This is one of the most awesome alien movies I've seen ! Loved it, Carpenter's directing is awesome, this is one of my favourites of his.
Thoughts ? :teddyr:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86AAGZ9BBg
Through this movie I discovered Roddy Piper, the man is awesome! I highly recommend seeing Hell Comes to frogtown it's hilarious: A story about a guy that has to f**k to save the world (at least that's what it was about for me...).
As far as They live goes, it's awesome! As usual when Carpenter directs the music is brilliant and fits the mood just right, and the acting is excellent. Just take a look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBY6pF42I-c
Oh haha, that scene was so awesome :teddyr:
My favourite scene is when goes shoot some aliens at the bank :bouncegiggle:
"I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass ... and I'm all out of bubblegum"
And I'll definately check Hell Comes to frogtown out.
They Live is an awsome movie. I like the fight scene between Piper and Keith David the best. Hell comes to Frogtown is great too.
It is a great movie indeed! It has a dreamlike state to it. By the way here is an awesome They Live t-shirt: http://www.fright-rags.com/obey-p-38.html (http://www.fright-rags.com/obey-p-38.html)
The same company also has a hoodie with same image.
Yes, I do have the shirt.
Yeah the fight between Piper and David is an awesome scene :teddyr: I couldn't help but just smile the whole movie. And it's exceptional I love a movie that much :bouncegiggle:
Any other movie suggestions of that style ?
:cheers:
Quote from: White Dynamite on April 14, 2010, 01:33:40 AM
Yeah the fight between Piper and David is an awesome scene :teddyr: I couldn't help but just smile the whole movie. And it's exceptional I love a movie that much :bouncegiggle:
Any other movie suggestions of that style ?
:cheers:
I don't know about other movies in that style, but I have yet to see a John Carpenter film that I did not enjoy immensely.
Also, most people I know think the fight scene is boring. :bluesad:
Same, so far I've seen:
Assault on precinct 13
Halloween
The Thing
Big trouble in little China
Prince of Darkness
They live
Escape from LA
And I loved all of them :twirl:
I also bought the Fog on DVD just now
I actually saw They Live in theaters back when I was 13 and it originally came out. The movie has aged pretty well considering it's a complete indictment of Reaganomics.
Roddy Piper delivers a surprisingly good performance and Keith David is his usual great self as well.
Quote from: Torgo on April 14, 2010, 07:30:45 AM
Roddy Piper delivers a surprisingly good performance and Keith David is his usual great self as well.
yeah, haha, I love when David says " you dirty motherf*cker " when Piper tries to hit him in the nuts.
Quote from: White Dynamite on April 14, 2010, 07:47:16 AM
Quote from: Torgo on April 14, 2010, 07:30:45 AM
Roddy Piper delivers a surprisingly good performance and Keith David is his usual great self as well.
yeah, haha, I love when David says " you dirty motherf*cker when " Piper tries to hit him in the nuts.
That whole scene is great. It has a highly improvised feel to it that works like gangbusters.
I love this movie as well & hope its never remade (seeing as how Hollywood has been remaking some of his classics into total sh*tfests).
Quote from: justin on April 14, 2010, 03:09:24 PM
I love this movie as well & hope its never remade (seeing as how Hollywood has been remaking some of his classics into total sh*tfests).
I'll provide my usual misanthropy. Yes, it is guaranteed to get a hack remake from Hollywood sooner or later, and it is also guaranteed to make some money, because, if this site is any indication, everyone will complain about how much it's going to suck but they'll to pay to see it anyway.
I think this might be my personal favourite movie ever. I've seen it three times already. Awesome !
