah, it certainly made the movie a little bit shorter. Yeah,103800:57:27.800 --> 00:57:29.079
I don't know. I don't know an answer for that.103900:57:29.400 --> 00:57:32.719
Yeah, I'm just it just seemed like they were overthinking104000:57:32.719 --> 00:57:34.559
it a little bit and they just kind of put104100:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.519
it all on Buckeroo Bonsie to save the day, oh.104200:57:37.480 --> 00:57:41.840
Peaceful race, fear of being discovered. I don't know, I104300:57:41.960 --> 00:57:44.800
don't have a solid answer. But yeah, they should have104400:57:44.880 --> 00:57:48.159
just took out John Wharfin from the get go right, Yeah,104500:57:48.199 --> 00:57:50.800
I mean yeah, I think they could have if they104600:57:50.840 --> 00:57:53.800
wanted to. But it just leads me to another thought104700:57:53.960 --> 00:57:56.159
as well. And I didn't know if this was on104800:57:56.239 --> 00:57:58.920
purpose of some kind of parody or homage if you will,104900:57:58.920 --> 00:58:05.599
But John m All talks about having overthrown John Wharfin,105000:58:05.679 --> 00:58:08.760
who was the leader of this warrior cast of the105100:58:08.800 --> 00:58:15.159
Black Electroids then or now Red Electroids, and how then105200:58:15.840 --> 00:58:21.519
they imprisoned these quote unquote bad electroids in the eighth dimension.105300:58:22.360 --> 00:58:27.800
This felt very superman esque to me, very general Zod105400:58:28.039 --> 00:58:31.800
being sent to you know again, leader of a warrior cast,105500:58:31.920 --> 00:58:33.960
kind of being thrown into the phantom zone.105600:58:34.320 --> 00:58:37.159
Does that makes sense? Yes, I don't know. I just105700:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.159
saw a direct correlation there. Just yeah, that's interesting, just105800:58:40.199 --> 00:58:40.880
an observation.105900:58:41.119 --> 00:58:43.320
Didn't think about that. I just want to know how106000:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.880
the one group of Red Electroids actually got.106100:58:46.719 --> 00:58:49.719
Out, So that's that was actually I don't know if106200:58:49.760 --> 00:58:51.920
I should have put that in my complaints because that106300:58:52.119 --> 00:58:57.000
was glossed over supposedly when and I read this either106400:58:57.000 --> 00:58:59.000
au on Wikipedia or IMDb. I don't know. In the106500:58:59.039 --> 00:59:02.599
research somewhere during my favorite scene when we see the106600:59:02.599 --> 00:59:08.000
flashback of at that moment, Emilio Lizardo testing his oscillation106700:59:08.239 --> 00:59:12.480
over Thruster and failing, he manages to break halfway through106800:59:12.559 --> 00:59:17.400
into the eighth dimension, and supposedly that caused the escape. Okay,106900:59:17.719 --> 00:59:20.920
it's never clearly explained in the actual movie. Yeah, I107000:59:20.960 --> 00:59:23.639
guess you just got to put one on one together. Yeah,107100:59:23.840 --> 00:59:25.519
you got to connect a lot of dots somehow in107200:59:25.559 --> 00:59:26.480
this There's.107300:59:26.320 --> 00:59:30.559
A lot of stuff because I needn't understand. Here's another107400:59:30.599 --> 00:59:32.800
actor we didn't mention because it was a Was it107500:59:32.840 --> 00:59:36.519
Matt Clark who was a defense Secretary of Defense? Is107600:59:36.559 --> 00:59:37.840
he the one from The Incredible Hulk?107700:59:38.440 --> 00:59:41.840
Oh? Is he? I wouldn't know that, probably.107800:59:41.559 --> 00:59:46.920
Okay, because he asks the company to build a fighter107900:59:47.000 --> 00:59:50.920
jet and they're using the the defense money to rebuild108000:59:50.920 --> 00:59:55.079
their spaceship right at Yo Yo Dane Propulsion. So is108100:59:55.360 --> 00:59:57.320
