Kurt Russell has confirmed that it’s the only action movie where the biggest star is basically the plucky sidekick and not the actual hero. Lol It changes the whole movie when you realized the POV character is only second banana basically. Lol You should do another action comedy with Russell like Tango & Cash.
This is why I felt they should have gone with Shortround as the new Indiana Jones instead of the Shia Lebouf lost son thing. Much more interesting as a name/ title passed on and it makes more sense that he would seek new adventures after Temple of Doom but follow in Indy's footsteps.
@mojo shivers - She shoudl do "Prince of Darkness" next or even something like "Escape from new York" & "Escape from L.A"... Or go for "The Thing" and then "They Live". Just to continue with Carperten's movies.
The actor who played Lo Pan, James Hong, has been in about a million and a half Hollywood projects and just got his star on the Walk of Fame, but credits this as the one role he will remember most fondly forever.
He's a really nice guy in person,met him at a SDCC years ago.. bought a photo from BTILC for him to sign as did my friend..he then recited lines from the movie unprompted by us..it was quite funny.
Jack is the eyes of us the audience. Jack thinks he's the bada** hero but really he's the comedic sidekick. Kurt said he used John Wayne as inspiration for part of Jack's character portrayal.
One of my favourite lines of the movie was "Everyone relax. I'm here". I need that on a t-shirt with a picture of him from the movie. (edit) I did a search online and found a place selling them. Ordered 2 :)
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Jack actually isn't the sidekick... That's a common misconception. Jack is definitely the main character, and Wang is his sidekick just along for the ride to rescue his hostage girlfriend. Once he gets her back, he's out of the movie. The film starts with Jack driving his truck, and ends with him driving his truck. Because he's the main character...
As a kid bet me and my friends watched this thing a couple hundred times. It was just so unique. Especially at the time of release. Still holds up very well.
Watched this so many times. My friend was working in a video rental store when it came out and anytime a copy was left at closing time, he took it home to watch it.
This is a film that really needs to be watched a few times to really get the full effect. There’s just too many lines of dialogue & too much insanity happening to catch it all in a single viewing, or even two for that matter.
I subscribe to the idea that this film shows the perspective of a sidekick that thinks he's the protagonist. 😄 Jack is the outsider, he doesn't know the situation, he's usually confused and/or lost, and except for a couple occasions, Jack is almost useless in all the fights. Wang and Egg do most of the ass-kicking while Jack is fumbling about or incapacitated. 😄
Jack isn't so much a sidekick as he is an unwilling and reluctant narrator. The audience is experiencing the movie from Jack's perspective, but the movie assumes that Jack would be just as clueless about what's going on as the audience. lol 😂
I might counter that he did kill Lopan, one of the storms and one of the royal guards by himself. That's hero actions. Wang only killed one of the storms. That's a Sidekick!
If you listen to the Commentary track for the film, you can tell John Carpenter & Kurt Russell are really close friends and they have a lot of laughs discussing the film. I'd recommend it.
This is one of my all time favorites since I was a kid. My favorite exchange in the movie is between Egg and Jack “what’s in the flask Egg? Magic Potion? Yeah. Thought so, good. What do we do, Drink it? Yeah! Good, thought so. Makes me chuckle to this day.
This was originally intended to be a western and Jack Nicholson or Clint Eastwood were considered for the role of Jack Burton, a gunslinger who meets up with a childhood friend, Wang Chi an expert in martial arts and ancient Chinese mysticism where they find out that Lo Pan, an ancient sorcerer,plans on destroying San Francisco but the entire world with a powerful earthquake in 1906. There were talks of a Sequel to the movie with The Rock playing a trucker trying to figure out what happened to Jack Burton and why he disappeared all those years ago, where they then team up to fight off Lo Pan once and for all.
This is one of those movies that when i see a reactor has posted it i literally just bol every time. I know what the reaction will be. It's the same for everyone. They like it but they always end up asking themselves, as we all did the first time, "WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH??". Love the channel!
I love it! Such a good description and such a fun movie! I remember seeing it in the theater as a kid. Goofy guilty pleasure of a movie. Perfect amount of cheese!
love how Jack spends so much time struggling (slowly getting his knife and gun free, shooting the ceiling and getting knocked out, and especially getting the fat guard off of him) in his hero scenes, while Wang does all the real work lol...
9:41 This stunt was done by catapulting the stuntwoman through a breakaway wall -- but initially, the instructions for the wall design were misunderstood, and it did not break away at all. They launched the poor lady straight into a solid wall. She recovered, but Carpenter thinks he lost at least a year of his life, seeing it
A great lesser known John Carpenter movie is "Prince of Darkness" also the "The Fog" is a classic. You also have "Christine" and "Escape From New York." John Carpenter is a fantastic director.
I'd recommend John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, which is straight up horror. Dennis Dun (Wang) and Victor Wong (Egg) appear in this as well, along with another Carpenter alum, Donald Pleasence (Halloween), and special appearance by legendary rocker Alice Cooper ("Welcome to My Nightmare").
