I vastly prefer Big Trouble -- what cracks me up time after time is how incompetent the hero actually is.
Also, it wasn't until I'd seen a bunch of Chinese kung fu movies, that I realized what an accurate homage this was.
Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.
Buffy ,'Him'
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Theodosia - Aug 28, 2008 2:58:40 am PDT #7958 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Frankenbuddha - Aug 28, 2008 3:21:32 am PDT #7959 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I vastly prefer Big Trouble -- what cracks me up time after time is how incompetent the hero actually is.
See, I'm just the opposite, but I think it was all the spot-on casting in BB that won me over (Clancy Brown, Carl Lumbley, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd etc.). That, and "declaration of war - the short form".
No, no, no - don't tug on that; you don't know what it's attached to.
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 5:13:21 am PDT #7960 of 10000
brillig
"Buckaroo, the president's on the line. He wants to know if everything's all right, or should he bomb Russia?"
"Yes on one, no on two."
"OK. Uh, which one was bomb Russia?"
Miracleman - Aug 28, 2008 5:50:40 am PDT #7961 of 10000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
"Give her your coat, Perfect Tommy."
"Why me?"
"Because you're perfect."
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 6:11:47 am PDT #7962 of 10000
brillig
" Dr. Pretty?"
Frankenbuddha - Aug 28, 2008 6:45:22 am PDT #7963 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
More POWER to HIM, John Big-booty!!!!
Connie Neil - Aug 28, 2008 6:47:13 am PDT #7964 of 10000
brillig
Big-boo- tay!
Beverly - Aug 28, 2008 7:29:31 am PDT #7965 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The family quote Big Trouble in context all the time.
"Don't look!"
"I already did!"
"Well don't!"
"I won't!"
"Which David Lo Pan? The little old basket case on wheels, or the ten-foot-tall roadblock?"
"No horseshit, Wang?"
"No horseshit, Jack."
And of course (say it with me) "When (whatever the present boggle) taps the back of your favorite head on the barroom wall and says, 'have you paid your dues?' ol' Jack Burton just looks 'em in the eye and says, 'Yes sir, the check.is.in.the.mail'."
I still haven't seem BB all the way through. I always seem to fall asleep in there somewhere, so what I remember of the movie may actually be dreams inspired by the soundtrack. I need to drink a pot of coffee and try again.
DavidS - Aug 28, 2008 7:39:36 am PDT #7966 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Buckaroo has one of my two favorite John Lithgow performances (the other being Garp).
"Laugh all-a you want, Monkeyboy!"
Frankenbuddha - Aug 28, 2008 7:49:12 am PDT #7967 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
It's not my DAMN planet, Monkeyboy!