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Summary: mad buggin!
Review: I saw this movie whilst tripping out on some crazy mushrooms. It blew my f***ing mind! Aside from the silliness of having the lead actor a pro-wrestling star, the concept of this movie is beautiful. The sunglasses-thing was mad cheesy, but the idea about the aliens integrated into everyday society was awesome. The part that really won me over was that once he had the sunglasses on, billboards would no longer read what they originally said, but instead commands from the aliens. The epitomy of this was the dollar bill that read "This Is Your God", also the music was mad freaky as was the whole thing with the bums and the tv static. Good cult flick, albeit 80's inspired cheesiness knocks off a star.
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Summary: Can we say new age CULT CLASSIC!
Review: It's hard to write about this movie to those who haven't seen it. It's one of those films you either love, or you look at with an odd expression and say "huh?" to. Yes, it's sci fi, and yes, it's comedy. There are lots of little political and social jokes that run through the plot, but there's also a great deal of amusement. I'm not going to say that everyone will love this movie, but if you are a fan of sci-fi/comedy, pro wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, alien conspiracies,and a slow-heavy blues bassline theme music kinda movies, see They Live. Packed with a hefty supply of cult classic one-liners like "I've come here to chew bubble gum and kick ---, and I'm all outta bubble gum", They Live is a great film.
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Summary: Carpenter shines in sci-fi satire!
Review: In my opinion, this is John Carpenter's best film. It is not a great movie by critical standards, but that is the point: it is hillariously funny and archly satirical. We all knew...even if we were one...Yuppies were narcissists and disgusting but in THEY LIVE...the Yups and their puppie allies literally are. Meg Foster is positively delicious as an empty-eyed, soul less traitor who markets humanity like everything else. (She adeptly deivers a mean bottle of Bollinger to the back of wrestler protagonist, Roddy Piper...then tosses him out the window of her cushy Yup-scale pad.) If you can recall a muck-writer named Vance Packard, this would have been his movie version of A NATION OF SHEEP. Yet it is so funny for the most part that it does not offend or scare...nor even irritate. Yet its subject matter is as serious and its indictment of decadent trends as ominous as those found in 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World etc. Still the movie is a blast and maybe the last scene where our hero flips the "bird" at the alien police force elegantly summarizes Carpenter's attitude toward a culture that genuinely both embraces the corruption that he attacks while also giving him the resources and venue to do it. Forget the politics; this is a goofy...very funny outing whether Carpenter intended it so or not. And Carpenter is playing Petronius...whether he knows it or not...
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Summary: Great mind provoking sci-fi ala the Matrix!
Review: Most has already been said here. This is an example of special subset of 'recent' sci-fi films in which we discover our reality is not so real! Other examples are: The Matrix, The Truman Show, and Dark City.My main addition to this topic might be the observation that, while I also find the fight scene a bit too long, I finally came to realize its length and the rediculous amount of beating each of the participants takes is a spoof on professional wrestling! And who better than Roddy Piper to drive this home? This is possibly the 'inside joke' that makes this a valid part of the movie (IMHO)... By the way, to give you an idea how good I thought Roddy was in this role, when I first saw it in the theatres I noticed his name at the head of the credits, and then it was about half an hour into the movie that I finally recognized him as the star! He was so natural in this part it didn't even occur to me it could have been him! == P ==
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Summary: A Very Good Look At John Carpenters Early Movie
Review: I was reading some of the past reviews that I saw for this movie. Most of them were good except for one that stated that the movie went to slow. Well all I can say to that person is that if the movie went to fast then you would have complained that it is to fast. The fact of the matter is that it is a very good movie and I would reccomend it to anybody who wants to see an interesting si-fi movie with a twist.
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Summary: Great Set-up! So-so script!
Review: It takes abourt 45 minutes to lay out one of the more intriguing premises of a film, and then the final 45 minutes to knock it down with a weak shoot-em-up plot that doesn't ring true at all. Good acting by Roddy Piper (surprise, surprise) and Keith David. My fave line: "I am here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all outta bubblegum!"
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Summary: Very Slowwwwwwwwwwzzzzzzzz.......
Review: Following John Carpenters very good 'Prince of Darkness' comes this heavy handed political piece called 'They Live'. The movie moves very slowly and the movies descends into the completely ridiculous with his depiction of the homeless. THe fight scene between Keith David and Roddy Piper is memorable only because it runs for about ten excruciatingly boring minutes. Carpenter later admitted that he made this movie in some sort of attempt to attack the Reagan Adminstration. Movie makers should stick to entertainment and keep their juvenile views of politics to themselves. Carpenters movies have been crap since he started to take himself seriously. He should go back to what he's good at. Rent this is you can't sleep. It will cure the worst insomia.
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Summary: This movie makes you think about seeing through what we see.
Review: I have seen this movie about ten times. It's humorous, it makes you question reality and people in power. The fight scene symbolizes our disbelief and unwillingness to see the world, to put our glasses on and see what's going on. Makes you realize that wealth and power is not important.
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Summary: MOTIVATING
Review: This movie is pure motivation. I like the way the aliens look like bodies turned inside-out. And those sunlasses....awesome. This movie is not only a classic because of the plot and acting but such famous one liners as "I am here to chew bubble gum and kick as%, unfortunatly, i am all out of bubble gum." ROCK!!!
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Summary: motivating
Review: this movie is a classic and keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire movie. has such popular lines as "I am here to chew bubble gum and kick 'a' unfourtunatly, i am all out of bubble gum" i highly recommend this to everyone who loves excellent, 70's style sci-fi. I am particularly fond of the music. i wish that there was a sound track. RYAN
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