Saw this one on TV just the other day, reminded me how good (or bad) it was. Some of the alien fighting scenes seemed to be fairly pioneering first-person shooter vision for 1988 (e.g. when they are escaping the cops after the safe-house they go to gets crashed) of course this has been overused so much it's lost all the effect it had back in the day. I tried to keep track but I think there are a grand total of 2 songs used in the entire movie with the absolute massive bulk of it using a twangy-blues themed music which keeps the mood dark,slow and depressing even during gunfights. Randy Piper excells at saying only classic one-liners throughout the whole movie and generally limping around like he just got his ass kicked for the bulk of it (which is true for the bulk of the movie, the guys a punching bag, even Holly kicks his ass after giving him the whole "your in control with your guns" shtick and being fairly annoying as far as hostages go).
Personally, I hate the fight scene mostly because of the pure pointlessness of it. The 2 main characters spend half an hour kicking eachothers asses over whether or not one of them will put on a pair of sunglasses while there's a planet full of aliens that needs wiped out. When this came in I knew what I was in for from prior experience so I just went and took care of some chores, came back, they were still fighting, went on and took care of other stuff and checked in every once in a while until they went on to the next part of actual story line. I know some love the fight scene but to me it just screams "filler".
Interesting thing is that this movie gets described as a parable, in many ways thats true. The beauty of it is John Carpenter channels our hatred at a consumer world based on greed and dominance at an outside alien force and leaves it to us to question what this means in terms of how we live in our own world. There's a handful of Christian ideals wrapped up in Hollywood violence. I was able to see this more this time around than when I watched it as a kid.
I love that fight scene, WildHoosier09.
This has actually turned out to be a great movie to turn on "normals" to bad movies. Even people who don't like bad movies remember that scene. Heck, I can surprise myself by yelling "Put on the glasses!" and seeing how many people know what I'm talking about. (A surprising number.)
Then again, I like it for the sheer pointlessness of it. I guess they thought they needed to get their wrestling money's worth from Rowdy Roddy Piper?
THEY LIVE is good '80s fun. I think this is Carpenter at his silliest, right around the time he made BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.
Weird note, Carpenter made PRINCE OF DARKNESS, which I consider one of the finest philosophically horrifying films ever made, in between those two films.
The fist fight was long for a purpose. It was to show how hard it is to get some people to wake up to reality.
Vik, you've seen ESCAPE FROM LA but not ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK? Gotta see the first one, man; if you are a Carpenter fan, ya GOTTA see NEW YORK. Classic stuff.
I love THEY LIVE. I saw it in theater when it came out and have rented/watched on TV numerous times since. It's the essence of Carpenter - great entertainment fun with a message, but you can take or leave either as your personal taste dictates.
I remember being skeptical about casting Piper, but upon watching, that role was made for him. And yes, the fight scene is iconic.
One thing's for sure: you'll never look at advertising the same way after watching this movie. :cheers:
Quote from: ulthar on July 10, 2010, 07:10:23 AM
Vik, you've seen ESCAPE FROM LA but not ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK? Gotta see the first one, man; if you are a Carpenter fan, ya GOTTA see NEW YORK. Classic stuff.
I' watched it a while ago, and I couldn't agree more :wink:
Quote from: Torgo on April 14, 2010, 07:30:45 AM
I actually saw They Live in theaters back when I was 13 and it originally came out. The movie has aged pretty well considering it's a complete indictment of Reaganomics.
Roddy Piper delivers a surprisingly good performance and Keith David is his usual great self as well.
I think the anti-consumerist message is just as powerful now as it was back then, maybe even moreso.
And man I wish Rowdy Roddy had done more films. The last thing I saw him in was an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia which included a parady of The Wrestler. He was spot on.
The scene when he puts the glasses for the first time is truly memorable (Obey... Reproduce... Consume :smile:). For this part alone its worth watching.
The second best Caprenter movie in my book but i never was a great fan of Escape from NY. The Thing being the best one of curse.
Yes - i do think the fight scene is too long.
This could easily turn into a John Carpenter appreciation thread. John Carpenter's early career, up to the 80's, is a body of B-movies that are a combination of quality film-making and classic cheese that few other filmmakers can rival.