TV and Movies - going old school!
Recently I was out with a pal and we were scoping out the cheap movie bins at a music store when I gave a shriek of joy. A movie I had seen and loved was there - “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Across the 8th Dimension”. I remember seeing it for the first time at a revival theatre while in university; a double bill with the orginal “Highlander
” - which made total sense because Clancy Brown played Rawhide in Buckaroo and then Kurgan in Highlander. The movies that made me fall for Clancy…
The movie is, for many, a cult classic and if you haven’t seen it, I suggest you do. It is campy, trashy sci-fi fun. John Lithgow is at his most wacky mad scientist-ness, and Jeff Goldblum in full cowboy regalia… hilarious! Watching it again I was astounded to see so many now-famous faces.
If only we had men like Rawhide and Perfect Tommy in the world… oh and Buckaroo too.
Seeing this movie got me all nostalgic… a bad thing for my pocketbook (talk about nostalgic… does anyone ever call their wallet that any more? LOL). I was searching around on Amazon and found another blast from the past: H.R. Pufnstuf
.
This was also way before my time, but they played it on Saturday morning reruns when I was a kid. That, Rocket Robin Hood and Bugs Bunny. Okay, so there were other stuff but frankly I do not feel at all nostalgic for Power Rangers (other than the fact that Archie Kao was in it and is now on CSI) or Teenage Turtles (bleagh!).
Pufnstuf predates the Muppets, and was obviously where McDonalds got the Hamburglar idea from. It is so 60s camp it was hilarious. Or at least that is how I remember it; the DVDs just arrived and I’ll be spending the weekend watching them.
Speaking of TV shows from the past, if someone out there is listening there is a TV series I DESPARATELY want to see come out on DVD: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. This show was even listed in EW’s list of TV shows they wanted on DVD! I mention it to lots of my friends and they all say the same thing: I want it too! So for the love all that is holy: someone out there release Parker Lewis
! Please!!!!
Across the 8th Dimension”. I remember seeing it for the first time at a revival theatre while in university; a double bill with the orginal “Highlander
” - which made total sense because Clancy Brown played Rawhide in Buckaroo and then Kurgan in Highlander. The movies that made me fall for Clancy…
The movie is, for many, a cult classic and if you haven’t seen it, I suggest you do. It is campy, trashy sci-fi fun. John Lithgow is at his most wacky mad scientist-ness, and Jeff Goldblum in full cowboy regalia… hilarious! Watching it again I was astounded to see so many now-famous faces.
If only we had men like Rawhide and Perfect Tommy in the world… oh and Buckaroo too.
Seeing this movie got me all nostalgic… a bad thing for my pocketbook (talk about nostalgic… does anyone ever call their wallet that any more? LOL). I was searching around on Amazon and found another blast from the past: H.R. Pufnstuf
.
This was also way before my time, but they played it on Saturday morning reruns when I was a kid. That, Rocket Robin Hood and Bugs Bunny. Okay, so there were other stuff but frankly I do not feel at all nostalgic for Power Rangers (other than the fact that Archie Kao was in it and is now on CSI) or Teenage Turtles (bleagh!).
Pufnstuf predates the Muppets, and was obviously where McDonalds got the Hamburglar idea from. It is so 60s camp it was hilarious. Or at least that is how I remember it; the DVDs just arrived and I’ll be spending the weekend watching them.
Speaking of TV shows from the past, if someone out there is listening there is a TV series I DESPARATELY want to see come out on DVD: Parker Lewis Can’t Lose. This show was even listed in EW’s list of TV shows they wanted on DVD! I mention it to lots of my friends and they all say the same thing: I want it too! So for the love all that is holy: someone out there release Parker Lewis
! Please!!!!