That's certainly the best of that genre. Good writing, fantastic cast.
It makes me chuckle that the standard plot of pretty much all 70's sit-com spin off films was 'the cast go on holiday', and somehow even 'Porrdige' managed to use that plot. Well, almost.
I certainly think Big Trouble is tongue in cheek and brilliant but I do remember it being panned by the critics when it came out.
7.2 rating on IMDB, I think its got more popular with age...
I read Roger Ebert's review on it and had to laugh at this bit
Carpenter has allowed technology to dominate his story. Since so many of his big set-pieces look so awesomely expensive and complicated, and since the effects are undeniably mind-boggling, there's a temptation to praise him just for daring to make a movie on such a scale. But special effects don't mean much unless we care about the characters who are surrounded by them, and in this movie the characters often seem to exist only to fill up the foregrounds
Hilarious because its special effects have not aged well at all!
I certainly think Big Trouble is tongue in cheek and brilliant but I do remember it being panned by the critics when it came out.
7.2 rating on IMDB, I think its got more popular with age...
I read Roger Ebert's review on it and had to laugh at this bit
Hilarious because its special effects have not aged well at all!
I would have been around 15 or so when it came out. I watched it at school (boarding school) with around 500 other kids. I have no idea how it was received by the critics but we all loved it, and we all got the whole crazy tongue in cheek vibe. Going by those comments by the reviewer I'm getting the feeling he was taking the thing far too seriously and if that was the case then no wonder they panned it.
I don't think it's so much a case of it getting more popular with age, I think for people of a certain age its always been a fun enjoyable movie, and now that we are the adults, our opinions are drowning out those of the then critics who didn't quite get the intended end result.
Highlander : Endgame
The Crow Wicked Prayer
Double Team (Van Damme )
Terminator Salvation
Alien 3
Hollow Man
Daredevil
Star Trek 5 The Final Frontier
Mission To Mars
The Beach
I would have been around 15 or so when it came out. I watched it at school (boarding school) with around 500 other kids. I have no idea how it was received by the critics but we all loved it, and we all got the whole crazy tongue in cheek vibe. Going by those comments by the reviewer I'm getting the feeling he was taking the thing far too seriously and if that was the case then no wonder they panned it.
I don't think it's so much a case of it getting more popular with age, I think for people of a certain age its always been a fun enjoyable movie, and now that we are the adults, our opinions are drowning out those of the then critics who didn't quite get the intended end result.
Roger Ebert was the critic and he does tend to take most things too seriously, think he panned Starship Troopers too...
Nice to know Big Trouble is considered a good film now, time for me to dust off the dvd for its annual viewing I think.
The Cassandra Crossing - a turd of a movie with loadsa movie-star cameos about an outta control train carrying a s'possed killer virus... Heading for... The Cassandra Crossing!!!! Fasten your seat-belts! The very definition of Eurotrash.
Another -so-bad-its-good movie starring Taylor & Burton. Total ham-fest, but beautifully shot with a bizzare cameo by Noel Coward, as "The Witch Of Capri"
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That's certainly the best of that genre. Good writing, fantastic cast.
It makes me chuckle that the standard plot of pretty much all 70's sit-com spin off films was 'the cast go on holiday', and somehow even 'Porrdige' managed to use that plot. Well, almost.
EH ! great movie !
ageing movie stars, over the top action and cheesy one liners ... all the ingredients for a terrible movie but i love it
I certainly think Big Trouble is tongue in cheek and brilliant but I do remember it being panned by the critics when it came out.
7.2 rating on IMDB, I think its got more popular with age...
I read Roger Ebert's review on it and had to laugh at this bit
Hilarious because its special effects have not aged well at all!
I would have been around 15 or so when it came out. I watched it at school (boarding school) with around 500 other kids. I have no idea how it was received by the critics but we all loved it, and we all got the whole crazy tongue in cheek vibe. Going by those comments by the reviewer I'm getting the feeling he was taking the thing far too seriously and if that was the case then no wonder they panned it.
I don't think it's so much a case of it getting more popular with age, I think for people of a certain age its always been a fun enjoyable movie, and now that we are the adults, our opinions are drowning out those of the then critics who didn't quite get the intended end result.
The Crow Wicked Prayer
Double Team (Van Damme )
Terminator Salvation
Alien 3
Hollow Man
Daredevil
Star Trek 5 The Final Frontier
Mission To Mars
The Beach
It's considered one of John Carpenter's best.
Not all of them are atrocious. The Likely Lads and the two Steptoe and Son films are great.
Glitter - the Mariah Carey movie, I must be the only person that has it on DVD
Roger Ebert was the critic and he does tend to take most things too seriously, think he panned Starship Troopers too...
Nice to know Big Trouble is considered a good film now, time for me to dust off the dvd for its annual viewing I think.
Valley of the Dolls
So bad its good!
Its an embarrassment of riches in terms of plot/dialogue and heart stopping hammy performances!
The fountain sex scene with Nomi & Cristals boyfriend is squirmingly bad! Its a less0n in bad taste extended over x2 hours!:D
I think I'll dust it off this afternoon:o
Top Secret
Amazon Women On The Moon
DOA: Dead or Alive
Striptease (Burt Reynolds and Ving Rhames are ace)
Terrible?? They're both excellent. The first in particular is an absolute gem.
And the second will always win for introducing Don 'Simmons to the world.
The first one is not a terrible movie.
Maybe my slapstick humour tolerance has changed as i've been watching some clips on youtube, now i've got to re-watch them lol
Another -so-bad-its-good movie starring Taylor & Burton. Total ham-fest, but beautifully shot with a bizzare cameo by Noel Coward, as "The Witch Of Capri"
BOOM! ...splat...:o
Transmorphers
Snakes on a Train
18-Year Old Virgin
The Da Vinci Treasure
All horrendously bad films, but I love them.
The Core, cheesy but I love it
Snakes on a Plane