BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | Reaction & Commentary | SO WILDDDD

[@WilliamTheMovieFan]

The best thing about this movie is that Jack is the sidekick to the story. He comes into the story and is along for the ride, like we the audience.

[@donsample1002]

…but he _thinks_ he’s the action hero.

[@walker1812]

Yeah, it’s my favorite trope twist that the main character (White) isn’t the protagonist (Asian) but thinks he’s the hero the entire time and acts like it.

[@neil2444]

@@walker1812 In many ways this makes fun of John Carpenter himself, since he has done a number of such films in the past.

[@Riggswolfe]

You'd be surprised how many people get upset and argue if you mention Jack being the sidekick. Despite both Kurt Russell and John Carpenter having said it.

[@paulonius42]

The best thing about this movie is everything!

[@paulonius42]

Kim Cattrell absolutely understood the assignment! She knew exactly what this movie was and how to play Gracie Law perfectly.

[@danielbullock1019]

James Hong as Lo Pan KILLED IT in this movie! Such a great 80's classic! Thanks for this one!

[@InvidiousProductions]

Cartwright? Cartwright?

[@williamburnham3659]

Gong Gong 😊😊😊

[@mctrashpedal]

"See?! This right here pisses me off to no end!" Cracks me up every time

[@Scallycowell]

Everyone’s Chinese grandpa, also featuring Al Leong: every action fan’s Chinese uncle.

[@matthawkins8880]

It wasn't a "walkie" it was a CB. And the glory of the CB is that you aren't talking to one person, you are talking to everybody on that channel.

[@Raven5150]

CB was the original chat room

[@porgyt7177]

Way back in the late 70's, when but a child, my pop had a CB in the family Volkswagen THING. Somehow, again... as a child, my CB handle became Dirty Bird. I'd get on the box during road trips, ask Semi's their 10-20 (location) and let them know, if/when they see the THING to give a Toot. A kid on the Squawk Box is a magnet for Semi Horn Honks.

[@thegingergyrl455]

My CB handle was Susie Cutie. I was a little kid. It was fun. 👩🏻‍🦰👍🏻

[@evans.82]

I love when she reacted to that scene made my night lol

[@donsample1002]

70s version of podcasting.

[@mikeljenks]

I love the set up of Jacks reflexes early on and the payoff when he catches the knife and throws it back.

[@neil2444]

You don't see that a lot in movies nowadays, small details leading to big payoffs at the end. You'll see callbacks and unexplained plot devices used later in the film, but never seemingly unimportant details.

[@stephenlackey5852]

And don’t forget catching the beer bottle Wang accidentally fires at his head-and, unlike the knife (albeit with lesser stakes), he didn’t even know it was coming for him… just straight-up yoinked it.

[@KManAd0109]

Key gag. He has the knife out cinstantly except when he needs to use it.

[@LeisureTimeLarry]

As a pre-teen boy when released, this movie was AWESOME! Semi-truck driving, martial arts fighting, guns, action, comedy, fantasy, monsters, etc. Not to mention girls with green eyes. 😉 This VHS got wore out!

[@markjohnson6194]

Oh hell yeah, my brother and I did the same!

[@randallwright1973]

The movie is STILL AWESOME!!!!

[@joshmackaben4537]

Same here, don't forget girls in wet shirts... I know you know..! (Pre teen me joke btw)😅✌️

[@mattsmith7490]

You are so right. From a young man's point of view this movie had it all. I fell so far and deep for Kim Cattrall!!

[@LeisureTimeLarry]

@@randallwright1973 F yes it is!

[@CarlosRamirez-wb7zu]

It IS supposed to be a silly movie. And I love its silliness. Especially the line, "What?! Huh?! What'll come out no more?"

[@daffy72]

That's one of my all time favorite movie moments. I love that it's not explained or ever referenced again.

[@daneng3641]

@@daffy72 Additionally when they ask Egg how he got up there: "It wasn't easy!"

[@rottieshepcalibre9156]

I love that scene too 😅

[@OptimusPrimeribs]

I saw it at 6 or 7 years old and remember it being scary too.

