If you read that going , "Whaaaa??!?!"
Step into my office and let me introduce to a world that my pop walked me into without knowing it...
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension is a great flick.
It's got everything!!! Action, drama, love, science, fantasy, CHEESE!! LOTS of cheese... especially the red framed glasses that the studio didn't want Peter Weller to sport in the THREE whole scenes he has them on... fantastic!
We had this on during dinner a few nights ago and it came up that this movie was WAY ahead of it's time and we were almost GLAD that it didn't catch on when it did, so it could be a nice little cult classic for us to geek out over and not everyone knows the "secret handshake" about this great little flick.
BUT, the other edge of the sword is that it's great... it really is! And I would like to spread the greatness to share with everyone! And I want to say to someone I barely know, "Didn't you just LOVE the bubblewrap glasses? And the Rasta Alien good guys?" and they can say "YES!!" instead a mouth agape look of shock and confusion... that would be nice too...
In conversing about how we sort of wish they would remake this, and not screw it up, we started to say, "In a perfect world..." and all that... so then ... Dream Casting Buckaroo Banzai jumped off the session...
Buckaroo Banzai: Brandon Routh
Dr. Lizardo: John Turturro
Perfect Tommy: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Rawhide: Jacob Pitts
Penny Priddy: Brie Larson
New Jersey: Justin Long
John Bigboote: Jemaine Clement
the rest of them can pretty much be figured out during general casting, but these were our musts and thought they would really make the remake if ever anyone decided to tackle such a thing :)
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