You got trouble, my friends,
Right here in Little China!
With a capital “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for Pan (crowd: “Lo Pan!”)
Yeah, you got trouble (big trouble!),
Right here in Little China!
Gotta find a girl with jade-green eyes, that is his plan.
(spoken) Mothers of Little China . . . heed this warning! Look for these signs: are your boys wearing red bandannas? Are certain words sneaking into their vocabulary? Words like “the first sovereign emperor” and “Ching Dai, god of the East”? Are they hanging around with the Three Storms and stealing trucks from Jack Burton?
Well if so, my friends . . .
Yup, we’ve got “Big Trouble in Little China this week in our “Cuz I Wanna (And You’re Gonna Like It)” series, a John Carpenter film that didn’t do so hot at the box office but found new life on home video. Does it squander that new life? How well does this forty-year-old movie about martial arts, Chinese mysticism, and Kurt Russell channeling John Wayne hold up? Give a listen . . . or this will really piss us off to no end!
Poll question: what’s your favorite movie that was ignored at the box office but found new life in some other form (home video, midnight shows)?
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I was going to mention something I saw after I had commented on last week’s episode but apparently, Max Mike Movies is spying on me now. I just watched “Andromeda Strain” which I saw on TV completely randomly and while it is action free, it’s pretty fascinating and the effects are by Douglas Trumball!
For the poll question I will let Mike say “Rocky Horror” and instead will mention Murnau’s “Nosferatu”. Not so ignored but pulled from release with all copies ordered destroyed but managed to be secreted away for decades in bits and pieces and then restored even more recently to become one of the most lauded horror films in history. I am guessing “Blade Runner” will high on some lists as it seems inconceivable how bad it did when it opened compared to how popular and well regarded (for good reason) now.