They Live with Roddy Piper: DVD Cover
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They Live Director: John Carpenter Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George "Buck" Flower

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  • DVD Release Date: 09/23/2003
  • Original Release: 1988
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 9,451

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Side #1 --
1. Looking for Work (Main Titles) [5:57]
2. Hard Times [:44]
3. Subliminal Signal [4:55]
4. They Live, We Sleep [1:48]
5. Police Brutality [1:11]
6. Hidden World [5:14]
7. One That Can See [2:23]
8. Hostage Situation [4:23]
9. See for Yourself [2:32]
10. Leave Me Alone [4:03]
11. Let Me Show You [4:45]
12. What Are We Gonna Do? [1:44]
13. A Wake Up Call [3:26]
14. Locate the Transmitter [3:25]
15. Back Stage [:44]
16. Technical Difficulties [4:57]
17. You Can't Win [:39]
18. End Titles [2:20]

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Editorial Reviews

In this era of retro-chic it is genuinely surprising that John Carpenter's They Live hasn't caught on as a cult favorite, because this 1988 alien invasion satire is the most dead-on shot any American filmmaker has taken at life in the Reagan years. 1980s wrestling star "Rowdy" Roddy Piper is John Nada, an idealistic drifter who still believes in America -- until a pair of sunglasses allows him to see that the consumerist paradise he lives in is actually an alien paradise. The most socially-minded sci-fi movie since Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, They Live is an out-and-out condemnation of the rampant materialism in this nation at the time. Often passed over in the lexicon of excellent science fiction and horror directors, Carpenter (John Carpenter's The Thing) loads his film with plenty of over-the-top sequences (including the longest fight ever, between Piper and Keith David) to make the satire as fun as it is bitingly intelligent. Pete Segall, Barnes & Noble

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Do you dare to see the truth?,by Kasia_S

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October 27, 2008: Oh man what a fun movie, I saw this a few months ago and still marvel at how much I enjoyed it. This is one of those eighties movies that borderlines on silly and cheesy at times but overall there is so much to enjoy that in this case it barely stands in the way. Basically this is a story of an accidental discovery by a construction worker down on his luck. Trying to find some work, Nada arrives in LA and quickly makes some "friends" and gets in trouble on his first day of work. Eventually he tries to settle in but things seem strange, how strange he has no idea until one day he stumbles on a whole box of black plastic sunglasses. He soon finds out that they are made by a resistance group that send out announcements on TV channels about aliens and warns people that things aren't as they seem. Deem lunatics, they hide and act in secret, but when Nada puts those glasses on he discovers just how much what he believed in is true.

Driven by money and power, people will do anything to have more, even sell out their own species to aliens who are willing to exploit and use them. Those special glasses let Nada see the real aliens, disguised as human to unprotected eye and upon looking at TV shows, magazines and billboards he sees the true message that is meant for the average human; to buy and to obey. One has to see this movie to get the full gist of the idea, but it's something that I have actually felt about today's world for a while. Everything revolves around money, ways of making it, using people for it and luring others to spend their. This movie does a fantastic job of shedding some light on real life and mixes in some ultra terrestrials with incredible twists.

Nada is soon discovered by those who pretend to be human and chased through some really fantastic adventures. There are a few more secrets that make this movie so fun but spoiling them would be a shame, it's best to watch it without knowing too much. I highly recommend for a few hours of shameless fun and the ending is super, very well driven to the point.

- Kasia S.

this was funny AND cool!by Anonymous

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September 24, 2008: who ever did the make up job after the &quot long fight scene&quot was defenetly the best ive EVER seen! even till this day! it was very realistic! anyway the movie was fun to watch.


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