Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxm!mhuxn!houxm!vax135!cornell!lasspvax!gtaylor From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) Newsgroups: net.movies,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Buckaroo Banzai times three Message-ID: <144@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 09:22:35 EST Article-I.D.: lasspvax.144 Posted: Tue Dec 4 09:22:35 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 03:59:46 EST References: <> Reply-To: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor) Distribution: net Organization: Theory Center (Cornell University) Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.movies:5121 net.sf-lovers:5327 Summary: In article <> moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) writes: >So, if you've been scared away from this movie due to claims that it is >incomprehensible -- take heart. You're missing one heck of a treat in this >movie. After having hung on for who knows how long waiting for it to wander into the Maul cinema, I gotta agree. If anything, the strong sense that I had is that the script writers themselves had great fun writing the thing, the actors really enjoyed themselves, and then the studio people saw the rough cuts and laid a brick, sending some poor hapless smurf scurrying into the editing room with instructions to make it more linear. Perhaps if they'd adopted the "Repo Man" school of PostModern editing (Pastiche is the name of the game, don't be afraid to *let* the movie unroll in the little world it has created for itself), this would have been truly transcendant. A diamond in the rough, definitely. ANy film that opens with a Marvin Gaye quote in the middle of a desert test *can't* be all bad, niet waar? Greg