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They Live
An interesting story tells the story of a man named Nada. This man will discover a pair of sunglasses that can show the world with a strange look. This terrible discovery, which lies in a pair of glasses, will show the reality of foreigners taking over the land. Nada wears his glasses and walks the streets of Los Angeles and notes that the media and the foreign government are working to keep the population under control, and that most of the social elite of foreigners are trying to dominate the world. Nada is thinking of new solutions to liberate humankind from aliens who control the mind and the earth.
1 March 1930, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
28 October 1937, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, USA
5 April 1949, Sonora, California, USA
31 January 1965
19 March 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA
11 December 1948, USA
23 June 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
December 01, 2013
Behold the message as articulated by John Carpenter's sublime sci-fi opus: "I'm giving you a choice: Either put on these glasses, or start eating that trashcan."
June 04, 2007
All in all, an entertaining (if ideologically incoherent) response to the valorization of greed in our midst.
October 10, 2012
The joke is in the material; the idea itself is funny and daring. And some time soon, They Live suggests, with grim, knowing wink, the joke may be on us.
February 19, 2014
Carpenter should stick to what he's good at-scaring folks-and leave the political satire to Spitting Image.
November 10, 2015
Campy, satirical classic has lots of violence, profanity.
April 26, 2016
With Carpenter's clear, widescreen direction and his skill and enthusiasm at their highest peak, this is a masterpiece.
August 06, 2013
John Carpenter's They Live has cult favorite written all over it, and part of the reason is the way it regenerates the cheap, juicy, surprisingly potent sci-fi of the 1950s.
February 07, 2015
Cheesy fun from the 1980s.
October 10, 2012
They Live is the looniest movie of the season and also one of the most engaging.
June 04, 2007
A fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have-nots.
August 06, 2013
As a movie, They Live is lethargic. As election propaganda, it's terrific.
February 17, 2017
Carpenter's primary objective was to make a tough action flick, which he does; it fits snugly into his filmography's subset of urban mayhem movies (alongside 'Escape from New York,' 'Assault on Precinct 13,' and parts of 'Big Trouble in Little China').