June 15, 2026

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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Season 6

"Beings from Another Dimension have invaded your world." For this episode, we discuss the cult classic 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.' The movie stars Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Lloyd. Directed by W.D. Richter.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension IMDB - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_the%20adventures%20of%20bu
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Rotten Tomatoes - https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_adventures_of_buckaroo_banzai

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Hello, and welcome to the All Eighties Movies Podcast, the

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podcast where we talk about the block, clusterer, stuff.

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Locks, everythink in between. One of the precious decade for movies,

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nineteen eighties.

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I'm your host Bill Band. Along with me on this

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journey of read this in eighties movies is my co

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host Jason Massek. 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 raty PG with

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the 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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Because even I had to keep going back In a way,

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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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And I just feel like, oh.

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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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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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And then another interesting thing was there's only like three

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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

452
00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:14.119
on it. One line, though, I have to say, and

453
00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:17.119
just beware, I understand there's a racial overtone to this,

454
00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:19.279
but I couldn't believe he said it. But then I

455
00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:22.920
understood why because his character is talking about the electroids

456
00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:26.039
in this, but he literally is at the final action

457
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:29.319
sequence when he's at the Yo Yo Dyne Propulsion Industry's

458
00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:33.519
headquarters where all the red lectroids have been residing and living.

459
00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.400
It's like their nest. He is trying to get them

460
00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:39.920
riled up and gives this just this big speech, and

461
00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:44.440
he says, blacks are on this planet here in New Jersey,

462
00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:49.359
coming to destroy us. And of course he's talking about

463
00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:57.680
the black lectroids, like holy crap, man, but wow.

464
00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:00.960
And then he keeps calling humans monkey boys, which makes

465
00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:03.799
sense because you know, he supposedly evolved from primates. So

466
00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:06.319
I'm like, that's hilarious, monkey boy.

467
00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:09.440
He's deranged in this and you do find out why,

468
00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:11.680
and I'm going to talk about it in a little

469
00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:13.480
bit here, but love him in this.

470
00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:18.200
Yeah, all right, So this movie did bomb. Now do

471
00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:20.720
you think if this movie was made now, which I

472
00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.160
don't think it would be made, do you think with

473
00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:25.440
all the superhero stuff and all that, do you think

474
00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:28.440
this movie would be have a better chance making it

475
00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:30.160
now than it did back then?

476
00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.359
I think so because of streaming, for sure. I think

477
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:38.279
it would be critically acclaimed and it would get enough

478
00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:40.839
media attention that people would know what they're getting into

479
00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:44.480
when they were watching it. I think that's just the

480
00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:47.039
nature of the business today that you'd find out so

481
00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:49.839
much about The trailers would give out probably a lot

482
00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:53.480
more information. I don't think it would be a huge

483
00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:56.200
hit at the box office, I do not, but I

484
00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.559
think it would be critically acclaimed and so it would

485
00:26:58.599 --> 00:27:00.119
get a lot more eyes on it.

486
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:02.680
Yeah, I did watch the trailer. Trailer gives you nothing.

487
00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:06.559
But if they made this, maybe even a decade later,

488
00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:09.200
with that same cast, at that point, you know who

489
00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:12.319
everybody is. Yeah, I think that definitely gets it more

490
00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:15.240
butts for sure. But in that case, how do you

491
00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:17.599
promote this movie. It doesn't make any sense.

492
00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:20.400
It's a campy sci fi parody, is what it is.

493
00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:22.920
I mean, And I like that aspect of it because

494
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:27.759
it doesn't take itself seriously. It's very fun. There's aspects

495
00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:29.640
of this that in moments felt like it was a

496
00:27:29.720 --> 00:27:34.079
Zucker Brothers movie. When the President pulls out the declaration

497
00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:37.599
of war the short form, yes, now we got these

498
00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.000
little gags in here, just like a Zucker Brothers movie.

499
00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:42.920
And I was like, Wow, that's funny. Why does now

500
00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:45.799
this feel like a naked gun or something like that?

501
00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:50.160
So that's great, that's really fun. They definitely wanted this

502
00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:52.319
to be a bigger thing. They were really going for

503
00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:57.920
the multimedia aspect within the movie itself. Unfortunately, it just

504
00:27:57.920 --> 00:27:59.759
didn't work out that way. Like you said, it bankrupted

505
00:27:59.759 --> 00:28:02.440
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

507
00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:11.559
me a minute to understand that this was a total campfest.

508
00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:13.680
And I think this is part of the draw off

509
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:15.839
for the movie is because you do really have to

510
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.240
watch multiple times. You just have to watch it twice

511
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:20.920
just understand the plot, and then once you figure that out,

512
00:28:21.079 --> 00:28:24.759
that's when you start catching the lines or the site

513
00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:27.440
gags and all that other stuff. Every time you watch it,

514
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:30.799
you're going to catch something different. Yeah, and I lied.

515
00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:32.920
Actually, I'm going to step on my complaints a little

516
00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:35.759
bit here and say that the issue I had too

517
00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:39.559
is just that I felt like some of these actors

518
00:28:39.559 --> 00:28:42.920
and characters are in different movies. And then also Peter

519
00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:46.240
Weller himself kind of plays it sincerely, like there are

520
00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:50.000
there's some sincere aspects to this movie that feel like

521
00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:52.960
it was actually going to be a true sci fi

522
00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:56.720
action adventure film. But then it just takes these random

523
00:28:56.799 --> 00:29:00.319
left turns and some weird things happen, and so it

524
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:02.440
becomes a little bit of a bumpy road for me.

525
00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:04.000
The tone kind of goes up and down.

526
00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:06.519
Oh see, I'd like to I felt like he kind

527
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:09.599
of played it straight throughout. Yeah, and just all this

528
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:12.440
weirdness is happening, and to him it just seems like

529
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:14.119
an everyday occurrence.

530
00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:17.440
Yeah, maybe that's probably the way he should have played it.

531
00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:19.920
Yeah, Yeah, all right, do you want to move on

532
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:22.039
to favorite scenes or moments or he has anything else?

533
00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:24.119
Yeah, let's do it. No, let's go, let's get down

534
00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:24.359
with it.

535
00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.599
Yeah, favorite scenes or moments and I believe you and

536
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:32.079
I have the same for the first one, which is

537
00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:36.319
the deck car test. Heck, yeah, so this had to

538
00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:39.319
be interesting to you because you had no idea what

539
00:29:39.480 --> 00:29:40.480
the hell is going on?

540
00:29:41.039 --> 00:29:41.279
Right?

541
00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:43.720
And I even thought about this too. If you're watching

542
00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:47.039
this movie for the first time, they're like, okay, rocket car,

543
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:50.160
all right, makes sense. And then next thing you know,

544
00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:53.839
Buckeroo drives it off road and then drives it through

545
00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:56.759
a mountain and all this weirdness happens and you're like,

546
00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:00.680
what the fuck was that? Then you still have everyone

547
00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.000
in the lab watching this, and they all seem to

548
00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:06.119
know that this was supposed to happen, or at least

549
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:06.799
most of them did.

