They Live (1988) Review
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"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kickass....and I'm all out of bubblegum." Classic.
And improvised
+1
I used that line on my unruly nephews and my twin son's one day about 20 years back. They were all 8 to 11 in age. I said it so believably, that all but one of my son's began to cry in fear... No I wasn't holding a firearm, but was removing my belt from my jeans for added emphasis 🤣
"I'm here to kick bubblegum and chew ass, and I'm all outta ass"
-Dick Kickem
So incredibly lame that it’s awesome. Strange that thats a thing but it is
"Get Married and Reproduce" was the most unbelievable thing about the movie.
Followed tightly by "Play 8 Hours".
Should have been: "Consume 8 Hours"...
He said this was sifi but, this is happening today. I saw on television the current President. Mumbling Gibberish.for some reason no one can see this .I have regular prescription glasses.I'm confused how no one else can see that this person has dementia and is mentally incapable of running a toilet.
to a liberal, that is a nightmare.
@@chaoticiannunez2419so is working eight hours
Don't livestock sellers want their product to reproduce?
They Live was ahead of its time. When it came out, the economy was great, people didn't want to receive the message. That changed of course, and the movie has only gotten more and more appreciation by an ever widening audience since.
I wonder what other warning message we're getting from modern media that's currently either being criticized or ignored/not taken seriously will be considered "ahead of its time" or "a warning from the past" in the future.
The movie which really captured the economic downturn after the 80s well was Falling Down from 1993. I'M NOT ECONOMICALLY VIABLE. I sometimes still use that phrase.
@@inendlesspain4724 Safe and effective
This movie sums up the 2020s perfectly
Late 80s predictive.
Orwell's visions reimagined for the future
Democrats ideal utopia
The "marry and reproduce" billboard would be the opposite
@@radhiadeedou8286 Almost perfect.
@@radhiadeedou8286 Well it would just be racially targeted.
John Carpenter made a documentary disguised as a cheesy sci-fi movie
😂 exactly
The drawn out fight is to show how difficult it is to force someone to see the truth when they don’t want to.
That's a new perspective for me, thanks!
Such as UK gov the fourth industrial revolution 2019, official government document accepting the nightmare!
@@Sekir80 Same for me.
Great point.
So you might condense the plot to "You will own nothing and you will be happy"?
This movie is about the world we live in.
“They Live” was a documentary.
The WEF serves the Archons.
Just like what the Democrats are doing now.
I think this was dark more anti-corporatism / soscialist-corporatost than it was pro-communism. Even today, many confuse capitalism and corporatism.
It's a warning against mindless consumerism, where they tell you what to buy in order to be happy....eerily similar to "you will own nothing and be happy." 2 sides of the same coin
So, you're dumb enough to think the WEF has any real power? Jon Ronson looked into it and it doesn't live up to the hype.
You got it
It's sad that the aliens from this movie are way better kinder and more benevolent then our actual rulers.
more intelligent certainly
Meg Foster has beautiful, freaky eyes. They make such an impression.
"Hey! My eyes are up here, pal!"
"Yeah I know. It's all I can look at."
I'm just going with freaky, thanks. She's like Medusa to me. I can't look at her for more than a few seconds.
she gave me feelings when I watched the He Man movie as a kid.
Nah she has a rare pigment of blue, is all @@Carnage-Pepe
That's cos she's really one of they (them) 😉
"You look as shitty to us as we do to you."
"Impossible."
"That's like putting perfume on a pig" 😂
You look like your head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957
😉
@@robet007 😮(Gasps)
"Where'd you get those glasses?"
"The Tooth Fairy."
@@kyon813 "I'll bet"
"Good action" No no no sir, great action. One of the best fights scenes of all time.
Agree and necessary to the story I've always thought, as another film said: Most people "are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."
That was a very good scene. I think Keith David’s unwillingness to listen that he would fight back so much spoke volumes. 😆
I understand the symbolism, but I never quite understood why he was SO RELUCTANT to just try on the stupid sunglasses for 5 seconds? I can't imagine I'd ever get into a major BRAWL with someone just because they asked me to try on their sunglasses for some reason.
