Big Confusion in Little China
Someone made a supercut of all the times Jack Burton expresses confusion in Big Trouble in Little China. Frankly, I’m shocked it only came to two minutes. Anyways, this video has resulted in two things: 1) I just remembered my old theory that John Carpenter deleted two of every three lines of dialog in the script, because almost no one actually replies to anyone in this film in any sensible way. It’s one of the reasons I love it. 2) I’m totally rewatching Big Trouble in Little China for the 284,947th time tonight. Happy Halloween, by the way. (Via FilmDrunk)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.