550
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.359
H It's so bizarre.

551
00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:12.079
It takes it right into it like this movie is

552
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.920
gonna be different from anything that you've seen, And now

553
00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:19.440
you're scrambling going, what the hell is going on? Yeah,

554
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:22.799
whyser slim all over his car like Ghostbusters, what the

555
00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:25.119
hell is grab on to the underneath of his car,

556
00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:28.960
this little pod thing? What the hell hit his car

557
00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:31.240
while he was We don't know what's the eighth dimensioned

558
00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:33.240
at that point, but it's just really weird.

559
00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:35.359
It is a hell of an intro. It is one

560
00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:38.000
hell of an intro. I like the way it was shot.

561
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:40.519
I like the way it was paced. It is again

562
00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:44.920
just like, yeah, give me a rock and roll Like

563
00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:47.599
I guess it's a Ford three point fifty I read

564
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:50.279
with all this stuff loaded on top of it, with

565
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:53.039
a giant jet engine on the back, and it's just

566
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:57.200
cruising through the wide open desert. It looks fantastic. I

567
00:30:57.279 --> 00:31:01.160
love Peter Weller's entrance, bucker Ubond's entrance. You do not

568
00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:04.039
see Peter Weller's face for the first eleven and a

569
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:06.559
half minutes of this movie. You see him doing his

570
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:09.119
neurosurgeon thing, but he's behind the mask and he's talking

571
00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:11.559
to gold Bloom's character and recruiting him for the Hong

572
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:15.519
Kong Cavaliers. Meanwhile, everybody's waiting for him because he's supposed

573
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:17.680
to be the test pilot for this jet car, and

574
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:20.000
they got this great music and build up and they're like, well,

575
00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:22.200
we got to go without him, And then all of

576
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:24.359
a sudden, of course, he appears right on the scene

577
00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.319
magically and gets in the car and you have all

578
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:32.240
the mission control speak in the background. They're like, just cool, gadgetry, cool,

579
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:34.920
gadget tree. It's fun, but you're right when he goes

580
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.759
off track and then all of a sudden, the oscillation

581
00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:40.079
overthruster kicks in and you see the kind of laser

582
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:43.480
beam shootout which softens the rock of the mountain and

583
00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:46.000
allows him to enter into the solid form and into

584
00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:50.240
the space within the mountain. You're like, what, literally, that's it? What?

585
00:31:51.799 --> 00:31:54.079
But man, it's like, Okay, where are we going to

586
00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:56.880
go from here? Yeah? Now it's just trying to catch

587
00:31:56.920 --> 00:31:59.759
up what's going on. Oh, there's one fun thing with

588
00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:02.079
this I wanted to mention during I read this in

589
00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:04.880
the trivia during the jet car test, the computer screen

590
00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:08.359
has those graphics that show three different words like it's

591
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:11.079
a progression cuts back to this screen and in the

592
00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:14.839
car it says signed, and then it says sealed, and

593
00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:19.839
then delivered is the third one. Again, weird subtle thing

594
00:32:19.880 --> 00:32:23.039
they put in there for this campy comedy. It's weird.

595
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:26.759
And then what do you have next for a favorite scene?

596
00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:33.079
I've got doctor Emilio Lozardo's flashback again. What you recognize

597
00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:35.960
John Lithgow right away, but he's got this weird makeup

598
00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.279
on on these really dirty, messed up teeth and the

599
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:43.440
kind of spike weird hair going on, and it's just

600
00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:47.880
how he actually it's not even it's not even like

601
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:50.200
a they do this flashback in this weird way. I'm

602
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.039
at a loss for words. It's just so confusing because

603
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:56.640
he attaches like these electrodes, like with sponges or whatever,

604
00:32:56.720 --> 00:33:00.319
onto his tongue and other things onto his head, and

605
00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:03.400
it takes you back in time, like you're going back

606
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:06.640
in time in his mind, as if he is shocking

607
00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:11.880
himself back into his memory to nineteen thirty eight where

608
00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:15.880
he was part of a failed test of his own

609
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.440
oscillation overthrust that was missing a part and thus entered

610
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:26.519
the eighth dimension but only halfway and got basically beat

611
00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:30.960
up by some red lectroids and possessed by the leader

612
00:33:31.000 --> 00:33:34.440
of the Red lectroids, and that's why he's insane. It's

613
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.599
like a fun sequence just to watch Lithgow being a

614
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:41.920
mad scientist and rushing through the test, even though Hikeda

615
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.640
is there, the young professor, young version of Hikda is

616
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:50.480
with him, and it's just that cool contraption where it's

617
00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:53.839
he's strapped to that car that goes along the tracks

618
00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:56.799
and you know, he's supposed to go inside the wall,

619
00:33:57.240 --> 00:34:00.160
but he actually is thrown off and goes only half way,

620
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:02.720
and it's kind of scary. Actually, it's really creepy and weird.

621
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:05.960
It's a fun scene and the GW is just going

622
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.480
for it. He's just going for it. So I had

623
00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.760
fun with that. I enjoyed watching that a couple of times.

624
00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:14.360
Yeah, you can't talk about this movie without trying to

625
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:17.480
do a favorite scene with John Liscow And yeah, yeah,

626
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:20.800
the flashback one is pretty funny because yeah, he goes

627
00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:23.840
in he's not even normal to begin as a professor,

628
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:26.239
and then he goes into the eighth or halfway goes

629
00:34:26.239 --> 00:34:29.079
through the eighth in mass and somehow comes out even weirder.

630
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:32.719
Yep. And also I liked the when because he's like

631
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:35.280
in this what is it the Trenton Home for the

632
00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:40.320
Clinically Insane or something like that, and we get to

633
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:43.639
see Jonathan Banks in this as the nurse, the male

634
00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:46.199
nurse like taking care of him, and it was great

635
00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:50.800
to see him. And there's that great line that he

636
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.800
calls it like you would kind of refer to he

637
00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:56.920
says Jonathan Banks as he's walking off, laugh of while

638
00:34:56.920 --> 00:35:02.320
you can monkey boy, so a lot of fun in then.

639
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.280
So scene moment for me that it just made me

640
00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:10.280
laugh out loud is when Buckero gets the message from

641
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.760
the leader of the Black Lectroids and I think that's

642
00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:17.199
John M. Dall and in order to watch the message,

643
00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:23.480
they're basically have bubble rap over their faces with lenses

644
00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:28.280
put in, and they're basically telling Buckeroo, you have to

645
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:32.199
stop John Wharfin John Lithgow's character, or else we're gonna

646
00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:34.599
blow up your planet because we can't let the red

647
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:35.960
leactoids leave the planet.

648
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:36.519
Right.

