11 Hated Sci-Fi Movies That Became Cult Classics
8. The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The Eighth Dimension
"It has had the most dramatic reactions of anything I've worked on. Some loathe it and others are willing to die for it," said director W.D. Richter, who had a history with the sci-fi genre being the screenwriter of the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake. But the extreme paranoia of Richter's script is replaced here with Earl Mac Rauch's pulpy, downright goofy writing on par with 30s and 40s adventure shorts that inspired the similarly goofy but much more successful Indiana Jones.
Buckaroo Banzai is Indiana Jones on LSD, a scientist, neurosurgeon, test pilot and musician who must battle the Red Lectroids, inter-dimensional beings from Planet 10. It's not really meant to be defended with a fanboy's love, just enjoyed for its high-intensity goofiness. Nevertheless, say a bad word about it around a fan and you've got yourself a good old-fashioned nerd-off.
A movie with John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd AND Jeff Goldblum can't not be a blast.