![]() buy a copy and be prepared to screen it at least two times, to get all the nuances and gags. Only recently I purchased it at eBay, and ha ve seen it two or three times since then. Years ago, when it was available on a pay-TV station in Los Angeles, I saw the movie about four or five times. ![]() ![]() One reviewer wrote of it "[Buckaroo Banzai[ is paradoxically decades ahead of its time and yet completely of its time it's profoundly a movie by, for, and of geeks and nerds at a time before geek/nerd culture was mainstreamed, and a movie whose pre-CG special effects and pre-Computer Age production design were an essential part of its good-natured enthusiasm." It played for over two years at weekend midnight screenings in Boston, and was sold out every show (principally because Harvard students loved it and saw it again and again). ![]() This movie is so brilliant and so funny that you'll have to see it at least twice to get all the gags. The hands-down greatest SciFi sendup of all time, and a terrific movie on its own merits!! ![]()
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