i came across a site, with a list of good and bad b movies, sci fi, horror etc. now im a fan of stuff liek that :) and i fount a title;*MESSAGE FROM SPACE* a japanese film who someone described as a japanese version of sarwars. well, i think, it remindes me more of a puppet series, *starfleet*which im trying to get a hold of, suppose its very rare these days:Psee the sismilarities? (oops movie from 78.) hey maybe x bomber got their ideas from the movie??:P

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Hmmm... That actually looks like a live action remake of the amine 'Odin: Space Galleon Starlight'.....

heck, I'd be happy if someone could just explain Buckaroo Banzai..;) Always felt like it was a cult movie that only insiders could understand..;) still, might be a good reference site for models..thankx..

I saw the film when it was first released...sometime back in the early 1980s. Effects wise, it was alright, a little on the cheap side, but passable. It's biggest problem was that it was dead dull. They spent most of the film doing the set-up for the last 10 minuets, which was a rip-off of STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE. If you don't find it, you're not missing that much. Find a copy of the trailer, it's bette than the whole film. Let's put it this way, the "message" of the title was contained in magic walnuts (no kidding!) that apparently had the ability to travel at warp speed. From what I remember, anyway...

Wasn't Buckaroo Banzai based on a comic book? I don't think it had a message, per se. I think it was an attmept to do a very dry send-up of sci-fi films. Some of the humor is very, very subtle and understated and some of it is just plain silly, which made for an odd mix and I think lost a lot of people. I didn't get it myself when I first saw it as a teenager, but later when I saw it again as an adult it seemed to fare better. Still think it has one of the best closing lines of all time: "So what. Big deal." Almost as if they filmmaker was saying to the audience "Yeah, it was just a weird story and now it's over." - Jimdoria ~@>@

There was a comic based on Buckaroo Banzai, but it came out after the film. The film was loosly based (or inspired by, for lack of a better term) on the Doc Savage pulps of the 1930s and '40s. I never understood the great attraction to the film as it just couldn't make up it's mind what it wanted to be. To each it's own I guess.