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24:24 Carpenter said that he made the alleyway fight so long because it's supposed to symbolize "how hard it is to make someone see the truth" which I find really cool, but also incredibly apt.
If you can get them to see the truth at all. We have far too many brain-damaged apes on this planet that think black is white and 1+1 = 5
So, so difficult to get people to see the truth of something they have completely bought into.
@@JeshuaSquirrel They've been taught that the REAL world is a dangerous scary place and its so much safer in their pen, anyone tries to open the gate and let the real world in they freak out, stick their fingers in their ears and take a trip to La La land.
As far as they're concerned, they're in their own little protective bubble and you've got a great big pin ready to pop it ! they need to desensitise to reality and get over the fear thats been instilled in them slowly.
It's easier to convince someone of a lie than to convince them they've been lied to.
@@JeshuaSquirrel They've been taught that the REAL world is a dangerous scary place and its so much safer in their pen, anyone tries to open the gate and let the real world in they freak out, stick their fingers in their ears and take a trip to La La land.
First rule of 80s films: don't trust Meg Foster.
She's a decent person in "Relentless" with Judd Nelson.
Her eyes scream "lizard person".
She’s great in The Wind… unfortunately The Wind, isn’t that great
She was Evli-Lyn.
Pity that Jake Sisko didn't get that 80s memo.
Before passing away, Roddy Piper tweeted that They Live was a documentary. True story.
he was such an amazing man
Spolier alert. It isn’t. Capitalism is all you need to explain it. Owners organising to protect their interest from the people.
@@jgmediting7770 historically,it is reductive analysis like this that gets you blindsided everytime
@@jgmediting7770 it's literally a metaphor for the class struggle
@@jgmediting7770 yeah lets try communism!! far better huh??
"Check out our Pateron" - OBEY CONSUME
$$$ This is your God
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Sadly we all victims, we gotta survive the rat race 😐
Well, I disagree, it would apply if it was a huge company feeding into the giant machine and gearing of the system.
But unfortunately we live in a system and we've got to subsist.
My wife and I still shout, "Just put on the glasses!!" to each other when the situation calls for it.
"Rowdy" Roddy Piper was from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
RIP
Wonder if he knew Truthful Timmy? 🤔🤣
that's crazy talk, Roddy Piper was from Glasgow Scotland 😃
Roddy was cool! He gave Rowdy Ronda Rousey a thumbs up!
@@maxpolaris99 He gave her a thumbs up? What does that even mean
@@BriBryBriBry👍🏻
Rest in Peace Rowdy Roddy Piper. "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all outta bubble gum".
P. S Keith David was in The Thing also a John Carpenter movie.
@@shanewillis316They watched that a couple years ago.
@@shanewillis316 Keith Davids voice was in...everything :)
@@Nostalgeek Keith David voiced Hordak in Masters of the Universe: Revolution earlier this year. His associate called Motherboard was voiced by Meg Foster who plays Holly in this film (and was Evil-Lyn in the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie). A bit of a 'They Live' reunion, just missing Roddy who passed away some years ago.
Da’ Maniac loves you
Tagging this video with a note that lizard men aren’t real is something a company run by lizard men would do.
Lmao I saw that tag and was like wtf
Too right. When I saw that I thought: 'Seriously?'
taps nose twice.
Agreed , when screwyoutube feels the need to put a tag on something as trivial as a movie it makes me suspicious lol 😊😊😊
DON'T QUESTION AUTHORITY
Legend has it that Roddy Piper and Kieth David are still fighting in that alley to this very day.
"Just when they think they got the answers, I change the questions!"
Roddy Piper was a master of phrases.
I quote this more than I should and I'm never gonna stop. LoL
My absolute favorite WWF superstar.
"You do not throw rocks at a man with a machine gun" Is another one of my favorite phrases of his
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Rowdy Piper was absolutely shocked when he saw this in theaters. He had no idea a camera crew had been following him while he was running errands.
Also, I love the way this movie simultaneously gives us a really intelligent and sophisticated metaphor for real-world class warfare, but also gives just pure bonkers hilarious absurdity. Such a bizarre and brilliant combo!
Dang...you beat me to it. LOL
Definitely a lot of commentary on 80's Reagan America.
One of the most unexpected (and important) cult hit movie of all time .... and it's a B-movie at that.
@@bg7893still relevant today sadly, Reaganism never stopped
@@HistoritorJimaldus Its beyond Reaganism. More like David Icke territory.
