Big Trouble in Little China!

Did you ever see this movie? Did you like it? I remember liking it... enough that I thought my kids would enjoy it.
So, we're on the couch and I'm remembering a scene that might scare the younger kids... so I tell Ian to close his eyes and as he's peeking through his fingers, he says to me,
"Mom, this is soooo 80's...." (with that exasperated tone in his voice...)
And so for the rest of the movie, whenever a fake monster would jump out, we'd all say, "it's so 80's, huh, Ian?!?" and laugh and laugh and laugh at how bad the special effects were. And they were BAD!!!!
But it was entertaining to watch and I wondered how we grew up in the 80's... it seemed cool then, but I look back on most of the 80's and wonder...
How did we ever survive before CGI?