A black man being told to do something a white man.
A black man being forced to do something by a white man.
Nah, can't figure out why anybody would have an issue...
@@StreetPreacherr I will be honest that was frustrating to watch🤣 I was like “DAMMIT KEITH!”
This one has a special place in my raised in the 80s heart.
You too? Man, the 1980's was truly a golden age, wasn't it?
Carpenter made some of the best 80's films like "Escape from NY", "The Thing" and "They Live"
John Carpenter is a proper filmmaker, an artist who makes pictures for the love of the craft
Classic.
Roddy piper nails it.
Highly recommended.
They Live has never been as relevant as today. Which is why John Carpenter is among my favourite directors.
To bad he lost his muse circa the 1990s. He was epic.
@@JohnSmith-sb2fp He may have lost it. But he has lost more than ANY contemporary movie-maker will ever have...
In The Mouth Of Madness is really good.
Has it? In They Live, aliens control the markets. In real life, no one controls anything. The markets dominate.
@@martinfiedler4317 genuinely asking - what exactly do you mean by that ?
as for the length of the fight scene, it was to set the record for longest single shot fight unedited, which stood until recently
I think it was Tony Jaa's the Protector/Tom yum goong movie that broke that record.
One of my all-time favorites, after "Big Trouble in Little China," of course.
The film wasn't well received at the time because it's actually a documentary and most people don't like to be told the truth until after they can no longer deny it.
Stuff huffing your own farts.
clearly a documentary
That fight in the ally is fantastic it needs to be that long.
I love the bit where IIRC he breaks the car window or something and then kinda giggles about it, before Frank lunges at him again. :D Pure gold.
The "I've come to chew bubble gum and kick ass" line, was an on the spot ab-lib by Pipper.
Oh, so this is where that sunglasses meme came from!!!
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum"
@@Vaultboy101 that's a pretty good line!
One thing I miss from back in "the before times" is this kind of low budget B- film. Ray Harryhausen, John Carpenter and Roger Corman all produced solid films that made small but steady profits that often subsidized the prestige Oscar Bait films the studios made. Nowadays the studios seem to rely on outside investment for their films and have to sell the promise of huge profits rather than steady ones so these films just aren't being made.
If you'll excuse the analogy it's like a baseball game where everyone is swinging for a home run when all they need is a single or even just a bunt.
I agree 100%. More small studios doing low budget original ideas would be great. The 300 million dollar cgi festivals are boring.
"Cripple fight!!"
Timmy!
Attention shoppers, outside, we have a cripple fight.
Rowdy Roddy Piper. Former wrestler. Two terrible things happened in my life: first; I found out that there was no Santa Claus, then, that Wrestling was fake.
"Fake" is way too strong a word. So the fight scenes are choreographed, those guys were still ripped & athletic as all get out...
Pro Wrestling is real, it's just not wrestling.
Its no different than watching a movie, it may be "scripted" but it takes a lot of work and is sometimes dangerous to get the final result.
Sid Vicious had his left leg go in two directions when he attempted a jump from the middle rope at Starcade 2000. Pro wrestling might be staged, planned, and choreographed. It's not fake.
They Live was a documentary 😢
Bubblegum reference was used in Duke Nukem 3d too, plus near the end theres a PKE meter from Ghost Busters.
The length of the fight is genius. Properly paced for the two big guys who both have strong convictions about wearing the sunglasses.
Were living this NOW
Just watched this over the weekend.
Still just as relevant as most of Carpenter's other work. Definitely a parallel to Cronenberg's _Videodrome,_ too.
I wish people talked about Videodrome more. It's a fantastic film.
Formaldehyde face is still one of my favorite insults 😂. They live is one of my all time favorite movies.
Dude, the overly long fight between Keith David and Rowdy Roddy Piper was the best part!
There was a reason it was such a long drawn out fight...it mimicks how hard it is to wake up people to the manipulation. It's a brutal fight and Nobody wants to wake up to the fact that it's all lies
@@benrent6625 Wow man. You get your degree in philosophical symbology or something? That was one of the best story reasons I've ever read for two dudes beating the hell out of each other for ~6 minutes.
