{"id":35295,"date":"2022-02-19T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T01:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35295"},"modified":"2022-02-19T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T01:03:30","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-733","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/02\/19\/belated-movie-reviews-733\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most esteemed scenes in American cinema, yes?<\/p><\/div>\n

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1984) remains a conundrum for anyone who thinks stories are serious endeavours, and those that are not well done should be considered a failure. This one is full of silliness: a scientist who’s a rock star who meets his late wife’s unknown twin sister at a concert? The same scientist doesn’t follow protocol, but accedes an impulse to drive a superfast car into a mountain of waste, there encountering other-dimensional creatures who bounce of the car’s windscreen?<\/p>\n

Aliens from that dimension, desperately searching for a way home, are after the same scientist’s device which powered the car, which itself is a refinement of another device used to open the dimension, which allowed an alien to take over the body of another foolhardy scientist? What, don’t they teach these scientists impulse control<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

All the aliens are named John, for goodness’ sake!<\/p>\n

And then there’s the climactic battle, wherein we discover just where the hell some of the Star Wars<\/strong><\/em> space action sequences came from, which I find obscurely disturbing.<\/p>\n

And despite all that, we keep coming back to see it again and again. Cult Classic<\/em> is scrawled across the film tin as if written by a drunken madman. Maybe it’s a way station for some stars, and an origin for others, because names just roll off the tongue: Clancy Brown, Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow, Peter Weller, Emily Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Robert Ito, Yakov Smirnoff, just to name a few. It’s a cast who knows how to act and pulled it off without cracking a smile.<\/p>\n

Recommend it? Of course<\/strong>. It’s a necessity of the American cultural scene. If you haven’t seen it, you won’t really understand American culture.<\/p>\n

Now will you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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