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Home video has also been a boon for some small films that did well with critics but badly at the box office. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, a sci- fi comedy that got sympathetic reviews but few theater customers, has gone platinum on cassette (100,000 units sold). Cross Creek, a well-reviewed drama about Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, surpassed its theatrical revenues with $1.5 million in home-video sales. A few films, like Crimes of Passion, have been re-edited for home video to restore racy or violent footage cut for the theatrical release. Some VCR owners actually prefer...
FANS OF CULT MOVIES will find much that has been borrowed, including the most famous line from Buckaroo Banzai. Indeed, though the Mad Max films have been elevated to popular status, Mad Max III has retained much of what makes some cult films, "cult classics." The bizarre side of life and death are captured better in the wonderfully absurd characters of this film--e.g. the hunchbacked gameshow host-executioner--than they could possibly be in a "serious" film. In other words, Mad Max films, though violent and bizarre...
...Chris' chief antagonist. Peter Weller plays Sam with scary perfection. Weller, who most recently portrayed the brain suergon-rqckstar-world hero in Buckaroo Bonsai, switches easily but believably from a dreamy drifter to a dangerous madman, with much of the same charge seen in last year's Star...
...most viewers could catch the first time around and still be an alltime blockbuster. MTV serves up a Dalicatessen of surreal images, and everybody comes back for seconds. Gremlins goes through more drastic mood changes than Sybil; it has sold more than $100 million worth of tickets this summer. Buckaroo Banzai, then, is simply extending the trend of data overload. Still, its creators, Earl Mac Rauch (New York, New York) and W.D. Richter (who wrote Slither and Brubaker), propel their film with such pace and farfetched style that anyone without Ph.D.s in astrophysics and pop culture is likely...
...film's end the producers promise another episode: Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League. Is it possible that this wild bronc ride of a movie can be popular enough to spawn a sequel? Watch the grosses, and the skies. -By Richard Corliss