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1942: War Rumors - part II

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2008-01-07 13:54:55 by Thom in Film of the Year
...Banzai Blabbermouth," and "Viva Blabbermouth!" respectively. We're not sure what Blabbermouth is saying but the talk obviously has the support of the enemy. However, if the film stopped here the audience might think the lesson is the sort of "loose lips sink ships" moral found in the Private Snafu flick Spies (1943). As mentioned above the...
 
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Eight Of Kurt Russell's Most Enjoyable Films: An Appreciation

2008-01-10 15:00:00 by Critics Rant in Critics Rant - Movie, DVD, and TV Show Reviews
 
...BANZAI, the script and the resultant film quickly mutated into something very unusual for Hollywood at the time, though it was old hat in Hong Kong. A wry and clueless trucker named Jack Burton, one of Kurts most famous characters, gets involved in a centuries-old war between good and evil when he tries to collect on some money owed him by...
 
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RIP: Reel Important People -- March 17. 2008

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2008-03-17 00:00:00 by Christopher Campbell in Cinematical
...Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and The Sicilian . He died of cancer February 25, in Los Angeles. ( Variety John Bliss (1930-2008) - Actor who appears in A Face in the Crowd , Intolerable Cruelty , The Miracle Worker , The Thing with Two Heads , Imaginary Heroes and Art School Confidential . He died of complications related to an abdominal...
 
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Finite Focus: Of Vowels and Mammarys (The American Astronaut)

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2008-04-07 13:05:22 by Kurt Halfyard in Row Three
...Banzai and the Ice Pirates , but that doesnt quite get there either). McAbees band, The Billy Nayer Show does all the music, while McAbee himself stars as smuggler Samuel Curtis who has to deliver a cat to the proprietor of a hive of scum an villainy (and an exceptionally long single-take joke from Sopranos regular, Tom Aldredge) located on a...
 
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TOM LISANTI: WHY "RIDE THE WILD SURF" IS THE BEST BEACH MOVIE EVER

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2008-04-28 09:10:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...Banzai Pipeline, Sunset Beach, and Haleiwa. This footage is spread generously throughout the film climaxing with big wave thrills at the King of the Mountain contest at Waimea Bay. It is by far the most exciting and best surfing sequences in any Hollywood surf movie of the sixties. However, some of the scenes of the actors on their boards...
 
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SF Tidbits for 7/4/08

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2008-07-04 01:29:19 by John in SF Signal
 
...Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Here's a guy who turned himself into a tattoo zombie Geeks of Doom list 10 Ways To Make a Kick-Ass Version of Space: 1999 Meanwhile, Jumbabox lists The worst characters from Star Trek Three words that fill me with dread and intrigue: Sleestack Velvet Painting Finally...Happy Independence Day! Here's an...
 
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Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads

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2008-07-17 21:43:00 by Paul Matwychuk in The Moviegoer
...Banzai ) and 1985 ( Back to the Future, Return to Oz ). The first segment, in which I tackle 1983 ( WarGames, Staying Alive ), is still missing, but hopefully that will be remedied soon Anyway, I've really been getting a kick out of doing these pieces, and I hope you enjoy them too
 
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Inside The Buckaroo Banzai Sequel That Was To Be, And Which Still May Happen

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2008-09-04 17:03:54 by MTV Movies Team in MTV Movies Blog
By Nisha Gopalan Remember how at the end of The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai Across the 8th Dimension, there was a cruel teaser for a sequel titled Buckaroo Bonzai Against the World Crime League? Or perhaps you dontbecause that promise was made, oh, 24 years ago Well, MTV News chatted with that movies co-creator/writer Earl Mac Rauch currently...
 
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MIND MELD: What Makes a Successful SciFi/Fantasy Book Adaptation? Why Do Some Fail?

2008-09-17 00:29:25 by John in SF Signal
 
...Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984 Alien (1979 Aliens (1986 Alphaville (1965 Altered States (1980 Back to the Future (1985 Back to the Future Part II (1989 Back to the Future Part III (1990 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989 The Blob (1958 A Boy and His Dog (1975 Brazil (1985 Carrie (1976 Children of the Damned (1963 La Cité des...
 
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