I worked at a video rental store in the early 2000's, and my boss would play this on the store TV's AT LEAST 5 times a week! I learned to love it pretty fast 😂
Escape from New York is another great John Carpenter/Kurt Russell pairing. As far as Carpenter goes, definitely check out Halloween, if you haven’t already seen it. Prince of Darkness is criminally underrated and worth a watch, as well.
The holy trinity of Russell and Carpenter: The Thing, Big Trouble and Escape from NY ha. I enjoyed Prince of Darkness as well, plus The Fog, Christine, and They Live.
Fun fact about that series. I like to pretend that its an extension of Big Trouble in Little China. Because they always mentioned Cleveland and Snake Plisskin.... and that's where the pork chop express was heading. Jack Burton became Snake in the unreleased Escape from Cleveland.
No other reactor can match Jen for her spontaneous, hilarious comments: at 17:16, "John Carpenter, you are gross."; and at 20:45, "It's a floating goo brain!"
I've mentioned this before, I think your insight is spot on. You figure out plots before they happen. Great choice today! Here's a new pick from me. Speed Racer, probably the most colorful movie ever made. Fun time also.
was late to the "Premier" but was able to quickly vote in the poll before the ending. I really think you'd enjoy _Tango & Cash_ very much. But usually the best Kurt movies are ones where he has a memorable character like *Wyatt Earp* - *Jack Burton* - *Gabriel Cash* - *Snake Blisken*
It's sometimes easy to forget how extensive a career Kurt Russell has as an actor. He started as a child actor after all, in television. He has a very long relationship with Disney with films beginning with Follow Me, Boys! (with Fred McMurray), and then as a Disney star in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him, Now You Don't, and The Strongest Man in the World (all as Dexter Riley), all the way to Sky High. And then his relationship with John Carpenter beginning with The Thing, Escape from New York (as the iconic Snake Plisken) and its sequel, Escape From L.A., and this movie. Other Kurt Russell films I'd recommend are Captain Ron, Backdraft, Executive Decision, Tombstone, Tango & Cash, and Stargate.
This is one of my favourite films from the '80s, it's got, action, adventure, humour and romance, a great film all around. Please check out 'They Live' which would be a great one to follow this, Jen.
Crazy film fact: Kurt Russell was in Forrest Gump. He lent his voice to the Elvis Presley scene. Not the first time he did an Elvis voice. He played him in a tv movie, "Elvis", oddly enough directed by John Carpenter. A year after that, they worked together in a movie called "Escape from New York", which I recommend if you haven't seen it. The next year, they worked together on "The Thing", and then later "Big Trouble in Little China".
The story continues in graphic novel form, where they travel to the other side and encounter Lo Pan, who's now doomed to live in the Hell of Those Killed By Idiots xD
I absolutely love this film and have watched in many times. I love the fact that really Jack Burton is the sidekick the whole time but following him is a great way to sell a Chinese-American fantasy action movie to a U.S. audience in the 80's.
Just one of the best exchanges in 80s films: "Where does this go?" "Down." (Not to be confused with the exchange from Ghostbusters: Raymond Stantz : "Hey... Where these stairs go?" Dr. Peter Venkman : "They go up!")
Only one word needed to sum this movie up BANANAS 😀 so much fun , random stuff everywhere, great characters with lots of cosplay ideas . Kurt with some fantastic one liners , cool fighting this movie has it all and topped off with your always awesome reaction and outro Jen 🔥it's all in the reflexes 🙂
I'm glad you reacted to this! This is such a classic from my childhood, you just have no idea! Now my goal later today is find the streaming movie and watch along with you. 😁 I think the red monster ends up being an uneasy friend/companion to Jack and they go on adventures together. ❤😂
One of my fav movies. During the summer my dad was in a burn unit (late 80s, I was a kid) this and the Akroyd/Hanks Dragnet played almost everyday on HBO, so I saw them everyday in the hospital lounge, and they kinda hit me as comfort movies.
Hope you get up to 5K likes! There are a million movies to suggest, but as you've seen "The Thing" and now this movie, "Escape From New York" is the logical next choice... John Carpenter and Kurt Russell once again. Excellent movie, not quite as serious as "The Thing," but not quite as silly as "Big Trouble." :) Tons of fun.
Woo! So glad to see someone discover Big Trouble in Little China! Yass!! Glad you liked it and thanks for looking into it. : ) Another suggestion for the 1987 film w/ Kurt Russell "Overboard" , if you've seen it already than perhaps 1984 "Starman" which I think will be a bit different from what people expect from a film directed by John Carpenter. - And for my random suggestion, which was also suggested by someone in the comments, the 1996 Christmas film "The Long Kiss Goodnight", and if you've seen it the 1984 film "The Last Starfighter". : ) Thanks for reading and enjoy the day. : )
My parents told me they watched this in the theatre and everyone else walked out because they didn’t understand that it was an action comedy instead of just an action movie. It’s one of my favorite B movies to watch. So many great quotes, and just a great fun ride the whole way through. Loved your reaction as always! Such a great time!
I saw this opening day and fell in love, dragged my friends and watched it bomb because audiences didn't get the genre mix and Jack Burton being a buffoon.
