They Live (1988) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!!
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- They Live (1988)
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum...
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Badass sunglasses and Kickass fighting! What more do you need? Other than some more Bubble Gum…
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You should add Re-Animator (1985). I don't think it's a very well known movie today, but I think you'll enjoy it very much.
You should check out Big trouble in little China another John Carpenter Classic.
Really cool to see more Carpenter films. I highly recommend Assault on Precinct 13, which is my second favorite film of his after The Thing.
I love most of Carpenter's films. I think the first time he disappointed me was "Christine". It was until "Village of the Damned" that he disappointed me again.
I'd say my favorite Carpenter films that you haven't reacted to are
Escape From New York
Starman
Big Trouble in Little China
Prince of Darkness
In the Mouth of Madness
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (Chevy Chase's presence made people think it was a comedy. It's not)
Vampires
How has no one suggested From Dusk Till Dawn?
This movie becomes more relevant the older I get.
Scary, ain't it?
Just stop eat bubblegum...
So does Demolition Man. You even have the San Diego Chargers now playing out of L.A.
It's always been relevant. That's why it's been clipped into every conspiracy nut's YT manifesto for the last 15 years.
@@RumourdProd And, that movies at that time weren't made with the intent of a sequel to follow. Except for couple.
The fight was a metaphor for how hard it is in getting people to see the truth.
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Sometimes you have to beat the truth in people
People don't want to know the truth. Sadly.
@@RacerX-bv9io indeed
That's exactly how I see it.
"You have to understand something. It's a documentary. It's not science fiction."
-John Carpenter (2015)
Although the names have been changed to protect the GUILTY. 😎👍
Carpenter said that? really?
You're still asleep, huh?
It's still science fiction, but remove the aliens and it's close to life.
preach
"I have come her to chew Bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of Bubblegum." RIP, Roddy Piper.
I swear it was the reverse when I watched as a kid (a sort of Mandela effect, if you will), and I hate that when I hear it how he says it in the movie different from how I remember, it just sounds bad. It rolls off the tongue way better by saying "kickass and chew bubblegum". Maybe I'm just misremembering and confusing memories with Duke Nukem? I dunno....
@@FilthTribeFTP You're likely thinking of Duke Nukem 3D as it's reversed and slightly different. "It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and i'm all out of gum."
@@The-Underbaker right, that's why I mentioned it at the end 😉
But yeah, that's what I thought, as I knew Duke Nukem said it as well and in the order I remembered from They Live. Except, I'm pretty sure I heard it on Duke Nukem 64 first. I didn't get into DN until I had gotten N64 in the 90s and that game came out.
Cheers!
Yeah, RIP brother. Roddy Piper is a legend. I will die with the memory of Piper marching to the wrestling ring in a kilt and playing the bag pipes. Nuff said..........
One for the ages. Now, only the great Bruce Campbell can deliver cheesy one-liners and make them legendary like that.
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper's badass performance in this movie and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) will not be forgotten by his fans. RIP Roderick George Toombs.
His talking feud with Bobby heenan is classic stuff.
Damn right! Roddy Piper is a legend from the 80's. He's up there with Hulk Hogan. I remember him marching out to the wrestling ring wearing a kilt and playing bag pipes. He was a true show man. A little known fact is that Roddy Piper refused to take off his wedding ring while filming. He did so out of loyalty and respect to his wife. He also wrestled while wearing his wedding ring. That's the kind of man he was.
BTW, I saw this movie when it was in the theaters back in the 80's. I'm generation X.
I mean there's only Hulk Hogan, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Andre The Giant, and "Rowdy" Rodder Piper that are the Four Horseman of 80's wrestling. Or maybe Mt. Rushmore, either way take your pick.
@@rdramos13 Damn right brother!! Straight and to the point!!!
are you kidding? his lines were cheesy/corney, " mama dont like tattle tales" ??? , wtf ,smh!
John Carpenter was definitely on his game in the 80s. And it is astonishing that Rowdy Roddy Piper didn't become a bigger star.
You should watch "Hell Comes to Frogtown."
Lol, did you watch his acting?
