9 Reasons Why Big Trouble In Little China Is Still Awesome

9. It Reunites The Dream Team That Is John Carpenter And Kurt Russell

Big Trouble is Carpenter and Russell’s fourth collaboration, coming after Elvis (1979), Escape from New York (1981), and The Thing (1982). There was obviously a fifth collaboration in Escape From L.A. that came 10 years later, but the less said about that, the better.

When you have a chemistry and an understanding like that of Messrs Carpenter and Russell, movies and characters really come to life. Although Elvis was only an A.B.C. TV Movie it was critically well received.

Escape From New York is a cult classic and The Thing is rightly regarded as one of the greatest horror movies of all time. It just makes sense that these two geniuses would work together again. And thank goodness they did, because …