They Live
|
List Price: Our Price: $8.10 You Save: $6.88 (46%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $7.64 (click here) Category: DVD See more DVD releases |
|---|
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
Movie Reviews of They Live
Movie Review: Put The Glasses On. PUT EM ON!!
Summary: 5 Stars
John Carpenter is a B movie director and he'll proudly admit that. All of his films are B flicks with a little spice to them which basically brings them up to B+ flicks. In many ways, he's very similar to Quentin Tarantino, who basically does the same thing. I think They Live is the most B movie-esque Carpenter ever got, and that's not a bad thing! Sure, there are people out there who hate it, but I suppose they were expecting another Starman or something. I must say that Roddy Piper did quite well in his acting debut. No, he's no Lawrence Olivier, he's basically playing a tough guy hero, but I think he does a really good job. He's able to carry the whole film. Maybe Hulk Hogan should watch and learn a few things. His "Put on the glasses" fight with Keith David(a great actor who'll probably never get his due) is classic. Carpenter was also trying to pound home a message in this film, moreso than any of his others. His little response to the "me" decade. Personally, I love it. You can pretty much take from this one whatever you want coz it does work on a couple of levels. If you want to chuckle at an amusing satire of the Reagan era, you can't go wrong. If you want nothing more than cheap, B movie thrills, you'll get that too. So, grab that popcorn(Extra Butter-Don't be a wimp), grab your wife(girlfriend, mistress, one night stand), hide the kid(s), turn off the lights and enjoy.Movie Review: A very entertaining depiction of Secret Societies
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a SciFi depiction about secret societies and the way they operate that I review about on Secret Messages: Concealment, Codes, and Other Types of Ingenious Communication.
The author probably find out about it and decided to write a screenplay to portrait and maybe make sense of what he discover. And from the movie portrait that they do not know how long the Aliens been around, I can tell that the author does not know as much as I do about these secret societies.
It is a very good depiction of secret societies. All you have to do is replace "Aliens" with "Secret Societies" & the "Sunglass" that allow the wearer to see the Aliens with a "Secret Message Translator" that allow you to understand these Secret Societies and you are pretty close to it.
When I saw this movie over 20 years ago, I sense some truth to it but was not able to grasp the whole truth. After 20 years I was able to put it on the review mentioned above.
If you watch this movie and like it, then I would recommend you read my review mentioned above to further stimulate your mind from the stimulation you already got in this movie.
This movie is one of those movie you would want to keep in your movie collections.
Movie Review: 1988: The Year the Academy Award Lost it's Integrity
Summary: 5 Stars
1980: Martin Scorcese is snubbed for "Best Director" for "Raging Bull".1992: Jack Lemmon is not nominated for "Glengarry Glen Ross".
2001: Denzel Washington (Training Day) beats out Russell Crowe (A Beutiful Mind)
However, the biggest travesty in the history of American Cinema occurred on Feb 29, 1989 when Dustin Hoffman was given the oscar for "Best Actor" for his portrayal of an autistic man reunited with his estranged brother in the horribly underproduced and overly-acted "Rain Man". In a vein and contemptuous plot by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Rod Piper was snubbed not only out of winning the award he rightfully deserved, but from being nominated at all. With Oscar calibur delivery on lines such as "Lady you look you fell in the cheese dip back in 1957" and "My father took me down to the beach, kicked my ass and told me about the power and the glory", Piper not only reached the masses with his "method nouveau" but defined an entire generation as well. Rod Piper may not have ever made another movie ever again, but he will live forever in our hearts and minds, immortalized in the epic saga that is "They Live."
Movie Review: You don't own this movie? Go get some glasses...
Summary: 5 Stars
I was introduced to this movie via a youtube clip and knew after watching it I had to have this movie.
After waiting for it to come in the mail (I checked several times a day in case I missed its delivery) I finally got it and immediately played it. Here is my opinion...
It begins to paint a very unhappy state of affairs of the world. A drifter named Nada (Rowdy Roddy Piper) is struggling to make ends meet and it gives the impression average people are in the same boat. He then meets another guy (Keith David) and they become friends (sort of).
After several scenes of police brutality (normal LAPD stuff) Nada comes across a pair of sunglasses which...
At this point it would be wicked of me to reveal any more plot material.
But if you don't get a massive tingle down your back when the main character puts on those glasses to see things the way they "really are" then nothing on Earth will.
As I implied in my title, if you don't own this movie, then you may very well be a part of the problem.
Good luck and I sure hope you end up on our side...
Movie Review: B grade sci-fi that gets an A from me.
Summary: 5 Stars
I remember seeing the very end of this movie years ago on cable TV and I'd always wanted to go back and watch the whole thing, so I did. I was very surprised that I enjoyed this movie as much as I did.
It's obviously not a high-budget sci-fi movie, but it's not Mystery Science Theater trash either. It just works. You've got an anti-hero sort of main character, some good supporting characters that reappear throughout the film and provide continuity, and a soundtrack that sets a mood and holds it all together.
And, it really can make you think if you let it. What if someone told you that you could look through a pair of glasses and see everyone who is pretending to be someone that they're not, or everyone who has a hidden agenda? Would you want to wear those glasses? The take-home lesson is that not everything or everyone is what or who they appear to be, and that's a valuable lesson to learn.
The special effects are sufficiently creepy but not gory, and adequate for the story that is being told. And, I don't think the message is going to be out of date any time soon.