Here’s an edit of Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China which seems to prove that Jack Burton found the whole thing just as confusing as anyone who watched it. Whoa, man. Like, meta. Though I do enjoy that he’s blatantly doing a John Wayne impression the entire film. Big Trouble in Little China isn’t a movie so much as an infomercial for cocaine.
I thought the video could’ve used a little Marvin Gaye in the credits.
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Jack Burton doesn’t need to know where he is, what he’s doing, or how he’s going to spring his friends from the grips of a Chinese dream, because it’s all in the reflexes.
He wasn’t put in this movie to “Get it.”
Probably a lot like his marriage to Goldie Hawn. Or whatever in the hell that is.
Big Trouble in Little China is an American masterpiece.
Burnsy knows. Jack Burton not understanding anything that is going on is what makes him a great, fun cinema character. The ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation.
Also the mullet.
If I had any sort of ambition, I would do a scene breakdown of every single scene in this movie.
Big Trouble in Little China should be its own course in film school. The first day, the professor would press play on the Blu Ray version – because it deserves to be shown in only Blu Ray – and he would point to the screen for the entire movie. When it finishes, the professor would yell, “You will never make anything this awesome!” Then he would fail every student.
He didn’t understand anything that was going on because every action in that movie is utterly preposterous and random.
Mullets, whore houses, the grandpa from 3 Ninjas, and the least subtle example of a man naming his 18 wheeler after his cock in the history of cinema. It has it all!
In all seriousness, this is my favorite movie.
My favorite part is the way he falls in head-over-heels in love with Kim Cattrall, kisses her once, and then is like, “Sorry babe, I’m a ramblin man, the road is my mistress.”
Fuck y’all. This is the greatest movie ever.
Some punks just don’t get it. I had to save a couple of chicks from having to marry a 2000 year old freak who wanted to rule the universe from beyond the grave. Duh.
I’m not saying that I’ve been everywhere and I’ve done everything, but I do know it’s a pretty amazing planet we live on here, and a man would have to be some kind of FOOL to think we’re alone in THIS universe.
Thank you Burnsy, that was fucking hilarious.
Seriously though, when was the last time you guys actually sat through the entire thing?
Added bonus: You know what the Chinese call a Chinese Standoff?
A Standoff.
Now, I wanna report an accident. And I don’t wanna hear act of God.
@Burnsy
I would take that class even knowing I would fail. Whenever John Carpenter and Kurt Russel get together its cinematic magic*. Deal with it VInce!
*except for Escape from LA
I sit through the entire thing bi-monthly and have since the guy at the video store in my town said I ‘could just keep it’ when I was ten years old.
I’m new here, but I think Vince should go on a small posting hiatus in reverence of BTILC.
Unless we’re getting a different angle of Franco’s hairy asshole
I own one Blu Ray disc – Big Trouble in Little China. I watch it at least once a month. Last Halloween, 8 of us were going to dress as different Kurt Russell characters and the idea was scrapped because we all wanted to be Jack Burton. If you’ve never said, “May the wings of liberty never lose a feather” as a groomsman toast, if you’ve never stared down a bar fight and calmly said, “I feel kind of invincible”, and if you’ve never looked two drunken bar trolls in their faces and yelled, “TWO GIRLS WITH GREEN EYES!” then, my friend, you have never lived.
Actually, one guy wanted to be Captain Ron, but the rest of us wanted to be Jack Burton.
I’d rather watch Captain Ron.
Or if you’ve never pulled out your below average member and said ‘China is here’ to a girl who’s already looking for her clothes, then, what Burnsy said.
James Hong doesn’t hate IMDB. He took Big Trouble so seriously he became immortal.
Vince is Eddie Lee.
“Seriously though, when was the last time you guys actually sat through the entire thing?”
Last week. I’ve got three movies on my phone to watch when I’m bored. Big Trouble In Little China, Ghostbusters, and the first Batman.
Just watched it all the way through last Saturday night after having a conversation about it after a party. It’s got cool special effects, good actors, and awesome dialog; what more can you ask for?
I always describe this movie to people as a live action sega genesis game.
Vince, you are out of your gourd.
Vince is right. The only good thing about this movie is that the end, Kurt Russel is all “Screw you ho, you’re too much work, I’m a gotdamned trucker and I’ll get tail when I want it.”
Saw it start to finish this year, still awesome. You aren’t given all the back story because Jack Burton is the bumbling comic relief sidekick falling ass backwards into awesome. I know opinions can’t be wrong but Vince’s opinion is wrong
Somewhat confused by your antipathy towards this film, Vince. Wang makes a suitable tour guide and JB makes an obvious habit of asking every time exposition is required. I also don’t understand why you don’t like the fight scenes-I remember seeing the perfectly edited triple back round kick (2nd degree black belt in video fight stuff) in the alley/funeral scrap and thinking/shouting “YES!!!”. It’s all right, everyone loves Big Lebowski and I despise it. You can’t always be right…
The fact that he peaces out on her at the end makes this film that much better. He clearly banged her and then rides out. What the hell else do you want?
I feel like I have to choose between my children in here. Can we not just agree that Kurt Russell makes everything good and pop in Used Cars?
As for that class, welcome to my entire post-graduate career. While people were analyzing scenes from Fellini movies and writing essays about Metropolis, I was focusing on Big Trouble and Tango & Cash. Did a thesis project on slasher films.
Not everyone is meant to create the next benchmark film. Someone has to make Summer School and enjoy doing it.
This thread is bringing tears to my eyes. So much love to a great cheeseonion of a movie. I had to sell my DVD collection for cash purposes, but I had to keep one movie: BTILC (the special edition, with Carpenter’s music video, of course).
As my handle implies, I want a crossover with Masters of the Universe.
Drunk on.
It’s the busiest movie I’ve ever seen. It’s just a thousand ridiculous things piled on top of each other. I’m slowly warming up to acceptance of everyone’s reasons for loving it, but it’s just so shrill and busy that I find it exhausting. I feel similarly about Michael Bay movies. They’re just too energetic for me, like a yappy dog that won’t shut up.
Whatever, you’re Eddie Lee.
it’s taken me a while to get used to this movie. at least its not escape from la or ghost of mars.
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I get what you’re saying, Vince, but I find JB to be quite funny throughout the film. Michael Bay’s never made me laugh (intentionally).