Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

I hadn't seen this movie before, I just watched it today and I had a blast! It was fun, still holds up to this day imo!

Big Trouble in Little China is a great achievement. I've always loved this movie and shared it with those that haven't seen it. It is the perfect blend of action and humor. The movie seems to know itself so well that it walks a difficult line between parody and true action-adventure very skillfully. Kudos to John Carpenter, the tone of this movie shows an incredibly well honed sense of humor and timing.I laugh every time I see the show, I haven't found a friend yet who doesn't add it to their list of favorites after seeing it.I think those that don't like it shouldn't leave reviews, unless they like putting in writing that they don't have a sense of humor. I swear it is like the Meyers-Briggs type indicator test, just instead it tests for the sense of humor required to understand and love this movie. If you don't love it, you don't have that type of a sense of humor.

I watched BTILC when it first came out at the cinema. I can't remember if it was one of those movies that was a flop when it first came out and then gradually grew a following over time but I loved it the first time I saw it. Just recently I watched it again with my two 20+ year old sons and they're now hooked as well.If you try to analyse BTILC it really shouldn't work and if it was made today it would probably bomb at the box office. The action, story, characters and special effects are so far out there that ordinarily you'd expect viewers to be more like 'what the **** is going on?'.Yet, BTILC sucks you into the fantasy, the humour, the dialogue and the WFT story line and keeps you fully entertained throughout.Anyone who's thinking of remaking BTILC should have the 'curse of no flesh' placed upon him.

This movie is a complete and total mystery to me. Things just happen in this film and Jack, the main character, is in the same complete confusion that the audience is. Normally this would be a big negative for the film as a whole but for this movie it just adds to its strange enduring quality. And when I say things just happen in this movie I am not over exaggerating. This movie goes from a pulpy trucker flick to a gang movie to a supernatural action film in the first 20 or so minutes of screen time and it is just too good to miss. In a world so far removed from the 1980's in ways that have changed how movies are made (which is neither inherently good or bad) its just so exciting that I as a 20 year old millennial got to see this for the first time without any kind of information on it at all. To put that in comparison I know the how the entire next few years of Marvel's movie empire are going to go with what characters I should expect to enter the universe and what story lines are going to be used. But for this flick I honestly couldn't have told you more than I've seen some of the directors other movies. That's it. There's magic in not knowing and as a person who grew up in the years of CGI being in damn near every major movie in my lifetime it was a strange feeling to see the monsters and effects in this movie and go "wow, now how the hell did they manage to do that?" I know its not real but at the same time there is this piece of my brain that is trained to pick up on CGI that was just screaming that the effect was genuine. It may be a silly and at times stupid movie but its one that everyone going into film should see at least once to just get a feel of what things can be done with practical effects better than CGI and what things should be left to a computer.