Am I dreaming? Kevin Smith hosting a Q&A about Buckaroo Banzai? With Peter Weller and John Lithgow?
To try and describe The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension is to try and catch fog, or nail jelly to a wall. It is a genre-bending film, a sci-fi comedy comic book satire, the cultest of cult movies. If you have seen it and you love it, you have a friend in me for life. If you haven’t seen it, you’ll be like a hell of a lot of people. Buckaroo Banzai is proof that Earl Mac Rauch and W.D Richter were doing Joss Whedon before Joss Whedon was. And I mean that in a good way.
As one guy says at the Q&A. “It is said that only a thousand people saw The Velvet Underground live, but everyone of those thousand people started a band. And I think that Buckaroo Banzai had the same effect on creative types. Anyone who saw that movie and had it burrow into our heads, we went out and created stuff.”
Too true, my friend, too true.
Ah hell, look, have a (cheesy, but not bad) fan-made trailer.
And the catchiest end credit music ever.
Out of My Tiny Mind 