[@ErikLarson-l9k]

This is seriously one of my top movies ever. Yes, it’s SUPPOSED to be weird, non-sensical, and self-aware. The line that does it for me, when Egg Chen just happens to be in the exact right spot at the right time to save Jack: Jack: “Egg! How’d you get up there??” Egg: “Wasn’t easy!” The movie is extremely aware it’s an unrealistic contrivance, and makes a point to NOT explain it. F’in GENIUS :D

[@lemurdream]

I STILL quote that line after all these years. And I always make sure to do my best Egg Shen voice. "WAZZANT EAZY!!!" haha

[@AuspexAO]

As a kid I didn't realize this movie was meant to be super over the top. I think it's brilliant now. Such a funny, silly, amazing movie.

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

John Carpenter and Kurt Russell were both against the cold open, but I think it’s one of the best ones in cinema. The low lighting and low camera angles create an air of tension and once Egg whips out his magic, it immediate shows the viewer that they are in for some weird shit. It’s also interesting that she compared Jack to Han Solo considering that Kurt Russell auditioned for the role of Han.

[@Madbandit77]

Kurt auditioned with William Katt (Carrie, Big Wednesday, The Greatest American Hero).

[@shybard]

When I was a kid and first saw this movie, I absolutely loved it. Even years later, it's still a great, crazy, supremely fun movie.

[@johnbernhardtsen3008]

80s had the best action comedies, they made escapism great, with stories where the guy gets the girl!simple stories with great visual efx and great one liners!

[@Halfaxa7]

Definitely pained me to hear you call John Carpenter “the Halloween guy.” One of the most prolific directors of all time, even if film school doesn’t respect “genre”

[@johnbernhardtsen3008]

I remember watching The Thing in the fall of 1982, few months after ET. one of if not the first WTF movies of the 1980s for me!

[@bugvswindshield]

@@johnbernhardtsen3008 wish I could give more thumbs up.

[@CorwinPatrick]

Its written like a comic book. All the dialog is expository. Sometimes excessively, that’s one of many things that makes this movie so fun. Edit: I saw this in theaters on it's original run. I saw a lot of movies in the 80s. But you had to be quick, usually it was 3 weeks and out. Like Highlander, Real Genius, Top Secret, Heathers, and a bunch more.

[@YouveBeenMiddled]

RIght? Back when theaters only ran 4 titles, or maybe 8 if you were in a big market.

[@BrianSmith-kv3px]

Luckily we had cable to keep us Latch Key Kids of the '80s company.

[@ericmm6822]

Not just a comic but as Shanelle said, it reads like a pulp crime story.

[@seannovack3834]

I was 15 when this came out, and I was one of those "VHS Babes" (along with EARLY cable-TV) who fell in love with this movie and couldn't get enough of it. Another classic that has the same campy self-aware vibe is "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension".

[@RobFMDetroit]

My favorite way to describe this movie is it's perfect for when you're in the mood for every type of movie at once. It's a comedy, fantasy, horror, martial arts, sci-fi, adventure, romance. Can't miss.

[@sea-envy3137]

this movie has the 4 greatest Asian character actors in Hollywood. James Hong as the evil wizard, Victor Wong as the good wizard. Al Leong as the gang thug with the knives, and Gerald Okamura as the gang thug with the 2 pistols.

[@derekgarcia1030]

James Hong aka David Lo Pan has got to be my favorite character actor of all time. His first role in 1954 and is still performing at age 94.

[@bensneb360]

Whenever John Carpenter and Kurt Russell team up, it’s always gold

[@CorwinPatrick]

The Kurt and John Drunken Commentary on the Laser Disc was hilarious. Prob on the Blu-Ray...

[@LordToddtastic666]

One of the greatest action films of all time! Right up there with Remo Williams the Adventure Begins (starring the late Fred Ward R.I.P.). Which is also very much worth a watch. I love this movie so much!

[@LordVolkov]

"And he gets hit in the head with a rock... classic" Jack taking himself out for most of the finale perfectly encapsulates the subtext - that Jack is Wang's comedy sidekick.

