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It's a fine art to make a movie that's so intentionally bad it's funny. If it's not done right, you just get a bad movie that everyone hates. If it IS done right, you get a gem like Big Trouble in Little China, and even then some people won't get the joke. Make no mistake -- this is a comedy. It doesn't have wall-to-wall gags like a Blazing Saddles, so many people mistake this for just a stupid wire-fu flick with bad special effects and flat characters.
Big Trouble is so over-the-top tongue-in-cheek with its dialog, characters, plotlines and stunts it is hilarious. Kurt Russell is perfect as the he-man action hero who doesn't realize he's really the comic relief -- knocking himself out just as the big battle begins, and then heading into the final confrontation with lipstick on his mouth.
10/10 for Carpenter's ultimate B-movie classic!
It's a fine art to make a movie that's so intentionally bad it's funny. If it's not done right, you just get a bad movie that everyone hates. If it IS done right, you get a gem like Big Trouble in Little China, and even then some people won't get the joke. Make no mistake -- this is a comedy. It doesn't have wall-to-wall gags like a Blazing Saddles, so many people mistake this for just a stupid wire-fu flick with bad special effects and flat characters.
Big Trouble is so over-the-top tongue-in-cheek with its dialog, characters, plotlines and stunts it is hilarious. Kurt Russell is perfect as the he-man action hero who doesn't realize he's really the comic relief -- knocking himself out just as the big battle begins, and then heading into the final confrontation with lipstick on his mouth.
10/10 for Carpenter's ultimate B-movie classic!
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