D'oh!! YT won't let me like 3,000 more times. Kurt has been getting it done on the big and small screens since he was a kid actor. He's done a lot of work with John Carpenter.
They actually did sequelize this movie but in comic book form! It's a pretty good read, and just as crazy as the film. Introduced my 12 yr old cousins to this film, at first they were like "Nah, we don't like older films." I was like "give this one a chance! I'll make the popcorn and snacks!" We sat, we wathed, we laughed, they saiud it was one of the best movies they'd ever seen! I said, "Told ya!" LOL
Other great John Carpenter classics worth watching IMHO (besides "The Thing" and "Big Trouble in Little China") include "Halloween," "The Fog," "Christine," "They Live," and "Prince of Darkness."
0:40 Victor Wong had to travel to Hollywood to film this prologue right after attending the wake for his one Lyon who had been killed by a high school football player in Sacramento who shouted racist and homophobic insults at Lyon and his friends before running up behind Lyon, striking in the side of the head at full speed and knocking him to the pavement fracturing his skull. The prosecutor told the Wong family that, because the killer was a juvenile, he would only get six months. The family went to a popular Bay Area consumer advocate reporter. The reporter was going to do a feature story on the case to gain public support for the Wong family's struggle to get justice for Lyon, but the story was cancelled when the Challenger shuttle exploded, and all news coverage became focused on the national tragedy. I heard about it when I was visiting family in San Francisco, and one of my old friends from high school invited me to see the premiere of "Big Trouble in Little China." He knew Victor and his family from working together in the Asian American Theater Company (back then, it was still the Asian American Theater Workshop), and he mentioned that promoting the movie's release was very hard on Victor because Victor and the rest of the family were still reeling from the psychological trauma of Lyon's pointless and brutal death. Victor suffered his first stroke soon after, and some people believe that the emotional strain from the killing and the subsequent miscarriage of justice in the court case contributed to it.
I still watch this movie several times a year-one of the best action comedies ever made. If you get a chance to watch it with the commentary track, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell are adorable and hilarious together.
I'm unsure if this was covered in the comments, but there's a sequel series of comic books to this movie that's a lot of fun. There's also a team-up comic with Jack Burton and Snake Plissken (Kurt Russel's character from Escape From New York) that has one of the best endings to a comic book series I've ever read. :) Great reaction, thanks!
James Hong as Lo Pan is the one our greatest character actors. He’s in so many movies such as Blade Runner, Chinatown and even Kung Fu Panda. The Jack nerd disguise is a nod to Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury, aka the Chinese Connection.
My understanding is the script started out as the sequel to Buckaroo Banzai: Across The 8th Dimension, and the villain was going to be Hanoi Xan & the World Crime League. When BB flopped in the theaters, the script got reworked into this.
5:20 - James Hong, an Asian-American actor who has a career spanning almost 70 years. In fact, he's still working at the age of 93! He's also the one playing both the older and younger versions of Lo Pan. The main joke of the movie is that Jack isn't the hero, Wang is the hero, Jack is the sidekick. If you want to see Kurt Russell at his most macho, watch Escape From New York, which is also another John Carpenter movie. It's quite good.
Fun Fact: The theme song to this movie was performed by the trio of John Carpenter, Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. You want more Kurt Russell, you should check out Tango and Cash (1989). Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone was an action team people didn't know they needed. Other movie ideas Airplane 2 The Sequel just because you saw the first one Police Academy The Naked Gun movies Dirty Work (1998)
Fun Fact. This movie was the inspiration for most of the characters of the original Mortal Kombat arcade with Bloodsport being the movie to green light the game itself.
I love this movie so much. When I was 12 (92) I would spend almost every weekend at my best friend's house. On Saturdays my buddy, his brother and I would do yard work, and then in the evening his dad would get us some kind of fast food and we'd go to see a movie, or rent one (my parents didn't let me watch movies). One Saturday we found a huge snake in the yard (possibly poisonous?). We told his dad, and he came out of the house in his boxers and wife beater with an axe! He yelled "son of a bitch must pay!", and went and cut the snakes head off. I asked my friend what that was from and he was like "you've never seen Big Trouble in Little China?" In the evening we went to the local burger place and his dad bought us like 25 burgers (the were 50cents a piece at the time)and we rented this movie. I know no one cares, but... thats one of my fondest childhood memories, and connects me to this movie like few others.
"They Live" (1988) by Carpenter is a must-see. Another commenter below mentioned "Speed Racer" (2008) which I also recommend. Finally, "Team America: World Police" (2004) will have you in stitches!
One of my favorite films of all time. I just love how they subvert expectations and Wang is the actual lead hero and Burton is his "sidekick". I heard rumors that The Rock is a big fan of this movie and he's been trying to get a reboot or whatever made. That would be interesting to say the least.
Carpenter has one of those awesome filmographies where there's so much quality over such a variety of movies that even big fans all have different favourites. Basically everything from 1976 (Assault on Precinct 13) to at least 1988 (They Live) is great and worth watching - several movies beyond that are great too, but they do get a bit more divisive.