@@MikeB12800 Considering this was his first acting gig, he did pretty well, look at "Dwanye "The Rock" Johnson" Or John Cena, neither of them can act yet they are pretty big action stars.
This was a different time. Wrestlers weren’t taken seriously at all in Hollywood. Even Hulk Hogan couldn’t get a movie career going.
@@wantutosigh1117 if he did good in his first movies, or they made money, he could have gotten bigger movies! Arnold, Sly, Segal, Van Dam all started in low budget action flicks and got bigger and bigger movies!
Carpenter in the 80s was killing it: The Fog, Christine, Escape from New York, The Thing, Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live; a majority of my childhood right there.
Starman doesn't get enough love
Hoping to see CZcams reactors discover Starman soon…
You two need to watch Big Trouble In Little China. Just an awesome 80s movie. It knows what it is and doesn’t apologize for it.
One of the greats.
I agree with you not including Prince of Darkness
"Hey, what's wrong baby?" The 80's were an amazing time for cinema, we'll never see films like these being made again.
The first 30 minutes of the film is why I love Carpenter. Everyone was asleep, so everything about the movie was slow. Even everyone's speech was slow, their work ethic, until they woke up.
I’ve been saying that since I saw it when it came out. The first 30 minutes are perfect. The rest isn’t terrible or anything, but doesn’t quite live up to what they slowly built up for the first 30 minutes.
Nice catch. I guess every time you rewatch the movie you see a little more.
Exactly
"Her eyes are ridiculous."
That actress is Meg Foster, and she is known for her eyes.
Yeah, her eyes are legend. Nuff said........
Evil Lyn!
And another fun, lesser-known, film she was in is "Blind Fury" with Rutger Hauer -- which, coincidentally, I don't think anyone on the internet has ever reacted to yet.
@@newspooiechannel that one is off the beaten path by a good bit thats probably why
@@newspooiechannel She was only in that movie for several minutes. After that, they never showed her again.
"They Live is a documentary!"
-Roddy Piper (2013)
All those hilarious one-liners like the bubblegum one came directly from Piper's hand-written notebook in which he kept pages of insults, one-liners, and jibes he used in his wrestling promos.
Before he passed away, Rowdy Roddy Piper called this movie a documentary. The older this movie gets, the more relevant it becomes.
Yes, sadly true. but if we band together and start a resistance, We can defeat them and hope we can win!
The fight scene represents how hard it is to get someone to open their eyes to reality/truth.
Keith David is a legend! The Thing, Platoon, They Live, There’s something about Mary, so many classics!
Pulp Fiction
@@pedrolopez8057 he was in Pulp Fiction? Who? You sure you aren't confusing him with Ving Rames? I don't remember Keith David being in that movie.
Captain Anderson! MASS EFFECT!
The president
Goliath from Gargoyles, my favorite Keith David character.
"I'm giving you a choice. Either put on these glasses or start eating that trash can." - Nada
"Not this year"
This movie scared me more than The Thing. Many have said The Thing is John Carpenter's best film and one of the scariest movies ever made. The main thing that makes They Live scary is fact that this film had aliens posing as humans and the humans were their slaves and they didn't know about. Also, most of the stuff in the film is relevant today IN REAL LIFE! I used to have nightmares after watching this legendary film.
The scene where he's fighting his friend to put the glasses on is a metaphor to me. It's so hard to get people to open up their eyes as to what's really going on. They are blind or they just don't want to see. It really is a fight to get them to see
So true
RIP “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. Wrestling superstar, entertained the hell out of me and my brothers and friends back in the day.
Same here. Loved his feud with Mr T
The most epic fight scene in movie history.
Fistfight at least.
Next to the old man fight in family guy lol the one with herbert the pervert and the nazi. So funny :D
Not sure I agree, the fist fight between Rod Taylor and William Smith in 1970's Darker Than Amber was pretty intense, went from staged to real, and ended up with Taylor having a broken nose and Smith three broken ribs. Sadly it hasn't been shown on TV (in the UK, at least) for decades, plus it was always the watered-down TV edit.
