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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: BUCKEROO BANZAI
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 20:23:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 20:23:00 1984
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Nf-From: uokvax!lmaher    Oct 19 19:23:00 1984

/***** uokvax:net.movies / uiucdcs!carey / 12:11 pm  Oct 16, 1984 */

Interesting that you mention its resemblance to a comic book.
While glancing over the shoulder of my little sister while
she was reading her Marvels (but John you don't have a 
little sister!) I saw an advertisement for Buckaroo Banzai
"soon to be a major Marvel comic"
For all you fans out there it did not mention when it
would start coming out.
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The Buckaroo Banzai comic book adaptation is already out, both in
a magazine-size high quality paper version and as two regular-
size comic books.  They're not as good as the movie or the book,
but then few things are.

From that last line you can tell I liked the movie very much.
It's much closer to being a Pulp for the 80's than a comic book.
Note that Evelyn Leeper's description of the movie is wrong in
places - whether due to confusion or not paying attention I don't
know.  I'm always suspicious of reviewers that mix up the details
in their spoilers - nothing personal, Evelyn.

As I said in my first review of this movie when it was released,
"If you like the Pulps, see it.  If you're not sure whether you
like Pulps, see it and then you'll know.  If you don't like the
Pulps, buy a ticket for it anyway so it'll make enough money to
justify the sequel."

If you liked the Movie, then by all means read the book
afterwards!

        "If it's not one thing, it's another."

	Carl
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