I never saw it till now, but Jack Burton's persona is so much like Bruce Campbell 😉Love them both! Favourite Jack Burton line: "I know, there's a problem with your face." Favourite Jen line: "Ewww!"
Looking forward to this one Jen - a classic IMHO. PS loved your Firefly series and Serenity reaction videos with added explanation videos with Gina and Jewel (how did you manage that? Very impressive!)
Either _They Live_ or _Escape from New York_ should be your next John Carpenter film. The latter stars Kurt Russell, too. I really like the former, though, and I think you'd enjoy it.
I love this movie. This is a great movie. James Hong plays Lo Pan. He plays the old man that owns the Gizmo in the Gremlins. He plays the grandfather in Everything Everywhere All At Once. The Egg Shan actor is in the Kevin Bacon movie Tremors and the Eddie Murphy Movie The Golden Child.
There are at lest 3 other John Carpenter movies that I know you'll enjoy and they are, "They Live", "Prince of Darkness" and "Escape From New York". Big Trouble was one of the first if not the first movie to create an non hero protagonist which Kurt Russell played. John Carpenter was always looking to push the envelope of ideas in movies and he showed his craft in this one as well.
The biggest joke in this film is that Kurt Russell is the sidekick character, he just doesn't know it. John Carpenter wrote a series of comic books that pick up right after the movie. The monster does not kill Jack Burton, and they actually become friends and a team, kind of like Clint Eastwood and the orangutang, Clyde, in "Every Which Way But Loose" Glad you liked this one, it's one of my all-time favorites and just gets funnier every time you watch it.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen you enjoy something so much! Which is great. I love this movie so much. This and The Thing are my favorite Carpenter flicks.
Fun fact the big ol monster boi is linked to Jack now. Since Jack killed Lo Pan the monster is like his hideous dog now. It’s all in a comic taking place after this I haven’t finished the comic but seems good so far.
⭐If this video gets to 5,000 likes I'll pick a random movie from the comments, so like the vid + leave a movie pick below! 👍
One of my favorite movies and I like your videos
Flash Gordon
You see escape from new York
One of the funniest movies I've ever seen:
"What's Up Doc?" (1972). You'll love it!
"The Quick and the Dead" - Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio & Gene Hackman.
Kurt Russell has confirmed that it’s the only action movie where the biggest star is basically the plucky sidekick and not the actual hero. Lol It changes the whole movie when you realized the POV character is only second banana basically. Lol
You should do another action comedy with Russell like Tango & Cash.
This is why I felt they should have gone with Shortround as the new Indiana Jones instead of the Shia Lebouf lost son thing. Much more interesting as a name/ title passed on and it makes more sense that he would seek new adventures after Temple of Doom but follow in Indy's footsteps.
Another vote for Tango & Cash
Imagine not seeing Tango & Cash
@mojo shivers - She shoudl do "Prince of Darkness" next or even something like "Escape from new York" & "Escape from L.A"...
Or go for "The Thing" and then "They Live".
Just to continue with Carperten's movies.
That's what still cracks me up about it, all Jack wanted was to get his truck back, suddenly he is involved in an otherworldly gang war 😄
The actor who played Lo Pan, James Hong, has been in about a million and a half Hollywood projects and just got his star on the Walk of Fame, but credits this as the one role he will remember most fondly forever.
He deserves a honorary Oscar.
@@Madbandit77 Indeed!
James Hong played a character in an episode of the short-lived series _The Chronicle_ who was also named David Lo Pan as a nod to this film.
He's a really nice guy in person,met him at a SDCC years ago.. bought a photo from BTILC for him to sign as did my friend..he then recited lines from the movie unprompted by us..it was quite funny.
@@brucebieberly4166😂😂😂
Jack is the eyes of us the audience. Jack thinks he's the bada** hero but really he's the comedic sidekick. Kurt said he used John Wayne as inspiration for part of Jack's character portrayal.
The voice he chose for this seems exactly like a John Wayne imitation.
Although Jack does kill the bad guy at the end, so he's good for something. 😉
One of my favourite lines of the movie was "Everyone relax. I'm here". I need that on a t-shirt with a picture of him from the movie. (edit) I did a search online and found a place selling them. Ordered 2 :)
Jack actually isn't the sidekick... That's a common misconception. Jack is definitely the main character, and Wang is his sidekick just along for the ride to rescue his hostage girlfriend. Once he gets her back, he's out of the movie. The film starts with Jack driving his truck, and ends with him driving his truck. Because he's the main character...
As a kid bet me and my friends watched this thing a couple hundred times. It was just so unique. Especially at the time of release. Still holds up very well.
Watched this so many times. My friend was working in a video rental store when it came out and anytime a copy was left at closing time, he took it home to watch it.
This is a film that really needs to be watched a few times to really get the full effect. There’s just too many lines of dialogue & too much insanity happening to catch it all in a single viewing, or even two for that matter.
Indeed!
Also seeing few 70's and 80's Hong Kong movies helps to spot references
"Sonnofabitch must pay!" My favorite Kurt Russell quote ever.
One of my favorite all-time movies.
“We may be trapped” it’s such a stupid joke, and it gets me every time.
