Kurt Russell plays a stupid John Wayne who gets caught up in the mystical underworld of San Francisco’s Chinatown in John Carpenter’s comic fantasy Big Trouble In Little China. Andrew and Chris ZF watched the 80s cult classic, and on this week’s show they try to make sense of just what the hell is going on in this movie.
Does it make sense? Is it supposed to? Why did Big Trouble fail so miserably? And why did this movie reach cult status in the decades after its release? All good questions. But mostly we ask: huh?
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Next week on the Stake Podcast: Nightcrawler.
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