When the sunglasses reveal happened, UA-cam had an ad for Rayban Meta glasses. That's some targeted advertising.
@@bg7893 ... They Live
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CONSUME
“Our new features allow you to see through the illusions They perpetuate, while also looking stylish! With Rayban, you won’t stay asleep.”
@@0okamino "Who's that behind the Foster Grants? Not They!!!"
22:20 The scene george is referring to in southpark is when jimmy tries to make timmy wear a silly hat and they fight brutally until he eventually forces timmy to put the hat on.
Cripple Fight!!!!!
George can actually look up, they released a video of the making of that shot, and they put them side by side and it's glorious with how they line up together.
@@PowerSurge82I was about to point out that video exists, the South Park guys got it freaking perfect, the only thing is they should have had Jimmy tell Timmy to put on the hat or eat the trash can LOL
@@PowerSurge82 The South Park version of this is completely awesome!
@@RobwLPOC They mixed Piper's and David's lines because Jimmy is the only one who can really talk. That's also why he gives Timmy kicks in the groin which should be opposite...
I saw this movie in the theater. After that, I went to the grocery store and for one split second was weirded out by the huge sign on a wall inside that said "PRODUCE". Then I felt like an idiot. Produce, as in, like, vegetables.
that is funny!
The aliens had a glitch in their tech, their message-disguising technology doesn't work near fresh fruit. They decided to just roll with it.
English language is tricky, especially with those double meanings 😏
There are direct commands, though, often employed through advertising. The one that comes to mind immediately is Coca-Cola's "Drink Coke Every Day." Imperative (command) sentences, telling people to act/do in certain ways inundate messaging in Western society in disturbing proportion.
"What the hell Holly?!"
They Live was based on a short story called "Eight O' Clock in the Morning," but the aliens were totally different. They were reptilian creatures with two sets of eyes instead of the Skeletor-like aliens in John Carpenter's movie. Also, the protagonist, "Nada," didn't wear any special glasses to see the aliens. He attended a magic show where a hypnotist had put several members of the audience, including Nada, under a hypnotic trance, and then when the hypnotist snapped his fingers and told the audience members to "wake up," the spell worked a little too well on Nada, causing him to see all of the aliens living among humans for what they were, and trying to convince his girlfriend that what he was seeing was real. The aliens discovered that Nada was "awake" and he received a telephone call with a subliminal message that he would die of a cardiac arrest at 8am the following morning, so Nada finally infiltrated the aliens' headquarters in a skyscraper and destroyed the broadcast that was hiding their existence. But he did not live to see humanity rise up against the reptilian aliens, as he dropped dead at precisely 8am that morning. John Carpenter altered the story dramatically, to make the movie a critique on the media, corporate greed, and consumerism in the 1980s.
Nada? as in nothing?
There's also a comic version out there, where the aliens look absolutely ridiculous. :D I think it's called "Nada". Just search for "Eight O' Clock in the Morning Comic", you should find it.
You might recall Keith David was in The Thing
And Spawn (HBO) if you're a cool guy. Or edgy. Whichever.
he's the dad in There's Something About Mary"
And in Community, in which it is revealed he originated the phrases "I'm going in" and "lock and load" after consulting on Lawnmower Man
His voice is so iconic. Loved him in The Quick and the Dead, Gargoyles (the animated series), Pitch Black & The Chronicles of Riddick, and Armageddon. Just a great actor.
There's also a reference to the fight on Adventure Time. Keith David played a recurring character, Flame King, and in one episode, he gets into a fist fight with Flame Lord, who's played by Roddy Piper.
Love how the guy at 29:06 is holding a PKE meter from Ghostbusters.
"If your bulldozing the soup kitchen you might be the bad guy"😂 so true
I really wish this movie didn’t feel even more relevant now than when I first watched it as a kid.
I was thinking it’s more like demolition man lol
I know what you mean.
Meanwhile, we just elected a billionaire fraud who's packing his cabinet picks with other billionaires, running on the blatantly false promise of "looking out for the working man" while they publicly salivate at the idea of gutting every program and regulation meant to protect us. Hooray.
it was just as relevant then, nothing has changed. people are just more cognizant of it now.
Remember reading Meg Foster's striking eyes were meant to evoke a sense that she's not all human or at least on the side of the aliens.
