It’s BigbooTAY
its a wonderful film. incredible cast, quotable and fun.
One of my favorites. I have to ask with an A-list cast, how can this be considered a B movie? As @Num10ck mentioned, so quotable. I think my original copy is on Betamax, also have on vhs and disc. Never did learn why that watermelon was there
I meet the author of the book at a convention years ago and asked him about the watermelon. He said someone higher up started micromanaging the director big time about halfway through the movie. Director put it there without anybody’s approval so there would be one thing in the movie that was his decision alone.
Thank you. The element of absurd rebellion fits the movie perfectly.
Personally, I submitted it mostly because I thought it fit the aesthetic of an 80’s B movie. Plus, it was a huge box office flop that has since become a cult classic, which seems like another characteristic of B movies.
I genuinely love this movie but if you asked me for a synopsis I’d be like… “Robocop drives through a mountain, plays in a rockband and hijinks ensue”
No matter where you go, there you are.
To add some trivia: the movie began as just a music video concept and spiraled out from there. 😂🤌🏼
For some reason I always confuse this with remo williams.
Who can forget the music during the end credits?
I suspect that it’s not an accident that it’s so memorable.
Throughout the movie, there’s all of this plot stuff going on. That’s of course to be expected, since that’s what movies do.
But at the same time, there’s little bits and pieces of the theme song coming together in the background.
Then the story ends dramatically, and with a touching and heart-warming coda, and what’s the Lectroid’s reaction? “So what? Big deal.”
Then the closing theme plays. And that’s the real culmination of the movie.
Weird, I just started watching this last night. I had never heard of it before a couple weeks ago.
Sometimes I would expect some sort of targeted advertising to be responsible, but I heard about the film through the most random means I can imagine:
A friend went to a Halloween party and saw a guy wearing alpaca chaps as his costume (because he had just gotten back from…Ecuador, I think?). My partner was shown a picture of said chaps and was describing them to her work friends, when a different coworker overheard and excitedly interrupted “like the guy from Buckaroo Banzai?!” At which point everyone stared at him until he told us about the movie, which he hadn’t seen since about 2001.
Either way, it’s definitely now on the watchlist, to be sure. Did you find it on a streaming service?
I am currently reading the book Ready Player One and it was referenced. I was surprised that I had never heard of it so I decided to start watching it. Hopefully I will get time to finish it this weekend, the beginning was pretty good.
HBO or someone should turn this into a series.