649
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:40.599
And in the middle of watching this, another conversation is

650
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.840
going on about Ellen Barkin's character Penny. Now they can't

651
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.199
find her. Just in the middle, I don't know because

652
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:49.880
it's so deadpan, it made me laugh out loud, where

653
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.719
buck Crew says, well, everyone please shut up so I

654
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:54.679
can hear the rest of this thing. It's not a

655
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:57.239
funny line, but in the circumstance and just because this

656
00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:00.360
movie is so bizarre and he's wearing bubble rap on

657
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:02.239
his face, I lost it.

658
00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:05.639
I think I wrote down that they look like jelly

659
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:11.239
red light masks with goggles attached. Yeah, if you know,

660
00:36:11.360 --> 00:36:13.519
have you seen those red light masks, the red light

661
00:36:13.559 --> 00:36:17.159
therapy masks. Yeah, people were, but this is like the

662
00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:22.159
like that jelly version, and it looks so weird. It's

663
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:26.079
so rudimentary. And again it looks like kids found stuff

664
00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:28.400
in their backyard and put it together and they're like, okay,

665
00:36:28.679 --> 00:36:30.760
that you put on this mask and now you can

666
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:33.760
see a hologram. Pretend, pretend like that's the power of this,

667
00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:35.760
that this mask, you know what I mean. Like, it's

668
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:39.639
just feels like kids playing with toys and that's the way.

669
00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:43.119
And it just looks so cheesy this scene. It's funny

670
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:46.280
you brought up the interruptions too, because I'm trying to

671
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.519
follow along with the plot this John m Dallas saying,

672
00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.320
laying it all out for you, and it keeps cutting

673
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:57.000
away to missus. Johnson is now entering and asking and

674
00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:59.239
talking about Penny, and I'm like, what, I can't hear.

675
00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:01.920
I can't hear what she's saying. And then Peter Weller

676
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:05.079
literally says, can you all shut up? So I'm like, yes, please,

677
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:09.000
But you actually miss lines because they're cutting away and

678
00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:12.800
other people are talking, and I'm like, this is already confusing.

679
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.039
Why why are you shooting like that? I love they

680
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:18.880
brought it up for everybody. That was awesome too. Yep,

681
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:22.679
good old Uh who was it? John? The other the

682
00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:28.000
good the black electroid? Uh? Electoid or electroid? I say

683
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.119
electroid because I think of electrodes or electroids, because right,

684
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:35.440
that's okay, I've heard you say electoid. That's why that's okay.

685
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:40.000
I'm not uh for a second, maybe I had it wrong. Okay, Yeah,

686
00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:46.880
that's a John Parker, Yes, who also that is a Rastafarian. Yes,

687
00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:50.960
that's what my questions like, Why are all the black

688
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:57.000
electroids actually Jamaicans? What a choice? Yep?

689
00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:59.199
All right, So of course I had to pick a

690
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:03.880
John Lycal scene for my favorites, and it is when

691
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:09.039
they kidnap Penny and they're about to torture her and

692
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:14.320
he calls Bukaroo to try to get the isolator or yeah,

693
00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:15.360
what is it?

694
00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:17.559
The oscillation overthrust.

695
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.519
Her, overthrust her and he starts off the call normal

696
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.920
and then just as the scene goes on, he just chewing,

697
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:26.719
chewing and chewing and chewing, chewing, and then there's a

698
00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:29.639
moment where he takes the phone and gives it to

699
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:32.280
Penny and Penny starts screaming.

700
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:34.320
Don't come get me, Buckaroo.

701
00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:38.039
And of course, weller again just super dry, Penny, get

702
00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:46.440
out the phone. Yeah it's great. She is super scared. Yeah,

703
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:47.719
and he's just like, get out the phone.

704
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:50.639
Now. This is making me think if I had watched

705
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:53.199
this with you or a group, like a group of

706
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:56.920
guys probably like our buddies, our phone, like, we probably

707
00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:58.800
have a lot lot more fun watching this.

708
00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:02.159
I agree that one hundred percent, because it's so bizarre,

709
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:03.400
we'll just all be picking.

710
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:06.519
Out different things. Yeah. Yeah, but yes.

711
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:12.840
Another just scene chewing display by johnath Cowan that oh yeah, yeah,

712
00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.000
he's fantastic and it's not even one of his biggest ones,

713
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:17.840
but I just like that one.

714
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:20.400
No, but there's just a whole every little moment is great.

715
00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:23.679
Buck rub being super dry again. Yeah, it's a good call.

716
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:26.519
That is funny. It's a funny line. All right. So

717
00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:28.920
I think I'm am I up next? Or do you

718
00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.599
have one more? Okay, so I'm going straight to the end.

719
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:34.400
I just have fun with the final action sequence, but

720
00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:40.599
especially when the red Electroid ship, the mothership if you will,

721
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:43.559
has taken off and has failed to go into the

722
00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:45.760
eighth dimension. So they're basically I guess just trying to

723
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:48.800
fly away and into space, but they're still in our

724
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:53.559
atmosphere and flying through the sky. And somehow it's some

725
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:58.480
good action here, some cool set design within the ship,

726
00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:03.519
the electroid ship, some weird it's just all of it.

727
00:40:03.559 --> 00:40:07.880
There's a lot of detail actually, and fun moment when

728
00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:12.239
we've got Christoph Lloyd as John Big Booty or Bouta.

729
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:14.800
He keeps getting mad throughout saying boot Te, it's boote,

730
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:18.440
it's boute And then finally John Wharfin Lithgow, he turns

731
00:40:18.440 --> 00:40:22.159
around shoots him. That's fun and the reason why this

732
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:25.559
is actually I've chosen as my final favorite scene is

733
00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:31.519
that of course Bukeru Bonzi and John Parker have boarded

734
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:34.519
the ship and they managed to basically well, they're actually

735
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.840
jettisoned by Lithgow, so now they're in a smaller ship

736
00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:42.639
and they end up using the laser gun to shoot

737
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:45.480
the main ship and kill John Wharfin finally and those

738
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:48.360
red lectroids aboard that ship. My favorite moment though, is

739
00:40:48.400 --> 00:40:52.119
now John Parker is going to use this jettison pod

740
00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:56.719
to fly off, and at some point Bukeru Banzai had

741
00:40:56.760 --> 00:41:01.039
ejected from the pond and He's now in a parachute

742
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:06.880
descending and he's waving, waving to John park He's waving

743
00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:11.039
to the spaceship as it's taking off, and it's the

744
00:41:11.159 --> 00:41:16.079
cheesiest looking shot, and that made me laugh, if not

745
00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:18.519
out loud, I was definitely laughing on the inside. But

746
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:21.920
he's dropping in the parachute. Literally, it looks like he's

747
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:23.800
thirty thousand feet in the air too. By the way,

748
00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:26.360
there's no he could breathe, and he's just dropping in

749
00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:31.079
the parachute through the clouds, waving to the spaceship that

750
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:36.280
is taking off. It's it's insane, but it's fun. That

751
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:38.760
made me laugh too. I could he's basically in the

752
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:41.960
studio being hung six inches off the ground and it's

753
00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:45.360
probably just rear screen projection of clouds. Yeah. I'm like,

754
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:45.719
oh my.

