Big Trouble in Little China
In which <PERSON> tests whether <PERSON> could've succeeded in action-fantasy camp. It's a fascinating thought-experiment to me to ask if <PERSON> and <PERSON> switched eras, could one have succeeded in the career of the other? For <PERSON>, perhaps. He sure does have a great 'stache in the Westerns.
I agree with <PERSON> that lack of characterization harms this film. It is essentially <PERSON>'s truck-driving character running around with several Asian men, trying to find a captured woman. 698
Much has been said about that last fact. I simply do not get into movies that are about other movies, and that's their leading aspect. If you have to know the tropes and then know that the movie is mocking the tropes, and that's the fun of the movie, well, fine. But I do like a bit of a connection to the real-world. And what I see here is so goofball or stereotypical, it just doesn't interest me.
But I do like <PERSON>'s score here! 170