The Miracle Worker
Shows the struggle for people who can "see" to "enlighten" their friends and loved ones and getting shit for everything they say even if they mean to "save" them. It's like they have to beat it into them. So symbolic. The other guy is representing the everyman who just wants to live his life and try not to get into trouble. Very difficult situation.
When this movie was released in 1988, it was a critique of the Reagan era.Even though the movie was marketed as a science-fiction/dark comedy, the film did not succeed financially because John carpenters fans were expecting a horror movie. In the year since this movie has become one of his most beloved. It is more relevant now than it was then.
Actually, it debuted in the first place of its opening weekend and stayed there for two weeks. For some reason, Universal Pictures pulled it out of theaters.
If you like John Carpenter films, I recommend Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York, and Prince of Darkness.
Seconded, on all three counts
Prince of Darkness was scary as hell to me as a kid
@@gumbomudderx7503 I saw it in my early 20's, and to me, it fueled the fires of my imagination in much the same way as did "Phantasm." (I was cooking up role-playing game scenarios at the time.)
Prince of darkness is brilliant. The vhs dream premonitions still haunt me...
Big Trouble... my absolute favourite Carpenter film.
Cool thing about the "homeless town" is John didnt want "actors". So what he had the production do is find ACTUAL Homeless people and have them play the extras. This gave them someplace to sleep and 2 meals a day for the duration of the shoot. Also yes John is wrestling legend Rowdy Rody Piper.
28:51 - "She looked evil." Well, she did play Evil-Lyn in Masters of the Universe.
The only good casting in that tire fire of a movie.
@@Melancthon7332 Frank Langella's Skeletor was also a standout.
Decades later, this film is still relevant in it's social commentary. Just replace aliens with the 1%
The homeless rate in America is just going to get higher with hedgefunds buying up family home and driving up house prices and rents.
@@miketocci or literally every single administration since the early 1900s, minus JFK.
@@miketocci Our the one before it. The cops are driving out the homeless. 2016 to 2020. Like the aliens, trump does not care he can move somewhere else. Oh, he already has.
Nah. Their alien overlords were way less malicious than ours are.
@MrGonzale09 the 1% is actually the 0.00000000001% and it's not about their wealth but their agendas against humanity
"I have come here to chew bubblegum, and, kick ass. And, I'm all out of bubblegum!"
My favorite Rowdy Roddy Piper quote (Not from this movie), "Just when you think you have all the answers, I CHANGE THE QUESTION!"
"Escape from New York" is perfect, vintage, cult classic, dystopian, Carpenter. Do check it out, if you haven't.
His wrestling name was Rowdy Roddy Piper. Rowdy was just an adjective.
He was a fun wrestler to watch and a classic bad guy, back in the 80's he used to do a segment called Piper's Pit, you can find them on You Tube, they're hilarious.
@@wantutosigh1117 Roddy was more well rounded. Not to say Austin wasn't a great entertainer
I think I vaguely remember him wearing a kilt and playing bag pipes.
The scene where Roddy puts on the glasses for the first time is one of my favorite scenes in all of film.
Carpenter said that the movie was a commentary on Reaganomics. The age of conspicuous consumption. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
After making a few big budget Hollywood movies that were box office disappointments (great movies like The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China, but they didn't make any money initially), Carpenter decided to return to his roots and make a couple of lower budget films that he had total control over. "Prince of Darkness" is the other one Also well worth seeing. The faces of the aliens is similar to the aliens in "Mars Attacks!". Just without the enlarged brains.
TBR: “What’s up with these sunglasses?”
Everyone: “Oh, just you wait…”
Coming out as it did in 1988, this was John Carpenter's "F You" to the Reagan era mentality of corporate greed and the fixation on materialism that was the sum and substance of the 80's.
It's ironic that Hollywood is part of the corporate greed and the people personifies materialism - and being a multimillionaire, Carpenter, is part of the very system he's crying about!