I subscribe to the idea that this film shows the perspective of a sidekick that thinks he's the protagonist. 😄
Jack is the outsider, he doesn't know the situation, he's usually confused and/or lost, and except for a couple occasions, Jack is almost useless in all the fights. Wang and Egg do most of the ass-kicking while Jack is fumbling about or incapacitated. 😄
I think ol Jack would disagree with you
Jack isn't so much a sidekick as he is an unwilling and reluctant narrator. The audience is experiencing the movie from Jack's perspective, but the movie assumes that Jack would be just as clueless about what's going on as the audience. lol 😂
It's not really up for debate. Carpenter intended Jack to be the side kick from the get go. He acts exactly as a bumbling side kick would.
Yeah but it is Jack Burton who kills Lo Pan.
I might counter that he did kill Lopan, one of the storms and one of the royal guards by himself. That's hero actions. Wang only killed one of the storms. That's a Sidekick!
You can tell tell Kurt Russell was having a blast making this movie, turning the ham up to 11.
Hope they had a lot of mustard for all that ham! ;o)
If you listen to the Commentary track for the film, you can tell John Carpenter & Kurt Russell are really close friends and they have a lot of laughs discussing the film. I'd recommend it.
Kim Cattrall, as well. She knows exactly what film she’s in.
Indeed, I heard that everyone who was involved with the film had a blast with it.
Who would ever have guessed Kurt Russell could rock a silk robe so well?
This is one of my all time favorites since I was a kid. My favorite exchange in the movie is between Egg and Jack “what’s in the flask Egg? Magic Potion? Yeah. Thought so, good. What do we do, Drink it? Yeah! Good, thought so. Makes me chuckle to this day.
This was originally intended to be a western and Jack Nicholson or Clint Eastwood were considered for the role of Jack Burton, a gunslinger who meets up with a childhood friend, Wang Chi an expert in martial arts and ancient Chinese mysticism where they find out that Lo Pan, an ancient sorcerer,plans on destroying San Francisco but the entire world with a powerful earthquake in 1906.
There were talks of a Sequel to the movie with The Rock playing a trucker trying to figure out what happened to Jack Burton and why he disappeared all those years ago, where they then team up to fight off Lo Pan once and for all.
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This is one of those movies that when i see a reactor has posted it i literally just bol every time. I know what the reaction will be. It's the same for everyone. They like it but they always end up asking themselves, as we all did the first time, "WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH??". Love the channel!
I love it! Such a good description and such a fun movie! I remember seeing it in the theater as a kid. Goofy guilty pleasure of a movie. Perfect amount of cheese!
love how Jack spends so much time struggling (slowly getting his knife and gun free, shooting the ceiling and getting knocked out, and especially getting the fat guard off of him) in his hero scenes, while Wang does all the real work lol...
9:41 This stunt was done by catapulting the stuntwoman through a breakaway wall -- but initially, the instructions for the wall design were misunderstood, and it did not break away at all. They launched the poor lady straight into a solid wall. She recovered, but Carpenter thinks he lost at least a year of his life, seeing it
I never get tired of seeing reactions to this movie!
A great lesser known John Carpenter movie is "Prince of Darkness" also the "The Fog" is a classic. You also have "Christine" and "Escape From New York." John Carpenter is a fantastic director.
I'd recommend John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, which is straight up horror. Dennis Dun (Wang) and Victor Wong (Egg) appear in this as well, along with another Carpenter alum, Donald Pleasence (Halloween), and special appearance by legendary rocker Alice Cooper ("Welcome to My Nightmare").
One of my most favourite movies ever. Never get tired of watching this movie.
"What?! Huh?! What'll come out no more?!" lol
The key to getting the most enjoyment from this film is to realize that Kurt plays a sidekick who thinks he is the main character. A classic! 😎
I worked at a video rental store in the early 2000's, and my boss would play this on the store TV's AT LEAST 5 times a week! I learned to love it pretty fast 😂
Escape from New York is another great John Carpenter/Kurt Russell pairing.
As far as Carpenter goes, definitely check out Halloween, if you haven’t already seen it. Prince of Darkness is criminally underrated and worth a watch, as well.
The holy trinity of Russell and Carpenter: The Thing, Big Trouble and Escape from NY ha. I enjoyed Prince of Darkness as well, plus The Fog, Christine, and They Live.
Fun fact about that series. I like to pretend that its an extension of Big Trouble in Little China. Because they always mentioned Cleveland and Snake Plisskin.... and that's where the pork chop express was heading. Jack Burton became Snake in the unreleased Escape from Cleveland.
No other reactor can match Jen for her spontaneous, hilarious comments: at 17:16, "John Carpenter, you are gross."; and at 20:45, "It's a floating goo brain!"
Love this movie, and Kurt Russell. Captain Ron would be another of his comedies worth checking out. Yeah. Peace
Hell yeah Captain Ron! lol - he rocks in that movie!
@@minnesotajones261 I'm a fast healer. And I believe in Jesus, it helps.
