30 minute version of the "End Credits (Long Version)" to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). "Because remember, wherever you go..."
I met my wife two decades ago. We were dating and I said, there's this movie on dvd that I love: "Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension". She said, "I love that movie, too." It's been a great twenty years; slightly bent, but great, and we still watch Buckaroo when we need a refresh. There are grandkids nearing Buckaroo exposure.
Rick Carey - hope your marriage is going ok, glad you've got Buckaroo in common, but be sure to ask her about what she's interested in, even if it's Gilmore Girls(or insert any show), just stick it out watching an episode and say , "that was great, wow, really put some things into perspective for me, cool, sweetheart", move in for the hug and kiss, then...well
Yeah, I have trouble with daughters-in-law, but we're working on conditioning the grandkids. Ellen is into Brit mysteries. I hang around just enough (often to the conclusion) to validate her enthusiasm. Love is a continuum.
Somehow this music almost brings me to tears... the good guys winning, coming together to protect us, the tragedy of the sequel that never happened. So much emotion from a tune and footage of some good-looking people walking on concrete.
The Sepulveda Dam in Van Nuys California didn’t know what an iconic scene it was filming almost 40 years ago. Every actor in their prime. I love this end credits. Perfect Tommy changes clothes often in this sequence. They were all sweating.
Same here brother... Reminds me of my mom whom I lost last year after taking care of her for over 10 years...She introduced and we watched Buckaroo Banzai on cable tv together when I was a child and both of us loved it.
i started play the end credit ref on a moog at a guitar center and two other hopped on the other parts of the Song! thats how you know tons of people remember and love this movie;)
My first real girlfriends dad had a keyboard and after we watched it together, he showed us how to play it on the Casio... They're some damn good memories
I always wanted to be Perfect Tommy. That's him on the left. You can tell, because -- he's perfect. And remember: "Lithium can no longer be purchased on credit."
After all these years, I still dig this this movie and this end theme. You can't help but smile and groove to it. Makes you want to march with them. This movie is sensational!!
Driving passed the Sepulveda Dam on the 101 in southern California (where the closing credits walk was filmed) I still find myself grinning like an idiot (and whistling the tune) thirty years later...makes traffic just a little more tolerable.
I drove by this on the 405 side yesterday and wondered the same thing! It's not visible from any of the roads around it (from what I can see). Haven't been able to park and hike to a decent vantage point yet. (Also want to find the spot Arnold and Tom hold Bill Paxton over the edge to scare him in "True Lies"... same location I think.)
One of my all time favorites. Folks around my area just didn't "get it" but it blew me away. It only stayed in the local theater for a week but I watched it four times. The last day was a midnight showing. Walked in and sat in an empty theater, then another couple came in but left part way through. So my own private screening, and it was just me and some projectionist sitting there until every last bit of the closing credits finished and the screen went dark. Pure joy right there.
I must confess I went around coercing people into watching it just to see how many minds got blown and as it turned out I didn't care because I was rediscovering it each time anew... Michael Church Blue Blazer Irregular Buckaroo!
Watched this movie in a real theater when it came out with my younger brother before marriage, kids, and grown up responsibilities. Maybe that's why this music makes me nostalgic and wishing to go back and savor the moment again.
Classic childhood movie for me!!! I used to dance to notably this beat and the epic theme at the end was just 80's all the way!! The originality of this film and it's scores just personifies the true character of cinema then for kids .... the 80's was where dreams were made in and of cinema. Krull, Flight of the Navigator, Goonies, etc. kids films had the originality and even great music too!!!
Thank you so much for this... I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. One of my favorite pieces of music from one of my favorite movies of all time. Listened all the way to work on my 30 minute commute, could not stop smiling. 80's music bliss.
Where has this version been my whole life!! Love it!!! Movies were the best during this era unlike some of the crap that's out here today, 2021! And such an Amazing Cast!!!! AWESOME 😎👍👍👍
This ending theme song is AWESOME and so is the ending skit itself! I also love the diversity of the characters and the outfits. So cool! Thanks for putting this together. :D
There is a nostalgic quality to this music that says something to me. I don't know why it has the appeal it does, but it's speaking to a part in me that can never be again.
LOL This movie and particularly this music, were definitely part of what inspired a comic I used to draw as a kid, I had called "Sentient Armament" lol. I'm now in the process of redoing it, along with designs for a game to go with it.. The main character was actually an imaginary friend I created as a child. He is part human and part of an artificially created primordial alien race, later called "Zayin".. It is the old Hebrew word for "weapon" and his race was created to be just that, living weapons. I had modeled the character after a younger version of Roy Batty from Blade Runner, along with a young Thouzer from Fist of the North Star (He actually now looks like he is the son of Thouzer, and Cosmos from Final Fantasy Dissidia lol).. Because the character is also a musician, the lead vocalist, and guitarist in a Rekkr Metal band called "Drengr", there are some Billy Idol influences as well. He is sent to Earth as a baby, just to be hidden for a moment while the bounty hunter group Stardust Crusaders, hired to rescue him fight off various criminal organizations, space pirates and a strange cult on the station Zot. The baby Zayin's pod is hit during a meteor shower as it approaches Earth, so the Stardust Crusaders lose contact with it, which makes them panic, because the Zayin baby was born with a rare and very dangerous mutation, that would one day put him into a state of indiscriminate viciousness, strongly desiring endless chaos and destruction, capable of even destroying galaxies. Now the baby is basically lost on Earth, which could mean the end of the planet, if he isn't found in time.
I can't believe no one replied... sounds great. Are you going to be able to avoid the stereotypical superhero cliches? Seems like that's all H-wood makes these days. How will you make your story unique?
@@tomwatson9032 Hey thanks! lol I wasn't expecting anyone to reply. I tend to write about what whatever music inspired what. I'm not much of Hollyweird lol, or any of the superhero movies. None of the characters were running around in spandex either when I was a kid drawing this lol. I was inspired more by Japanese Manga, and movies like Blade Runner, this, even Metal music.
One of the cops that investigate the alien ship crash was my neighbor in 1970.(John Ashton)He later went on to play 'Taggert' in Beverly Hills Cop. When I knew him, he had been in 'Room 222' on TV. During the earthquake of 1971, he opened the door of his apartment just as the pool wave crested and emptied itself into his unit ! 😂
It been years since I last heard this song. It was in my head, but I could never truly recalled the film that I saw several times in my youth. Then I went searching for jamaican alien movie characters and got a hit, that finally led me to Buckaroo Banzai. Overall its a nice song, especially from that era.
Every time I get in my car my iphone starts playing this. I cant figure out how to make it stop, but I also dont mine. Its a good way to start the day.
Imagine if the USA started implementing China- style movie censorships but instead of that they were like "all movies must end in a Buckaroo Bonzai-styl;e walkn' scene
#Motivational #Music... *THERE YOU ARE.* ;) #Buckaroo #Banzai // awesome ! thanks for this upload... I woke up this morning to this melody stuck in my head/brain/mind! :)
What a godsend! Love working to this song, but hate having to interrupt myself every three minutes to press Replay. Not a huge fan of the movie itself, though I did see it in the theatres upon original release (then watched it again on Hulu before those jerks took it out of circulation), but really adore the end credits theme, it's so sweet and hopeful, with a weird, interstellar interlude. I even liked the end credits sequence, with the long, fast camera dollies in a counter-motion to the direction the characters were walking. Thanks for posting this, exactly what I was hoping to find!
So many similar replies. Thanks for the technical work behind this loop. Great minds and lovers of fine themes think alike! We're all marching in step!
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