Big Trouble in Little China is one of my all time favorite movies. Me, my wife and my son sat down and watched it again (on DVD) back in February for the zillionth time.

I love cheesy movies, if they're done well and "Big Trouble in Little China" fits the bill. This movie had humor, action, and fantasy all rolled into one movie. You have to see it to believe it. The funniest part is that Jack Burton (played by Kurt Russell) always talks about himself in the third person, quote:

"Just remember what ol' Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right in the eye and says, 'Give me your best shot. I can take it.'"

Curiously, I started checking blogs to see who else had written about this masterpiece. Here are a few:

Thinking-Out-Aloud – Filmage
Made for Another World
CriticalBlogs – Film's from a Natist Perspective

I could probably find a thousand more that made references to it. The strange thing is that this movie was NOT a blockbuster. Big Trouble in Little China stars Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li and others, here's the trailer:

I and my son just got finished watching the three movies in the Evil Dead series, The Evil Dead (1981), Evil Dead II (1987), and Army of Darkness (1992). Both of us are huge Bruce Campbell fans.

I was amused by the cameos he did for Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). I remember his cameo from the end of Darkman (1990) (which many people don't) as well as his guest appearances on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1999) and Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001) on television.

Bruce has had a fairly long career already and I won't go on listing series and movies he's starred in but I will mention that I recently watched Bubba Ho-tep (2002), which was a lower budget movie than I would have expected. If he wasn't such a good actor (in my opinion), that movie wouldn't have been worth watching at all.

Bruce's performance in most of what he's done can only be described as "cheesy". Much of it's over-the-top and hilarious, even when it's not really meant to be. Bruce Campbell is what I like to call "The King of Cheese". Hail to the king, baby.