NinetyForChill: The #Podcast: Buckaroo Banzai vs. ThePoeticCritic

 NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast

Episode 106: Buckaroo Banzai vs. ThePoeticCritic.

Buckaroo Banzai vs. ThePoeticCritic

Jeff Goldblum maybe NinetyForChill's "In case of fire, break glass" metaphor. It is an easy means to bring ThePoeticCritic back on the show to discuss a classic sci-fi feature. (With Jim Carrey's rubberface, we would be consider that to be syfy.) The guy who was the blue alien may draw TPC out, but Peter Weller seems to have an ability to capture CatBusRuss's attention. Throw in some Clancy Brown, and he will be there. Needless to say, our host has the Shout! Factory's Steelbook of 1984's "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension", an underappreciated blueprint of how all comic book movies should operate.

Allow me to get out of third-person. Happy Prof. Shurtleff of Illinois Central College? I (CM Darth) will try not to make so much light of violent death in this summation. This is my declaration of changing perspective.

It was a nice change of pace to have some consecutive days off during the week. Yes, this blog is being posted about 18 hours after I uploaded the podcast, but optimizing my PlayStation 5 seemed more worthwhile. Here is to hoping that I do not use the remainder of my Xfinity internet data. All the games I am downloading to make sure Sony cannot take them away from me will have a price. At least that is not the conglomerate who is going to benefit financially.

There is not really a lot of pressure on me right now. This podcast was recorded an hour after "The Lost Boys with @CouchManBakes", so there was no urgency to binge movies. I guess the shame is that the podcast has not done much with new-to-me movies.

But why worry about the new stuff when you have classics that require recognition. The best comic book movies follow the groundwork laid by "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension".

If you call yourself a fan of the eighties, this feature offers everything fun about the decade to the audience. New wave music. Robocop. The Kurgan. Jeff Goldblum's first exposition dump. Crazy John Lithgow. The actual birth of Christopher Lloyd's villainous performances.

The ensemble cast inspired a trip to "Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy's Trash Feature Revue". With the letter C, Ally actually supplied me with a disc. We have different taste, so those are greater gambles than when I try to feel in the void. But, as it turns out, I have yet to see a bad sub 100-minute film starting with that letter (at least when it comes to Ally's trash).

"Columbus Circle" is a fun ensemble piece about a shut-in heiress who is paranoid of everyone. Of course, just because you are paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you. Selma Blair, Beau Bridges, Kevin Pollak, Jason Lee, the weakest name in the cast is Amy Smart, but I do not find that to be an insult. Give Pollak an "everything is not what it seems" story, and it may be guaranteed gold.

Follow me on Twitter @catbusruss. If you want to be on the show, contact me on Twitter or send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All we need is a theme, movie, director, or actor and a focus on sub 100-minute material. As long as the credits start before the 1:39:59 mark on the runtime bar, the movie qualifies.