“Jack Burton and the Rise of Atlantis” is seen as too wacky, a step down, but still fun; “Big Trouble in Little Tokyo” lucks out thanks to an end of summer release. “Jack Burton’s Double Trouble” features a pipsqueak kid who’s put on a bus before Roman-myth-themed “Big Trouble in Little Italy.”
me joining the crew in “Stargate” but I’m secretly just searching for a universe where “Big Trouble in Little China” was a hit and there was a seven movie Jack Burton franchise
“Jack Burton vs. the Moon Men” goes way off the rails, especially once Guillermo Del Toro’s admittedly over-budgeted script is abandoned for Akiva Goldsman’s hard rewrite. “Old Man Burton” is the least financially successful but is a hit with critics, who call it the “Unforgiven” of the series.
“Jack’s Back” is the back to basics sequel that brings some much needed classical filmmaking back to the series. Also bookended by both versions of “The Boys Are Back in Town” as a little in-joke by the filmmakers.
“Jack’s Off”, the smutty Full Moon produced cash-in that played endlessly on Cinemax but had to be retitled after Carpenter threatened legal action. Had a dozen DTV David DeCoteau sequels that made the homoerotic subtext into text.
Jack Burton and the Six Demon Bag was a great Tin Tin homage, and the first of Jacks adventures in early modern China as one of the six demons had time powers. Critics praised the return to form of thin plot but scenery-chewing dialogue with the addition of beautiful period-appropriate garb.
Big Trouble in Little Havana was mostly a casualty of the Tarantino 90’s but Danny Trejo played a great villain.
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The joke at the end of Big Trouble in Little China, that the bad guys don't know who "Jack Burton" is, is a very good joke
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Wait, is that why Jack Burton was a truck driver in 'Big Trouble in Little China'?
Gotta respect the GOAT
Kurt Russell as Jack Burton as Henry Swanson in Big Trouble in Little China
I ran out of characters 😁 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA is glorious because Jack Burton is an absolute nincompoop and a blowhard. He's the Foghorn Leghorn of action heroes.
im in the mood to wear my jack burton tank top and have a guy say to me “you know that that’s jack burton’s tank top from big trouble in little china?”
Speaking of BIG TROUBLE, I know the "I'd have two nickels" thing is played out but still, if I had a nickel for every BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA poster where Jack Burton looks inexplicably like Michael Keaton...
ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) and BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA (1986)
Dan Stevens’ portrayal of Trapper in GXK is based on Jack T. Colton (Michael Douglas) and Jack Burton (MonsterVerse star Kurt Russell) in ROMANCING THE STONE and BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, respectively.
Geekery of the Day: There is one movie I always watch before I watch Ghostbusters. surprisingly, a lot of people do not realize Jack Burton, of Big Trouble in Little China, is the sidekick of the story.
me joining the crew in “Stargate” but I’m secretly just searching for a universe where “Big Trouble in Little China” was a hit and there was a seven movie Jack Burton franchise
Watching Big Trouble in Little China, this movie rules because Wang is really the protagonist and Jack Burton is just some dipshit white guy who accidently stumbled into someone else's movie
It’s funny reading old reviews of Big Trouble In Little China and seeing critics miss the central conceit of the movie (Jack Burton is a sidekick who thinks he’s the hero) and rate it harshly because “he’s an idiot who doesn’t know what he’s doing”.
Would Kurt Russell as Jack Burton in Big Trouble count? You think he'll be playing an utter badass hero like Snake Plisken but then he's just fucking Jack "Permanently Concussed" Burton the whole time and Dennis Dunn becomes the real action hero.
Jack Burton from Big Trouble In Little China was the proto-podcaster, just ranting into his ham radio like his every thought was fuckin chocolate
Jack Burton is Ken in the language of the Youths
Jack Burton - Action cinema’s first Himbo?
Caught Big Trouble in Little China on TV. While not my favorite carpenter film, it might be the easiest to rewatch. Jack Burton, arrogant and largely incompetent makes a great foil for the awesome Chinese cast.
THE THING is Carpenter’s masterpiece, but anybody could have played MacReady.
BIG TROUBLE is arguably the greatest screwball action comedy, and no one on earth but Russell could have played Jack Burton.
Marvin Gaye song titles are like Jack Burton's dialog in Big Trouble in Little China.
"i can't believe jack, you were the big trouble in little china all along!"
Big trouble in little China (John carpenter (1986))
Jameson Parker in Prince of Darkness, in the midst of Simon & Simon, plays a genuine antihero. Not a hard badass. A lump, a dope, a useless schmuck stuck in the position that calls for a hero. Dialing it up from Jack Burton thinking he's the hero in Big Trouble in Little China.
There is some (quite a bit?) of that in the source material, but so far they're doing a great job with Blackthorne (by handling him a little bit like Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China - I haven't seen that comparison anywhere yet, but that's been my sense and I'm going with it for now).
Big trouble in Little China I didn't get at first, till I watched it again and realised that Dennis Dun's Wang Chi was the Hero, Kurt Russel's Jack Burton was the comedy sidekick
But from a narrative perspective I think it’s that Blackthorne has to be depicted as an outsider (I stick by my assessment that in the show he’s like Jack Burton from Big Trouble in Little China) and that’s not as well conveyed if all we hear is English