he supposed to be a good guy a bad guy?108200:59:58.000 --> 01:00:01.119
I think is supposed to be a bad guy, right,108301:00:01.159 --> 01:00:03.880
because then he tries to take the oscillation over Thruster108401:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.159
and put it into the jet car, right because he108501:00:06.199 --> 01:00:07.559
wants himself as a weapon.108601:00:07.639 --> 01:00:12.239
Yeah, right, But he's not in cahoots with the let108701:00:12.760 --> 01:00:13.599
Troy's because.108801:00:13.519 --> 01:00:16.760
I don't think so. That was just another weird ass108901:00:16.960 --> 01:00:19.840
just thing in this movie, like who is he? Why109001:00:19.920 --> 01:00:21.440
is he there? Why is he in the middle of109101:00:21.480 --> 01:00:24.280
all this? What's the purpose of his character? I love109201:00:24.320 --> 01:00:27.239
when he does manage to get the Hong Kong Cavaliers109301:00:27.280 --> 01:00:30.719
through security and into Yoyo Dane posted by distracting the109401:00:30.719 --> 01:00:33.320
two guards and he's writing there, He's like, I want109501:00:33.360 --> 01:00:37.000
to get I want to get your names. What's your name? John? Yah? Yah?109601:00:37.559 --> 01:00:41.000
What's your name John Smallberries? Yeah?109701:00:42.400 --> 01:00:44.840
And then you don't notice this giant bust just driving109801:00:44.880 --> 01:00:45.840
through the entrance gate.109901:00:46.039 --> 01:00:52.119
Yeah, that's great. A couple other funny things. I just110001:00:52.159 --> 01:00:54.480
wanted to you go ahead, if you have a you110101:00:54.480 --> 01:00:56.920
what are your thoughts? Okay, just a couple of funny things.110201:00:56.920 --> 01:01:01.840
When during the that final sequence at Yo Yo Dine,110301:01:01.960 --> 01:01:05.360
they call it the electroid bivowhac area, which is kind110401:01:05.360 --> 01:01:08.000
of oh yes, and where one of the electroids goes110501:01:08.039 --> 01:01:10.400
to sound alarm. Stenciled in bright pink letters on the110601:01:10.400 --> 01:01:13.239
wall to the left of all those electrical circuit boxes110701:01:13.400 --> 01:01:18.119
is find the crow shoe missing circuit win a free110801:01:18.199 --> 01:01:21.760
trip to planet ten. And then one of my other110901:01:21.800 --> 01:01:25.119
favorite lines is actually by the general in the room111001:01:25.159 --> 01:01:29.519
with the President and National Security Advisor Security Defense. He says,111101:01:30.079 --> 01:01:33.599
I'm so scared right now. I'm barely holding my fudge.111201:01:34.800 --> 01:01:37.559
All right, something like I'm barely holding my fudge right111301:01:37.559 --> 01:01:40.199
now is what he says. And then the woman yells111401:01:40.199 --> 01:01:42.079
at him, is like, get your shit together or whatever.111501:01:42.119 --> 01:01:45.440
But I couldn't believe that was an actual line.111601:01:45.519 --> 01:01:50.400
Hip all ready to go on to review. Yeah, let's111701:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.599
do it, okay, on a scale of one to five, Johns,111801:01:54.119 --> 01:01:56.760
what you give I'm gonna say this for the last time,111901:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.320
the Adventures of Buck ru Bonzai across the eath mention.112001:02:00.840 --> 01:02:03.760
I'm really wavering here because I had a lot of112101:02:03.840 --> 01:02:06.320
laughs just talking about it with you, which means it112201:02:06.480 --> 01:02:09.000
had some real entertainment value. And I did think this112301:02:09.119 --> 01:02:10.800
was a lot of fun. So I'm going to go112401:02:10.880 --> 01:02:13.360
with three point five John's. I was going to give112501:02:13.400 --> 01:02:15.039