"I thought this was fun"
George, this was John Carpenter at his most pissed off level about corporations, yeah it´s got one of the best fighting scenes, it´s got aliens and Piper and Keith ooze charisma among the not so subtle "Obey" messages and the bleak ending for our heroes is what solidifed it´s place in classic movie history
"Didn't know you'd be having cake today" LOL!
I saw this movie many, many years ago, and every once in a while, someone reacts to it, and the reaction shows up on my youtube feed, and I sit there and think - is this worth me watching a reaction for? Then I see CineBinge reacted to it, and think, okay, this is going to be good. Well done, you two.
One of the greatest documentaries ever made. RIP Roddy Piper.
i wish i could like this harder.
It’s an iq test. You failed.
Meg Foster's eyes are something completely different. (When watching Masters of the Universe I couldn't believe those weren't contact lenses.)
Meg is strikingly similar to Lauren Bacall
Meg's BEAUTIFUL eyes caught my attention in Emerald Forest. She did that about the same time as Masters Of The Universe. I wondered, "How can anyone naturally have that distinctive blue?" Once you see them you cannot forget them.
Alexandra Daddario has eyes like those two.
No surprises that Piper came up with that line, one of the greatest wrestling promo guys to have ever done it, sadly missed
22:00 CRIPPLE FIGHT!
Roddy Piper was one of the greatest wrestlers on the mic. The charisma and ability to talk was off the chart. I wish he had done more movies. R.I.P.
3:40 "You didn't know you'd be having cake today, did you?" 😄
This film really makes you notice things more.
Oh wonderful.... I was hoping you would get round to this..... amazing film...
The first time I saw this movie at a friend's house we were laughing out loud at the glasses fight scene because of how long and overly drawn out it was. I was literally in tears.
The point of that was to show you literally have to beat sense into someone to make them see the truth.
I feel the tonal shift works best this way: showing the hard truth commentary then you get to have fun. That way the audience can be fully onboard and understand the extreme actions of our heroes.
If you do it the other way around, it's like being on a rollercoaster and abruptly stopping to watch a PSA on the horrors of gingivitis, then getting to the last quarter of the ride. This is a problem that occurs more often than you'd think
Keith david was in The Thing, the voice of Spawn in the animated series, and the cat in Coraline, just to name a few.
@eddiejravannen, Also, the title character's smart-ass step-father in There's Something About Mary.
Maybe someone has already written it in the comments. But the trackers that the soldiers use to find people are the PKE meters from Ghostbusters.
I also hope, that they will also react to Prince of Darkness and In the Mouth of Madness in the future.
Same. So few reactors react to those two movies. They're both great in their own way.
John Carpenter did the music for this, and for *Big Trouble In Little China* and "The Fog" ;)
2:13 GEORGE 'BUCK' FLOWER - Regular John Carpenter 'collaborator', Flower, appeared as a drunk in 'They Live,, as the "Drunk with the president's tracker" in 'Escape From New York', and as a cook in 'Starman'. Flower also appeared as 'Red' the Bum in 'Back To The Future'.
I went to a cinema screening of this a few years ago, and during the ally fight the laughter in the audience was incredible, everyone was a fan so seeing that amazing fight keep going was the highlight of the experience. My favourite fist fight of any film I reckon 😂
Rowdy Roddy Piper was my favorite wrestler as a kid in the 80s. Amazing and funny on the mic. Legendary.
"She got crazy eyes"
I think the word you're looking for is "AMAZING" she has AMAZING eyes!!!
She also played Evil-Lyn in Masters of the Universe
No they're fucking crazy.
Same thing.
@@cinemeleon2808 no... Nancy Pelosi or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have crazy eyes.
Meg Foster has AMAZING eyes.
Simone: "Ewwww!!!". Hilarious
George: the reason you see micro studios for a single film is due to Hollywood accounting. They invent a company that "makes" the film "for" the bigger studio. By moving a lot of billing items around, and charging the micro studio for various inflated services, they put all the expenses into one studio and all the revenue into the other studio. They then get to claim that the movie "made no profit" which lets them avoid certain taxes and also not pay anyone ignorant enough to ask for a "share of the profits" from the studio that takes the fall.
Except this one is not that complicated. It's a couple of independent movie producers who had a couple of movie studios.
Thank you for explaining this aspect of film finance-it really shows how devious Hollywood can be.
That, and they can put any debts incurred by the moviemaking process into the name of the single-use production company. And then if the film tanks at the box office, that micro-company can simply declare bankruptcy and those debts evaporate into the night
Hollywood Accounting is funny. LotR trilogy was never considered proftable despite box office being like 5x the revenue vs the production cost. Guess people dont get paid royalties!
