Full Reaction to "BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA"
Added 2022-01-06 15:35:05 +0000 UTCHello dear patrons!
[[ I'm doing my best to upload the content as soon as I can under my condition (the after-surgery phase) ]]
Knowing that Big Trouble in Little China is a B-movie, I think it's safe to say that inside its category, it's a good movie. I know most of the time B movies are often labeled as automatically bad, and depending on which point of view you look at it, it's true. I mean: they'll never be able to have the same quality as the big productions like Warner Bros, Disney, Paramount, etc. But if we consider the effort of producing such movies with less budget, this one, in particular, had a really good idea.
I've been reading that they are in fact thinking about making a second movie right now, and that "The Rock" (!!!) could star in it. Here is one of the links I have found: https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2571668/whats-happening-dwayne-johnsons-big-trouble-in-little-china-movie-kurt-russell
I hope you enjoy my reaction!
Next up we will continue with Chronicles of Narnia, the first movie. From there on, since my recovery will take longer than initially expected, I will bring the monthly YouTube poll earlier, this way we have more content in the following week and half of the next week. By then I should be fine to continue with the recordings for the rest of the Chronicles of Narnia trilogy, plus the most voted movies from the 3D/Cartoon poll that I will share this week.
Thank you once more for your patience! Stay safe 💖
Comments
Take your time with your surgery. No hurry at all. 😊🎂And fun fact; the two inseparable screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely wrote the entire trilogy of Narnia alongside the director Andrew Adamson six years before they were brought on board to write the MCU movies from Captain America to Endgame.
Calvin Kopp
2022-01-07 06:27:40 +0000 UTCThe film really is intended to be a B-movie parody, written and directed by a man (Carpenter) who loves the genre. You're right about the effects budget. From Wikipedia: "Although the early exterior establishing scenes were filmed on location in Chinatown, most of the film was shot on sets built in the Fox lot in Los Angeles. Production designer John Lloyd designed the elaborate underground sets and recreated Chinatown with three-story buildings, roads, streetlights, sewers and so on. This was necessary for the staging of complicated special effects and kung fu fight sequences that would have been very hard to do on location. This forced the filmmaker to shoot the film in 15 weeks with a $25 million budget. For the film's many fight scenes Carpenter worked with martial arts choreographer James Lew, who planned out every move in advance. Says Carpenter, "I used every cheap gag – trampolines, wires, reverse movements and upside down sets. It was much like photographing a dance." Carpenter envisioned the film as an inverse of traditional scenarios in action films with a Caucasian protagonist helped by a minority sidekick. In Big Trouble in Little China, Jack Burton, despite his bravado, is constantly portrayed as rather bumbling. Wang Chi, on the other hand, is constantly portrayed as highly skilled and competent. On a commentary track for the DVD release, Carpenter said the film is really about a sidekick (Burton) who thinks he is a leading man. According to Carpenter, the studio "didn't get it" and made him write something that would explain the character of Jack Burton. Carpenter came up with the prologue scene between Egg Shen and the lawyer. Carpenter was not entirely satisfied with Boss Film Studios, the company in charge of the film's visual effects. According to the director, they took on more projects than they could handle and some effects for the film had to be cut down. Richard Edlund, head of Boss Film Studios, said that there were no difficulties with the company's workload and that Big Trouble was probably its favorite film at the time, with the exception of Ghostbusters. The effects budget for the film was just under $2 million, which Edlund said was barely adequate. " The film is a cult classic, and not intended to be taken too seriously - hence there not really being a point to Lau Pan's long pinky nails, other than that they look weird. It has become a cultural touchstone of the 80's however (along with Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension), and now that you've seen it you'll likely catch references in other films and other places that would have simply passed you by before (Raiden based on Lightning in Mortal combat, the "Six Demon Bag" trinket in World of Warcraft, Duke saying "All in the reflexes" in Duke Nukem Forever (2011) just to name a few of the hundreds of game references.
Sean Novack
2022-01-07 05:32:36 +0000 UTC
