Willow ,'First Date'
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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.
"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?"
"Give her your coat, Perfect Tommy."
"Why me?"
"Because you're perfect."
" Dr. Pretty?"
More POWER to HIM, John Big-booty!!!!
Big-boo- tay!
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.
Buckaroo has one of my two favorite John Lithgow performances (the other being Garp).
"Laugh all-a you want, Monkeyboy!"
It's not my DAMN planet, Monkeyboy!
"John SmallBerries?!"