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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 · Science Fiction · Comedy
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All the kids grow 10 feet tall... and TAKE OVER!
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.
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Wuchak
June 10, 2022
_**Cool score, gorgeous women and those wild 60s!**_ In some ways "Village of the Giants" (1965) is a godawful flick about a group of "kids" (more like mid-20s) who stumble upon a potion that turns them into giants. Godawful or not, there's just something mesmerizing about this flick! It's ridiculous and the "special effects" are laughable, yet it's full of energy and is thoroughly entertaining in a swingin' 60s kind…
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July 13, 2026
This movie has one strange flaw that doesn't make any sense. Whenever anything goes wrong, the guys and their girlfriends just stand up and start dancing. No one explains why their car has an accident on a flooded road, so they just get out of the car and start dancing. They seem to be immune to normal reactions when things go wrong. Otherwise, it does hit the note for being different. Theres also some goofy sounding…
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