755
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:49.159
God, this looks so bad. This looks so bad. But

756
00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:53.159
the design is so weird. There's one point there in

757
00:41:53.199 --> 00:41:58.960
the escape hut and it's leaking like this milky substance

758
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.039
right in. Parker's like, Oh no, no, that's fine, that's normal,

759
00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:06.239
don't worry. It's insulating liquid. Yeah, And I was like,

760
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.480
wait a minute, are they going to be encased in

761
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:10.679
this is the liquid going to fill the entire ship,

762
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:13.480
and they're going to be able to be insulated by it,

763
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:17.920
so they would be able to withstand the shock waves of.

764
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:20.599
The or turbulence of the ship or something. But that

765
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:23.960
number happens, right. I didn't even realize there was in

766
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:28.719
a ship within the ship, yeah, until I got objected.

767
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:31.840
How did even how did lift out even know they

768
00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:34.480
were on board either too? I didn't understand that there's

769
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:35.119
a lot of those.

770
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:42.000
Yeah, all right, this takes us to our Swiss cheese

771
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:42.960
and complaint department.

772
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.360
And why do we call it Swiss cheese? Because although

773
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:49.440
this movie is delicious, it does have peggy pretty pant holes.

774
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.880
Yes, if it doesn't have those piggy candles.

775
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:56.000
Right, is it Penny? I should have said Penny, Sorry,

776
00:42:56.039 --> 00:42:57.679
Penny pretty pant holes? All right?

777
00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:01.039
If it doesn't have those Penny pretty holes, we just

778
00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:03.000
filed complaint with the complaint department.

779
00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:06.599
What do you have, Jason, Yeah, well I did choose

780
00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:09.360
Penny pretty pant holes because she's wearing I don't know

781
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:11.679
what those pants are she's wearing at the end of

782
00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:14.000
the movie, because they're just there.

783
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.400
It's almost like she wrapped sheets around her somehow.

784
00:43:18.039 --> 00:43:22.360
Yeah, she's almost naked, and I'm not complaining, but it's

785
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:26.400
a weird design choice for the pants. So here's one

786
00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:31.280
of my other complaints, obviously, but like bigger complaints. I

787
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:35.119
was really looking forward to listening to Bacca Robanzi and

788
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.800
the Hong Kong Cavaliers perform their music as rock stars.

789
00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:40.840
Only get two minutes of it, not even not even

790
00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:43.159
I don't think he even sings at all with when

791
00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:45.719
they're doing the rock song, then he gets on the piano,

792
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:49.280
and then I'm not even sure Peter Weller is a

793
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.039
great singer, but then he sings a little bit, So

794
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:54.079
we don't really get to see them do their rock thing.

795
00:43:54.199 --> 00:43:56.320
But it feels like that should have been a big

796
00:43:56.360 --> 00:44:01.360
part of this for some reason. Later on with the

797
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:04.920
Big Booty and his partner, they're torturing Penny with like

798
00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:08.000
ants and honey and they even attempt to drown her,

799
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:12.480
but it doesn't happen. Like there's a lack of follow through,

800
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.119
is my point. I wanted to see things. You get

801
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:18.079
led down a certain path, or you are about to

802
00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:22.960
think oh or Bakaru Bonzai, you know. Inside the World

803
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:27.519
Watch one commands traveling Command Center Win a bago, which

804
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:30.079
is pretty awesome. I love the idea of that. We

805
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:31.760
know he's supposed to be a martial artist, and we

806
00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:33.800
see him at like the end of the meditation with

807
00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:36.599
his sword and he puts it away, and I'm like, oh,

808
00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:40.639
does he do any martial arts in this at all? No? Right,

809
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:44.440
we're just kind of led on a little bit and

810
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:45.760
then there's no follow through.

811
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:49.400
I wrote down nothing for Swiss Cheese a complaints departament,

812
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:54.119
just because this movie is so cheesy. I didn't know

813
00:44:54.119 --> 00:44:56.599
where to begin. I didn't know where to begin. There's

814
00:44:56.679 --> 00:45:00.599
just so much. It's so bizarre and weird. Movie itself

815
00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.039
is cheesy. It's just it's just a big thing of cheese.

816
00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:06.239
Yeah, it's just we're led to believes that there's gonna

817
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:08.239
be all these cool things that are gonna happen, and

818
00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:11.280
a lot of them just don't. So that was a complaint.

819
00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:14.960
I had some really simple other ones. I thought there

820
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:19.119
would be better security at the Trenton Home for the Clinically, say,

821
00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:23.440
I think Jonathan Banks is literally the only person working there. Yeah,

822
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:28.400
apparently seems like Yeah. Also, Buckeru Bonsai can just get

823
00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:31.440
people out of jail by saying hey let her out.

824
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:36.840
How does that work? He's a world celebrity, it seems Yeah,

825
00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:40.480
oh completely, I was just confused.

826
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:44.480
You can't explain it? Yeah, yeah, what what was everyone's role?

827
00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:46.960
Like Rawhide was kind of the right hand man and

828
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:50.960
mm hmm. But like what does perfect Johnny do or

829
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:51.599
perfect Tommy do?

830
00:45:51.719 --> 00:45:55.039
Yeah, perfect Tommy right reno? Yeah? What what are they

831
00:45:55.079 --> 00:45:57.280
supposed to do there? Again? Just supposed to be all

832
00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:01.840
around badasses. They just walk around with they're button down

833
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:04.199
shirts and jeans and a gun tucked in their pants.

834
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.519
That's what they just do in case something goes Hey,

835
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:09.639
why are they get called in to take care of it?

836
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:11.480
And then once in a while they'll be on a

837
00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:15.119
computer analyzing something or doing some kind of tech work

838
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:18.000
in the world watch one command center in the Winnebago

839
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:20.119
or whatever. You know. It's like, I don't know, Yeah,

840
00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:21.960
there's nothing in them. And why is why is the

841
00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.920
president in traction? Or what happened to him? No idea,

842
00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:30.800
you've recently just had back surgery. I don't know. Yeah, again,

843
00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:34.320
it's a wild choice. Yep, all right, we can move on. Yeah,

844
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:35.840
you just had to go with it.

845
00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:37.679
That's that's all there is, too you just had to

846
00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:40.519
go with it and pay attention to try to understand

847
00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:41.360
what the how the plot is.

848
00:46:41.800 --> 00:46:44.239
That's all. Yeah, yeah, and that's yeah. When I started

849
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:46.519
watching this and I was taking it seriously, I was like,

850
00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:50.159
oh no, this is a terrible movie. This is after

851
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:53.840
the jet car sequence. I'm like, this is really bad. Like, oh,

852
00:46:54.079 --> 00:46:56.880
it's bad on purpose. I get it. At least we

853
00:46:57.400 --> 00:46:59.000
think it is. I don't know.

