They Live
Saw THEY LIVE, the neat 1988 John Carpenter effort again on cable today -- the first time I've seen it since its release -- and was struck by how effective a Twilight Zone type tale it is, at least in...
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Quote:And a question for film buffs - wasn't Carpenter contracted to do 4 low budget horror/sci-fi films after Big Trouble in Little China? Because he did They Live and Prince of Darkness, but then...
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Quote:Anyhow, Piper mever did much of anything else after this film, but THEY LIVE still works. At least if you watch it with sunglasses on! I think it's Carpenter's last really 'decent' film. Ghosts...
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I Love this film too the fight scene is bettter because of the throws and the message in this film is good too.
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The fight scene from "They Live" is so classic, that "South Park" actually did a shot for shot homage to it in one of the episodes! The movie didn't quite work as science fiction, but as Swiftian...
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bipolarber wrote: The fight scene from "They Live" is so classic, that "South Park" actually did a shot for shot homage to it in one of the episodes! The movie didn't quite work as science fiction,...
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Much like I didn't realize that EVIL DEAD 2 was played for laughts untill I saw EVIL DEAD in a theater packed with fans, I didn't realize what a parody of 80's movies film fights THEY LIVE's endless...
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One of the things I loved about this movie was the marketing campagin... about a week into the release, there came the famous vice presidential debate, where Quale tried to compare himself to...
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I recently seen this on cable also. First time since the 80's. IT was o.k. Lost alot of it's charm to me this time around. It's not a buyer for me. As far as Carpentar goes, In the Mouth of Madness...
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Yeah, I just picked this up recently and saw it for the first time. I think I had a block against it because of Roddy Piper, but I thought he was surprisingly okay. But man, the whole time I was...
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happydude33 wrote: Yeah, I just picked this up recently and saw it for the first time. I think I had a block against it because of Roddy Piper, but I thought he was surprisingly okay. But man, the...
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Yeah, a bit of a fan. And I'm kinda splitting hairs because the message is the key to this movie and its truly pretty great. Its just that the Piper character seems so in line with the Kurt Russell...
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My question is this - why did Carpenter choose Piper anyway? I mean, he's just not very good, which would surely have been obvious. On account of him not being an actor, for one.
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Piper got the part because Carpenter saw him in a Wrestlemania event and thought he would do a good job... I thought he was good, myself...
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If you have ever seen any of Pipers early career wrestling promos,you can see he has charisma and some serious quick wit to burn. The majority of his famous one liners from THEY LIVE came from Piper's...
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Spoiler II wrote: If you have ever seen any of Pipers early career wrestling promos,you can see he has charisma and some serious quick wit to burn. The majority of his famous one liners from THEY LIVE...
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This is one of those films I know people just LOVE, but I could never understand the love for it. My big problem is the look of the aliens. They look so dang silly, I could just never take it...
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porta wrote:Spoiler II wrote: If you have ever seen any of Pipers early career wrestling promos,you can see he has charisma and some serious quick wit to burn. The majority of his famous one liners...
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I thought there was potential for a couple of themes to be explored, namely the fact that Nada might have been hallucinating and therefore killing innocent civilians. There's also the question about...
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Interesting point which the film never raises; what of the rest of the world? The Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Iran, etc.?
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