"Are you ready, Jack?" "I was born ready!" No. You were born YESTERDAY!! "Big Trouble in Little China" is a masterpiece. John Carpenter's best film! Why? Because Kurt Russell's Jack Burton is the best hero I loved to hate, despise, dislike, abhor, and disrespect. A loud-mouth loser goofs with his little buddy Wang Chi(The way-cool Dennis Dun)when they see the battle between good guys and the "Trio"(I call James Pax' Lightning, Carter Huang's Thunder and Peter Kwong's Rain[Note: boy, was I in Heaven when I was able to catch and tape Peter in action in the Sci-Fi Channel's rebroadcast of MANIMAL. Underrated series deserved more respect]). Jack and Wang see David Lo Pan, esquire(James Hong, esquire), who magically swipes Jack's Porkchop Express truck as well as Wang's girlfriend Miao Yin(Suzee Pai).
Right then, he gets on everybody's nerves while Wang, Egg Shen(Victor Wong, another way cool dude), and the heroic forces of kung fu prepare to confront the bad guys. Jack meets up with- and tries the pacifism of- beautiful Gracie Law(Kim Cattrall). Jack and Wang recon, and thanks to screw-up Burton, Gracie gets kidnapped by a sewer beast[I call him "George"] and it's up to Wang's kung fu to save Jack's tuckas. An army of fighting mad warriors(including my favorites James Lew, Rummel Mor and Jeff Imada)invade the villain's lair and, spearheaded by Wang's fierce kiai(spirit shout), win a very difficult battle. One famous scene was when Jack joined in on the battlecry, shot his gun upward, and debris fell on his head. My first reaction was:
"What a yutz."
Conclusively, the film was great. If I could've edited anything, I could've dropped all the crude language, had Wang and his gang fight topless ala Bruce Lee, and had Jack get his hiney handed to him a little more before the good guys finally won.
See the film, enjoy the film, awe to the martial arts action, and prepare to be rubbed the wrong way by Jack.
Jack who?
Jack Burton . . . MEATHEAD.
Right then, he gets on everybody's nerves while Wang, Egg Shen(Victor Wong, another way cool dude), and the heroic forces of kung fu prepare to confront the bad guys. Jack meets up with- and tries the pacifism of- beautiful Gracie Law(Kim Cattrall). Jack and Wang recon, and thanks to screw-up Burton, Gracie gets kidnapped by a sewer beast[I call him "George"] and it's up to Wang's kung fu to save Jack's tuckas. An army of fighting mad warriors(including my favorites James Lew, Rummel Mor and Jeff Imada)invade the villain's lair and, spearheaded by Wang's fierce kiai(spirit shout), win a very difficult battle. One famous scene was when Jack joined in on the battlecry, shot his gun upward, and debris fell on his head. My first reaction was:
"What a yutz."
Conclusively, the film was great. If I could've edited anything, I could've dropped all the crude language, had Wang and his gang fight topless ala Bruce Lee, and had Jack get his hiney handed to him a little more before the good guys finally won.
See the film, enjoy the film, awe to the martial arts action, and prepare to be rubbed the wrong way by Jack.
Jack who?
Jack Burton . . . MEATHEAD.