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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★½ 24

  real eyes realize real lies........

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  Review by pd187 ★★★★★ 28

  why are the skull aliens still buying magazines and groceries and shit

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  Review by Jay ★★★★ 12

  rip karl marx you would have loved the classism glasses

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  Review by amaya ★★★★ 3

  FRANK. PUT THE GLASSES ON. GODDAMIT. PUT THEM ON, YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING FOR 50 MINUTES. THAT'S ENOUGH. FRANK MOTHERFUCKER THEY'RE JUST GLASSES WHY ARE YOU NOT PUTTING THEM ON OH MY GOD. IM GOING T

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  Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★★★ 1

  john carpenter: what if... capitalism.... was invented..... by aliens ?!?!?

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  Review by 9VOLT ★★★ 4

  Roddy Piper and Keith David fight in an alley for like 45 minutes

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★½ 14

  What strikes me most about Carpenter is his coolness, the calm deliberation with which he lets his plots unfurl. This premise, in the hands of any other filmmaker, would be a lightning quick action comedy, Men in Black or Big Trouble in Little China style. But instead it's almost an hour into a 90 minute film before the hero convinces someone else to try on the glasses. And the film's signature showpiece, the big action number, is a good old-fashioned slugging match between two friends, all over the one's stubborn refusal to do something as simple as try on a pair of glasses (hilariously allegorical, of course). Even the film's most famous line, one I've known for years (as I…

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  Review by movie enjoyer ★★★½

  fucked up if true

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  Review by Branson Reese 1

  Rowdy puts the sunglasses on, sees the world for what it is, takes them off and says “it figures” which is a deeply fucked response. But it feels real. It feels earned.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 7

  89/100

  "Hey baby, what's wrong?"

  Carpenter's deliberate, surgical eye for conflict and its escalation reaches a peak in They Live, a true 80s middle-finger thriller. The back and forth strolls to the church, the constant police sightings, and the nervous glances aimed towards the bright blue sky in fear of helicopters is a byproduct of Carpenter's masterful talent of building up an unknown force; a presence that feeds on the terror and vulnerability of those awake in the face of mass control. Each scene is methodically executed, and while other directors may have gone for a more ambitious approach, Carpenter happily builds a small but detailed world and peppers plot progression within it. Take, for instance, Roddy Piper's first experience…

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  Review by Mike Ginn ★★★★ 2

  Roddy Pipers character is a real one. Discovers a secret ruling class of aliens and he just instantly brings a shotgun into a bank and starts killing them

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  Review by Ian West ★★★★½ 2

  OBEY. CONSUME. STAY ASLEEP. SUBMIT. NO THOUGHT. CONFORM. BUY. DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY. OBEY.