[@Imasuky]

I have adored this movie since childhood, a lot of it went over my head in my youth but watching it now I can really appreciate the humor of it.

[@derekfnord]

This is one of my favorite movies! The brilliance of it is that it's totally spoofing the tropes of wild martial arts movies, *_even while it uses those same tropes itself_* ! It's *_so_* self-aware! Add to that Jack as the comic sidekick who thinks he's the hero, and it's just wild. I did see it in the theater during its original run, but since then, I don't even know how many times I've seen this flick! 😀

[@SighDontWantAHandle]

The fight Choreographer was James Lew, who later won an Emmy for his fight choreography. This was the first time he did choreography. What a way to start a career. I got a chance to work with him. Great guy. He'd be tickled by your comment.

[@TheAndroidBishop]

This makes more sense when you realize Jack is the clueless sidekick and the movie is from his perspective

[@joelwillis2043]

I can't express how much this movie impacted me as a little kid in the 80s. This was my Wizard of Oz. It got to the point that it was incorrectly informing my worldview, my uncle had to tell me that Chinese people are not born knowing martial arts.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

During the filmmaker commentary, Carpenter said this was the kind of movie where audiences either get it and love it, and are immediately on board, or they don't get it, and never will.

[@michaelwardle7633]

My favorite gag is Jack walking in holding a telephone when posing as the telephone repairman… because reasons.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Fake it till you make it🤣

[@gishgali8354]

They absolutely knew what they were doing, though I would say it is more camp than satire. Even back when it was released, it felt like a throwback with the very direct dialogue and simple characters. You were smart to have picked up on the Westerns vibe as the script was originally written as a Western. It's clearly inspired by the martial arts films of the 70's, especially the Wuxia sub-genre. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the ultimate example of Wuxia. Others have mentioned the inversion of the standard action hero, that makes it a little difficult to follow the first time watching. On rewatch you really grow to love Jack's false bravado and all around incompetency.

[@mcgilj1]

Glad someone else used the word incompetent to label Jack. I thought I might get killed for it. Lol. But his chest thumping bravado is just hilarious.

[@wheresatari668]

"Why does this guy feel so fake?" Wang is the realest one in history. You'll also appreciate this movie much better when you realize Jack Burton is the sidekick that thinks he's the main the entire time😅 Russell shoulda won an oscar for this. Sadly, these types of films don't get recognized.

[@ravissary79]

One of my fav lines: "How'd you get up there?" "It wasn't easy!"

[@stephenlackey5852]

The directors commentary for this is absolute gold. John Carpenter and Kurt Russell just gabbing about making movies over the course of 30 years.

[@mhlevy]

John Carpenter really hit this one out of the park! Some of the best, most memorable lines EVER! Another great John Carpenter movie is "They Live," starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Keith David.

[@randallwright1973]

OMG! YES!!!

[@light9999]

They Live is not fiction?!

[@marklevy4584]

@@light9999 Sometimes it certainly seems that way.

[@randallwright1973]

@@light9999 Unfortunately, it is not.

[@citpeks2000]

If you ever get a chance to see this in a revival theater, go! There's nothing like seeing this with an audience!

[@tehpickle1250]

This, along with The Goonies, and Labyrinth were the holy trifecta of movies for me as a kid in the late 80s. There was tons of other stuff I loved but nothing came close to those as young ‘un.

[@amygeorgopoulos1400]

Hell yeah!

[@cstephen98]

I remember watching this and thinking that, 'It's like he's(Russell) is the sidekick and doesn't know it'. Then when he first tried to use the gun, I shouted, 'He *is* the sidekick'. Loved the movie ever since I realized it,lol.

[@someonesane]

30:16 - Because we're viewing the story from Jack's perspective, and Jack believes he's the hero (so much so, he even tells "his" story over the radio), but he's really just stuck in the middle of the action.

[@Citizero]

Saw it at a friends house who had HBO at 8 or 9 years old. Still to this day I consider it one of the most brilliantly funny movies I've ever seen.

[@ForgottenHonor0]

I think part of the reason the dialogue is so charmingly clunky is that it in fact was originally conceived as a western!