it three for a moment there, but I'm going to112601:02:15.159 --> 01:02:18.159
up it to three point five because of its cult status.112701:02:18.239 --> 01:02:20.800
It does have its fans. I'm doing it for Rob112801:02:20.880 --> 01:02:23.639
Huckstad out there, wherever you may be. I hope you're well,112901:02:24.199 --> 01:02:27.639
I think this film was very ambitious and it doesn't113001:02:27.679 --> 01:02:31.239
totally work. Unfortunately, the writing got in the way and113101:02:31.320 --> 01:02:35.599
the plot is too convoluted, so it's distracting and that's113201:02:35.719 --> 01:02:39.119
very unfortunate. But if you can take a step back113301:02:39.159 --> 01:02:41.599
and look at it for what it is, this is113401:02:41.639 --> 01:02:44.639
a funny movie. A lot of thought was put into it.113501:02:44.800 --> 01:02:49.320
There's some great performances, especially by Lithgow, and it is113601:02:49.519 --> 01:02:54.239
a campy, cheese fest. You just are always asking why113701:02:54.280 --> 01:02:56.679
did they do this? Why did they do that? And113801:02:56.760 --> 01:02:58.719
if you can just let that go and don't care,113901:02:59.360 --> 01:03:02.000
you're going to have a time. I'm going three point five.114001:03:02.039 --> 01:03:03.239
I admire the effort.114101:03:03.599 --> 01:03:06.079
I'm right there with you three and a half. Quickly,114201:03:06.280 --> 01:03:08.400
here's an actor we did not mention because it was114301:03:08.400 --> 01:03:10.119
one when I saw him on screen was driving me crazy,114401:03:10.239 --> 01:03:12.199
like what have I seen him before? And that was114501:03:12.239 --> 01:03:15.599
Bill Henderson, who was at Casper Linley, who was part114601:03:15.639 --> 01:03:17.440
of the what is it the Blue.114701:03:17.519 --> 01:03:19.920
The Blue Blaze Irregulars.114801:03:19.679 --> 01:03:21.559
And I was like, what have I seen this guy in?114901:03:21.920 --> 01:03:24.360
And he was in City Slickers. He was one of115001:03:24.360 --> 01:03:26.320
the the trails. So I was driving up the wall115101:03:26.360 --> 01:03:27.840
and I found out he was a singer too. I115201:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.519
was like, holy crap, that's really cool three and a115301:03:30.559 --> 01:03:35.719
half for me. Yes, the plot, Holy molly, I've never.115401:03:35.480 --> 01:03:37.599
Seen anything so confusing in my life.115501:03:38.000 --> 01:03:42.800
But that cast, bring that cast together, and they just115601:03:42.840 --> 01:03:46.079
looked like they were having fun. Yeah, it's a weird movie.115701:03:46.159 --> 01:03:49.800
I just don't understand how this movie got made. I115801:03:49.880 --> 01:03:52.840
really don't. I think it just blows my mind that115901:03:53.199 --> 01:03:56.039
someone was able to convince someone to put out seventeen116001:03:56.119 --> 01:03:58.159
million dollars, which is a lot of money back then,116101:03:58.480 --> 01:04:01.000
to make this movie with the thought that they were116201:04:01.039 --> 01:04:04.440
going to be sequels. Yeah, but it's still enjoyable. I116301:04:04.440 --> 01:04:06.440
think it's just because it's so.116401:04:06.639 --> 01:04:07.719
Off the wall. You just have to know.116501:04:07.840 --> 01:04:09.559
You just have to realize going to this movie's gonna116601:04:09.559 --> 01:04:11.760
be off the wall. It's hard to figure out the plot,116701:04:11.800 --> 01:04:14.159
which hopefully we helped you out talking about this through116801:04:14.199 --> 01:04:19.039
this episode. But just seeing all these people that were116901:04:19.079 --> 01:04:21.920
in this movie, I don't I can't think of another117001:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.039
movie like this where it just seems like every scene117101:04:24.039 --> 01:04:25.559