I've mentioned this before, I think your insight is spot on. You figure out plots before they happen. Great choice today! Here's a new pick from me. Speed Racer, probably the most colorful movie ever made. Fun time also.
Speed Racer is a glorious acid trip of delight.
One of my favorite movies. I have several copies in everything from VHS to BluRay.
The best part, Kurt is the sidekick.
The low key twist is Wang is the hero, and Jack is the sidekick
was late to the "Premier" but was able to quickly vote in the poll before the ending. I really think you'd enjoy _Tango & Cash_ very much. But usually the best Kurt movies are ones where he has a memorable character like *Wyatt Earp* - *Jack Burton* - *Gabriel Cash* - *Snake Blisken*
It's sometimes easy to forget how extensive a career Kurt Russell has as an actor. He started as a child actor after all, in television.
He has a very long relationship with Disney with films beginning with Follow Me, Boys! (with Fred McMurray), and then as a Disney star in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Now You See Him, Now You Don't, and The Strongest Man in the World (all as Dexter Riley), all the way to Sky High. And then his relationship with John Carpenter beginning with The Thing, Escape from New York (as the iconic Snake Plisken) and its sequel, Escape From L.A., and this movie.
Other Kurt Russell films I'd recommend are Captain Ron, Backdraft, Executive Decision, Tombstone, Tango & Cash, and Stargate.
All good movie recommendations ... except Captain Ron. Not a good film. Overboard is far better.
@@davelister2961 I beg to differ. I think Captain Ron is underappreciated. Although Overboard does have Goldie Hawn. 😊
"That is a floating goo brain with eyes" 🤣 Escape from New York should be on the list for more '80s John Carpenter and Kurt Russell fun.
Knowing now that the storms were used as the basis for the raiden character in mortal kombat makes this much more cool.
I've just given this a rewatch for you and your channel, Jen. This film is great fun. 😊
This is one of my favourite films from the '80s, it's got, action, adventure, humour and romance, a great film all around. Please check out 'They Live' which would be a great one to follow this, Jen.
Crazy film fact: Kurt Russell was in Forrest Gump. He lent his voice to the Elvis Presley scene. Not the first time he did an Elvis voice. He played him in a tv movie, "Elvis", oddly enough directed by John Carpenter. A year after that, they worked together in a movie called "Escape from New York", which I recommend if you haven't seen it. The next year, they worked together on "The Thing", and then later "Big Trouble in Little China".
Big trouble in little China is such a great movie
The story continues in graphic novel form, where they travel to the other side and encounter Lo Pan, who's now doomed to live in the Hell of Those Killed By Idiots xD
I absolutely love this film and have watched in many times. I love the fact that really Jack Burton is the sidekick the whole time but following him is a great way to sell a Chinese-American fantasy action movie to a U.S. audience in the 80's.
@1:27 When you realize: that CB radio stars were the first influencers!
=TOWN CRIERS= Hold my beer!
=HERALDS= Hold my mead!
"The Quick and the Dead" - Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio & Gene Hackman.
Just one of the best exchanges in 80s films: "Where does this go?" "Down." (Not to be confused with the exchange from Ghostbusters: Raymond Stantz : "Hey... Where these stairs go?" Dr. Peter Venkman : "They go up!")
Only one word needed to sum this movie up BANANAS 😀 so much fun , random stuff everywhere, great characters with lots of cosplay ideas . Kurt with some fantastic one liners , cool fighting this movie has it all and topped off with your always awesome reaction and outro Jen 🔥it's all in the reflexes 🙂
I'm glad you reacted to this! This is such a classic from my childhood, you just have no idea! Now my goal later today is find the streaming movie and watch along with you. 😁
I think the red monster ends up being an uneasy friend/companion to Jack and they go on adventures together. ❤😂
I was 16 when this came out and I watched it over and over. I used to be able to recite the lines word for word. I still remember most of the lines.
One of my fav movies. During the summer my dad was in a burn unit (late 80s, I was a kid) this and the Akroyd/Hanks Dragnet played almost everyday on HBO, so I saw them everyday in the hospital lounge, and they kinda hit me as comfort movies.
Kim Cattrall is in her prime in this movie she is absolutely gorgeous!
This and Mannequin 😍 The 80's looked great on Kim.
Hope you get up to 5K likes! There are a million movies to suggest, but as you've seen "The Thing" and now this movie, "Escape From New York" is the logical next choice... John Carpenter and Kurt Russell once again. Excellent movie, not quite as serious as "The Thing," but not quite as silly as "Big Trouble." :) Tons of fun.
And just so you know Kurt Russell AKA Jack is the sidekick in this movie.😁
The great thing about this film is that Kurt thinks he's the hero and he's not. Anything with Kim Catrall in it is always a fun watch.
Jen this was my twin brother and my favorite movie growing up. We would rent it constantly at out local video store. VHS days.