[@GeoffreyToday]

The thing I love most about Big trouble in little China is how Jack Burton is actually the sidekick character, but the film treats him like he's the hero.

[@mcgilj1]

He THINKS he's the hero. Which is the best sly joke the film pulls off and Kurt was perfectly cast.

[@mattsmith7490]

Thats so true. Even the other characters are looking at him like "who's this stupid white guy?" And Wang just looks back with the "just keep the moran alive while we deal with this" look. LOL

[@thefallenfaith1986]

A lot of viewers say this exact same thing in the comment section of every single reaction and every review video for this movie, to the point where it has become a dull and boring cliché. But what they always fail to understand is that this is a Hero's Journey movie - Jack Burton spends most of the movie as a sidekick, but by the end of the movie he has become an action hero in his own right. This is Jack Burton's story, a tale of an everyman going through adversity and coming out the other side of it as a true action movie badass. While he starts off as foolish and comedic, by the end he can stand toe to toe with any character Arnold, Sylvester, JCVD, Tom Cruise, Chow Yunfat, or Bruce Lee ever played. But none of these commenters ever grasp that. I guess parroting each other and going "duuuhhhuuh he's not a hyuw**te savior" gives them a dopamine rush, and that feels better than having an independent thought...

[@mcgilj1]

@@thefallenfaith1986 funny how you have to throw the whole savior thing in there when this has literally been talked about for decades.. Even by Carpenter himself.

[@GeoffreyToday]

@@thefallenfaith1986 Well, I hope dropping this reply on a random comment has made you feel super smart and extra special. You have a very good big brain and watched the movie better than anyone else. Gold star, have yourself a juice box.

[@shawnkroll3950]

Loved your reaction, Shanelle. Yes! This is 80s. We loved to adventure, climb trees, explore construction sites, play in creeks and get crayfish, etc. This is era of D&D when we explored spooky caverns and fought monsters, we also had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles :). This movie was meant to be a good story with humorous. But what this also showed was that Jack and Wang were good friends and good friends help each other. Yes, Jack was bumbling, but he was genuine and wanted to help his friend. :) I love this movie! This movie is a cult classic. I would put it up there with Ghostbusters.

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

And Lo Pan has a beholder in his basement.

[@billfrantz1638]

Random fact: The guy playing the expanding storm, Carter Wong, is still practicing martial arts and posting on TikTok to this day. Amazing.

[@okeefe757]

Shanelle: "What the heck man. What's going on?" Me: Those were everyone's thoughts when they first see this. Just sit there and enjoy the ride.

[@ashguy1370]

This movie has been one of my favorites since I was a kid. Always caught it on television whenever it was on. Only the beginning 15 minutes was shot on location in San Francisco, the rest was in studio sets. The moment Jack's truck goes into the alleyway where the standoff takes place is when the movie transitions from location to film set.

[@sean437]

Aw yis, I love this movie! Jack is the sidekick is his own movie and both he and the audience are equally confused for most of the film.

[@charlize1253]

Yes! The movie subverts expectations. Jack swaggers around, talks tough, and acts like the action hero, but the real hero is the unknown skinny guy who you'd never suspect

[@light9999]

You'll find that you will be able to watch this treat repeatedly for many years and never tire of it. That is the mark of a true gem. Been watching it for 25 years and it will still deliver what my brain needs. Entertain me oh movie making sorcerer.

[@Metamorfeus]

The more I revisit beloved 80s movies such as this one, the more I realise just how obliviously we got on board with 80s movie tropes. Like "OK, movie. I'm with you. Got it!" and not ponder it any further.

[@Trifler500]

My Mom's Chinese. She said there's no legit Chinese mythology about this movie, but she still loved it. :)

[@SiliconHaloMedia]

Great reaction! As for The 'Miller Time' exchange: When she says 'downwind of me when it's Miller time', she is saying he smells of booze. Miller a beer brand. Also when he responds with 'You know what I say when it's Miller Time', it's in response to an ad about it's Miller Time, or when it's time to drink, it's Miller time.

[@Billy-zv6gv]

Lo Pan is James Wong, and from "Seinfeld, party of four!", to Doug Heffernan's landlord, to his most recent Oscar, he is a legendary actor.

