Screenplayin’ and parentin’ for the day’s remainder, so we’re gonna leave you with a follow-up to last week’s Bad Movie Friday winner, the seminal Hard Ticket to Hawaii. This particular scene does not feature unnecessary use of a rocket launcher, but it does teach us all a valuable lesson: When a stranger asks you to Frisbee, never lay down your submachine gun. (SFW, assuming your boss agrees with the FCC re: the word ass.)
Gramsci // May 19, 2009 at 2:05 pm
At some point the sheer badness of “Big Trouble in Little Tokyo” is going to take control of the site and force itself into Friday’s feature. Just warning you…
Brendan I. Koerner // May 19, 2009 at 3:43 pm
@Gramsci: “Little Tokyo”? Not “Little China”? Though there is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJD2sHOt1pY
Jordan // May 20, 2009 at 12:24 am
The clips from this film are some of the most incomprehensible bits of cinema I’ve ever had the misfortune to watch. Blow up doll shields? Razor blade frisbees? There may be no such thing as overkill according to the fine people at Schlock Mercenary*, but I think this particular movie has not only crossed the line, they lost the line over the horizon in their mad dash towards complete bat-shit-ery.
*http://store.schlockmercenary.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=P-R37
Gramsci // May 20, 2009 at 7:02 am
Sorry, I’m thinking of “Showdown in Little Tokyo.”
Brendan I. Koerner // May 20, 2009 at 9:10 am
@Jordan: The whole movie is highly, highly recommended. Even as a horny 12 year old who was entranced by the jiggle factor, I thought to myself, “This is the worst acting ever committed to film.” Rewatching these clips two decades later, I stand by that pre-teen conclusion.