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- First time watching and reacting to They Live
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This movie gets more relevant the older it gets.
Oh ,YES .But when will we get the message ,sigh.
"They Live, We Sleep" sounds incredibly 2024.
R.I.P. ROWDY
I'm glad that some of Dasha's Patreon voters appreciate the classics.
Wait until you realize this is a documentary and not a work of fiction. As the main actor R.R. Piper said "its a documentary".
😂😂🤣👍
"I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum" One of my favorite improvised lines in cinema.
Now i want to play Duke3D :D
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
YOU BETTER GET IT RIGHT 😤😤😤😤
Roddy Piper came up with that one on his own
@@simondawe8774 Same with Denzel Washington's King Kong line which is also another favorite improvised line of mine.
"I Know" - Harrison Ford
This Is Your God = Money
The sociopolitical satire is off the charts in this A-Movie masquerading as a cheesy B-Movie.
Slavoj Zizek called it the most Marxist movie ever made.
@@edmann1820 It's not really "Marxist." It's just satirizing consumerism and extreme capitalism, which went into hyper drive with the Reagan era and hasn't let up since.
@@dan_hitchman007 Take it up with Slavoj Zixek I'm sure you know better than he does.
@@edmann1820 Am I supposed to know or even care what Slavoj Whatshisname thinks?
@@dan_hitchman007 No it's just my way of saying having this debate seems pointless because you seem way to sure of yourself. You are wrong. This film is pure Marxist propaganda and it's indisputable. The fact you don't even know the name of, one of the most important philosophers of our time does not bode well either.
Dasha saying that she''s been watching a lot of John Carpenter makes me want her to watch "Prince of Darkness" and the original "Assault on Precinct 13."
I'd love to see her do "In the Mouth of Madness."
Remake of Assault is great too.
@@gregghelmberger "In the Mouth of Darkness" deserves more appreciation on CZcams.
I've been trying to get Dasha to react to "The Prince of Darkness" for several years, but I don't think she could handle it.
@@gregghelmbergerthere's a movie now!
If you don't know, Shepherd Fairey formed his entire art style of this ONE movie. He started putting out OBEY stickers all over with all kind of nonsense and "waking" up people. He even did the Obama Hope poster if you know it. Ironically, I think he's kind of part of the machine at this point without knowing it
The “OBEY” part came later, after he was sued for using Andre The Giant’s name. Originally it was “Andre The Giant has a posse.”
Dasha: "the voices are so soothing."
And to think, that was before Keith David shows up! 😂
Also funny about a guy whose nickname is Rowdy Roddy.
@@Villa22Lobos2 Do you know he kept calling you the N-word earlier?
This is one of my favorite documentaries.
It's nice to see she's breaking into documentaries!
Only fictional thing is a shirtless Rowdy Roddy as a starving average Joe. People don’t realize how large even the “averaged sized” pro wrestler is.
@@Villa22Lobos2 Kind of like watching basketball, and the dude that looks tiny on the floor is actually 6'4"
@@jas137it's a great film one of my favorites 😊
Back then it was fantasy, now it's a documentary...
Hello Dasha!😊 That fight scene between those two guys is considered one of the best choreographed one on one fight scenes in movie history. Great reactions to another fun John Carpenter film, Dasha!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
23:03 ...Dahs, your dog is warning you, they're coming... Just put on your shades and run...
🐕🗣 *YES* !
The dog is definitely interested in something outside
It saddens me that most of today's young people don't know "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.... and I'm all out of bubblegum." A line which I'm told was improvised by Rowdy Roddy Piper which makes it even more awesome.
Roddy was great at improvising. He did it all the time doing wrestling promos.
@@Billinois78 That's a great point.
Roddy Piper gets my vote for best pre-kickass line. Ever.
STAY ASLEEP
CONSUME
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Oh, shit! GLASSES, NEED GLASSES!
This movie was great, saw it once with my dad 10 years ago, might ask him to watch it with me again. Good times.
You'll like "Starman" and "Escape from LA".
And "The Fog" and "Prince of Darkness."
Rowdy Roddy Piper's best work outside of a wrestling ring.