What utter nonsense. There was no Reagan era mentality of corporate greed and fixation on materialism, nor was that the sum and substance of the 80's. That's the sort of BS only communists and aging hippies could come up with in an era where we finally got serious again about prosperity for the middle class and standing up to the USSR. I'm so sick of the constant gaslighting by the left. It never ends. Carpenter may well have said this on his commentary track, but it's no more grounded in reality than me proclaiming here that the moon is made of cheese. Sometimes movie folk should stick to what they know and not try to lecture the rest of us about politics.
@@pullmyfinger336 yeah, and Thatcherism was the best thing ever if you weren’t a coal miner or in a union.
Matt you've been brainwashed buddy! Capitalism has lifted the standard of living and extended life expectancy for hundreds of millions of people around the globe! WiFi, I Phones,MRI s, vaccines are all results of capitalism! People can work hard ,make lots of money and NOT be evil or treat their neighbors like shit! It can be done.
@@pullmyfinger336 That may be so . but it's even more revalent today.
"They Live" is based on a true story that we're living every day.
Late-stage Capitalism
Minus the alien shit.
@@aaroneisenbarth2809 I mean you don’t know. Seriously doubt it but who knows what the fucks really going on.
@@Jamie-kv9eg God's word the Bible tells you what's going on. The whole world is being blinded by the devil and his demons. That truth was written way before any movies were written.
@@aaroneisenbarth2809 the aliens are real to
The mad 5 minute 20 seconds fight scene was inspired by the fight scene in John Wayne's The Quiet Man
I love that fight, too bad there weren't any Catholics and Protestants betting on them
Samantha's hello is the warmest & best since Flounders in Animal House.
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I am crying laughing 😂 I haven’t seen Animal House so I appreciate the link! Too funny!!
@@samantha_schmitt You's are welcome. You should see it, cult classic with John Belushi & many others you may recognize. Whether it be 30 years ago, 15 years ago or last week, ALWAYS being quips ALWAYS being quoted from the movie. And just remember, if you do see it, have an open mind on the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor. LOL
@@samantha_schmitt you guys should react to Animal House. It's a great comedy ☺️
I loved this movie as a kid when it was released, but everyone around me said it was shit. It is great seeing this movie still getting love years later, after achieving cult classic status.
It's gotten better and better with age and the whole premise becomes more and more relevant as time has gone on unfortunately which has definitely contributed to it's growing popularity.
Who were you surrounding yourself with? Lol. But no, when I was a kid everyone loved this movie.
@@KCohere33 Loads of people dismissed this movie as garbage starring a wrestler that had no business acting. Some people liked it, but it was derided by many, many people.
@@alucard624 I saw the positive reappraisal of this movie start after South Park modeled their cripple fight after the fight scene. Suddenly. in the months and years after that episode aired, retrospectives of the movie were much more respectful. Probably having to do with the fact that the people who grew up with the movie started having jobs in print and video that would shape the opinion of the retrospective/review, rather than some crusty fossil of a 80s critic.
overall it is a lousy movie, bad acting, dialogue ect...
Carpenter made this film as a response to the "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980s.
Which is still continuing really - nothing but neoliberals since and America still isn’t a democracy
RIP Roddy.
This "semi prophetic" movie is aging well.
This is one of those movies that my brother showed me as a kid and it always stood out. Like five or six years ago I had to look into what movie it was that I had seen as a kid so I could rewatch it
This is such a nice, decent channel, makes a change from some others. Hail !
@@chrisformby3039 Your Overlord appreciates you. Hail
"Mama don't like tattletales"
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper was one of the best wrestlers on the mic you guys would get a kick out of some of promos he did.
"Just when you think you got the answers, I change the questions!" RIP
;-D
THEY LIVE and THE HIDDEN should be a perennial double-feature.
Good call! The Hidden has been a favorite of mine since I first saw it; I think 1989. Good soundtrack. I also like Ferrari's.
@@SilverSuress Cool. I wish I had. Don't know I missed it when it was released. I think a friend had the movie and a bunch of us watched it maybe a year of two after it came out.
The Hidden, Videodrome and Lifeforce are three hidden gems that are very enjoyable.
@@SilverSuress Also a good call. Three O'Clock High! is also a favorite of mine.