Woo! So glad to see someone discover Big Trouble in Little China! Yass!! Glad you liked it and thanks for looking into it. : ) Another suggestion for the 1987 film w/ Kurt Russell "Overboard" , if you've seen it already than perhaps 1984 "Starman" which I think will be a bit different from what people expect from a film directed by John Carpenter. - And for my random suggestion, which was also suggested by someone in the comments, the 1996 Christmas film "The Long Kiss Goodnight", and if you've seen it the 1984 film "The Last Starfighter". : ) Thanks for reading and enjoy the day. : )
My parents told me they watched this in the theatre and everyone else walked out because they didn’t understand that it was an action comedy instead of just an action movie.
It’s one of my favorite B movies to watch. So many great quotes, and just a great fun ride the whole way through. Loved your reaction as always! Such a great time!
I saw this opening day and fell in love, dragged my friends and watched it bomb because audiences didn't get the genre mix and Jack Burton being a buffoon.
B movie? it had a proper budget with well known actors but ended up flopping. somehow resurfaced as a cult classic...
D'oh!! YT won't let me like 3,000 more times. Kurt has been getting it done on the big and small screens since he was a kid actor. He's done a lot of work with John Carpenter.
You called Russell a "Sweaty Hunk" 🤣🤣🤣
A comic book sequel answers what happened with Jack and the monster on the truck at the end.
This is my favorite bad (campy) movie. I used to have a Windows theme with sounds from this movie. I love everything about this one.
Expert world-building. Only an hour and a half long, but has enough character, quirk, and back story architecture for ten times that.
They actually did sequelize this movie but in comic book form! It's a pretty good read, and just as crazy as the film. Introduced my 12 yr old cousins to this film, at first they were like "Nah, we don't like older films." I was like "give this one a chance! I'll make the popcorn and snacks!" We sat, we wathed, we laughed, they saiud it was one of the best movies they'd ever seen! I said, "Told ya!" LOL
Other great John Carpenter classics worth watching IMHO (besides "The Thing" and "Big Trouble in Little China") include "Halloween," "The Fog," "Christine," "They Live," and "Prince of Darkness."
Id add Christine.
@@seanrstacy Yes, I neglected that one. Whoops!
0:40 Victor Wong had to travel to Hollywood to film this prologue right after attending the wake for his one Lyon who had been killed by a high school football player in Sacramento who shouted racist and homophobic insults at Lyon and his friends before running up behind Lyon, striking in the side of the head at full speed and knocking him to the pavement fracturing his skull. The prosecutor told the Wong family that, because the killer was a juvenile, he would only get six months. The family went to a popular Bay Area consumer advocate reporter. The reporter was going to do a feature story on the case to gain public support for the Wong family's struggle to get justice for Lyon, but the story was cancelled when the Challenger shuttle exploded, and all news coverage became focused on the national tragedy.
I heard about it when I was visiting family in San Francisco, and one of my old friends from high school invited me to see the premiere of "Big Trouble in Little China." He knew Victor and his family from working together in the Asian American Theater Company (back then, it was still the Asian American Theater Workshop), and he mentioned that promoting the movie's release was very hard on Victor because Victor and the rest of the family were still reeling from the psychological trauma of Lyon's pointless and brutal death. Victor suffered his first stroke soon after, and some people believe that the emotional strain from the killing and the subsequent miscarriage of justice in the court case contributed to it.
Lao Pan: Same actor as father in Everything Everywhere All at Once
I couldn't believe he was still alive.
I still watch this movie several times a year-one of the best action comedies ever made.
If you get a chance to watch it with the commentary track, John Carpenter and Kurt Russell are adorable and hilarious together.
I'm unsure if this was covered in the comments, but there's a sequel series of comic books to this movie that's a lot of fun. There's also a team-up comic with Jack Burton and Snake Plissken (Kurt Russel's character from Escape From New York) that has one of the best endings to a comic book series I've ever read. :) Great reaction, thanks!
James Hong as Lo Pan is the one our greatest character actors. He’s in so many movies such as Blade Runner, Chinatown and even Kung Fu Panda.
The Jack nerd disguise is a nod to Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury, aka the Chinese Connection.
18:38 Not only the Ghostbuster's situation. It was literally the Ghostbuster's set as well.
Special effects supervisor Richard Edlund worked on both "Big Trouble" and "Ghostbusters".
My understanding is the script started out as the sequel to Buckaroo Banzai: Across The 8th Dimension, and the villain was going to be Hanoi Xan & the World Crime League. When BB flopped in the theaters, the script got reworked into this.
Jack is the side kick, his friend is the main character.
5:20 - James Hong, an Asian-American actor who has a career spanning almost 70 years. In fact, he's still working at the age of 93! He's also the one playing both the older and younger versions of Lo Pan.
The main joke of the movie is that Jack isn't the hero, Wang is the hero, Jack is the sidekick.
If you want to see Kurt Russell at his most macho, watch Escape From New York, which is also another John Carpenter movie. It's quite good.
The great thing about Jack Burton is that he doesn't know he's the sidekick. Wang's the real action hero, Jack just THINKS he is.
Fun Fact: The theme song to this movie was performed by the trio of John Carpenter, Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle.
You want more Kurt Russell, you should check out Tango and Cash (1989). Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone was an action team people didn't know they needed.