A shame the Hot Rod went from "They Live" to "Hell Comes to Frogtown."
This is a perfect movie for reaction videos. And this girl has such a distinctive personality. Def one of the best.
Dasha came here to chew bubble gum and react to movies, and she's all out of bubble gum.
1:20 "well, the voices in this movie are so soothing."
then you're in for a treat!
The aliens are Ghostbusters as well (Egon's tool at 26:33 and 26:47).
This movie works beautifully as action, as sci-fi, as comedy and as social satire. Aspiring screen writer should take notes.
My favorite Dasha quote so far is in the middle of an office gunfight: "You know, this isn't going to look good on her resume . . ". Fun fact: At about 26:33 in this edit, the military guy is talking into one of the Ghostbusters' PKE meters. Much of the big fight was real, since Roddy Piper was a professional wrestler and knew how to take (or fake) punches. They spent weeks rehearsing it in John Carpenter's back yard, and when filming time came around they shot it with three cameras and on wrestling mats painted to look like concrete.That's dedication. Another fun, semi-serious, low budget sci-fi Roddy Piper movie is "Hell Comes to Frogtown".
Frank's violent resistance to putting on the glasses represents the tendency for people to resist seeing the truth. They'll fight to protect their delusions.
Probably the director's most complete film. It's a masterpiece.
3:20 "i'm such a negative person to be honest..."
i would have *never* checked that box for Dasha.
17:00 - This is actually one of the best fight scenes ever shot, as it was all shot in one take, with no jump-cuts, lasting almost 6 minutes. Classic stuff.
Now for a different take on Aliens coming to earth, you should watch Alien Nation with James Caan (Sonny Corleone from The Godfather) and Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride)
There are a lot of homeless people in America, and the police and government still regularly clear them out of places where they congregate and try to make a home. They try to turn the poor into criminals and enemies of society. They'd rather get rid of them than help them. This movie was made in the 80's but it still has a very relevant message today.
Much like most of Carpenter's films, They Live is a super underrated film.
John Carpenter really is under rated. . . . He got type-cast as a "Horror Director" ... but he really is so much more.
The alley fight scene is iconic and has been duplicated and parodied several times, even South Park parodied that scene in one episode.
I remember seeing this in the theater and the whole audience let out ows and ohs with some of the more brutal looking punches in this scene.
Also, when he first puts on the glasses and sees his first alien (and the audience sees it for the first time) you could hear many in the audience gasp at the look of the alien, then one lady in the back said, 'where the hell are his lips??' getting a laugh from many of us.
I honestly never thought you would watch this movie... It's my absolute favorite
Changed my whole life. Never saw the world the same again.
The prolonged fight scene is a metaphor for how hard people will fight to keep from seeing what they don't want to see. In this case, it's about how society, religion, and economy function to benefit the few.
I love how Carpenter was critiquing Reaganomics 1980s with this film; the rise of Yuppies, the dark side of globalization's economic impacts and the hidden depression that was hitting blue-collar America... A time that many people now look on nostalgically. It really doesn't matter which politics it is, though, being taken over by one selfish "they" is the same as any other... Most people just wanna stay alive - keep walkin' the white line.
They look at it nostalgically because it’s been continually getting worse ever since. John Carpenter’s big mistake was that he projected all the faults in American politics towards one man/party, and I was proud of Roddy Piper for not buying into the same fallacy.
@@hellsunicorn most never realize both sides are one in the same. At that time the democrats controlled either the house or the senate, or maybe both, I can’t remember now. So most of the stuff Reagan got passed could not have happened without the help of a lot of democrats.
Best fight scene!
The alley fight scene is an effective delineator between men and (most) women viewers. Men tend to have more appreciation for the absurd and exaggerated. Among women, it's usually only the true geeks who also get it.
"People don't want to know it, and don't want to hear it.". True in 1988 and true now.
The lead actor is Rowdy Roddy Piper. He was a big WWF wrestling star. #1 rival of Hulk Hogan!
near the end you can see the military using a P.K.E. Meter to track the heros
Dasha's dog is able to see something she can't. 😄
Excellent choice & reaction Dasha. Carpenter is using a cautionary tale device that’s as old as “Plato's allegory of the cave.” This movie’s popularity has a resurgence every now and then. Glad you liked it.
