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They Live (1988)
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An economic crisis brings unemployed Nada (Roddy Piper) to L.A. in search of work. What he finds instead is that the ruling elite of the world are aliens in disguise, their aim being to keep humans in a state of mindless consumerism. His discovery comes when he dons a pair of special sunglasses made by a resistance group and sees for the first time reality unadorned. Billboards, store signs, magazine covers--all bear subliminal messages to OBEY, to CONSUME, to have NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT. Money itself says THIS IS YOUR GOD. But worst of all, with these glasses you see which of us are really hideous, bug-eyed aliens. The conceptual...
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The answer has finally become clear to me. There is some alien force behind the Faux News Channel that is poisoning the minds of those that watch. Normal people just see ridiculous news and soft core porn, but to the adherents, they see some secret messages.
This was the basic premise of this interesting John Carpenter...
(complete They Live review by B Movie Ben)
They Live Movie Review by Tim  (3/24/2007) |
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They Live has grown over the past 15 years into a cult classic for movie geek's around the world. I really like this film and have spent more time then I want to admit arguing and quoting it to my friends and colleagues. It's such an 80's movie but a really good one at that so it wins extra points on "how would I rate...
(complete They Live review by Tim)
| They Live Movie Review by Ben (12/25/2007) |
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"'They Live' was a movie made in direct response to my horror at the Reagan years. Nobody had made a movie about that or like that. Nobody. And everything had been going in the other direction, and I just couldn't take it anymore."
-John Carpenter at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, January 25, 2002.
I was in the...
(complete They Live review by Ben)
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