There’s a joke made in Ready Player ... different from the one found in Cline’s novel version of Ready Player One. In both the book and the film, Wade dresses as Buckaroo Banzai — the ...

Ready Player One ... (to name just a few), there's one reference to a character from 1984 in particular that might have left you scratching your head: Buckaroo Banzai. During one scene about ...

Say what you will about Ready Player One (and you probably have; or haven’t … who’s to say?) but, if nothing else, Steven Spielberg has probably killed the “80s movie reference” forever.

It's the name of the bar that Cruise's character Brian Flanagan dreams of opening (he eventually opens one called ... character in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension!

When it’s not careening through ’80s references from Tootsie Roll Pop commercials to Buckaroo Banzai, “Ready Player One” is an Internet parable. There’s mention of prior “bandwidth ...

When it's not careening through '80s references from Tootsie Roll Pop commercials to Buckaroo Banzai, "Ready Player One" is an Internet parable. There's mention of prior "bandwidth riots" ahead of ...

Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” might mark the beginning ... personal nostalgia for John Hughes, Monty Python, “Buckaroo Banzai” and other objects of obsession from my late teens ...

After two hours of pop clutter and video game clatter, Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One has the audacity ... In OASIS he's a Bowie type in Buckaroo Banzai's suit picking up credits by setting ...

His book, Ready Player One, ranked number 21 on the New ... an Oscillation Overthruster from Buckaroo Banzai, a large array of Ghostbusting equipment, and a Flux Capacitor” — the component ...

Steven Spielberg is back in the suburbs for “Ready Player One,” but things look ... to the Future” and “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai.” When Parzival conjures up the disco dance ...

When it's not careening through '80s references from Tootsie Roll Pop commercials to Buckaroo Banzai, "Ready Player One" is an Internet parable. There's mention of prior "bandwidth riots" ahead of ...

When it’s not careening through ’80s references from Tootsie Pop commercials to Buckaroo Banzai, “Ready Player One” is an Internet parable. There’s mention of prior “bandwidth riots ...