Now do the Revenge of the Sith fight!
@@derywade9131 dude that movie was a documentary about what humanity is about to go thru. Not literal in the sense of aliens buttttt still an allegory
I remember people all over going out to buy those sunglasses,lol
Yes more people should watch this. They might connect some dots...
This has been on my "need to watch" list forever. Might need to finally watch it so I can come back and watch your review.
Do it.
Watch it, you won't regret it, it's a cult classic. It's free to watch on youtube.
@@GhostZero1111 Wow! Thanks!
Watch this movie ,it's worth it. And try Idiocracy too.
They Live is clearly a documentary
Are the aliens supposed to be…..y’know?
Yes. They are.
Shut it down.
Big nosed alien shape shifters?
@@DeliciouslyMild Capatalists and the bourgeoisie are who ‘he’ attacked. The rest is faked history
stop noticing.
Supposedly Carpenter made this movie as a criticism of American capitalism and conservatives. I think many of the interpretations of how it applies to modern society has changed dramatically.
It is funny you mention that the pacing was good, with the exception of the fight scene, but it is exactly that scene that is so iconic. I think the one great thing about this scene, in addition to letting Rowdy show off his wrestling skills, is to have a contrast to unrealism. When you think of most 80s movies, it is usually over the top fight scenes that are explosive, but don't last too long. Here you have a "realistic" fight that drags, without special effects or climactic music, but simple and raw (and ironically, more real than all the other pieces of media shown in the movie)
In another review of this movie, it was pointed out that it makes a good parallel to how hard it is to make somebody fight against their world view and see things as they are. In that light, the extended length of the fight and each person's goals makes a lot more sense.
This is not sci-fi. I wear regular prescription glasses for some reason. No one else around me can see the current pres is unfit to run a toilet
I was incorrectly informed that the "bubblegum" line was from Duke Nukem 3D. Another example of misinformation destroying society
Correct, Duke Nukem has a load of references from different music, movies lol this is one of them.
Yeah, but I always preferred the way ol Duke said it.
No, just plain, ole pop culture osmosis.
"should humanity be saved?" is my favorite sci-fy prompt
I actually saw it in the Theater when it came out. ALWAYS LOVED IT.
You're either going to put the sunglasses on, or you're gonna start eating that trashcan.
Had never heard of this film until I saw Carpenter in concert about a decade ago. He was playing music from it, accompanied by clips of the films and it totally caught my attention. Now it's one of my all time favourites.
The wellspring of thousands of memes.
Keith Davis is one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood and one of the greatest voice actors ever. Absolutely epic!
One of my favorite movies , and very relevant in 2024.
Contains the longest and brutal fight over a pair of sunglasses in cinematic history.
In our current time with people glued to their phones for instructions i guess the films message has aged very well
Wow Dave, you are describing what is going on in the real world. They Live was ahead of it's time and prophetic. You would think it was meant for the people of today. A lot of shadowy things are happening right under our noses and it appears nobody is paying attention.
Find "they live" the most relevant of all the film's you have reviewed for the times we live in. On repeat viewing find the 2nd half of the film much weaker than the 1st where things happen for convenience to move the plot a lot. The final scene/sequence is very satisfying and how I always imagined Clinton supporters after the election in 2016
You damned with faint praise, the single greatest spoken line in cinematic history: "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass - and I'm all out of bubble gum."
I missed this one at the theater, but was a "BlockBuster Video" addict back then, and caught this one soon after it hit the VCR market. It was clearly not an Oscar nominee, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable film, and had a decent message on consumerism and thought-control that seems to be even more relevant today.
It would be worthy of an Oscar nomination. If it were released in 2024.
It's about "noticing" a certain tribe.
This movie should be in the school curriculum.
That long fight scene was legendary!
It's not just a movie, it's a documentary based on real life events 😅.
Before this movie was made, anyone who was observant could see how mass media was shaping public perception and politics. As a foundation for a sci fi alien movie, it’s very frighteningly accurate to life.
