Wait – this isn’t Robocop !?

Posted on Mar 11, 2010 in lolz | 1 comment

So earlier this week as I was flipping through the virtual TV guide listing I saw that Robocop (no wiki link necessary – you know you love Robocop) was on at 8:30pm. “Wicked!”, I said to myself. “I’m recording that for sure”, and I did. Little did I know that the Rogers guide was wrong (shocker!).

Serendipity is a crazy thing. Robocop was actually starting at 9pm, but lucky for me (and now you) I was introduced to the 1984 awesomeness of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

AMAZING!
Look at that movie’s title!
And look again at that pic I posted… it’s in lolcat speak!!!
In frickin’ 1984!!!

Hit the jump for videos….

I have no idea what the plot of this movie is, but I definitely noticed the lolcat speak. It’s almost perfect grammar by today’s standard.

“NOBUDY CUMZ IN HERE – SEKRIT”

I think the sign in the above screencap was written by the aliens in the movie, but I’m not really sure. Naturally this lead me to the conclusion… lolcat is the language of first contact. Forget morse code or five-tone musical phrase – aliens speak the language of the internet: lolcat. How else could this forgettable 80s movie have predicted this future vernacular? Aliens must have told the writer/director 20+ years ago.

Okay, back to the movie.

Now that I think about it, I really wish my PVR had recorded the entire Buckaroo movie instead of just the final 30 minutes. At first I was disappointed to not be watching Robocop busting baddies right away, but then the bizarreness of this 80s classic really won me over.

From what I saw, this movie has:

• Awesome 80s music
• Awesome 80s fight scenes
• Awesome 80s special fx
• Awesome 80s rubber masks
• Awesome 80s acting
• and Peter Weller

That last point is what really confused me when I started watching. I mean, he looked like Robocop, but he wasn’t a robot. He could have still been a cop though, I think he had a gun. At first I thought CHCH TV messed up and just started airing the movie at the wrong point… but then the aliens came in… with their rubber mask faces. Admittedly it had probably been at least 15 years since I last saw Robocop, but I think I would have remembered him 1) not being a robot, and 2) instead of bustin’ Detroit baddies it was rubber face aliens wearing full dress suits (?!).

Who knew the dude from Robocop was in more movies? And who from CHCH TV thought to make it a double-bill?

Buckaroo is also full of win because of the cast.

Check out all the names you’ll probably remember:

• Robocop-dude
• John Lithgow
• Ellen Barkin
• Jeff Goldblum
• Christopher Lloyd
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Dan Hedaya
• and Yakov Smirnoff!!

AMAZING!