[@jeffrogers2180]

"Is he a conspiracy theorist?" No, he's just kind of an idiot. 😂

[@TheJamieRamone]

3:44 - Everyone: it's a C.B. radio. You talk and everyone listens.

[@SkullAngel002]

4:40 - He's not being fake but is instead vocalizing immigrant passion and drive. For immigrants (especially from Asia), family is super important, to the point where immigrants work their fingers to the bone to scrape enough money to get spouses, significant others, and relatives legally processed to come over to the U.S.

[@sladewilson8628]

Fun fact: Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles once cited Kurt Russell's character as an influence for him towards the creation of Casey Jones, who would become a fan favorite and staple character of the property. So crazy sometimes on how works in pop culture end up feeding off of each other.

[@RoosterCogburn1008]

Not Shanelle asking halfway through “Is this a comedy?” 😂

[@J.Castle]

Jack was rambling on the radio to other truck drivers and radio operator jockies. Early version of a podcast. Keeping each other awake.

[@quasimodojdls]

The orangutan Wild Man creature wasn't on the truck to be scary. Now that he's no longer Lo Pan's slave he just wanted some love and friendship. It's a shame we never got a sequel about his and Jack's continuing adventures.

[@2323stickboy]

Lo Pan is the greatest movie villain of all time. Yes, this is a hill I am prepared to die on.

[@scott3343]

Carpenter wanted to try his hand at making a Chinese Kung Fu chopsockey. These movies are often silly with supernatural elements and lots of kung fu fighting. I think he succeeded spectacularly. This is my favorite Carpenter movie followed by Vampires. Speaking of which, it's almost October. You might want to consider seeing John Carpenter's Vampires this year. Just a suggestion.

[@amygeorgopoulos1400]

I couldn't click on this video fast enough when it popped up in my notifications. This was one of my family's absolute FAVORITES growing up in the 80's and well into the 90's. I can't remember if we watched it in the theater or not but we watched it at home on VHS ALL THE FREAKING TIME. I think you nailed all the vibes - supremely weird and campy, making fun of itself, tons of great action, silly, but some good creepy parts and jumps. Can't wait until my kids are old enough to watch this!

[@themonkeyking]

Fun fact, Egg Shen’s base before going into the sewers was the Ghostbusters firehouse set dressed differently. They even kept the fire poll

[@tomesofawesome8041]

At 28:31, The answer is two fold. In one sense, this film makes perfect sense. It's a classic martial arts fantasy film, steeped in Asia's almost 5,000 years of demonology, sorcery and religion. Egg Shen even comments on this earlier when he refers to Asian lore as a sushi bar. ON THE OTHER HAND. Most Americans won't know jack shit about Chinese demonology, black magick and Sorcery. So in that case, yes. It's a trip. But only because you don't know your lore. BASICALLY, this film is "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" except instead of Greek mythology, it's Chinese Demonology, AND it came out about twenty years earlier !! Once you understand all of that, it makes perfect sense. But it also makes perfect sense if you're confused. Because Kurt Russell's character wouldn't know any of this stuff. So it's actually perfectly natural, for you to be as lost as he is.

[@lurkerrekrul]

James Hong, still doing voice work at 94! To this day, my friend only knows him as Lo Pan.

[@josephmayo3253]

You wanted weird, you picked the right movie. Love this movie.

[@m00nwa1ker]

I'm pretty sure Ed Boon mentioned they got the Raiden design from this movie for the Mortal Kombat game, like Kojima got influence from Snake Plisskin (Escape from New York movie) for Solid Snake character in Metal Gear games. Both are John Carpenter movies.

[@TheRealRodent]

Classic movie! Not sure what trivia you've done as I've just started watching but the movie bombed due to experimental marketing. The advert for it was in newspapers initially with no trailer released at all, and it was a cartoony pic of Kurt Russell in costume, with the tagline "Who is Jack Burton, and where is he going?" And not only did nobody give a sh*t, nobody even realised it was Kurt nor even a movie. Eventually TV showings got it a cult following though. If you notice though, Jack Burton technically does absolutely nothing throughout the movie. Fight scenes he's either knocked out or incapacitated, and if he does fight, he gets his butt kicked. He literally just along for the ride while everyone else does all the work xD Edit: OH! The Three Storms... Lightning was totally the inspiration for Raiden in Mortal Kombat, and Lo Pan was the inspiration for Shang Tsung.

