How come this is not in IMDB Bottom 100?

Oh Dear God!! This movie is brillant in its insanity! There are just too many bits and pieces of inspiried lunasy and creativity embeded in this film that it takes several viewing just to tap into its "groove".

Isnt this one of those films that you would have loved being on the set of (and Ive been on a few myself that were "just business")that you imagine would have been magical and manicial? Ive watched it at least 20 times and i still pick up tidbits of dialog, action, set decoration and in-jokes ( as Doc L. makes his call from the loonie-bin take a look at some of the names scralled on the wall).

Some folk will never get it and some will. Me... I will always look for the that scene where Dr. Lazardo hands his suitcase up to the Lectroid with the mismatched black and white outfit with the oversized red plastic boxing gloves on and wonder how everyone kept a straight face while that went on. Oh and look on John L. face after he says "TAKE HER TO THE PIT!!"..strickly Academy Awards material as well. Just Priceless

Ive seen over a couple thousand movies and this is still one of my favorite. From reading this thread it seems to have changed from a "I hate this" to a "how can you not love this" movie. I give it a 9 out of 10 rating (I'd give it a 10! but Ellen Barkins not nude in it).

Being a HUGE fan myself which up unitl recently I could not have told you exactly why, I have found it one of those movies that was hard to get others into if they werent already. which at some point got me thinking that that was it if you could enjoy or "get" something that felt like the last chapter of a book you never read with minimal clues or info on the story then you belonged to someting greater or whatever. I saw this in the theater in LA opening night and have lost count at the number of viewings and still never get tired of it.

"John Bigboote you are the weakest individual I ever know"

I love it & I'm female (and also not American) - I didn't get it the first time I saw it, but the second time I was utterly hooked. And as for the lack of female characters, I don't think you have to be male to identify with a male character in a film- and even if you did, this is so campy and full of pretty men anyway- it was the eighties!I can't see much evidence of testosterone (except for Rawhide's character)

The deuce you say!

F UCK THE BOTTOM 100 ! THIS MOVIE NEEDS TO BE ON THE TOP 250

Everybody else mostly said what I was thinking about, why this movie is so great .

I love movies, love sci-fi, love cult films... and I thought this was poor. Not terrible, but not good either.

I had read on the Internet that this was a cult classic, and then I read the blurb and it sounded brilliant! Then I watched it and was so dissapointed. :(

The comments from DrMario in the previous post sums up my feelings perfectly.

Its bad..Really bad!

I dont even think its worthy of cult status!

"i don't understand why some call this a spoof to sci-fi flicks. it's just a VERY POORLY-SHOT action film claiming itself a sci-fi."

Well Mr Bond, call me old fashioned, but when a film contains jokes, hilarious ham-acting, ridiculous villains, excellent visual gags, aliens with names such as: John Bigbootay and John Smallberries, spacecraft, overthrusters, mad scientists, and more 80's sci-fi cheese than you could shake a stick at; it usually qualifies as a sci-fi comedy. This film completely deserves it's cult status and more. The amount of films that have referenced and paid homage to it over the years should be proof enough that Buckaroo Banzai has impacted on a number of well-respected modern day film makers. Wes Anderson, the Wachowski brothers, and Vincenzo Natali to name a few. Fair play if it's not your thing, but you cant possibly say it's not a comedy, and you'd have to be farking blind to say it's not sci-fi!!

I don't find this to be a spoof. 'Spaceballs' is a spoof. The 'Scary Movie' franchise is a spoof. This is a movie based on a comic book, or so I hear.

One of the qualities that makes this movie great is that it's mysterious. The science is never really explained in detail, which seems effective. We simply get the fundamentals. There's an 8th dimension. To get there you need an 'oscillation overthruster' which I gotta say is a pretty cool name for a gizmo. There's a Planet Ten (or Planet X). There's an alien technology that can transfer information through an electrical discharge (very Arthur C. Clarke). Then there's the observation that solid matter is not really solid at all (real science).

It's movies like this that have the potential to inspire wonder about the universe; That there's always something beyond our given senses, something we can't even begin to fathom.


Another thing that makes this movie cool is that it has a team of good guys. What kid hasn't imagined being part of a team of heroes? Plus there was the kid (I forget his name) who was part of the Bonzai Blue Blaze Irregulars. And he even made a contribution. He had the confidence of his elders that, in spite of his age, he could do what needed to be done to win a battle. I ask again, what kid hasn't identified with that? To be given serious responsibility and a role that is taken seriously by adults? To be given a chance to prove himself?

There's really too much to name. I haven't seen a good sci-fi movie like this in years. Heck, I just saw 'Mission to Mars' on HBO and, despite what appears to be a higher budget, that movie sucked ass! No heart. No imagination. Nothing inspired. No mystery. Everything explained in laborious, tiresome detail. Contrived bonds between the principal characters--Boring!

Water on Mars? Big deal. 'Total Recall' did a better job with that plot element. But I digress...

i find it interesting that a "cult" movie rates only 5.9/10 -- any examples of other cult movies that rate so low? or are cult movies generally rated low so as to be kept underground by their fans?