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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0018713046710
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Goodtimes Home Video
Manufacturer: Goodtimes Home Video
Publisher: Goodtimes Home Video
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Studio: Goodtimes Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 04, 1988
Sales Rank: 46910
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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 breakthrough is hilarious while keeping its roots in darker matters. Although some fault the film for settling into its action plot, the ending has a great payoff. And the direction by John Carpenter is handled with superb workmanlike aplomb. One unforgettable set piece has Piper in a back-alley fistfight with a friend who won't put on the glasses that goes on and on, and just when you think it's over it goes another round. One of the most subversive films ever made in Hollywood, They Live was released on the eve of the 1988 elections. The first TV ads had two hideous alien politicians debating, then one accusing the other of being "No John Kennedy!" --Jim Gay
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They Live is a fun sci-fi film made by John Carpenter and stars former wwe superstar "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.
The story is about John Nada, a homeless unemployed construction worker, who finds a pair of sunglasses, that when worn suddenly reveal a world runed by upwardly mobile, capitlist, yuppie aliens hellbent on kepping the human race sedate and brainwashed with sublimminal messages fed through advertising and the media, so it's down to John and a few others to get the world to wake up ... Read More
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This delightfully eerie movie demonstrates that great films are not necessarily pretentious; world-class art can appeal to regular folks; you needn't read John Taylor Gatto to lean the truth about 'Education;" and although you could study "alternative economic history" for months on end at the Yamaguchy website, Mary E. Hobart and David Astle aren't the only reality gurus who can clue you in to what's really going down here on the third stone from the sun. Not at all! John Carpenter manages to do just ... Read More
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John Carpenter wrote the screenplay and directed this 1988 Science Fiction/Horror film that is based on Ray Nelson's 1963 short story, Eight O'Clock in the Morning.
With elements of the common hero versus a corrupt society - with ample amounts of wit tossed into the mix - it packs a punch from that time period - the "me" generation and the "greed is good" of the 1980s - but with a twist; the elite are aliens who are managing human society through the use of subliminal media advertising and ... Read More
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Oh man what a fun movie, I saw this a few months ago and still marvel at how much I enjoyed it. This is one of those eighties movies that borderlines on silly and cheesy at times but overall there is so much to enjoy that in this case it barely stands in the way. Basically this is a story of an accidental discovery by a construction worker down on his luck. Trying to find some work, Nada arrives in LA and quickly makes some "friends" and gets in trouble on his first day of work. Eventually he tries to settle ... Read More
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This is a fun romp of a Sci-Fi movie, where a small band of people in the US find out that the world is being run by invaders that are true Intergalactic industrialist robber barons. Rowdy Roddy Piper stumbles across the underground movement and things get serious fast. Who can you trust and who is in for the big payoff? Especially now, when the economy seems to be faltering, this makes for great entertainment.
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0018713046710
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Goodtimes Home Video
Manufacturer: Goodtimes Home Video
Publisher: Goodtimes Home Video
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Studio: Goodtimes Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 04, 1988
Sales Rank: 46910
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