Rating: 
Summary: John Carpenter: God or Demon?
Review: In this Carpenter entree', Rowdy Roddy Piper is a drifter who comes to town looking for work. He ends up in a homeless camp, where some strange doings are going on in the abandoned church next door. When he investigates, he finds some sunglasses and snags a pair. When he puts them on, shocker! There is a strange black & white vision, which reveals hidden messages in the advertising, and that the rich are really aliens subjugating the humans. The only part of this film I didn't like was the extremely ridiculous and drawn out fight/wrestling match to decide whether or not his friend will put a pair of the sunglasses on. Don't miss the classic "gum" line, when Piper enters the bank!
Rating:
Summary: the most courageous film of the century
Review: This is not 'Bycycle Thieves'. It hasn't any real depth of characterisation and doesn't really ewoke any deep feelings. This is not what this film is about. This film is information, period. Yuppies are revealed as coming from another planet, using human beings as cattle. Of course, this is not so in 'reality', but the metaphore is most accurate. After having seen this, I marvelled at how it was ever allowed to be produced. When You look at John Carpenter's career after this movie, it seems as if he was heavily punished for doing this film. This film is his testament and it is a very brave one. No other director has ever been that brave with the possible exception of Barry Levinson doing 'Wag the Dog'. Have You heared anything from Barry after 'Wag the Dog'?
Rating: 
Summary: Longest Fight Scene Ever!
Review: Great entertaining film (one of my favorites) but the marathon fight scene between Piper and his co-worker could definately use some editing!
Rating:
Summary: echoing a take below, this movie becomes a part of you
Review: this is one of the two great recent cult movies of my life ("valley girl" being the other). the message of "they live" has remained with me since. when the fascists are busy at their doings, i flash back to the billboards "eat, sleep, reproduce, and don't have any original thoughts." i wanted to come here today because elian gonzalez was taken today at machine gun point from his relatives. now, a few hours later, the ap photographer who took the breathtaking shot of the stormtrooper says, after being debriefed, he didn't see what his lens did.
Rating:
Summary: Great movie...but maybe it's true...
Review: I saw "They Live" in the theatres when it first came out and was spellbound. There were so many novel concepts--unlike any other kind of "alien invasion" movie. Of course, years later, I forgot that I'd ever seen it...until I read this intriguing book by David Icke called "The Biggest Secret". In that book (and several others that he's written), Icke suggests that mankind is the victim of a global-scale mind control experiment designed to keep people in a kind of dull altered consciousness that causes them to be willing slaves -- the victimizers are aliens from another dimension who control from a distance the major goings-on of the planet. All this sounds quite unbelievable, but Icke makes an extraordinary case for this belief -- and he mentions "They Live" as one of the movies out there that comes close to revealing the truth of what's actually going on in our world. Well, I HAD to buy the video after reading Icke... and from this new perspective, the movie is all the more amazing.
Rating:
Summary: Sci-Fi masterpiece!
Review: My favorite director is named John Carpenter. And this is his Sci-Fi/Thriller in which I've grown up with and been gripped with. The ideas in this film are amazing, aswell as its main plot. It seems buger-head aliens have taken over the planet, and we don't know anything about it. Roddy Piper gets down and dirty with the skeleton-like E.T.'s. Giving us movie buffs, such memorable lines! Carpenter will never get the respect he deserves. But us fans, will always let him know...he rules!
Rating:
Summary: They Live
Review: I thought this movie kicked but. Roddy Piper did a nice job outside the ring.The aliens were the coolest though, how they lived among us is the creepiest thing about them.
Rating:
Summary: They live is one of the best movies from the 80's!
Review: This is the best of all of John Carpenters early flicks. The best part in the entire movie is where Piper first puts on the glasses and sees the wealthy alien buying the newspaper. He looks like he saw a ghost. The whole idea about the subliminal messages was cool. The best message was on the money " THIS IS YOUR GOD ." Another good part in the movie is when they go in the TV station and start destroying the aliens. A must have for any SCI-FI or John Carpenter fan!
Rating:
Summary: THEY LIVE IS A MUST HAVE ON DVD
Review: I agree that "They Live" is a wonderful, sharp film, and this has already been stated within these pages. So, I wanted to voice my enthusiasm for this great DVD transfer in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 2:35:1 . The film is crisp and colorful, and although the disc contains no extras (not even a trailer!), the great transfer alone makes it a must-have for any fan of this great film.
Rating:
Summary: A GREAT MOVIE
Review: This movie works on a number of levels, it is an excellant satire of greed and the me me culture of the 80's, and on another level it is a great sci-fi movie including all the much used and much loved sci-fi standards of alien invaision and control and thanks to Roddy Piper who surprises all with the quality of his acting the fight scenes have an extra bite which helps alot. This movie will appeal to anyone with a interest in politics as it is a classic example of the true nature of capitalism and the way in which its true goal is to set people against each other and to control the masses with consumerism. Anyone who likes action movies, sci-fi and sharp satire will think this movie is a blast, miss it if you dare.
| 