@@jeeveseventynine9263 Lifeforce is underappreciated. That movie is the artwork from an 80's heavy metal album cover come to life.
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Keith David were awesome in this movie. This film also inspired one of my favorite missions in "Saints Row IV". Keith and Piper voiced their own characters in that game.
The actor who plays Holly also plays Evil-lyn in Master of the Universe.
Another good Carpenter film to watch is Big Trouble in Little China. 👍
Definitely👍
The Fog is a great Carpenter flick. Hope that is eventually watched.
The Fog Can get a little boring at times. Great movie though.
What you guys do is the best way to experience movies. Knowing nothing and going in blind.
That's how I discover movies since over 20y. No trailers, no plots, maybe the main star in it and the director.
There's nothing more satisfying than sit back, press play and go on a ride...keep them 80s coming!
You gotta complete the Apocalypse Trilogy from JC. The other two, aside from The Thing, are Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness
Sam Neill loves to be in these type of movies. In the Mouth of Madness and Event Horizon. I was surprised he was the lead for Jurassic Park.
Such a good movie , i went blind without any expectations and it suprised me how different this movie was and also its message is so relevant even today.
This movie is a great reflection of our society! John Carpenter is a master and this movie is underappreciated.
I think it's appropriately appreciated, by those who simply love the movie for what it is on the surface, and by those who enjoy it for the 1984 themes that it has below the surface....the best art is about the latter ✌
Looking forward to when they react to John Carpenter’s ‘Big Trouble in Little China’
Gracie: I’d go with you but…
Jack Burton: I know, there’s a problem with your face
If you want to watch the war, watch the TV series “V”. But don’t watch the remake, watch the old 80’s one. The effects are horrible but the story is better.
Loved V when I was a kid.
@@moonliteffect7629 - when it first came out, I was 6. I watched about 15 minutes of it with my older cousins and it scared the crap out of me, I had to stop watching. Then I revisited it years later in my late teens, it was awesome.
@@brettg274 I think I was 7 or 8 when it was on tv I'll never forget when one of the aliens got his "human" face mask ripped off and that hissing reptile face was underneath. I think I cried lololol
@@jh5131 LOLOL - the scene that stuck with me is when the baby is born from the human mother, but it comes out an alien.
Yeah, I was 13 when "V" came out. It was amazing. A must watch... appointment tv show at the time. The scene where they secretly filmed an alien "eating" a gerbil or guinea pig was epic and shocking at the time. Also, the actor who played 'Freddy Kruger' was in this series. It was like a year before 'Nightmare on Elm Street' was released in the theater. The legend actor 'Michael Ironside' was also in this series. His voice is epic......
This is definitely in my top 10 favorite movies of all time, I still take to heart the saying in the movie (They live we sleep) which I believe is very true
The fight between Roddy and -David Keith- * Keith David is one of the most epic, drawn out battles ever put on film... _JUST_ to get him to put on sunglasses!
* Oops! He's a totally different actor!
South Park did a shot for shot reenactment in an episode called Cripple Fight.
Kind of makes you think... How hard will people will fight to stay blind?
@Indrid Cold And what's funny is that one has curly red hair and is white while the other is bald and black! LOL.
This movie is based on a short sci fi story called Eight O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Faraday Nelson.
“Rowdy” Roddy Piper was an old school wrestler from the Hulk Hogan day (in fact, he was a long time adversary of Hogan’s) and he made his renounce on having the best trash talk and one-liners: Many of the one-liners in the movie (including the iconic Bubble-gum line) were lines he came up with and that Carpenter let him use in the movie.
Also, that one-on-one fight scene between Piper and David is (I believe still to this day) the longest, continuous cinematic fight scene ever.
This is not a horror movie, it's a documentary.
People say that, but it's honestly more of an allegory for the times in which it was made. Unfortunately, times have changed greatly and the real fear isn't some kind of all-controlling big brother government alien conspiracy.... the real modern threat from the world comes from the brainwashing of the less intelligent to be cult members of bizarrely charaismatic scumbags that get trained to become domestic terrorists.