When the people behind Island Records wanted to get into film producing, they partnered with another team of indie producers, forming Island Alive Entertainment. The partnership only lasted for a few movies, and then the companies split to form Island Pictures and Alive Pictures. (Someone correct me if I am wrong, this is based on 35-year-old memories of reading the trade papers.)
Fun Fact: Keith David voiced Goliath in Disney's Gargoyles. At first, they had planned to artificially lower his voice, but after they heard him, they didn't do that because his own voice was much better than anything they could have done.
Keith is an example of why Hollywood survives - not because of the Tom Cruise's, but because the supporting actors make it believable.
See also: Community, The Cape, There's Something About Mary, Spawn...
@@terrylandess6072If you had said any name but Tom Cruise's, I would have agreed. Tom Cruise might be the only actor left in h-wood who truly cares about entertaining the audience.
They Live is great. Wag The Dog with Robert Deniro is another cool conspiracy movie.
The bum who sells out also played a bum in Back To the Future. I like to joke that Doc got the idea for the flux capacitor from the aliens.
Played the crazy guy who had the president's tracker in "Escape From New York"
I saw part of this movie on TV in the 90s at a neighbor's house but only saw about 20 minutes of it. I never got to finish it and never knew the name of the movie. My friend told me the name in high school and I found the VHS on eBay to finally watch the whole thing. For that reason I love this movie more than I should.
Roddy Piper was hilarious in Always Sunny in Philadelphia as well.
The fight scene was only supposed to be like 30 seconds.. but Roddy Piper and Keith David were having so much fun, and Carpenter was getting GREAT shots.. so they had Piper choreograph some stuff and made the most epic one on one fight in cinema history!
Piper and David worked together on the fight choreography. Spending hours practicing and running through the beats.
@@Deathbird_Mitch yes.. Piper did the choreography and taught David alot of things. Piper had the wrestling background and knew how to sell the fight. Keith David knew how to street fight, but as far as acting a fight goes, he knew how to pull the punch so he don't hit someone (unless the other actor insists, like Piper did in this). In the script the scene was only supposed to go 30 seconds. In the short story this movie is based on ("Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson) the fight between Nada & Frank is about 3-4 sentences long. It's barely touched on.
26:04 John self composes most of his movies' music with an assistant scorer that is more well-trained than him. But there is a couple films where he has someone else do the soundtrack, with some direction of course.
I love that u guys reacted to They Live one of my favorite John Carpenter films. Great reaction guys!
A forgotten gem more remembered for a fistfight than its message.
But the fistfight is an allegory to how humanity is stubborn to accept the truth about the human condition.
The cool thing is, for the most part Carpenter also is responsible for the soundtrack of his movies.
The Fog, Escape from NY ... a creative mastermind.
He’s still doing music. He’s been doing synth wave music for the past couple of years. It’s pretty good
Halloween
Reminds me of the character in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall". I don't write music, it''s just dark tones.
Cool Frank Zappa profile pic!
@@ProfDanielVargas 😉
"What's wrong, baby?" 😅🤣😅🤣
Exactly what I said every time I saw a movie with Meg Foster, " She got those crazy eyes."
A beautiful, rare shade of blue.
A Cult Classic that I was fortunate enough to see when it was still a New Release at the Video Store. Rest in peace "Rowdy" Roddy Piper...you were one of The Greats.
Also, it's such a timeless indictment of the masses praying at the Altar of Consumerism, and the evil that is Capitalist Subjugation.
Caught this on video at a friend's house, fairly new release. Kinda the same scenario as "From Dusk til Dawn"...much later. I knew something more was going to happen in the movie, but the reveal was pretty spectacular at the time.
(No spoilers back in the day)
Love the re-use of a Ghostbusters prop
16:00 - Somewhere on UA-cam there is a channel with a video of Roddy Piper at Mayhem 2012, doing a sort of Q&Q Stand-Up routine. When he mentioned that Bubblegum line, I walked up to the stage and gave him a pack of gum. People loved it (him too, was super nice chatting with him the next day)
2:40- Speaking of songs. My favorite scene is him walking in that place and on the radio is "I love to Praise Him" in that old Baptist sound. Such a great song. 6:56- Love that song.
Y'all are my favorite reaction channel especially when you do some of my all-time faves like this one.
When I was really young I used to confuse meg foster with kirstie alley.