854
00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:03.119
Yeah, all right, I'm kind of excited about this segment, Jason,

855
00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:05.440
because I really want to know who you picked, because

856
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:09.199
literally every scene you could pick someone for this, and

857
00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:13.599
we're talking about, Hey, it's that actor. So in this segment,

858
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:16.239
we spotlight a character actor you have seen in many

859
00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:19.119
other films, an actor making their big screen debut, or

860
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:22.000
an actor it makes an oncredited cameo. It's hey, it's

861
00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:24.159
an actor. Who do we choose this week?

862
00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:27.920
Well? Bill Ban did we choose John David Ashton? Did

863
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:32.719
we choose Jonathan Banks? Did we choose Hm? Who was

864
00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:37.119
Dan HYDEA? You could just keep going, but this week

865
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:42.039
we chose for our Hey, it's that actor Yakov Smirnoff.

866
00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:47.920
He plays the National security advisor. Uh, love me some

867
00:47:48.039 --> 00:47:53.719
Yakov smeirenof. Yakov was born in Odessa or Ukrainian SSR USSR,

868
00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:57.800
which is now just known as Odessa, Ukraine. He is

869
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:00.800
an actor, writer, and stand up comedian. I have very

870
00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:03.920
fond memories of watching his stand up as a kid,

871
00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:08.360
when he would perform as a naive Russian immigrant, of

872
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:11.880
course with a heavy Russian accent, and his trademark line

873
00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:16.679
was what a Country? So talking about the US, here's

874
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:19.480
his eighties as an actor. He was in Moscow on

875
00:48:19.480 --> 00:48:22.559
the Hudson in eighty four This and Buckle Robonds. I

876
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.960
obviously here in eighty four Brewsters Millions. He plays Vladimir.

877
00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:27.800
That was in eighty five. He's in the Money Pit

878
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:31.280
plays shut Off. That was in eighty six. Then he

879
00:48:31.320 --> 00:48:33.679
did twenty six episodes of the TV series What a

880
00:48:33.679 --> 00:48:36.119
Country from eighty six to eighty seven. He was in

881
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.440
five episodes of one of your favorite shows, Bill Bent

882
00:48:39.639 --> 00:48:43.840
Night Court. I remember Yakov. Yeah, there you go, Yakov Korolenko.

883
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.239
That was from eighty four to ninety over that time span.

884
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:48.280
After that, he only acted in a few other projects

885
00:48:48.320 --> 00:48:51.079
based out over the next thirty years, and although in

886
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:55.320
twenty seventeen he was in an episode of Dice starring

887
00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:58.320
Andrew Dice Clay, and I mentioned that only because fun fact,

888
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:03.119
he was once upon a time Andrew Dice Clay's roommate. Now,

889
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.599
I do love Yakov Samirenov in this because as he

890
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:11.599
is playing the National Security Advisor, he has a line

891
00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:14.159
and he flubbs it and they kept the take in.

892
00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:16.599
It's great. You gotta go watch it because he says

893
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:23.159
Strategic Space Command now reports all surveillance satellite communication is jammed.

894
00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:26.719
He totally messes it up and it's just left in

895
00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:30.599
the movie. Hilarious. I do want to mention this one

896
00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:33.360
piece of trivia because I think this is a really

897
00:49:33.480 --> 00:49:36.599
nice thing here. After the September eleven, two thousand and

898
00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:38.719
one attacks on the World Trade Centers, he began working

899
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:41.320
on a mural to commemorate the event, just in time

900
00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:44.159
for the first anniversary of the event. The mural was

901
00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:46.440
printed on a huge banner with the quote the human

902
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:48.239
spirit is not measured by the size of the act,

903
00:49:48.679 --> 00:49:50.719
but by the size of the heart. It was hung

904
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:52.760
from a nearby building where it was clearly visible from

905
00:49:52.760 --> 00:49:56.159
ground zero for over a year. Yakov financed the banner

906
00:49:56.159 --> 00:49:59.199
with one hundred thousand dollars of his own money, but

907
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:03.039
kept his donate anonymous for fear that people would see

908
00:50:03.039 --> 00:50:05.719
it as a joke because of his reputation as a comedian.

909
00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:09.079
Yakhov'smeir enough or hey, it's that actor this week.

910
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:12.119
It is funny because when I was watching that scene,

911
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:15.480
I was like, Wow, that looks a lot like spair Enough.

912
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.679
I'm like, oh, that can't be and then the credits

913
00:50:18.679 --> 00:50:22.000
are my, holy shit, that was That's hilarious. Yeah, yeah,

914
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:23.559
I guess there's a whole bunch of people in that scene.

915
00:50:23.599 --> 00:50:25.719
I was like, I can't believe that's those people. Well,

916
00:50:26.159 --> 00:50:29.679
and Yakov's sma enough sharing a scene, right, Uh. Time

917
00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:31.480
to move on to facts and trivia. What are some

918
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:35.079
facts in trivia we have about the adventures of Bakaru

919
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.280
Bonzai across the Eighth Dimension.

920
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:40.280
Well, let's get into it. There is a scene in

921
00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:42.960
the movie where Reno and New Jersey go through a

922
00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:45.760
room with a watermelon in a machine. Really out of

923
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:49.119
place for the scene. Reno actually says, I'll explain it later.

924
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:53.000
But in the Blu Ray audio commentary, filmmakers explained that

925
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:56.599
they had a confrontational relationship with one of the producers

926
00:50:56.960 --> 00:51:00.400
when they stopped receiving notes from the production, they decided

927
00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:02.960
to put the watermelon in a scene with no mention

928
00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:06.039
about it anywhere on the script. When they received no

929
00:51:06.159 --> 00:51:08.400
questions about it, they deduced that no one was screening

930
00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:10.920
the dailies anymore and they could keep making the film

931
00:51:11.159 --> 00:51:13.440
the way they wanted as long as they remained within

932
00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:18.039
the budget. So strange. Yeah, I love it though. So.

933
00:51:18.760 --> 00:51:23.079
Jamie Lee Curtis played buck Ru's mother in a flashback,

934
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:25.760
but the scene was deleted, but the scene is available

935
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:29.360
on a DVD release as an optional prequel or a

936
00:51:29.360 --> 00:51:32.280
special feature, and Jamie Lee Curtis is visible in a

937
00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:34.320
photo on the dashboard of the jet car in the

938
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:38.199
wide screen version. Now, the version I saw did have

939
00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:41.079
that opening scene with James Lee Curtis as the mom,

940
00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:44.920
and it's basically a home movie footage of Buckeroo as eight,

941
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:51.480
and it basically shows one of the tests for the oscillator.

942
00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:54.320
Buckeru's dad, I think, is supposed to be the driver

943
00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:58.320
and it was sabotaged. His parents died in an explosion.

944
00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:01.079
O got it? Yeah, that's cool. You got to see

945
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:05.000
it though. Yeah. In the film Star Trek First Contact,

946
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:08.880
the oscillation Overthruster is also on the bulkhead of ZEPHYRM.

947
00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:13.480
Cochrane's ship when he William Riker and Jordi LaForge launch

948
00:52:13.559 --> 00:52:16.400
on his ship. It's right there next to Commander Riker's head.

