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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 · Film · 103 min
Directed by W.D. Richter
Science FictionComedyAdventure
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
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With a few honourable exceptions, the CGI effects tend to age pretty bad, ruin movies over time.
Lets say, The Last Starfighter (1984's CGI) versus: Startrek III (1984), 2010 The Year We Make Contact (1984) and so on, even Buckaroo Banzai (1984) is watchable.
With the current popcorn CGI being used today, the same thing will happen.
May I pass along my congratulations for your great interdimensional breakthrough. I am sure, in the miserable annals of the Earth, you will be duly enshrined.
> The 1984 film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension used the name Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems for a defense contractor whose corporate offices feature the sign, "The future begins tomorrow". Yoyodyne is a front for a group of red Lectroid aliens, all with the first name John, that landed in New Jersey in 1938, using the panic created by Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio play as cover.[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyodyne#Other_fictional_uses
"The Future Begins Tomorrow", motto of Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems [1], from the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/spookytreasures/7162735516/in/photostream/
I agree with all of these but have to add some, because you are missing a lot of the classics.
- Alien (talk about classic Sci-Fi Horror)
- Westworld (watch the movie before the show. Trust me)
- 2001 A Space Odyssey
- The Thing (I've only seen the old one)
- Moon
- Children of Men
- 12 Monkeys
- Gattaca
- Blade Runner
- Dark City
- Akira (anime)
- Primer (my favourite time travel film)
- Interstellar
- Black Mirror
- Psycho-Pass (anime)
And of course everyone needs to watch - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Real Genius. Charly (which is an adaptation of 'Flowers for Algernon'). I.Q. (with Walter Matthau as Einstein), Young Einstein (Yahoo Serious splits the beer atom). Buckaroo Banzai.
Pretty much every film with a mad scientist. Frankenstein was a science genius. So was Dr. Zarkov in Flash Gordon.
Hollywood is almost universally terrible at hacker movies, unfortunately, dating back to when they perverted Frankenstein. I haven't seen Swordfish, but what I've heard doesn't make me optimistic.
Real Genius and Ghostbusters are two pretty good hacker movies. I hear Buckaroo Banzai is in the same ballpark, but I haven't seen the whole thing. I also enjoyed Flight of the Navigator, but it's really more about magic than about hacking.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/