10 Things You Didn’t Know About Big Trouble in Little China

Chad Cruise

FF, 11B, Pro Wrestler, Children's Book Author?? Co-founder of Bulletproof Action and Co-host of The Bulletproof Podcast. Follow Chad on Twitter @ChadCruise

3 Responses

  1. Robert Baum says:

    I don’t quite know how this film could have been marketed in a season where Top Gun and Aliens reigned supreme. But then again, Fox somehow devised a savvy marketing campaign for Star Wars (maybe they just needed PR that wasn’t present in 1986). But while I don’t think I quite picked up on such initially as the name Carpenter was one I equated with blood and gore shows, I did some to recognize Big Trouble as being a rather underrated comedy.

  2. strife says:

    This is one of my all time favorites as well. I introduce everyone I can to it, every chance I get. I’ve watched this film more times that I can recount, and it somehow never clicked until I read it here. Jack IS the sidekick, at least right up until the end. There were just two parts that had stopped that from forming in my mind: the finale, and the scene at the table after the night of gambling. Those two scenes hid the obvious from me. Lol. This was a great movie regardless. Guess the gf and I are about to have to watch it again. Jack Burton. The hero of sidekicks everywhere.

  3. Chad Cruise says:

    You’re doing God’s work, Stife. You can’t watch this movie too many times, and it’ll always hold a very special place in my heart as one of those films that I could show my friends without having to worry about them getting bored from reading yet another subtitled foreign film.
    The Jack Burton as sidekick thing is fantastic and just wouldn’t work today without the film being totally in on it and a probably a comedy. God, I miss the 80’s…..

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