The only feature film that became a documentary!
Actually, the "drawn out fight" is one of the prime things we remember with nostalgia. It's a primary anchor that keeps us coming back to watch. Two artists performing their best and then some. Some of those punches weren't pulled.
Drawn out fight? It was classic. So good that South Park recreated it frame for frame when Timmy fought Jimmy in Cripple Fight.
Southpark stole the fight scene from this movie Timmy vs Jimmy
That fight scene was completely improvised and if you know the story behind it it’s actually really cool!!!
AB-SO-LUTE-LY LOVED this movie... And oooooh isn't it telling now eh? 🤔😏 Ohhhh and Meg, dammit, she was stunning with those bright blue-grey eyes!
😎🇬🇧
One of the best "Documentaries ".
The fight scene is one of greatest in movie history.
I discovered this channel looking for Mystery Box TV show commentary.
I like your insight and commentary.
Great job
An absolute classic!
The most terrifying thing about this movies premise is, we don't need aliens to be manipulated to basically voluntarily live like slaves, all our lives.
(sry my clunky english)
Officially not voluntarily from 1949. See documentary from ABC: Mission Mind Control (1979)
YES! Terrifyingly prophetic! Feel better, Dave!
Sorry you're sick Dave. Praying for you.
This might be the most important film of this decade for someone asleep to watch.
A WEF documentary...
Fiction is Reality; Reality is Nonsense!
One of the best commentaries ever made
Its amazing how clean the homeless camp is.
If you haven't watched this movie , do it as soon as possibly , and get your friends too as well.
Yes mate, so glad you like this and did a video.
Roddy piper vs Keith David. Best onscreen fight
The "Cripple" fight from South Park will always be my favorite They Live nod.
Top top film
Along with The Thing
A couple of my favourite films from the 80s
When I first saw it, in theaters, it was called "Them". The name was changed later.
In the 80's $3 million wasn't low budget. A Big Budget film was $7 - $10 million.
I hope you feel better soon, Dave!
Yet another science fiction story that became science fact.
Excellent Review and analysis 🖖🏽
Get well soon!
This film is literally prophecy.
"Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next product" - Jay Bauman.
The "Cripple Fight" between Timmy and Jimmy in South Park was a spoof of the fight in They Live. There's a few videos on YT comparing them side by side.
"Hey -- what's wrong, baby?"
I just realized. The aliens built a huge underground ball room just to have a good time!
Roddy improvised a lot of that dialogue including that bubble gum one-liner. Once John Carpenter figured out that Roddy could improvise at the drop of a hat, he just let him go...
"Hey, what's wrong, baby?"
One of my favorite all time movies.
It seems we got plenty of dystopian warnings, yet still fell into their traps.
Too many sheep out to pasture and ostriches with their heads in the sand. It TRULY is sad
I don't remember why I watched that movie in the first place. I'm not sure which friend watched it with me. I do remember the theatre we watched it in. And I remember we were quite confused about what we just saw. We were entertained and didn't think the money for the tickets were wasted, but we weren't sure what the movie was, even though we understood the story.
When I was older and watched it again I could appreciate it much better. It just shows how little I understood the world at 17.
Gonna have to check this one out
Thanks Dave. Saw it when it came out, and it's always been a favorite. You know Roderick George Toombs once tweeted that 'They Live' was a documentary. Hope you get to feeling better real soon! RIP Roddy
“They Live” was a documentary.
Did you happen to notice how much of a more accomplished and convincing actor the late Roddy Piper was than the Rock, Dwayne Johnson currently is? It was a good movie. The horror part was realizing the grip social class society has on most of us. Worth watching a third time.
Around 2000-ish or there abouts I caught the words "You are thirsty" flash on my telly during the ads, white text on black screen. Never seen it before or since. Pretty weird. Ireland.
This has such a great replay value too. Great job mate! Maybe do a segment on sleeper hits like this. Another one is “Dredd”, based on the comic book character Judge Dredd. A bit bloody for sure, but what an excellent movie!
Get better, brother. Love your stuff!