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Summary: I have never seen it but I love it all ready.
Review: I have heard of THEY LIVE for a very long time but I never did really want to see it. I thought that it was just a stupid old horror movie that wasn't any good. But lately I have heard some things about it and it sounds great. Ever since I heard the plot I was hooked. A guy finds some sunglasses and when he puts them on he can see aliens walking around and orders in billboards that no one else can see, it's crazy, but it's really cool. When I heard about this I went looking for informaion on it and I found out that people really like this movie. It's considered a cult classic by some people. I also found out that it's out of print and hard to find... That sort of got me going. It kind of gives me a little adventure to find it at a price I can affored. Anyways I found out a lot of other good stuff about it and I decided I wanted it. I looked for it for a while and finally found it for VHS... So I bought it. ...But with all the good stuff I've heard about it, it has to be good. So if you can find it at one of your local video stores or if you can find one that is cheap enough to buy than get it and watch it. I've heard it's a good movie to watch with your friends...
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Summary: The Best Film Ever Made
Review: As I watch our world going to hell in a handbasket today, with the President of the United States taking our rights away and most saying, "Oh, it's okay, he's doing it for us." With the Patriot Act, signed by all but one of our Legislators giving him the power of an emperor, I look at THEY LIVE and wonder if it wasn't prophetic. I wonder if we found those sunglasses if it would reveal Emperor Bush the Ist and the 2nd as aliens practicing mind control. I wish Roddy and Keith would take them on, because the world of They Live has come to life and is real today.'On top of that, it's the best movie line I've ever encountered and Roddy Piper is the sexiest man alive. (Having met him, he is in real life too). I recommend this movie to anyone with an active gray cell, or normal hormones because it hits you like a bolt of lightening in both places. Viva La Roddy Piper! Viva La John Carpenter!! Long may they be in our hearts.
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Summary: $ = THIS IS YOUR GOD
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Outstanding b-movie cult classic that takes on a-list subject matter: materialism and mindless consumption. Roddy Rod Piper proves himself to actually be a very competent, artful actor. Not a big surprise since he was a WWF favorite. The fight scene between him and Keith David is one of my favorite film fights ever - and the reason behind the fight is hilarious.
This might not be the best sci-fi movie ever made, and our economic/class separation reality isn't quite as harsh as portrayed by the movie, but sometimes to critique something you have to exaggerate it a bit. "They Live" will never let you look at a billboard, magazine, or dollar bill the same way again. Like other Carpenter movies, this is a great example of how a cool story can be made without a bazillion-dollar budget.
-- JJ Timmins
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Summary: Put on these Sunglasses...!!
Review: Another one of John Carpenter's guilty pleasure B movies. An interesting film with social commentary about advirtizing and the media. Most of it through subliminal messages and that aliens may be behind it all. Roddy Piper plays Nada, a drifter looking for work in Los Angeles. He accidentally discovers that aliens are mind controlling the world through the popular media with a special broadcast signal inhibiting the truth from the earthlings. Special sunglasses developed by an underground resistance force, when worn, reveals the hidden messages on billboards, magazines, television etc.. and who is human and who is not. That is, the glasses also reveal the hideous, bug-eyed aliens. There are some great action and fighting sequences. One hilarious and very long fight scene is between Roddy Piper's character and Keith David's character (as Frank) over putting on a pair of glasses. One of the longest street fights put on film (over something mundane as a pair of sunglasses). Overall, an entertaining sci-fi thriller with some interesting social commentary and some humor.
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Summary: It may be a B movie... but does it have some truth to it?
Review: I enjoyed this movie, which is much like "The Matrix" where people are living in a reality or conciousness created by an outside force. I find this very intriguing. It gets better if you read the conspiracy books by David Icke, who states explicitly that our rulers are just aliens or alien hybrids that took over the Earth in ancient times and have been running the show since then.
If you buy into this or not, the movie is semi-entertaining, but is not for those who get spooked really easily because the thought of these ugly aliens being your next door neighbors is very creepy.
