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Buckaroo Banzai across the eigth dimension!

 
 
Tamayyurt
15:13 / 26.09.02
I just got this book but I haven't really started reading it (cause I was reading Ubik). Is it any good? Is the movie and good?
 
 
Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero
19:49 / 26.09.02
I really enjoyed the book, but the movie is pretty awful in a funny way. So terribly eighties. Might as well rent it, though. But definately read the book.
 
 
Baz Auckland
18:11 / 01.10.02
It was a book before a movie?
 
 
Jack Fear
19:10 / 01.10.02
No. Released simultaneously, but containing loads of material that didn't make it into the film (as is often the case with filmnovelizations, as the author almost invariably works from a screenplay rather than a finished film). The book has been re-released as a package deal with the DVD, I gather.
 
 
grant
19:18 / 01.10.02
Yeah, the novel has a whole 'nother bad guy working with Lizardo, if I remember right.
 
 
Locust No longer
20:22 / 09.10.02
Ah, the movie is awesome in so many bad '80s ways.
 
 
Baz Auckland
23:17 / 09.10.02
I saw the movie at the same time I was reading Jerry Cornelius for the first time and thought the movie was great rip-off of JC.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
05:04 / 10.10.02
this book was cooler than a corpse in the freezer.

Rent the DVD if you can, the extra shit is so off the wall, the director claims it is a Docudrama about a real person, wildly bizarre really...
 
 
RadJose
05:44 / 10.10.02
man the book is SO rad... the movie is fun.. but the book is WAY COOL... oddly enough i just started in on Ubik... too wierd
 
 
grant
16:09 / 04.01.05
New book coming soon, according to Ain't It Cool News:

Hi guys,

Big Shoulders here. Not sure if you heard about this yet.

It appears that Moonstone will be releasing an illustrated Buckaroo Banzai trade paperback sometime in 2005! The novel promises to be a brand new adventure, chronicling the further exploits of the celebrated multidisciplinary science guru/rock music god and his associates, the incomparable Hong Kong Cavaliers.

This is an extraordinary development. As recently as last month, Simon & Schuster were pondering Earl Mac Rauch's latest draft of a new Buckaroo Banzai novel. I have e-mailed WD Richter and Earl Mac Rauch to confirm what is already posted at the Moonstone website (Click Here) and in this press release (Click Here), but it sure looks like Buckaroo will soon be saddling-up and back on the clock once again.

Fellow BBIs, rejoice!

Big Shoulder


So there's that.
 
 
lekvar
23:53 / 04.01.05
Man, it's about time this year delivered some good news. I have to admit to some skepitcism though. There have been Banzai-branded spinoffs threatened for yeas but none has ever made it to the final stage of actually being made. There was supposed to be a COPS-style ridealong reality program among other things.

And I just want to state for the record that my girlfriend is soooo fucking cool that she bought me the Marvel BB movie adaptation for Christmas!
 
 
betty woo
19:36 / 05.01.05
What I love most about the book & the film (although the book does it a touch better, I think) is the sense of depth and history behind it all. I was convinced for years that the book was, in fact, a middle bit in a huge series, simply because of the layering of backstory and off-hand references to other adventures and characters that are just thrown into the mix as though of course you knew about them.

As such, I'm very excited about a comic series coming through at last, although Xanoi Han does seem to have been doing an excellent job of preventing any more of Buckaroo's missions from coming to light, so we'll have to see how this fares...
 
  
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