So much average

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is one of my top 5 sci-fi movies of all time, i just love it, the sad thing is not many people i know have even heard of the movie.The movie seems really slow for the first 20-30 minutes but for me the moment the movie starts is when Roddy Piper puts the sunglasses on, that's the time i sat up and got into it.The fight scene in the alley was the best movie fight scene i had saw up to that point and it stayed the best fight scene in my opinion for some years after.If you are a sci-fi fan and not seen this movie yet then i ask you WTF? Get this movie watched now because you're not a true sci-fi fan until you have saw this.I could go on and on about this movie but i have a life i have to get back too so get out there and watch it.

After receiving his major bill with a 25 Million Dollar production of "Big Trouble in Little China" from Twentieth Century Fox in the season 1985/1986, Director John Carpenter turned to his sophisticated B-Movie roots, who look like A-Lister, with an high-conceptual script of aliens, or are it just dead-inside people, who conquered the world of financing and the government in "They Live" from the late 1980s, when the Grindhouse double bill at major city movie houses slowly faded away from the landscape of invading home video cassettes and cable TV.Director John Carpenter holds all strings on this 4 Million Dollar production, engaging surprisingly authentic playing wrestler Roddy Piper with his solid sidekick actor Keith David, who enter the headquarters of "Them" as an Army of Two by killing off everyone in their path under machine gun fire to the menacing public TV broadcasting stationary room, fine-tuned by additional extreme-close-ups of barrel fire, which builds a throughout straight-to-finish racing editorial with nothing to wish for then being indulged into low-budget movie-making. Nevertheless the director has the gift to translate seemingly trashy screenplay into well-crafted motion picture, which easily transformed the production values of downtown Los Angeles shot-on-location sights into a tripling revenue at the U.S. domestic box office in Winter 1988/1989, which comes at no surprise, because the leading character struggling, yet calm and reserved drifter called Nada, who is about to enter an adventure of a life-time in order to fulfill his destiny to die for, saving the world from total subconsciously obedience, had spoken the U.S. working society from the heart.In retrospective, "They Live" has nothing lost of his engaging cult status, where in 2017 social structure are seemingly unchanged to the point that everything you have been able to buy at a grocery store in 1988 as food, drink, as to speak booze, and tobacco, has been available to this very day without questioning the inconvenient truth that the quality of the common food has been decreased to a level of lab-gene artificiality and further prices forced by inevitable inflation of international currencies making the work-purchase-relationship from day-to-day basis harder to conceive. In a sense, the movie's underlining criticism on a global society divided by currency, power and inter-human connection has become victim to the exposure of a director, who tediously trained his craft of cinematic visualization to at times astounding precision, but lacks the spark of a mind-binding twisting spectacle premise shot.Even though John Carpenter has been given another 50 Million U.S. Dollar budget by Paramount Picture in season 1995/1996 to realize the undeniable sequel to his arguably best film directed at the age of 32 "Escape from New York", starring Kurt Russell in the role of, timelessly connected character to motion picture history, Snake Plissken, which leaves "They Live" as a director-driven picture that without a doubt comes full circle by the end of fast-dropped curtains.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

This is a semi-forgotten classic of 1988, John Carpenter's lost gem, his acid attack on Reaganomics, consumerism and very clever Left Field critique of a society that thrives on TV and propaganda. The great late Roddy Piper plays Nada, a man who opens a terrible secret to himself and who becomes a powerful warrior for the right cause. Keith David plays his sidekick with his usual gusto, while Meg Foster provides a very brief but nevertheless awesome role of a traitor. You have to watch this excellent movie which shows a typical Alein Invasion thing at a very unusual glance, and what is a bit saddening here, is a lack of proper character development as well as some depth of plot. Anyway, this is a clever and subtle message which is clear and loud. The world of mindless indifference and languid self-liking lads to certain abysses and losses

Last night I had the pleasure of seeing a movie that I had wanted to see ever since its initial release in 1988, John Carpenter's satirical sci-fi horror outing "They Live." This is the film in which the late Roddy Piper stars as a drifter who comes into L.A. and gets a construction job. He befriends another worker, a black man (Keith David) who brings him to an outdoor soup kitchen. Nearby is a church that doubles as the HQ of a group of revolutionaries who are trying to spread the word that mankind is being manipulated and ruled by a group of outsiders, and, long story short, Piper later finds, in that church, a pair of sunglasses that, when put on, allows him to see all the subliminal advertising beneath the surface of our everyday reality. And even worse, he is now able to see that many of the folks walking the streets are, in reality, skull-faced aliens who are intent on conquering our fair planet! The first half of "They Live" is a very suspenseful 45 minutes indeed, while the second half turns much more action packed, as Piper and his buddy grab guns and proceed to blow things apart at the cable TV station where the aliens have set up a base. The film grows wackier and more outlandish as it proceeds, and contains one of the longest fight scenes in screen history; a completely over-the-top slugfest between Piper and David as Piper tries to get the other to try on those darn sunglasses. And "They Live" also contains one of the greatest lines in cinema history, as well. When Piper first gets wind of the alien presence, he grabs a shotgun, walks into a bank with his shades on, sees all the aliens about him and declares, "I've come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum!" You've gotta love it! Actors Meg Foster and Raymond St. Jacques add their talents to the proceedings, and the film, which I recorded off of HBO, looks just great in high def. All in all, great fun. So glad that I was finally able to catch up with this one. And later this week, I hope to catch another Carpenter film that I have never seen before, "Ghosts of Mars." Stay tuned....