949
00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:19.760
In another Star Trek connection, the quote no matter where

950
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:23.559
you go, there you are appears on the dedication plaque

951
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:25.119
on the USS Excelsior.

952
00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:30.920
John Lithgalo's dialect coach, Roberto Terminilli, was a tailor on

953
00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:34.599
the twentieth century Fox Lot with a heavy Italian accent.

954
00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:37.960
John had Roberto speak his lines from the script into

955
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:41.599
a tape recorder, which he then used to practice the accent.

956
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:44.360
John then got him credit in the movie as a

957
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:45.679
dialect coach for his help.

958
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:49.320
Love It, Absolutely, Love It. I mentioned that there are

959
00:52:49.320 --> 00:52:52.079
a lot of cool names in this movie. Well. Many

960
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.320
names and terms were taken from Thomas Pinchon's book The

961
00:52:55.400 --> 00:52:58.639
Crying of Lot forty nine, most notably the company name

962
00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:02.119
Yo Yo Dyne. To this day, there is a Yo

963
00:53:02.199 --> 00:53:05.280
Yo Dyning dot com which serves as a fan site

964
00:53:05.320 --> 00:53:08.719
for the film. Yo Yo Dne itself was Pinchon's thinly

965
00:53:08.840 --> 00:53:13.199
veiled reference to rocket Dine, a major defense industry contractor

966
00:53:13.199 --> 00:53:16.559
and manufacture of rocket engines, founded just after World War Two.

967
00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:20.559
I went to the website. It's still up, oh nic.

968
00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:23.400
It's just a very simple page and you can click

969
00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:27.000
on things that will lead you to Buckero Bonzi stuff,

970
00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:29.559
But it's kind of funny Yoyo dyne dot com.

971
00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:32.440
When it came time to film the end title sequence

972
00:53:32.800 --> 00:53:35.360
where Buckeru and his friends are walking around a dry

973
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:38.599
Los Angeles aqueduct and step to the music, the music

974
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:42.519
wasn't ready, so composer Michael Bottaker told the film crew

975
00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.440
to use the song Uptown Girl by Billy Joel as

976
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:49.079
a placeholder because it was the exact same tempo, and

977
00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:52.039
the scenes were filmed with Uptown Girl blaring from a

978
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.639
boonbox tied to the back of the comic truck. And

979
00:53:54.679 --> 00:53:57.639
if you go on YouTube, someone did this. They put

980
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:01.920
Uptown Girl corusic over the so you could see that, yes,

981
00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:02.920
it does work.

982
00:54:03.039 --> 00:54:06.320
That's great. Well, this might be why there's a little

983
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:09.440
bit of confusion happening with just the making of this movie.

984
00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:12.159
The original director of photography of the film is Jordan

985
00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:16.639
Cronin with who famously shot Blade Runner. The filmmakers specifically

986
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:18.599
wanted their film to be rich in color and texture,

987
00:54:18.599 --> 00:54:22.000
for which cronin With was specifically known. However, several weeks

988
00:54:22.039 --> 00:54:26.079
into filming, producer David Begelman had cronin With replaced with

989
00:54:26.239 --> 00:54:30.199
Fred J. Cohne and camp against the wishes of the crew,

990
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:33.760
including director WD Richter, in order to give the film

991
00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:37.639
its campy, flat visual appearance, which the filmmakers had never

992
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:41.679
originally intended. Scenes shot by Croninwe still remain in the

993
00:54:41.679 --> 00:54:44.719
final cut, including the famous nightclub scene featuring the line

994
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:46.480
wherever you go, there you are okay.

995
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:50.440
Time to move on to box office. So The Adventures

996
00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:53.440
at buck Ru Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension hit theaters

997
00:54:53.480 --> 00:54:56.800
on August tenth, nineteen eighty four, opening on a whopping

998
00:54:56.840 --> 00:54:59.440
two hundred and thirty six screens stationwide I mean an

999
00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:03.480
estimated budget of seventeen million. The movie went on to

1000
00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:06.519
earn just six point two million at the North American

1001
00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:09.480
box office when it debuted. The movie opened in the

1002
00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:12.800
sixteenth spot at the box office during a crowded summer

1003
00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:16.119
pack with hits such as Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and Templeo

1004
00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:19.280
Doom and Star Trek three The Search for Spock. By

1005
00:55:19.360 --> 00:55:22.320
the end of its theatrical run, it ranked as the

1006
00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:27.239
one hundred and first highest grossing movie of nineteen eighty four.

1007
00:55:27.599 --> 00:55:32.199
Despite its disappointing theatrical run, Bakuru Bonzai slowly found life

1008
00:55:32.239 --> 00:55:36.280
on cable TV and home video, then moving on to reviews.

1009
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:38.800
When growing up in the eighties, we would watch sneak

1010
00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:41.360
previews with Geene Cisco and Roger Ebert to hear their

1011
00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:44.800
reviews and watch clips of upcoming movies. Their review of

1012
00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:48.639
the Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the Eighth Dimension was split.

1013
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:52.920
Rogers stated it was bad but never gives up. He

1014
00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:57.079
reluctantly gave it a thumbs down with admiration for its

1015
00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:01.559
flashes of brilliance. Gene enjoyed the film creativity and offbeat

1016
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:05.360
humor and predicted it would become a cult film. Both

1017
00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:10.039
acknowledged that it's bizarre storytelling might confuse mainstream audiences. They

1018
00:56:10.119 --> 00:56:13.800
especially praise the cast, including Peter Weller and John lithgals

1019
00:56:13.840 --> 00:56:17.320
widely over the top performance. Ron Tomatoes gives it a

1020
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.519
meter score of sixty eight percent, with a popcorn Meter

1021
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:24.360
score of seventy five percent. It also has an IMDb

1022
00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:27.920
rating of six point two, so this takes us to

1023
00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:31.360
additional thoughts and questions. We have any additional thoughts or

1024
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:33.320
questions about Buckeroo.

1025
00:56:33.880 --> 00:56:36.960
Let's see, we talked about one of your favorite scenes,

1026
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:41.880
which is with John Mdall. Is that is that correct? Yes,

1027
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:45.360
kind of laying out the whole plot here in a

1028
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:50.320
way and one aspect, and I was just thinking, why

1029
00:56:50.360 --> 00:56:54.639
didn't the Black Lectroids in their spaceship just come down

1030
00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:59.079
to Earth and kill John Warfin themselves? Why charge Buckeroo

1031
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:02.280
with the tap of taking out Wharfin and then the

1032
00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:07.119
whole convoluted plot of the Black Electroids having to attack

1033
00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:12.360
Small and Scrussia, thus triggering a nuclear war which would

1034
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.880
take out the Red Electroids. Why didn't they just come

1035
00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:18.880
down and take care of business themselves. They sent John

1036
00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:22.320
Parker down to help Buckeroo bond Zi.

1037
00:57:22.840 --> 00:57:27.719
Yeah, it certainly made the movie a little bit shorter. Yeah,

1038
00:57:27.800 --> 00:57:29.079
I don't know. I don't know an answer for that.

