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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Beware Buckaroo Banzai Videotape
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 23:21:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 23:21:21 1985
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Summary: 60 Hz hum

I was given the tape as a present, and did not notice any scenes cut.
I've seen it about 4 times in theaters, and don't remember the coffee
scene mentioned by the previous poster.  I claim the entire Whorfin
harangue is there.

Many of the complaints mentioned are due (I think) to the fact that
the tv picture is centered on the screen - they don't, for example,
pan to show John Gomez sucking the battery in the Yoyodyne van, or
to Perfect Tommy's expression when B. Banzai tells Scooter he has
Tommy's job.  Annoying, but almost acceptable.

However, there is a pronounced 60-cycle hum on the tape.  That's the
noise you get on your hi-fi system when it isn't grounded.  I turned
in the first copy for a replacement and the hum is also on the second
copy.  It's most apparent in quiet places, as you might expect, and
you sort of learn to tune it out.  However, I consider that a serious
bug in an $80. tape.  Also, it seems to me that the picture quality
is not as good as on tapes of other movies I've rented.

All in all, I hope they re-release a better job of it.
-- 
	Jim Gillogly
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