Comments on: Big Trouble in Little China – Blu-ray Review http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2009/08/big-trouble-in-little-china-blu-ray-review/ The Review of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Films Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:44:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Drew Fitzpatrick http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2009/08/big-trouble-in-little-china-blu-ray-review/comment-page-1/#comment-13617 Drew Fitzpatrick Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:54:18 +0000 http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/?p=12104#comment-13617 You're so right - I made the classic Western mistake and lumped Tsui Hark's wire work epics with the cheapie chop-socky programmers of the early 70s. But that one dude with the cleaver during the big alley fight? Pure Shawscope! You’re so right – I made the classic Western mistake and lumped Tsui Hark’s wire work epics with the cheapie chop-socky programmers of the early 70s.

But that one dude with the cleaver during the big alley fight? Pure Shawscope!

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ZU also featured a fantasy version of martial arts, using wires to make warriors float through the air as they battled it out – an effect that BIG TROUBLE tries to recreate, using blue-screen, to much lesser effect.

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