The big fear of today is not "They", it's "Us". The problem with the world and the nation today has been weaponized and turned inwards. It's the Trumpers, the Flat-Earthers, the Fact deniers, and the easily led, being turned into tools that seem to serve as the blue-collar terrorist puppets of the deranged dictators that try to exist outside of the government, turning human beings into psychotics and living, ticking timebombs stuffed full of lies that are the real world threat these days.
The scenario this movie presents is almost quaint by comparison. If you want the movie that has taken the place of this film today in that way, "Idiocracy" is the film to look at.
@@the-NightStar you couldn't get it more wrong.
@@the-NightStar You're 100% on the money! And please Ignore Angel Luis Fuentes and S H because they're exactly the types you were describing in your 2nd paragraph, so of course, they don't see it. They've been brainwashed!
@@jaski2346 so you think its unjustified when "blue collar workers" (the working class) get angry at their leaders for making their lives harder and restricting their childrens' future opportunities?
Maybe focus on the leaders making the decisions, politicians have forgotten that they serve their public not the other way around, Trump was one of the few presidents who didn't take funding from corporations so he didn't owe them anything in return, thats why the media and establishment did everything they could to smear him on any public platform, and everyone ate it up because you're trained from childhood to believe what the news tells you, but regardless of political affiliations you should vote for who will make your future better not based upon "left wing/right wing", thr political spectrum was created to keep the public fighting among themselves.
Anyway take care of yourself, wear 3 masks and take an improperly tested vaccine while your kids are being read to by a drag queen who has a reputation of child pedophilia...
@S H yes it is, by failing to live in reality and admit climate change is real (and prioritise fighting it above making money for their billionaire owners) the Right will burn every city to the ground
The long fight scene over the glasses was Carpenter's way of showing how hard it is to wake some people up.
Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David are in the video game Saints Row 4 and they recreate their epic fight 😁
This is one of those films I just love watching people's reactions to just because there is so much to digest and take in. Carpenter is on point as always creating a very interesting and gripping story addressing concerns and thoughts he has about the world around him while assembling a cast that sells it so well. Not to mention the special effects are so nostalgic 😎
Peter Jason, the leader of the Resistance forces in this movie is such a cool dude.
Love the last minutes when the guy on T.V. is talking about George A.Romero and John Carpenter...Little wink there to his friend !
This isnt a horror or sci fi flick. It's a documentary.
The alleyway ongoing fight scene going so long is metaphoric of how hard it is to get someone to wake up and see the truth. Pick your conspiracy. So many have come true, yet people stubbornly hide in the Theory Zone. Getting through someone's thick head can be a long, painful process.
14:30 One of the best "pointless" fights in film history! LOL
"Big Trouble in little China" is the most entertaining movie since today and "Prince of Darkness" so cool and creepy - PLEASE watch both soon!
Seconded.
I love this movie. You have to do Escape From New York for more Carpenter greatness.
I remember when I first saw this on HBO as a teenager and the fight scene just kept going lol I was hooked.
"Either put on these glasses... or start eating that trash can" lol
3:28, like Platoon, he would often give advice to the main character.
About Holly - she told them at the meeting that the signal from her channel was clean. Then it turns out her work place is pretty much the central alien hq. That should have been a dead giveaway, that she was a double agent.
"This is the most insane fight sequence I've ever seen".
lol yes! This and Oldboy are two standouts. Can't wait till Oldboy is mentioned on a poll. Will be voting hard for that one.
The original Oldboy or the remake with Josh Brolin?
Tough love
The fight between Roddy Piper and Keith David was about as real as it gets. No stunt doubles, actual contact (just not fists to the face).
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum!" This was something that Rony Piper made up on the spot.
He came up with a lot of great stuff in his wrestling promos too. He had a real knack for sayings like that.
*Roddy
@@csw3287 thanks sometimes when you hear and it sounds like Rony instead of Roddy
18:45 _"Her eyes are ridiculous."_
My fiancé has eyes like that, only *green.* People often think she's wearing vampire contacts. She's freaked out many a drive-thru employee. 😍
Other Carpenter films I recommend after this, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China, Assault on Precinct 13, Prince of Darkness, and The Fog.
