Buckaroo, behind a helmet reserved for Mig fighter pilots, calmly surveys this world before entering the next. ![]() While doing 500 MPH (that’s like 10,000 megapixels an hecthour or whatever for our European readers) he decides to make a 90 degree turn like fucking Tron and does so without flipping. And just to let you know how very technical and steeped in technology his truck is, we are treated to a systems check: “Reserve brake system two, crosscheck, gear handle, throttle and start levers crosscheck, electric hydraulic pump and press, electro-nuclear carbonation seems fine sir…” It goes on and on like this for a while, and the point is made: you’re witnessing extreme precision by some of the world’s brightest minds, and none of them can hold a candle to the man in the cockpit, a man who only moments earlier performed brain surgery with the perfunctory ease of wiping a booger under a coffee table.īuckaroo unleashes the monkeys of Hades on the gas pedal and burns the fuck out. The main component is the oscillation overthruster, which allows one to travel through matter, delving into different dimensions. They show up just in time for Buckaroo, dressed in a ninja outfit, to hop into an F-150 with a bunch of super science-looking equipment mounted to it. “Where is he?” you may ask, doing brain surgery with Jeff Goldblum, that’s where. They are all waiting on Buckaroo, who is apparently late. The movie starts out with a bunch of scientists in the desert farting around with a bunch of toys that would make a steam punk shoot butthole cream into his pantaloon. If people are supposed to buy Murphy from Robocop being half Asian, then I have a bridge I’d like to sell them, and not the Brooklyn one either, the one that connects the trailer park to the Maury Povitch Show. You confused yet? Just wait, shit’s about to get crazy.īuckaroo Banzai was begot by a genius Japanese particle physicist and a presumably worthless American strumpet hoping to marry rich. ![]() Not the actual Robocop (that would have been amazing) and not even Murphy (Robocop’s imprisoned human form), but the guy who played Murphy who eventually was turned into Robocop. The embodiment of these collided worlds is played by Robocop. ![]() Nothing could be more apt or encompassing for a film which seamlessly merges the wisdom of the Orient with the exorbitant excess and pageantry of the west. Buckaroo Banzai might sound like a stupid name for a movie, but it’s not.
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