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John Carpenter on how the studio, audience and critics reacted after watching "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986) & the reason for movie's failure: "Carpenter: I thought about writing a book about my experiences in Hollywood being a director, mainly because I was burned out on making movies. But... show more
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I loved that Movie, just watched it again recently. Still love it.
I absolutely LOVED it when it came out. Of course, I was 11 years old, but I stand by my initial opinion. Big Trouble in Little China RULES.
Time has made its judgment on the movie. It was glorious when it was released and has maintained that mystique for 40 summers .
Unapologetically love this movie. It was everything cinema could be to 8 year old me, and that kid never died.
I saw it opening weekend at a popular show time and there were only 4-5 others in the theater. Loved it. Everyone there seemed to enjoy it, too. That was another heck of a year for summer films. Sometimes too much of a good thing leads to complacency or burnout.
I loved this movie. Thought Kurt Russell was great. Laughed a lot.
Which makes me sad, because a lot of us *did* get it, and loved it. We saw what he was doing and we loved it, & love it to this day. But to this day, hardly anyone else has been able to make a movie that balances those elements in such a fun & nuanced way, so it is an outlier.
I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like BTILC! Hilarious film.
I was thrilled when I saw in the theater and to this day I find it to be a masterpiece of Cinema So much fun
The genius of Big Trouble In Little China is that it lures the audience into an illusion of action hero cinema. Many people watched the movie thinking it was Jack Burton's story, when really it was Wang Chi's story told from Jack's POV. Jack is a kind of proxy for the audience.
All his movies are great because they are so unique. You just don't know what you're gonna see next.
I got it right away, and I was ten. That was before I even put 2 and 2 together in regards to movies I love and the directors who made them. When I did I suddenly realized many of my favorites were from the same guy. So I guess I was always attuned to John's wavelength even as a child. I was always puzzled he wasn't more successful. He is and he isn't though. I think everyone agrees he makes good movies, it's just they apparently aren't always the ones that get bums in seats for their theatrical run. My feeling is that he was just too ahead of his time, balancing commercial, fun concepts with an Aueters angle and edge. Most movies go one way or the other, John's do it all at once. But that leaves the general audience a little unsure of what to make of them. Ironically, I think his kind of movies would be exactly the kind of things that would make a killing these days. As I said, ahead of his time. Probably too late to make a comeback.
The guy with the balisong knife is Jeff Imada and he wrote the balisong manual.
Don't like the movie... LOVE IT!! 🍻🍻
@kriegmaxxing The kids got it. John Carpenter is in many ways just a big nerdy kid. The critics now are more likely to be the kids who watched John Carpenter movies. Back then they wanted to be William F. Buckley and resented being stuck in the cinema ghetto. Took it out on fun movies.
I was 12/13 when I first saw it. Loved it then, love it now.
man, now I need to watch it all again
This is so foreign to me. Saw Big Trouble when I was 10, at most. Loved it, then. Rewatched through the years. Watched it with my son (12 yo?) and two of his friends. They loved it. All-Time Classic.
Not a fan. I’ve seen Bruce Campbell pull off playing a character like this, but I didn’t believe it fit Russell. I just didn’t find the story suspenseful or funny. They relied on the premise to carry the movie.
Absolute classic. Its a great action flick that laughs at action flicks.
wasnt a failure, it spawned one of the most profitable franchises in history
I don't care want anyone thinks, Carpenter is one of the best directors of all time. He made so many films that people didn't get and yet today are considered some of the greatest films of their genres. And he doesn't every talk about going back to change them. Legend.
John often has weird takes on his career. I saw it on release, along with all the other genre freaks, and everybody loved it. It was a hit, for its category. Did the studio hate it? of course! That's what studios do! 😎
All of my friends loved this movie. There are no bad Carpenter movies, and there are no bad Kurt Russell movies. Complete fun.
I loved this from the jump. Jack Burton could not be the 'action hero' because he would have been killed by The Three Storms dudes without Egg Shen's magic. I WAS put on this Earth to 'get it'. Even Jack's ignorance of Chinese culture was there to advance the story!
I was in Germany and we all saw it on VHS and we loved it. It was a fav at the time.
No exaggeration. I’ve seen this movie 100 times.
this was a masterpiece total original I went and saw in the theaters opening weekend and loved every minute. I’ve seen this movie at least 10 times..wouldn’t change a thing.
Man the 80s were stacked with some comic leads. Murphy, Murray, Chase, Williams, Martin, Hanks, Keaton, Fox, Moore. Plus like Albert and Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Monty Python, Woody, Zuckers, etc. No wonder Russell never gets credit for being a comic genius.
Superb popcorn movie 🍿 lots of laughs in the theatre when I saw it
The movie is actually phenomenal, and it only gets better with time because it’s so timeless, incredibly fun, and absolute feel-good. It’s eminently rewatchable.
Imagine John Carpenter even knowing about the genre Wuxia Screwball Comedy before Stephen Chow had started directing.
the premise was fun and the effects and creatures great - what hurt it most is how over-convoluted it was 🤔
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