😂 the first time I saw this was at a drive-in with my friends, I'm glad I got to see Hugo the Dog 😂
"Put glasses on" it´s a metaphor for not physical persuasion of somebody which is very very hard, and you need to put horrendous amount of energy and effort to persuade someone who do not want to see things which are not conforming to his brain. it is easier to physically fight someone than persuade someone.
Priviet Dasha. The woman is Meg Foster, she played Evil Lynn in the film Masters Of The Universe (1987) starring Dolph Lundgren as He-Man aka Adam and Frank Langella as Skeletor who was known to play Dracula (1979). The best line in this movie: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick @$$, and I'm all out of bubblegum." This is a great horror sci fi alien flick starring the famous wrestler Roddy Piper from the 80's. This is a good one through the eyes of John Carpenter. May I suggest for Patreon Wes Craven's Deadly Friend (1986) starring the Fratelli Mother from The Goonies, Matthew from Little House On The Prairie and Kristy Swanson aka the first Buffy The Vampire Slayer? It's one that I've enjoyed. Thanks!
We are here to chew bubblegum and enjoy and support Dasha; and we are all out of bubblegum.
Sci fi isn't horror, it's what is prosibile.
Doggy wants out.
Rowdy Roddy taking names, true classic. Dasha profe pics have changed!! Anyone else?
22:47 "And that's how i met your mother." 😆
It's not a movie, it's a documentary.
So glad you immediately said that you could see this movie from a different angle...
FYI The main character was played by the legendary pro wrestler the late "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. R.I.P.
In the 1980s there was a huge economic shift in America. All the manufacturing and union labor jobs went away, outsourced to foreign countries with cheaper labor, so a lot of middle class people slid into poverty, while large tax cuts led to a boom in the financial sector, with most of those profits going to people who were already very rich. It created this illusion of prosperity, because a handful of people's fortunes were exploding, but sometimes just a twenty minute drive away there were people living like this in shanty towns of shacks and tents. And all the while people were obsessed with the appearance of success and prosperity, competing with their neighbors to see who could get the most expensive car or reservations at the most expensive restaurant. This film was John Carpenter's critique of that era.
The reason foreign labor became cheaper for big business was Government involvement in the market with regulations and controls, as well as manipulation of the dollar. There is no reason why labor should be cheaper elsewhere, naturally. It's a shame that Government was making it cheaper to outsource jobs and manufacturing rather than keeping it home.
@@GetFitwithDogs government regulations like you can't make someone work 12 hours with no breaks in an unventilated wearhouse full of asbestos. Corporate America was making plenty of profit, but somewhere along the line they abandoned any sense of obligation to their employees and communities and saw maximizing profit as their sole responsibility. Blaming it on government is a pretense. It happened because of naked, unrestrained greed.
@@GetFitwithDogs To be clear you are talking about OSHA and the EPA here. Free Market Capitalism is responsive to short term consequences. It often fails to predict long term costs. The Long term cost to pollution and hazardous working conditions lead to a reduction in the value added by labor.
The rush out of the United States to exploit cheaper labor was never a long term strategy. As we approach the long term consequences twice now the American taxpayer has footed the bill to bail out these 'too big to fail' special interest groups.
Meanwhile the benefits of decentralized market economics has shrunk under the foot of giants incapable of sustaining themselves, and unable to see anything other than profit and loss.
Best not to bring your corporatist apologetics to a viewing of an anti-fascist parable.
What a bunch of gobbledygook. There is no "corporatist apologetics", it's pro-Free Market advocacy.
The type of control over prices (costs) that you touch on is not possible and will always result in corruption. As Friedrich Hayek once said - and I'll paraphrase - there is an arrogance with some people in which they think they could possess the knowledge to design market outcomes through control. This is impossible because there are more variables than can possibly be known.
We live in a time where we have more regulations and government controls than ever before in the USA. This attempt at control has been steadily increasing every decade for 100 years. What is the result? The richest elites have never been richer and have never had possession of more of the market than now.