I first saw her as Claire's friend in a scene on the Cosby Show. Claire was giving her legal or relationship (don't remember which) advice when she visited her office.
Cheers to Rowdy Roddy Piper, one of Canada's finest exports.
This movie was dismissed when it was released when I was young. I loved it and everyone I knew, kids and adults alike, lambasted me for liking "such a stupid film"
I'm so happy that this movie became a cult classic and is still connecting with people 35 years later.
@@deBebbler My family thinks I'm weird for liking this movie.
@@wclac You are not weird. I would argue that they are goofy to consider it weird for you to like something they don't enjoy. As though the 'normal' thing is for everyone to like the same thing.
Less a fan of reactionary DUMBASSES not getting the actual context and thinking it speaks for them...
25:17 yeah. Scary, right? Carpenter dreamt this up a decade before the internet and two decades before social media and smartphones.
Now, young ones… imagine having seen this movie a dozen times in the late eighties (my college friends and I would get baked and watch it every couple weeks) and then… watching it gradually become reality. And here we are!
Well, he got it from a short story.
@ good point, I’ve never read the story. I dunno how many of these ideas go back to the original source material.
Simone, I’m only at 30:00 but your cat just scared the bejesus out of me 😂 I should’ve realised from the sound and your reaction literally seconds before, but the dark mass that appeared behind you got me, then my brain made out the cat shape 🤦🏼♀️
Anyway, “back to the movie!”
More people should watch this film and watch it with the idea in mind that there’s always some truth to every movie.
but wikipedia knows best and says its all conspiracy crazy stuff xD
So glad to see George and Simone turning on to this. Welcome to the party.
😎 Of the two independent small budget movies John Carpenter made after Big Trouble, They Live is the most known and celebrated, but Prince of Darkness is the true impressive little masterpiece😈
This film was John Carpenter's opinion of Ronald Reagan's presidency. The last scene was a not-so-subtle metaphor for what he thought Reagan was doing to America.
I don't think I'd like to witness the modern equivalent...
Wasn't Reagan the most beloved president of all time?
@rupiter2008 No, and general consensus isn't Carpenter's opinion.
@@rupiter2008 In Reagan's second presidency, he won the largest number of Electoral College votes ever. However, JFK is the only President whose approval never slipped below 50% in favor.
George "Buck" Flower was the town drunk in Back to the Future
Always plays the hobo
Keith David was in 'The Thing' (1982), 'Platoon' (1986), Armageddon ( 1998), Pitch Black (2000), Cloud Atlas (2012)...& more.
This movie has one of the BEST fight scenes you will see in a movie.
This is the movie that basically spawned this iconic quote;
“I’m here to chew bubblegum and kick a-. And I’m all out of bubblegum…”
John Carpenter's Christine needs to be next!
Pretty eye opening movie. Loved it in my youth
I love there's a note about "reptilian humanoids," at the top of the of page.
You don't even need the sunglasses to understand the hidden message.
@ramonacosta2647 that this movie is so beloved by conspiracy weirdos that it comes with notes.
@@cctomcat321 The long fight scene is an allegory to the struggle to make people see the truth.
@@ramonacosta2647 don't I know it. Imagine how frustrating it is to watch an overarching anti-capitalist movie and have people get stuck on lizard people and secret kabals.
If it were accurate, the fight would be endless or they'd both go their separate ways. Unfortunately you can't put sunglasses on and give people media literacy, critical thinking and material analysis.
@@cctomcat321Muh media literacy
Best Fight Scene in all of cinema !!
The homeless man with the beard and brown hat, is the same actor who played the homeless guy on the bench in back to the future when Marty returned to the '80s
Not very versatile, is he?
holy shit...i totally forgot about that!!
George "Buck" Flower. He was part of Carpenter's stock company of actors.
far as I know j carpenter did his own music? its usually pretty simple he doesnt need an orchestra .. anyways might just be rumour but I think hes his own soundtrack guy
This is Carpenter's commentary on capitalism
10/10 movie life changing much love to all
20:37 there's no in-universe explanation given for it, Roddy just refused to remove his wedding ring for filming. And really, the ring is enough detail without needing a backstory created for it specifically. A lesson Disney needs to re-learn, actually, when it comes to props.
Or as George RR Martin said to JRR Tolkien in Epic Rap Battles of History:
"You went too deep, professor tweed pants.
You don't need a backstory, on every fu**in tree branch!"