1039
00:57:29.400 --> 00:57:32.719
Yeah, I'm just it just seemed like they were overthinking

1040
00:57:32.719 --> 00:57:34.559
it a little bit and they just kind of put

1041
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.519
it all on Buckeroo Bonsie to save the day, oh.

1042
00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:41.840
Peaceful race, fear of being discovered. I don't know, I

1043
00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:44.800
don't have a solid answer. But yeah, they should have

1044
00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:48.159
just took out John Wharfin from the get go right, Yeah,

1045
00:57:48.199 --> 00:57:50.800
I mean yeah, I think they could have if they

1046
00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:53.800
wanted to. But it just leads me to another thought

1047
00:57:53.960 --> 00:57:56.159
as well. And I didn't know if this was on

1048
00:57:56.239 --> 00:57:58.920
purpose of some kind of parody or homage if you will,

1049
00:57:58.920 --> 00:58:05.599
But John m All talks about having overthrown John Wharfin,

1050
00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:08.760
who was the leader of this warrior cast of the

1051
00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:15.159
Black Electroids then or now Red Electroids, and how then

1052
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:21.519
they imprisoned these quote unquote bad electroids in the eighth dimension.

1053
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:27.800
This felt very superman esque to me, very general Zod

1054
00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:31.800
being sent to you know again, leader of a warrior cast,

1055
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:33.960
kind of being thrown into the phantom zone.

1056
00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:37.159
Does that makes sense? Yes, I don't know. I just

1057
00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.159
saw a direct correlation there. Just yeah, that's interesting, just

1058
00:58:40.199 --> 00:58:40.880
an observation.

1059
00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:43.320
Didn't think about that. I just want to know how

1060
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:46.880
the one group of Red Electroids actually got.

1061
00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:49.719
Out, So that's that was actually I don't know if

1062
00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:51.920
I should have put that in my complaints because that

1063
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:57.000
was glossed over supposedly when and I read this either

1064
00:58:57.000 --> 00:58:59.000
au on Wikipedia or IMDb. I don't know. In the

1065
00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:02.599
research somewhere during my favorite scene when we see the

1066
00:59:02.599 --> 00:59:08.000
flashback of at that moment, Emilio Lizardo testing his oscillation

1067
00:59:08.239 --> 00:59:12.480
over Thruster and failing, he manages to break halfway through

1068
00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:17.400
into the eighth dimension, and supposedly that caused the escape. Okay,

1069
00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:20.920
it's never clearly explained in the actual movie. Yeah, I

1070
00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:23.639
guess you just got to put one on one together. Yeah,

1071
00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:25.519
you got to connect a lot of dots somehow in

1072
00:59:25.559 --> 00:59:26.480
this There's.

1073
00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:30.559
A lot of stuff because I needn't understand. Here's another

1074
00:59:30.599 --> 00:59:32.800
actor we didn't mention because it was a Was it

1075
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:36.519
Matt Clark who was a defense Secretary of Defense? Is

1076
00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:37.840
he the one from The Incredible Hulk?

1077
00:59:38.440 --> 00:59:41.840
Oh? Is he? I wouldn't know that, probably.

1078
00:59:41.559 --> 00:59:46.920
Okay, because he asks the company to build a fighter

1079
00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:50.920
jet and they're using the the defense money to rebuild

1080
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:55.079
their spaceship right at Yo Yo Dane Propulsion. So is

1081
00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:57.320
he supposed to be a good guy a bad guy?

1082
00:59:58.000 --> 01:00:01.119
I think is supposed to be a bad guy, right,

1083
01:00:01.159 --> 01:00:03.880
because then he tries to take the oscillation over Thruster

1084
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:06.159
and put it into the jet car, right because he

1085
01:00:06.199 --> 01:00:07.559
wants himself as a weapon.

1086
01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:12.239
Yeah, right, But he's not in cahoots with the let

1087
01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:13.599
Troy's because.

1088
01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:16.760
I don't think so. That was just another weird ass

1089
01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:19.840
just thing in this movie, like who is he? Why

1090
01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:21.440
is he there? Why is he in the middle of

1091
01:00:21.480 --> 01:00:24.280
all this? What's the purpose of his character? I love

1092
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:27.239
when he does manage to get the Hong Kong Cavaliers

1093
01:00:27.280 --> 01:00:30.719
through security and into Yoyo Dane posted by distracting the

1094
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:33.320
two guards and he's writing there, He's like, I want

1095
01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:37.000
to get I want to get your names. What's your name? John? Yah? Yah?

1096
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:41.000
What's your name John Smallberries? Yeah?

1097
01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:44.840
And then you don't notice this giant bust just driving

1098
01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:45.840
through the entrance gate.

1099
01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:52.119
Yeah, that's great. A couple other funny things. I just

1100
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:54.480
wanted to you go ahead, if you have a you

1101
01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:56.920
what are your thoughts? Okay, just a couple of funny things.

1102
01:00:56.920 --> 01:01:01.840
When during the that final sequence at Yo Yo Dine,

1103
01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:05.360
they call it the electroid bivowhac area, which is kind

1104
01:01:05.360 --> 01:01:08.000
of oh yes, and where one of the electroids goes

1105
01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:10.400
to sound alarm. Stenciled in bright pink letters on the

1106
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:13.239
wall to the left of all those electrical circuit boxes

1107
01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:18.119
is find the crow shoe missing circuit win a free

1108
01:01:18.199 --> 01:01:21.760
trip to planet ten. And then one of my other

1109
01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:25.119
favorite lines is actually by the general in the room

1110
01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:29.519
with the President and National Security Advisor Security Defense. He says,

1111
01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:33.599
I'm so scared right now. I'm barely holding my fudge.

1112
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:37.559
All right, something like I'm barely holding my fudge right

1113
01:01:37.559 --> 01:01:40.199
now is what he says. And then the woman yells

1114
01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:42.079
at him, is like, get your shit together or whatever.

1115
01:01:42.119 --> 01:01:45.440
But I couldn't believe that was an actual line.

1116
01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:50.400
Hip all ready to go on to review. Yeah, let's

1117
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.599
do it, okay, on a scale of one to five, Johns,

1118
01:01:54.119 --> 01:01:56.760
what you give I'm gonna say this for the last time,

1119
01:01:57.000 --> 01:02:00.320
the Adventures of Buck ru Bonzai across the eath mention.

1120
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:03.760
I'm really wavering here because I had a lot of

1121
01:02:03.840 --> 01:02:06.320
laughs just talking about it with you, which means it

1122
01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:09.000
had some real entertainment value. And I did think this

1123
01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:10.800
was a lot of fun. So I'm going to go

1124
01:02:10.880 --> 01:02:13.360
with three point five John's. I was going to give

1125
01:02:13.400 --> 01:02:15.039
it three for a moment there, but I'm going to

1126
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:18.159
up it to three point five because of its cult status.

