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TV’s Frink said:

FanFiltration said:

“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension”

Ugh, talk about overrated.

Granted, my feelings on that movie are probably tainted by a college roommate who insisted it was the best movie ever, better than Star Wars, better than Raiders, better than anything else I’d ever seen.

Kind of sounds like some of the insane opinions on this forum, come to think of it. Maybe he’s a member here.

Doesn’t Buckaroo Banzai fall into the so bad it’s good category (with some ambiguity as to how much of that is on purpose)?

Someone who calls it better than Star Wars or Raiders is clearly in a very small minority (he may be the only one) so I don’t think you could call the film overrated in that case.

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TV’s Frink said:

FanFiltration said:

“The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension”

Ugh, talk about overrated.

Granted, my feelings on that movie are probably tainted by a college roommate who insisted it was the best movie ever, better than Star Wars, better than Raiders, better than anything else I’d ever seen.

Kind of sounds like some of the insane opinions on this forum, come to think of it. Maybe he’s a member here.

I tried to watch it last year, and I don’t think I got even halfway through before I turned it off. It didn’t appeal to me at all.

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Buckaroo Banzai certainly isn’t so bad it’s good it’s just something that should be fun and is quirky and full of ideas but just doesn’t work for reasons which aren’t really easy to define.

It’s almost like the product of an alien culture where the points of reference are unknown so nothing it attempts to do really clicks.

If you sat down and tried to describe it to someone the film in their head particularly with that cast would be much better than the actual film.

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Trooperman37 said:

TV’s Frink said:

I don’t think BR stunk but I do find it to be overrated quite a bit.

Fair.

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I think Blade Runner is properly regarded. It’s got a complex and adult script, odd and compelling characters (nobody is really likeable as such but they are interesting). The acting is top drawer throughout and then comes the environment which is astonishing. When it first came out it was under-rated.
I showed it to a friend of mine who had come from a little village in India and hadn’t seen many western movies and he genuinely thought that American cities had flying cars while watching this.
Clearly Scott is a visualist only. The level of visual perfection in Blade Runner is still evident in Prometheus (if you ignore the makeup job on Guy Pierce) but with Alien and Blade Runner there were proper writers and actors that could cope with very limited character direction.
If younger Harrison was in Prometheus he would have probably not allowed his character to as much as a twit as the crew of Prometheus. That’s the difference between an artist and a professional, both can make money but it’s usually an accident when a professional makes art.

There is no question that the film looks astonishing, and if you’re in the mood you can watch just for the visuals. I’ve done that before.

What I can’t get over is the script. It doesn’t have a large climax. It doesn’t have small climax. It is just a flat line all the way through. Worse, it seems to diminish in intensity all the way through.

I came up with a KICKASS dystopia film in 2006 just by looking at the Blade Runner DVD COVER and imagining what kind of movie that would be like. I still intend to make it. When I actually saw Blade Runner a couple of years later, I was hugely disappointed that they took such a strong sense of style and SQUANDERED it!

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I really couldn’t care less about it not following any established classical dramatical structure or elements. The film story took a dofferent approach and the end product is one of the best films ever made.

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I didn’t realize great films were so boring.

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Lots of great films generate boredom in some viewers.
2001 is genuinely great, a masterpiece but for lots of viewers the opening sequences are the nearest it gets to excitement and it’s ape men figuring out how to hit things.

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Yeah, 2001 is unambiguously a masterpiece (and this is high praise coming from me, as I really don’t like Kubrick all that much). But damn, if it’s pacing isn’t glacial.

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Bingowings said:

I think Blade Runner is properly regarded. It’s got a complex and adult script, odd and compelling characters (nobody is really likeable as such but they are interesting). The acting is top drawer throughout and then comes the environment which is astonishing.

I agree, except for the acting being tops. Larry (Darryl and Darryl’s brother) has such poor line delivery that it makes me cringe every time. Almost every line he speaks.

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2001 is one of those films you love while you’re watching it but actually being in the mood to watch it is very rare.

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I really couldn’t care less about it not following any established classical dramatical structure or elements. The film story took a dofferent approach and the end product is one of the best films ever made.

Yeah, I don’t think so. But if you like it!

-TM

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ray_afraid said:

Bingowings said:

I think Blade Runner is properly regarded. It’s got a complex and adult script, odd and compelling characters (nobody is really likeable as such but they are interesting). The acting is top drawer throughout and then comes the environment which is astonishing.

I agree, except for the acting being tops. Larry (Darryl and Darryl’s brother) has such poor line delivery that it makes me cringe every time. Almost every line he speaks.

The two guys from Newhart do not appear in this movie.

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Bingowings said:

In some alternate dimension Buckaroo Banzai has a much better comic book existence of which the film is but a pale shadow.

The novel is actually pretty well regarded. As for comics, they do actually have a series set after the films. Same writer throughout every medium.

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Yes it was a continuation of the Daryl Hannah joke. Keep up 😄

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Well Blade Runner has some great acting. Rutger Hauer’s final monologue/improvisation alone was worth an oscar. It is probably my favourite scene in the entire film history.

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Bingowings said:

Yes it was a continuation of the Daryl Hannah joke. Keep up 😄

I don’t keep up with Blade Runner jokes.

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I don’t keep up with jokes related to massively overrated movies like Blade Runner. I still don’t get the joke and I don’t Luke.

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All this talk about Blue Runner and I’m sitting here like

Guess I really need to watch it.

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Just make note of which version you’re watching. There are six official cuts of it floating around. The most common one is likely the Final Cut. It’s not the best. Most seem to prefer the Director’s Cut.

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Like I said before, if you just want’s to watch it and not go looking to buy it, it would be easiest to just watch the US theatrical, because that’s on Netflix, but the Director’s Cut would probably be best if not that.

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Yeah I’ve considered watching it on netflix but am cautious. Are the other versions so significantly better to make this unworthwhile?