[@light9999]

You must have missed the knife throw, and a few other things. Yes we all know the popular theory based interpretation. In fact he does plenty, he just doesn't fulfill the hero role in totality. He fills it only partially, his failures being part of the many unexpected comedic elements throughout the movie. It's not that different from the detective who is failing repeatedly in his attempts to solve a case and gets ambushed, beaten, accused, arrested, and still blunders his way out to a conclusion somehow. He doesn't have to succeed at everything to be the focus of the story. But true, this is certainly an unconventional construction. Jack Burton says "What else can you do when fighting Chinese sorcery?"

[@rodentnolastname6612]

This was Carpenter's ode to American Action AND Kung Fu movies.

[@alansonoda]

I will still die on this hill, but the way Lightning is portrayed here is the way Raiden in Mortal Kombat should have been in the movie. ;)

[@thefatman2780]

JACK BURTON ALWAYS SAYS..... THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL.

[@emeraldcity_]

The only movie where the “action star” doesn’t realize he isn’t the star

[@Bawookles]

Yes, the movie is intentionally camp. Carpenter was also well aware of Hong Kong martial arts fantasy movies, something a lot of Americans weren't aware of in the mid-80's, and wanted to do an American version of it.

[@neil2444]

"It's all in the reflexes" became a pop culture thing long after the film. I still say it when it applies, even if nobody gets me when I do. :)

[@Therap1ssed]

Truckers used CB radio channels to communicate and some guys would use a channel to almost do a radio show which is what Jack seems to be doing.

[@egk2584]

Kurt Russel was channeling John Wayne through this whole movie with the accent. "it's all in the relexes".

[@denewst01]

Love this film, just big dumb fun. The monster at the end is actually perfectly friendly, once that gets sorted out he & Jack basically become trucker versions of Han & Chewie.

[@wrighthousemedia]

I will always believe in "Big Trouble In Little China". I got tickets to an ADVANCED screening, two weeks before it's release in theaters. 20th Century Fox gave me the info & talk about foreshadowing. Fox really didn't know what type of movie this was,plus the studio had two other bigger hits on deck for July & August, ALIENS &The Fly. The screening was held on a Tuesday at 8 pm, in a theater that was in a Massachusetts mall. We found the theater & there was a Fox rep to check us in. There was cool swag too - a huge stack of the theatrical one-sheet poster & a big box full of Jack Burton tank tops. All in attendance for the movie - 10 people. Yeah, ten. "Big Trouble" looked great & sounded awesome in Dolby Stereo. Nobody took any of the posters or tank tops..., except me! I asked the Fox rep what was going to happen to the freebies & she replied that usually they get thrown out & I could take what I wanted. I, like John Carpenter & Kurt Russell, thought this was going to be a monster hit, so I took half the stack of the posters & the Fox rep let me take the box full of the tank tops. She said, "You gotta put the posters in something. Put them in the box! You made my job a lot easier! Thanks!" It took me seven years to wear out the tank tops. Big Trouble In Little China was released in January of 1987 & that's where it started it's path to Cult status.

[@vovindequasahi]

This movie is made to feel like a paper cartoon, and it freaking rules! Kurt Russelll rocks as always, and the cinematography is outstanding. Remember this is a John Carpenter movie, so it is ALL intentional! This is the sort of movie you watch drinking some beers and/or some joints together and just having a blast watching!

[@JungleEddie]

I am just barely old enough to have seen this in the theater. It is my alltime favourite movie.

[@JungleEddie]

My cat is named Gracie Law

[@biguy617]

The three guys with the hats are the Three Storm, Lo Pan’s henchmen. Thunder, Rain, and Lightning

[@Sherman1fan]

You have finally experienced a classic! So many quotable lines!: "Black blood of the Earth, you mean oil? " I mean Black Blood of the Earth!" " You will come out no more!" What will come out no more?!"

