No matter where you go , you ’ll find that it ’s still the25th anniversaryof cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension , released on this very day in 1984 . Shall we go onward and destroy Russia now ?
We could go ahead and kvetch about the failed attempts at sequels to this ridiculous ( and ludicrously gratifying ) movie , but we ’d rather just celebrate the fact that it exists at all . Look at the who’s - who - of-80s - wideness cast list ( Peter Weller ! Jeff Goldblum ! Christopher Lloyd ! Clancy Brown ! Um … Ellen Barkin ? ) , the plot that recognise the necessity of a hero who can do everything he set his mind to , or the fact that , by motion-picture show ’s end , you too will wish that you were one of the Hong Kong Cavaliers and you ’ll realize that the British Guardian newspaper had no choice to but toinclude the movie in its inclination of 1000 moving picture you must see before you die(They’re also not solely wrong when they describe it as " nearly incomprehensible yet sharply funny " ) . If you ’re in Portland , OR , there ’s aspecial day of remembrance showing of the movietonight at theLaurelhurst Theater , but for everyone else , videodisk engineering subsist for a reason . In a summertime full of movies that exchange plot with bombast , here ’s to one that knew that over - the - top did n’t only have to apply to particular effects . well-chosen birthday , Buckaroo .
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