1127
01:02:18.239 --> 01:02:20.800
It does have its fans. I'm doing it for Rob

1128
01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:23.639
Huckstad out there, wherever you may be. I hope you're well,

1129
01:02:24.199 --> 01:02:27.639
I think this film was very ambitious and it doesn't

1130
01:02:27.679 --> 01:02:31.239
totally work. Unfortunately, the writing got in the way and

1131
01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:35.599
the plot is too convoluted, so it's distracting and that's

1132
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:39.119
very unfortunate. But if you can take a step back

1133
01:02:39.159 --> 01:02:41.599
and look at it for what it is, this is

1134
01:02:41.639 --> 01:02:44.639
a funny movie. A lot of thought was put into it.

1135
01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:49.320
There's some great performances, especially by Lithgow, and it is

1136
01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:54.239
a campy, cheese fest. You just are always asking why

1137
01:02:54.280 --> 01:02:56.679
did they do this? Why did they do that? And

1138
01:02:56.760 --> 01:02:58.719
if you can just let that go and don't care,

1139
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:02.000
you're going to have a time. I'm going three point five.

1140
01:03:02.039 --> 01:03:03.239
I admire the effort.

1141
01:03:03.599 --> 01:03:06.079
I'm right there with you three and a half. Quickly,

1142
01:03:06.280 --> 01:03:08.400
here's an actor we did not mention because it was

1143
01:03:08.400 --> 01:03:10.119
one when I saw him on screen was driving me crazy,

1144
01:03:10.239 --> 01:03:12.199
like what have I seen him before? And that was

1145
01:03:12.239 --> 01:03:15.599
Bill Henderson, who was at Casper Linley, who was part

1146
01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:17.440
of the what is it the Blue.

1147
01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:19.920
The Blue Blaze Irregulars.

1148
01:03:19.679 --> 01:03:21.559
And I was like, what have I seen this guy in?

1149
01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:24.360
And he was in City Slickers. He was one of

1150
01:03:24.360 --> 01:03:26.320
the the trails. So I was driving up the wall

1151
01:03:26.360 --> 01:03:27.840
and I found out he was a singer too. I

1152
01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:30.519
was like, holy crap, that's really cool three and a

1153
01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:35.719
half for me. Yes, the plot, Holy molly, I've never.

1154
01:03:35.480 --> 01:03:37.599
Seen anything so confusing in my life.

1155
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But that cast, bring that cast together, and they just

1156
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:46.079
looked like they were having fun. Yeah, it's a weird movie.

1157
01:03:46.159 --> 01:03:49.800
I just don't understand how this movie got made. I

1158
01:03:49.880 --> 01:03:52.840
really don't. I think it just blows my mind that

1159
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someone was able to convince someone to put out seventeen

1160
01:03:56.119 --> 01:03:58.159
million dollars, which is a lot of money back then,

1161
01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:01.000
to make this movie with the thought that they were

1162
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:04.440
going to be sequels. Yeah, but it's still enjoyable. I

1163
01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:06.440
think it's just because it's so.

1164
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Off the wall. You just have to know.

1165
01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:09.559
You just have to realize going to this movie's gonna

1166
01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:11.760
be off the wall. It's hard to figure out the plot,

1167
01:04:11.800 --> 01:04:14.159
which hopefully we helped you out talking about this through

1168
01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:19.039
this episode. But just seeing all these people that were

1169
01:04:19.079 --> 01:04:21.920
in this movie, I don't I can't think of another

1170
01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.039
movie like this where it just seems like every scene

1171
01:04:24.039 --> 01:04:25.559
I'm like, oh my god, I recognize that person. Oh

1172
01:04:25.559 --> 01:04:26.760
my god, to recognize that person.

1173
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:29.079
Sure, it was weird in a way.

1174
01:04:29.119 --> 01:04:32.760
You wish Hollywood would take a chance on movies like this.

1175
01:04:33.400 --> 01:04:36.519
But it, yeah, definitely needs to be pared down a

1176
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:41.559
little bit. But the idea itself, I appreciate. The execution

1177
01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:45.039
isn't quite there. I don't know. There's something about this movie.

1178
01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:48.119
I like, I'm not a diehard. But if you told

1179
01:04:48.159 --> 01:04:50.559
me you love this movie, I could see it. If

1180
01:04:50.599 --> 01:04:52.519
you told me this movie sucks and you hate it,

1181
01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:55.119
I can see that too. I couldn't argue with you

1182
01:04:55.199 --> 01:04:58.000
for or against. I'm like, whatever, your opinion of this

1183
01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:01.960
movie is one hundred percent, get it. It's not like

1184
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:04.800
someone telling me Star Wars is the worst movie ever.

1185
01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:06.920
I'm like, come on, man, you're totally wrong there. Yeah,

1186
01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:11.000
but yes, if you said I hate Buckeru Bonzai, I'm like, okay, yeah,

1187
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:12.840
I could see it might not be your hupetea.

1188
01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:15.800
This is just a weird wild ride, and uh I

1189
01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:19.400
look forward to revisiting again down the line. See how

1190
01:05:19.400 --> 01:05:21.880
I feel about it, knowing what I know now, Yeah, you.

1191
01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:23.920
Had to see if you can find that footage that

1192
01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:27.480
you missed on YouTube. Maybe for sure on there, Jamie

1193
01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:28.679
Lee curnis'd be interesting.

1194
01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:32.679
Yeah, supposedly the DVD has there's DVD releases that have

1195
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.280
a lot more things added to this that could explain things,

1196
01:05:36.360 --> 01:05:39.719
especially I forget what the final title card was about

1197
01:05:39.800 --> 01:05:43.320
with the the name of the sequel, Oh crap. In

1198
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:45.599
the original script, Buckeroo was supposed to have an arch

1199
01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:49.719
enemy named Hanoi Zan, who was never seen but reference

1200
01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:52.760
to by Buckeroo and the other characters. All scenes containing

1201
01:05:52.800 --> 01:05:56.400
dialogue regarding Zan were deleted from the film's theatrical release,

1202
01:05:56.440 --> 01:05:59.199
but are now available on DVD. Zen was supposed to

1203
01:05:59.239 --> 01:06:01.800
be the mysterious head of a crime syndicate called the

1204
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:06.000
World Crime League, and also the man who murdered Buckeroo's

1205
01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:08.559
parents and wife Peggy, which we do see in that

1206
01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:11.639
opening scene that you missed. So that explains that, and

1207
01:06:11.639 --> 01:06:14.679
then explains why the sequel is called The Adventures of

1208
01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:17.679
bucker Rebounds, I think, and versus something that we're fighting

1209
01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:21.280
versus the World Crime League or whatever. Yeah, that explains that.

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01:06:21.400 --> 01:06:24.440
Yeah, okay, with that, that wraps up this week's episode.

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01:06:35.119 --> 01:06:39.199
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01:06:39.320 --> 01:06:42.239
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1217
01:06:42.239 --> 01:06:45.239
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1218
01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:49.000
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01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:52.079
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01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:55.000
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01:06:55.559 --> 01:06:59.159
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