I'm like, oh my god, I recognize that person. Oh117201:04:25.559 --> 01:04:26.760
my god, to recognize that person.117301:04:27.280 --> 01:04:29.079
Sure, it was weird in a way.117401:04:29.119 --> 01:04:32.760
You wish Hollywood would take a chance on movies like this.117501:04:33.400 --> 01:04:36.519
But it, yeah, definitely needs to be pared down a117601:04:36.559 --> 01:04:41.559
little bit. But the idea itself, I appreciate. The execution117701:04:42.000 --> 01:04:45.039
isn't quite there. I don't know. There's something about this movie.117801:04:45.159 --> 01:04:48.119
I like, I'm not a diehard. But if you told117901:04:48.159 --> 01:04:50.559
me you love this movie, I could see it. If118001:04:50.599 --> 01:04:52.519
you told me this movie sucks and you hate it,118101:04:52.800 --> 01:04:55.119
I can see that too. I couldn't argue with you118201:04:55.199 --> 01:04:58.000
for or against. I'm like, whatever, your opinion of this118301:04:58.320 --> 01:05:01.960
movie is one hundred percent, get it. It's not like118401:05:02.079 --> 01:05:04.800
someone telling me Star Wars is the worst movie ever.118501:05:04.840 --> 01:05:06.920
I'm like, come on, man, you're totally wrong there. Yeah,118601:05:06.960 --> 01:05:11.000
but yes, if you said I hate Buckeru Bonzai, I'm like, okay, yeah,118701:05:11.039 --> 01:05:12.840
I could see it might not be your hupetea.118801:05:13.039 --> 01:05:15.800
This is just a weird wild ride, and uh I118901:05:15.880 --> 01:05:19.400
look forward to revisiting again down the line. See how119001:05:19.400 --> 01:05:21.880
I feel about it, knowing what I know now, Yeah, you.119101:05:21.920 --> 01:05:23.920
Had to see if you can find that footage that119201:05:23.960 --> 01:05:27.480
you missed on YouTube. Maybe for sure on there, Jamie119301:05:27.519 --> 01:05:28.679
Lee curnis'd be interesting.119401:05:28.760 --> 01:05:32.679
Yeah, supposedly the DVD has there's DVD releases that have119501:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.280
a lot more things added to this that could explain things,119601:05:36.360 --> 01:05:39.719
especially I forget what the final title card was about119701:05:39.800 --> 01:05:43.320
with the the name of the sequel, Oh crap. In119801:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.599
the original script, Buckeroo was supposed to have an arch119901:05:45.840 --> 01:05:49.719
enemy named Hanoi Zan, who was never seen but reference120001:05:49.800 --> 01:05:52.760
to by Buckeroo and the other characters. All scenes containing120101:05:52.800 --> 01:05:56.400
dialogue regarding Zan were deleted from the film's theatrical release,120201:05:56.440 --> 01:05:59.199
but are now available on DVD. Zen was supposed to120301:05:59.239 --> 01:06:01.800
be the mysterious head of a crime syndicate called the120401:06:01.840 --> 01:06:06.000
World Crime League, and also the man who murdered Buckeroo's120501:06:06.039 --> 01:06:08.559
parents and wife Peggy, which we do see in that120601:06:08.639 --> 01:06:11.639
opening scene that you missed. So that explains that, and120701:06:11.639 --> 01:06:14.679
then explains why the sequel is called The Adventures of120801:06:14.679 --> 01:06:17.679
bucker Rebounds, I think, and versus something that we're fighting120901:06:18.360 --> 01:06:21.280
versus the World Crime League or whatever. Yeah, that explains that.121001:06:21.400 --> 01:06:24.440
Yeah, okay, with that, that wraps up this week's episode.121101:06:24.599 --> 01:06:27.159
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stay awesome and have an excellent day. We are not122001:06:52.320 --> 01:06:55.000
in the eighth dimension. We are over a new Jersey.122101:06:55.559 --> 01:06:59.159
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