MOVIES TO AVOID AT ALL COSTS - Any Genre

[bassman]

I got your back, Gary. Carpenter can be a near genius(The Thing), but then he does crap like BTILC and Ghosts of Mars. Hell....it's only recently that I opened up to the cheese that is Escape From NY. BTILC takes that cheese and runs way too far with it.

[capncnut]

I thought BTILC was okay at the time but now I find it silly and a tad boring. It's no great shakes when compared to his other films, notably Assault On Precinct 13, Escape From New York, The Thing, They Live, etc. BTILC is an oddity because it's firmly rooted within his 'classic' period but still remains unremarkable at the same time.

[blind2d]

I thought there were some good critters in BTILC though... Speaking of, the Critters movies are absolute crap.

[Mike70]

I got your back, Gary. Carpenter can be a near genius(The Thing), but then he does crap like BTILC and Ghosts of Mars. Hell....it's only recently that I opened up to the cheese that is Escape From NY. BTILC takes that cheese and runs way too far with it. I thought BTILC was okay at the time but now I find it silly and a tad boring. It's no great shakes when compared to his other films, notably Assault On Precinct 13, Escape From New York, The Thing, They Live, etc. BTILC is an oddity because it's firmly rooted within his 'classic' period but still remains unremarkable at the same time. don't make me use my eagle claw kung fu on you two as well as DJ. in fact my cylon warrior asks "which of you bitches has a problem with big trouble in little china?"

[DjfunkmasterG]

I got your back, Gary. Carpenter can be a near genius(The Thing), but then he does crap like BTILC and Ghosts of Mars. Hell....it's only recently that I opened up to the cheese that is Escape From NY. BTILC takes that cheese and runs way too far with it. Thank You sir. I love most of his work, even the little talked about THEY LIVE, which is really a cool little flick beneath all the mistakes. However, the praise lapped upon BTILC is not deserved. It is weak and pointless. Even Escape From La is another Carpenter disaster. I find Carpenters work to be Hit and miss, he runs 50/50. BTILC was the miss, The Thing remake was the Hit. I cannot heap enough praise on The Thing remake, and you should see it in HD. The only thing dating the movie is the technology shown in the movie, otherwise the new HD master makes it look like a fairly recent film.

[krakenslayer]

Big Trouble in Little China is one of my all time favourite movies.