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by neilk 202 days ago
Yup. I nearly had this movie memorized when I was a child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWXuDNmO7j8

Peter Weller, playing Buckaroo Banzai, is late for his military-particle-physics-interdimensional-jet-car test because he's helping Jeff Goldblum's character with neurosurgery. Later that day he will go play lead guitar in an ensemble.

Scriptwriting gurus advise that your protagonist should have flaws and character progression. The writers of this movie disagree.

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Kevin Smith has an introduction to this movie where he calls it a true piece of art: "It doesn't care what you bring to the table, it bring itself to the table and says: figure it out". https://youtu.be/N8R8wmlggwc?si=sva2-jF1Kl5eFsU4