CHUD.com Community › Forums › SPECIFIC FILMS › Films in Release or On Video › "Life's a bitch, and she's back in heat!" - THEY LIVE
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

"Life's a bitch, and she's back in heat!" - THEY LIVE

post #1 of 14
4/2/04 at 3:15am
Thread Starter 
What a manly movie. Not only does it feature the flowing mullet of Rod Piper, but also the legendary unchoreographed fight scene between Piper and Keith David. "Formaldehyde face" indeed.
Reply
post #2 of 14
4/2/04 at 5:56am
And to think, that fight was all over a pair of sunglasses.
Reply
post #3 of 14
4/2/04 at 9:14am
wonderful little movie. it looks like it had the kind of budget that ed wood was familiar with, but carpenter is of course a director who knows his shit quite well.
Reply
post #4 of 14
4/2/04 at 12:18pm
OBEY

MARRY AND REPRODUCE

"I know human beings, I've worked with human beings, and YOU sir, are no human being!"
(great tagline...paraphrasing a vice-presidential debate of the day)
Reply
post #5 of 14
4/2/04 at 1:40pm
Watched this as part of my weekly manly manly film group meeting.

People kept saying "so...this was made when? Last Year."
Reply
post #6 of 14
4/2/04 at 2:46pm
Great fucking movie. Any director who has the balls to more or less stop the story for a good 15 minutes while the two main characters have an old-fashioned fist fight is cool in my book. A scene like that would be trimmed or cut in today's films. Think about it. It wasn't a flashy fight. The camera work was basic. It was just an everyday back alley fight.
Reply
post #7 of 14
4/2/04 at 3:13pm
MOMMA DON'T LIKE TATTLE-TALES
Reply
post #8 of 14
4/2/04 at 3:17pm
A great movie. I love it like I love all Carpenter's movie.
Reply
post #9 of 14
4/2/04 at 3:27pm
it's kind of hypocritical that Carpenter skewers TV and publishing in the film, but never dares to turn that satirical gaze to his own bread and butter, the movies
Reply
post #10 of 14
4/2/04 at 4:24pm
Quote:
Originally posted by walter-konkrete
it's kind of hypocritical that Carpenter skewers TV and publishing in the film, but never dares to turn that satirical gaze to his own bread and butter, the movies
i dont think so Konkrete. The movie doesn't need to spell out everything for the intelligent viewer. Look, it says "THIS IS YOUR GOD" on the dollar bill, how satirical is that...damn satirical, it borders on subversion. You don't see that kind of daring on TV or the newspapers. All TV and newspapers do is regurgitate what the majority want to hear anyway.
Reply
post #11 of 14
4/2/04 at 4:50pm
amen, TV is the opium of the masses...
Reply
post #12 of 14
4/2/04 at 5:10pm
THIS MOVIE IS SO MAN, I GROW HAIR WATCHING IT.

"You, you look OK, but her, she's real fucking ugly!"
Reply
post #13 of 14
4/2/04 at 7:10pm
"They Live" was Carpenter's last real great movie. His films since have been entertaining but most of them have been retreads of his old work.

It's also a shame that Piper never got any huge roles after that. He was very energetic in that film.
Reply
post #14 of 14
4/3/04 at 2:22am
I can't believe Nada never got around to banging Holly. Her head did get kinda close to his groin at one point though.
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Films in Release or On Video
CHUD.com Community › Forums › SPECIFIC FILMS › Films in Release or On Video › "Life's a bitch, and she's back in heat!" - THEY LIVE