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Airplane 2 The Sequel just because you saw the first one
Police Academy
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Dirty Work (1998)
Fun Fact. This movie was the inspiration for most of the characters of the original Mortal Kombat arcade with Bloodsport being the movie to green light the game itself.
I see Big Trouble in Little China Reation, I click like. Thank you for sharing your reaction with us.
I love this movie so much. When I was 12 (92) I would spend almost every weekend at my best friend's house. On Saturdays my buddy, his brother and I would do yard work, and then in the evening his dad would get us some kind of fast food and we'd go to see a movie, or rent one (my parents didn't let me watch movies). One Saturday we found a huge snake in the yard (possibly poisonous?). We told his dad, and he came out of the house in his boxers and wife beater with an axe! He yelled "son of a bitch must pay!", and went and cut the snakes head off. I asked my friend what that was from and he was like "you've never seen Big Trouble in Little China?" In the evening we went to the local burger place and his dad bought us like 25 burgers (the were 50cents a piece at the time)and we rented this movie. I know no one cares, but... thats one of my fondest childhood memories, and connects me to this movie like few others.
just that experience would make any movie very memorable and a great movie immortal...
Jen! Your reaction when the monster came out of the bottom of Jack's truck was funny. Scared ya!!! :)
"They Live" (1988) by Carpenter is a must-see. Another commenter below mentioned "Speed Racer" (2008) which I also recommend. Finally, "Team America: World Police" (2004) will have you in stitches!
They Live is a must watch! So good.
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One of my favorite films of all time. I just love how they subvert expectations and Wang is the actual lead hero and Burton is his "sidekick". I heard rumors that The Rock is a big fan of this movie and he's been trying to get a reboot or whatever made. That would be interesting to say the least.
Carpenter has one of those awesome filmographies where there's so much quality over such a variety of movies that even big fans all have different favourites. Basically everything from 1976 (Assault on Precinct 13) to at least 1988 (They Live) is great and worth watching - several movies beyond that are great too, but they do get a bit more divisive.
The Master of Horror! The Fog is also a great ghost story horror film. Plus hes a rockstar doing the music as well for most of his movies.
@@seanrstacy I'm a big fan of Christine. And yeah, now he's retired from movies he's living the old man rockstar life, so good for him
"Highlander" and "Stardust"are also good fantasy movies.
Agreed. Both great movies for reactions.
Fun fact. This movie was the inspiration for the game Mortal Kombat.
I never saw it till now, but Jack Burton's persona is so much like Bruce Campbell 😉Love them both! Favourite Jack Burton line: "I know, there's a problem with your face." Favourite Jen line: "Ewww!"
Now you are ready for "The Prince of Darkness," another Carpenter gem.
Kurt Russell nailed this part. This is probably what I’ll remember him for hehe such a great character.
This is such a good movie. You can watch it again and again and it never gets old.
Looking forward to this one Jen - a classic IMHO. PS loved your Firefly series and Serenity reaction videos with added explanation videos with Gina and Jewel (how did you manage that? Very impressive!)
Either _They Live_ or _Escape from New York_ should be your next John Carpenter film. The latter stars Kurt Russell, too. I really like the former, though, and I think you'd enjoy it.
Kim Catrell, 80s gold. Her and Meg Ryan. Mannequin, Police Academy, this film, and Porky's. As a teen, she was a goddess. Still love her.
The other members of the Three Storms are Thunder who is the big one, Rain is the one with long hair, Lighting is the electric one.
I love that he has a podcast over the CB before anybody else ever had!
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Ah, the ending jump scare that gets everyone :D
I love this movie. This is a great movie. James Hong plays Lo Pan. He plays the old man that owns the Gizmo in the Gremlins. He plays the grandfather in Everything Everywhere All At Once. The Egg Shan actor is in the Kevin Bacon movie Tremors and the Eddie Murphy Movie The Golden Child.
Seem to remember James Hong had a cameo in Airplane as the second passenger Ted bores to death, too. :p
Yes, glad you liked it. One of my favs!
There are at lest 3 other John Carpenter movies that I know you'll enjoy and they are, "They Live", "Prince of Darkness" and "Escape From New York". Big Trouble was one of the first if not the first movie to create an non hero protagonist which Kurt Russell played. John Carpenter was always looking to push the envelope of ideas in movies and he showed his craft in this one as well.
The biggest joke in this film is that Kurt Russell is the sidekick character, he just doesn't know it. John Carpenter wrote a series of comic books that pick up right after the movie. The monster does not kill Jack Burton, and they actually become friends and a team, kind of like Clint Eastwood and the orangutang, Clyde, in "Every Which Way But Loose" Glad you liked this one, it's one of my all-time favorites and just gets funnier every time you watch it.
My favorite tam up with Carpenter and Russell has to be Escape from New York, deff worth a watch
I really want to see that!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen you enjoy something so much! Which is great. I love this movie so much. This and The Thing are my favorite Carpenter flicks.
I remember seeing this when I was 6, the part where Thunder blows up scared me at the time.
Fun fact the big ol monster boi is linked to Jack now. Since Jack killed Lo Pan the monster is like his hideous dog now.
It’s all in a comic taking place after this I haven’t finished the comic but seems good so far.