[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Buckaroo Banzai (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 3/18/2010 8:49:50 PM EDT
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The producer should slap himself for making that turd.
Turn these into morale patches! http://www.starbase21ok.com/thornton21/buckaroo_banzai_patches.htm
I just watched this last week. |
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Originally Posted By ColtAllure The watermelon still needs explaining, though. What is that watermelon doing there, anyway? The following explanation was written by the director of the 1984 docudrama, W.D. Richter, for the April 1986 edition of the World Watch 1 Newsletter: "I can only imagine Buckaroo trying to grapple with this question. When cornered (as I feel now), he often quotes H.L. Mencken's nasty remark about how every complex question always has a simple answer...that is usually wrong. But it is high time poor New Jersey's honest inquiry be answered. Let me rephrase the question first one way, then another. "Why is a watermelon trapped between those monstrous pressure plates deep within the Institute's Critical Stress Laboratory?" Team Banzai botanical agronomists have been for years hard at work on the problem of hunger in Third World countries under constant revolutionary turmoil. A nonpolitical, humanitarian effort, their goal has been to find ways to feed starving peoples in remote areas where traditional food delivery systems prove woefully inadequate. Often, the only way to get the nourishment into the bellies of the needy is to hit and run, avoiding all petty ideological side-taking. What you see in the Critical Stress Lab is a revolutionary watermelon capable of withstanding impact pressures of 300,000 pounds per square inch! Sweet, juicy and vitamin-packed, this remarkable fruit can be dropped from the bomb bays of low-flying aircraft into the backyards of disenfranchised villagers in the remotest backwaters of this angry planet. Just another Team Banzai effort to cut through all the unnecessary crap around us and help people help themselves. Look for high-impact, low cholesterol eggs next... and sooner than you think, shatter-proof whole-wheat taco shells. (Note from Mrs. Johnson: More behind-the scenes information about the anomalous watermelon can be found in an "Easter egg" that is hidden on the Buckaroo Banzai DVD.) |
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The was such a hit with my circle of "counter-culture" friends in High School, we started the "Fraternal Order of Buckaroo Banzai", later known simply as the Fraternity. It was a group of four to seven guys who were all, "black sheep" of one variety or another.
So, BB holds a special place in my heart to this day. 
It wasn't Shakespeare by any account, but wasn't trying to be. 
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Quoted: The book explains why the watermelon was in the hydraulic press in the lab... Yep, and it also gave a lot more background on the Lectroids, including how they can squeeze through small openings like a cat (basically anything their skull will fit through). One of them does so during a chase in the movie, but all you see is his leg withdrawing through the hole at the end. |
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Mission Control: Buckaroo, The White House wants to know is everything ok with the alien space craft from Planet 10 or should we just go ahead and destroy Russia?
Buckaroo Banzai: Tell him yes on one and no on two. Mission Control: Which one was yes, go ahead and destroy Russia... or number 2? |
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One of my favorite flicks.
It's also the only movie that I can think of that takes longer to explain than it does to watch. You can get Buckaroo Banzai t-shirts and other stuff here... |