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Exercise #1
What is the greatest movie ever made? The answer is John Carpenter's 1986 classic 'Big Trouble in Little China'.

Some people think it’s strange that I give such high praise to such a relatively unknown film, but in my opinion it is totally justified. I was actually talking to my flatmates about this topic a few months ago (what we each thought was the best film ever made was) and they all gave the go-to easy answers. We had a vote for ‘The Shawshank Redemption’, another for ‘The Godfather’, one more for ‘Pulp Fiction’. There was no suggestions that were out of the ordinary or at least anything that I would consider interesting to talk about. What’s to be said in a conversation about how good ‘Pulp Fiction’ is? Nothing, because I’m pretty sure everyone was done talking about it right around the time ‘Kill Bill: Part 2’ came out.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand. I then put out the answer ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ and it was met with either stupefying shock or casual indifference. They either thought it was kitschy rubbish or they simply hadn’t seen it. It totally killed the discussion because no one was taking it seriously at this point – not that we were taking it very seriously to begin with. I pleaded with them to watch it. I told them that maybe the charm was lost on them the first go-around and they begrudgingly accepted to watch it. I fired in the DVD and my smile was going from ear to ear the minute the retro 80’s soundtrack started to play.

For those of you that haven’t see it I’m just going to briefly explain the plot. Kurt Russell is a truck driver who visits his friend Wang Chi on a layover in San Francisco. At the start of the movie Wang Chi’s fiancé gets kidnapped by the evil Chinese sorcerer Lo Pan. Jack and Wang then go on a quest to rescue the fiancé from a fortress that exists deep below modern day Chinatown.

This is a classic adventure movie formula and it is an incredibly easy watch. There’s kung-fu everywhere, there’s fantastical monsters, there’s laugh-out-loud gags and some of the most quotable lines of dialogue out of any movie ever. This is why it’s no surprise that when the movie was over that my flat mates had smiles almost as big as mine and that’s why I think it’s the greatest movie ever made. It has the ability to appeal to anyone which is a quality the greatest film ever made needs. Well, I finally got there in the end. Feel free to check it out.

Big Trouble in Little China - Trailer

Alan Chalmers (talk) 23:08, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

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