How is it that these corporations have more power and riches NOW than ever before, when we have more Government involvement than ever before? That is because if the Government is going to insert itself into the Market and start placing rules and regulations, who is best situated to lobby those Government entities to hedge those rules to their own benefit? The super rich or the small business owners? Obviously the super rich. They are the ones with the money and position to buy favors or influence that can be used to their advantage. The small business owners do not have that. Therefore the market can be corrupted by this Government influence in ways that makes it harder to be a small business competing in the market against those corporations. That is exactly what we are seeing.
What we need is a Separation of State and Economics, just as we have a Separation of State and Church. This will allow the market to work naturally and restore a true market without a big daddy Government playing games that can be used by the ultra rich.
There is no "corporatist apologetics" in my lost, it's pro-Free Market advocacy.
The type of control over prices (costs) that you touch on is not possible and will always result in corruption. As Friedrich Hayek once said - and I'll paraphrase - There is an arrogance with some people in which they think they could possess the knowledge to design market outcomes through Government control. This is impossible because there are more variables than can possibly be known.
We live in a time where we have more regulations and government controls than ever before in the USA. This attempt at control has been steadily increasing every decade for 100 years. What is the result? The richest elites have never been richer and have never had possession of more of the market than now.
How is it that these corporations have more power and riches NOW than ever before, when we have more Government involvement than ever before? That is because if the Government is going to insert itself into the Market and start placing rules and regulations, who is best situated to lobby those Government entities to hedge those rules to their own benefit? The super rich or the small business owners? Obviously the super rich. They are the ones with the money and position to buy favors or influence that can be used to their advantage. The small business owners do not have that. Therefore the market can be corrupted by this Government influence in ways that makes it harder to be a small business competing in the market against those corporations. That is exactly what we are seeing.
What we need is a Separation of State and Economics, just as we have a Separation of State and Church. This will allow the market to work naturally and restore a true market without a big daddy Government playing games that can be used by the ultra rich.
The answer your question the glasses are the truth and the best fight ever is how hard it is to show someone the truth
19:22 have you heard about the XREAL Beam Pro?
Always a pleasure to see Dasha react , she expresses her self very well in her second language and is a genuine lover of film.
Although Piper wasn't a Portland Oregon resident ( My home town from 1974=2008) He was loved there...He was on T.V's "Portland Wrestling" weekly the arena was in my 'hood, so we got to see him and Jesse Ventura quite often..the NW leauge got so popular they were so of the first to be recruited in the WWE. After his career ended he opened up a successful car repair shop in Portland . I'm glad u loved this movie..It may have been a sci-fi film, but the social criticism also helped it win lots of positive critical praise.
Good choice Dasha.
This movie is a comment on Mccarthy's obsession/paranoia with communists living in secret in the USA.
Trying to make a sheeple 'see' is one of the most difficult things to do in life. It is way easier to fool someone than to show them they're dumb. Just look at those faces after the fight
My only problem with this movie is that when he had the opportunity to show her the glasses, he didn't.
Once you know how society works you don’t even need the glasses, you see the signs everywhere.
I've come to watch Dasha and chew bubblegum, and I’m all out of bubblegum.
You watch the best movies
Those who get it, love the movie. Those who never saw it refused to put on the shades.
The fight scene is symbolic of how insanely difficult it is to pull a sheeple's head out of their butt
"What has been seen cannot be unseen..."
Your thumbnail was perfect.
This is a documentary
Oh snap! Talk about an underrated gem. Good on you for watching it.
Hugo will go out 😁
"I'm such a negative person, to be honest."
If that is so, she does an amazing job of showing otherwise for this Channel. I get almost purely positive vibes from her. I'm not usually wrong about these things either. 🤷♂️
I am not sure why, but my mind keeps returning to this today. A side effect of managing a good team at work is that I often have a lot of free time to think, for good or ill. My brain is thinking too much today...
I am wondering if "being a negative person" is an idea that someone else has planted in her head or if she convinced herself of that. That question has popped into my own mind as I have been working and it's been annoyingly distracting me. Neither answer is great.
