{"id":8077,"date":"2026-09-27T19:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:32:04","slug":"big-trouble-in-little-china-by-john-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/09\/27\/big-trouble-in-little-china-by-john-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Big Trouble in Little China<\/em> by John Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Crossover of classical Hong Kong 1930\/40s mystical kung fu and 1970s kung fu comedy, completely over the top as it should be.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Hilarious barrage of intentional as-you-know-Bobs to catch up on China\u2019s supernatural history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Everybody is competent except the protagonist who\u2019s also the bumbling and goofy yet courageous sidekick.<\/p>\n<p>Critics complain about missing character development but he\u2019s a \u201csteadfast\u201d main character. Also, come on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a target=\"somethingUnique\" href=\"\"><em>Big Trouble in Little China<\/em><\/a> by John Carpenter, 1986.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on September 25, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/09\/27\/big-trouble-in-little-china-by-john-carpenter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Big Trouble in Little China by John Carpenter\"><p>\u201cWhat the hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8082,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions\/8082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}