This movie does raise some issues of why humanity is so easily controlled and where humanity might end up if people don't wake up to the fact that they are being controlled by forces that are not easily understood. Already we are going into a "New World Order" and our rights are slowly being taken away due to recent events. Let's see where it all goes.
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Summary: Time to chew bubble gum and kick some...
Review: ......And I'm all out of bubblegum! These auspicious words uttered by Roddy Piper never rang so true. This film despite being trashed in reviews and basically ignored by the general public is a classic to say the least. within the first fifteen minutes i was hooked. The fight scenes between piper and the aliens, piper and his protege, and the final scene with piper holding up the one legged peace sign, has got to be some of the best action in the history of film. it's like "putting perfume on a pig" to say that this film was a great piece of art or film nouveau, but as far as entertainment and excitement goes, this one is a classic. one of rowdy roddy piper's greatest achievments since body slamming the hulkster, and one of the best cult films in existence. Bring this back for DVD production! Buy it, rent it or follow the advice from another review, rent it an never return it. Hard to find, but easy to love!
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Summary: They Live! They Rule!
Review: John Carpenter's They Live, is a film I've been a fan of since I was a kid, the whole idea of seeing aliens with sunglasses is something we'd love to do. Roddy Piper, the great wrestler, is a wonderful though guy named Nada, kicking alien-[rear]! This movie is tons of fun and filled with great dialogue. The plot is apocalyptic, like so many alien movies before it. But the revealing sunglasses are a new element in this film, and John Carpenter gives us a lot of great bass riff music that adds to the movie's hypnotic texture. Keith David (The Thing) co-stars as Nada's buddy in taking down the alien forces.
Ofcourse before Keith David believes Nada's story of aliens invading Earth, they get into one of the silver screen's greatest movie fights!
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Summary: funny-but economically flawed
Review: Is it just me, or does anyone else see the biting irony in John Carpenter using Hollywood, a product of American Capitalism, in order to make a film denouncing American Capitalism? I wonder how much of the money that Carpenter, Mr. greed is a terrible, terrible thing, made on this film stayed in Carpenter's own pocket....my guess would be 100%. As such, this movie is a shining example of the hypocrisy of the New Left. Most outrageous is that this movie was released in 1988, after Reagan was through with the eight years of his Presidency and his success was already evident. This movie would be more understandable (although not justified) if it came out in '82. By 1988 the economy was already booming. Reagan turned around Carter's stagflation into "7 fat years". Employment was up and inflation down--a feat economists had previously thought was impossible. Reagan rewrote the books on supply side econoics, leaving the Keynesians with egg on their face. The fact remains that, despite Carpenter's inuendos and political rhetoric, GREED IS GOOD. Capitalism has produced more wealth for more people than any other system in history. Carpenter, and his fellow leftists, would prefer everyone to be equal, even if that means equally miserable--which is what socialism causes. the greater the degree of socialism, the greater the misery. What makes Capitalism the fairest system in the world? Because it is the only system in the world that forbids the initiation of force. Men must deal with each other by free trade. Money is this tool of exchange. If you eliminate money, men must deal with each other with guns. Which do you prefer? I do give this movie 4 stars because it is roll on the floor funny. This movie is worth watching if 1) you ignore the political drivel (which is difficult to do) or 2) you desire to see the idiocy of the Left.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: A very entertaining movie with good action, quirky one liners and it gets JC's point across pretty easily. No wonder why it's one of his personal favorites. If you can buy it on DVD, but it. If you can rent it at a video store, rent it and then never return it. That's the most economic way of obtaining it.
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Summary: Perfect Blend of Creepy and Funny
Review: They Live is one of my all time favorite John Carpenter films. It has that sort of wonderful Army of Darkness black humor and self parody going while at the same time telling a classic, creepy, very much Carpenter story. And the one Rowdy Roddy Piper movie role that doesn't [need help]. Thisis the kind of story that "V" wanted to be. It is also one of my all time fav aliens-invade-earth movies with one of my fav John Carpenter scores.
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