[@JJ_15083]

So glad you got to do a reaction to one of my favorite cult action / comedy movies of the 80's. Loved Kurt Russell's macho attitude mixed with skepticism. I was fortunate to meet Mr. James Hong (Lo Pan) at Stan Lee's L.A. Comikaze in 2015 and 2016. An incredibly funny man but an even more humble and kind gentleman.

[@DesertHomesteader]

It still amazes me that David Lo Pan is the same actor as Alpha Gong Gong (Everything, Everywhere, All At Once). Also, you would appreciate this movie more if you ever watched old Chinese action/supernatural movies. This movie uses many references those old movies.

[@too_many_hobbies]

This was a Chinese Kung-Fu movie with an American Cowboy hero dropped into the mix. They teased Jack's reflexes for the entire movie. His whole purpose in the story was to kill Lo-pan.

[@tomesofawesome8041]

At 7:28 this Asian actor plays a minion/muscle in many 80's movies. Most famously, he played Gengis Khan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

[@gferg4348]

I always thought about it as a modern pulp magazine, seen through the perspective of a sidekick, who thinks he's the hero...

[@erickent3557]

Great description!

[@superkeaton9912]

Big Trouble in Little China is so wonderfully unpredictable. It's a theme park ride, like you said. With twists and turns and ups and downs and carnival food and clowns.

[@shanehenry7699]

No hating on Wang. He is the hero of this story. Jack is the sidekick who thinks he's the hero, which is a cool plot device. Great film.

[@josephparsons-62015]

Im 43, and this movie was a staple of my childhood. I've watched it a hundred times, and it gets better and better every time.

[@scottyyz]

One of my most-watched movies. I saw it as a teenager in the late 80s, and it was one of my iconic movies of the 80s, and like Better Off Dead, a true cult classic.

[@O_Towne_Bear]

"I want my two dollars."

[@scottyyz]

"Didnt ask for a dime."@@O_Towne_Bear

[@davidward9737]

"C h r i s t m a s"

[@jameswest5102]

Kurt Russell originally auditioned for Han Solo hence the vibes

[@darkseid1975]

Love this movie so much. Best description I've seen, is "This is a movie about a guy who thinks he's the action hero, when he's really the comic sidekick."

[@Valecan]

If I am remembering correctly, John Carpenter told Kurt Russell that his character is a sidekick that thinks he is the hero of the story. Of course the real hero is Wang. This movie is one that every time you watch it you will appreciate it even more.

[@bessarion1771]

You really should watch these Carpenter movies: The Fog, Christine, Escape from New York, Escape from LA, Prince of Darkness, The Philadelphia Experiment, Starman, Black Moon Rising, They Live,

[@BrianMoore-h6i]

Shanelle when the gang members appear at airport: "Oh yeah, this is a weird one." Oh you aint see nothing yet babe

[@MRxMADHATTER]

One of my all time favorites. It gets better every time I watch it. Easter eggs everywhere. I saw it when it first came out.

[@christopherkowalczyk4405]

Im convinced that Egg is the Gandalf of this story. Immortal for the purpose of stopping Lo-Pan.

[@crigarsha]

1:47 "i always say this with 80's movies, i love when they get weird" NAILED IT!!!

[@ottomatix3397]

I just realized how much Peter Quill reminds me of Jack Burton ..and this movie was the first of it's kind. Hong Kong stunt troops introduction to Hollywood. Fond memories 😉✨🎬

[@-_James_-]

It's been 37 years since this movie was released and to this day nobody really knows what's going on. 🤣

[@Malryth]

One of my favourite movies!!! Thank you for watching/reacting to it!! Oh yes, I own it on DVD and re-watch it every once and a while.

[@nathancruz9172]

Me too. And, I still own it on blu ray with deleted scenes and music videos.

[@jesseslack2089]

A line to makes me laugh but no one gets is right at 25:29 "How did you get up there?" "Wasn't easy" just the eay Egg Shin says it always made me laugh when I was little!

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

One of my favorite lines from the film!