Tolkien wrote LOTR and the other epics as much as a version of him inventing languages and lore as to actually making stories. And RR Martin isn't fit to hold those tweed pants.
You don't need Chuck Norris when you are Rowdy Roddy Piper! He is buried about 5 hours south of where I live, in Washington, in Tigard Oregon and I really want to visit his grave.
It's cool that Carpenter has a signature title font.
Lol, your commentary at the end of the movie cracks me up, because I grew up watching movies like this.
YES!
I bought it when it was on VHS. I bought it when it was on DVD. I bought it when it was on Blu-ray. I bought it when it was on 4k.
Maybe the epitome of 80s insanity.
Consume. Watch TV. Obey.
Ironically, i had just noticed Simone's eyes and then the Actress with "Crazy" eyes came on screen also... and then i remembered "Cat butthole eyes" and was immediately back down to earth lol.
I'm here to watch Cinebinge and chew bubblegum. And I'm all out of bubblegum.
Time to get some bubblegum so we'll have something to do until their next vid.
@@AndyBrazeau-e1c CONSUME
A lot of movies around the time had a similar structure--a super heavy and depressing setup, then a fun crazy action resolution. Running Man, Total Recall, Robocop, and (of course) Beverly Hills Cop all spring to mind. Funny thing is most people don't really remember the setup for a lot of them--ask anyone who saw one of those movies as a kid and then re-watched it as an adult.
Could be partly why they've struggled to re-capture that 80s action magic nowadays; they're so eager to cram in so much fun stuff that they skip the heavy feels that give it context.
"Reptilian humanoid
Wikipedia • Reptilian humanoids, or anthropomorphic reptiles, are fictional creatures that appear in folklore, fiction, and conspiracy theories."
UA-cam felt the need to tell me this.
Badass reaction. This is the best thumbnail I have ever seen from you guys and you're known as the best when it comes to the catchy thumbnail to begin with.
The minute you mention KEITH DAVID, my mind goes to one of the weirdest movies he ever made that would be hilarious to react to. MEN AT WORK. The perfect movie to represent the end of the 80s and start of the 90s.
I'll second this one for sure. What a film.
I always think of Captain Anderson from mass effect
@@jmarx3943 You watch MEN AT WORK, and you'll think his character might be a descendent of Anderson's. lol
Love this! One of the most underrated, meaningful movies in my humble opinion.
Im surprised we haven't had a remake of this yet, it's perfect story for today still
@@paulshaw9953 Remake bad movies, not good ones.
@pvanukoff remake whatever you want... despite that, with the amount of movies that do get remade, I'm surprised this hasn't been one of them
It is but we don't need a remake. Nothing changed, imo.
@hrruben5135 we don't NEED any movies... the good thing about them though is we can choose what we watch or don't watch if they exist
I thought maybe Frank's (unknown) son finds an era appropriate Walkman radio in his dad's old junk with "special" headphones that let him hear the creatures thoughts when in use and near one of them (the creatures regain control of the broadcasts and convinced everyone it was a hoax or programming glitch) ...there's a tape in the player explaining to the listener what they are gonna hear as it happens. The player acts like a tuner for their thoughts...but can also be used as a weapon against them. He must find a way to convince a lot of people with flash mobs or faceriot ot whatever he can...maybe it's a daughter hero? I dunno...but there's gotta be a secret device and a conflict with one other character as a main point of relation with the audience...we all need that one good friend. It's a buddy movie after all.
Yup, Roddy Piper is known for being one of the best talkers in the history of pro wrestling. There’s a reason he was selected as Hulk Hogan’s main nemesis (alongside Paul Orndorff) in the main event of the first Wrestlemania, which WWF had its future riding on. Probably his other most famous line is “Just when you think you have all the answers, I change the questions”.
Nada and Frank beat each other half to death: and THAT'S when they became best friends.
that line tho..."ain't love grand?" I imagine two gay body building lovers who'd recently had it out with each other and are then checking into a hooker sex lodge would just be something you'd expect to see as a hotel clerk, right? Love is timeless.
Love It!!! Saw it in the theaters, Loved RP back in the day. One of the best and longest fight scenes in cinema
Replace the word "Reptilians" with the word "Criminals" and this film is a pretty accurate description of how the world works.
Meg Foster - she has the most unique eyes in all of hollywood. 👀
Buck Flower - resurrected his character 'Red the bum' from Back to the Future for They Live. You also see him play the tour guy in the tux.
The communication device held by the guards was the PKE meter from Ghostbusters.