I hope she begins to see herself as a more positive person. We all have moments of being negative. I've always been a more positive person but have had times where I wasn't, so I understand lapses.
Anyways, I'm thinking about this too much. I just need to refocus on work today. 🤦♂️
not the real Dasha, obviously.
You're right. People REALLY don't want to know the truth.
I've been trying for more than 25 years, and it's pointless.
Love this...
This is An Amazing Cult Movie !!! Orwell 1984 indeed 😂😂😂😂
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😎👍 When it came to casting the part of Nada, the folks at Universal Studios batted a lot of big names around. Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Kurt Russell, Patrick Swayze etc. 😑 John Carpenter's main stroke of genius was NOT casting an A-list actor in the role, but instead, a Canadian wrestler who would only be known to a limited number of people. It gives the film an ambience of authenticity that it otherwise wouldn't have had. Although Los Angeles is probably the most filmed city in the history of cinema, the Downtown area hasn't really gotten a whole lot of screen time over the decades. This and the Disney film, "Return To Witch Mountain" (1978) are the only two films I can think of off-hand that were mostly filmed in that part of the city.
25:06 he's the unfortunate person watching the TV across from the church. Now he's two-faced fortunate.
The alien's designs are based on 50's B-movies.
That's also why they can be seen in black & white.
The *they* in the title comes from the phrase "that's what *they* say".
FAITH. That's what gets you through tough times without being negative.
Two sequels are supposedly coming soon. They Laugh and They Love. Can’t wait.
This movie would make a great premise for a game.
I was very much into WWF wrestling when I was in high school. Rowdy Roddy Piper was my favorite! Saw this movie in the theater and loved it! Was that a dis on 1988 movies? Lots of great movies back then:
Die Hard
Rain Man
Beetlejuice
Akira
Big
A Fish Called Wanda
Coming to America
Willow
Heathers
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Bloodsport
The Vanishing
Bull Durham
The Great Outdoors
Hugo is clearly looking at the aliens outside.😂
26:34 - That soldier is talking into a Ghostbusters PK Energy Meter.
23:04 i've never heard Hugo bark!! something odd is happening. something supernatural, i believe.
One of my favorite John Carpenter movies.
Dasha, i recommend watching the 1983 John Carpenter movie, Christine.
this movie is famous for it's 15 minute out of control fight scene over putting on the glasses - hahahahaha
Absolutely love this movie. Great reaction as always Dasha
I'm here to chew bubblegum, and like videos... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
Rowdy, Roddy Piper is on of the best WWF fighters back in the 80’s when I was a kid. Love this movie , great content .
R.I.P. - Hot Rod
"Heroes get remembered...legends never die!"
06:49
😂
DASHA :
oh , what the hell ? !
the aliens in this movie look more like zombie aliens! Ooh, even better, They're Zaliens!
Yeah, I remember when all that happened for real and everybody was like "Meh."
You're one of my favorite reactor channels! I love your commentary. So fun! :)
I would like to HIGHLY recommend that you start watching and reacting to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. It is a great show, especially starting in season 2. Also, you may already be familiar with the Russian version of the show. I've heard it is pretty different though.
Man, I miss Rowdy Rod.
I've always seen the long drawn out fight scene as a representation of people not wanting to see the truth.
Yes, because at least to me the glasses represent a point of view. Nada put them on and his perspective for life changed. Frank is a more pragmatic and frustrated person in terms of how he views "the system" and it's possible he wants to hold onto that because his view gives him someone or something to focus his anger on and even though the glasses will give him a new enemy to blame for his situation, there is probably a fear that there isn't anyone to blame and life just stinks because it's life.
Roddy and Keith walk into the banquet thingy, by the year 2025... Chilling words if you think about it
John Carpenter always knew a way to take the times and put a fantastical spin on them. It's surprising how materialistic we've become even from before. We no longer build things to last, we build things to be consumed and consumed and consumed. As if landfills were infinite and resources unlimited. Only a handful of people choose this way of thinking and, sadly, those people control 90 percent of the world's wealth. With it comes the authority. "They Live" may always speak not only for its time but ours as well. They still live and too many us still sleep.