Oh hey my parents did the costumes on this and my god father directed it! Great film!
Did he ever say why they took out of the theaters when it was still number 1 i believe...? Started a conspiracy after they did that...
Cool
@@mr198924 indeed
This was Carpenters reply to Reaganomics, trickle down economy and red scare.
"Roddy Piper was a wrestler."
Understatement of the century. Best damn heel that ever was.
This one has one of the all-time greatest fights in movie history.
That and "The Quiet Man".
R.I.P Roddy Piper..
It's worth looking up Roddy Piper's best wrestling promos. He's among the best to ever do it.
Hey great to see more Carpenter reactions. Hope you watch Escape from New York eventually its one of my favourite movies ever.
The South Park episode “Cripple Fight” recreated the fight scene shot by shot with Timmy and Jimmy. You gotta look it up, it’s hysterical!
One of the anticapitalist classics.
The fight scene over the glasses is a great analogy of how strong people's resistance to class consciousness is.
20:00 I was todays years old when I realised, thats the same guy who played the bum in Back to the Future.
From the list you had up, I would recommend "The Cabin in the Woods". I can say that I have not seen any other movie like it
OH my god... this must be the guy that inspired the Duke Nukem game character hahahaha
Yeah ... piece o' cake...
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
One of the most quotable lines ever!!
And of course, King from Platoon in this movie!!
8:22, this was all a matte painting.
I was 15. Rode my 1986 Kuwahara Bravo to the theater. Saw Aliens, The Fly, They Live, Lethal Weapon. Many Rated R movies. They would just sell me a ticket, and I'd go and watch the movie. Generation X The 80s! This was in Tucson Arizona.
Fun fact:
In the game "Duke Nukem 3D" from 1996 you start on a rooftop that looks like the rooftop Nada dies on in the movie, and the duke uses the bubblegum line from the game while he's killing aliens.
Not exactly, it's worded slightly differently. They changed it to "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum". Duke Nukem is a pastiche of a lot of 80s action heroes, primarily Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2. That's where the hairstyle and sunglasses come from.
@@Rocket1377 Personally I think Duke says it much better. That and the other zillion insults he has in store for any aliens passing by...
The actor behind the gun table is Sy Richardson. Incredible actor Repo Man, Walker.
The blind preacher is such a pivotal character in this film, who often goes unnoticed. That he's a preacher is significant, because he's on the street, sharing the truth of the aliens' invasion and control. The fact that he's blind, too, is significant. "This world may have blinded me, but the Lord has let me see!"
In his first encounter with Nada, he's telling him, essentially, "I was born blind, but I can see things you can't. I can see the big-T Truth." He's touching Nada's face, because his fingers can "see" whether or not he's an alien, because they're not affected by the mind-control broadcasts that affect those with their sight.
This film is a huge red-pill, pointing at pr0p4g4nd4, fed to people constantly through screens, ads, and so-forth. The more you see past the indoctrination, the more you understand about partisan politics, about the educational system, about the past fifteen-plus months, and so-on. The world is much more than they've led us to believe...
It is absolutely hilarious that people like you need to point to works of fiction to best describe your reality.
Loose the tin foil hat.
@@Trainwheel_Time Only if you lose the Democrat hair-dye and facial piercings...
Meg Foster is the actress with the amazing eyes. She was all over TV when I grew up and her eyes were always amazing.
Those trump glasses could have been useful back then, and now.
A couple years before this one Carpenter had another one that was more of a horror, and I just saw one guy in this one that is in "Prince of Darkness" too. He must have known John. Just wanted to mention that one in case you haven't seen it.
Rowdy Piper gifted us autographed Blu-ray copy of They Live for the promo of his last short film 🕶️. Really shook us , it's one of our favorite films. Pretty much a documentary of how things have gone since the 80s. They Live, we sleep.
This movie is actually based on a truth we are not ready for.
"The cabin in the woods" You got to see it! My worst nightmares are in half those scenes... lol... besides that.. that movie has THOR in it... how can you not love it!? :D