They Live 1988 123movies

Watch: They Live 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like “Stay Asleep”, “No Imagination”, “Submit to Authority”. Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued..
Plot: Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-controlling aliens.
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Ratings:

	7.2/10 Votes: 130,730
	85% | RottenTomatoes
	55/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 2403 Popularity: 23.022 | TMDB

Reviews:

Life’s a bitch and she’s back on heat!

They Live is directed by John Carpenter who also adapts the screenplay form the short story Eight O’Clock in the Morning written by Ray Nelson. It stars Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster. Music is by Alan Howarth (and Carpenter) and cinematography by Gary B. Kibbe.

Unemployed drifter Nada (Piper) wanders into the city looking to find work, but upon finding a unique pair of sunglasses he sees a different world to everyone else. It’s a world frequented by an alien race who are using the Earth for their own nefarious means.

See The Truth!

Carpenter does subversive sci-fi and it’s a whole bunch of fun. Stripped back it’s evident that They Live is Carpenter’s wry observation on the politico posers who endorse the rich getting richer and everybody else sliding down the pole; to where they stop nobody knows! It’s also a blatant paean to the glorious years of the 1950s when paranoia based sci-fi schlockers and creaky creature features ruled the air waves. It’s also a wonderfully macho driven action movie, laced with comedy as well. You can rest assured there will be plenty of shooting, punching, dodging and spoken lines to make you smile.

Piper is no Kurt Russell, but we shouldn’t hold that against him because he fills the role nicely. With muscular frame, 80s hair and a quip on the tongue, he is most assuredly a Carpenter leading man for the 80s. Alongside him is the reassuring presence of Keith David, himself a beefcake and also one of the coolest muthas on the planet. It’s easy to believe that these two can save the planet, even after nearly beating each other to a pulp during a prolonged side-alley fight sequence, where Carpenter doesn’t miss a chance to parody professional wrestling. While away from the beef, Meg Foster gets the lead lady role, with those amazing eyes nestling in perfectly with the world Carpenter has created.

Carpenter does political? Yes, but it’s not the be all and end all of his intentions. He wanted to make an action sci-fi schlocker with sly politico undertones as motives. And that’s exactly what he did. Joyously so. 8/10

I have to admit up front to liking every single, John Carpenter movie. They are works of art in there unique style and quality. This is actually my favorite of all of them. There could be a criticism that this movie is didactic and sends some sort of clumsy political or philosophical message but I’d have to reply that you simply don’t get it. Unlike the modern propensity for movies to try to hammer home some political point or perspective, the message here is only window dressing. The message may (or may not) be important but instead of getting caught up in some sort of self-important moralizing, let’s remember this is a movie – and a SciFi action movie at that. (that is the approach in my opinion) If I would compare movies to literature or movie makers to authors I’d compare Carpenter to Hemingway – although Carpenter specializes in anti-heroes and sometimes over-the-top characters, while Hemingway is understated. They are analogous for their own medium. This is action, sci-fi but like Hemingway’s stories, this is a man’s movie. Straight forward. Fun at times, brutal at times and even funny at times. Keep a watch out for one of the great one-liners in movie history when the star is in the bank – only peripherally related to “bazooka.” A+ to Roddy Piper as well. When I first saw this movie I had zero expectation from him. Now I wish he’d have made a lot more movies…

More relevant than ever
This movie resonates in 2020 as hard as it can. Watch and learn millenials

Yes, they live. And they are thriving like never before.
I had the pleasure of catching a midnight screening of this last night at the Dundee Theater. Though not a true classic, They Live is an engaging Orwellian-type urban thriller. Rowdy Roddy Piper (in a surprisingly effective performance) plays an unnamed drifter who finds a low level construction job and takes up residence in some type of squatter’s camp near downtown L.A.. Things look like they still look in most U.S. cities today. The poor are desperate, and the rich seem to keep getting richer. But it seems that some of the residents of this camp are using the church across the street as a kind of a resistance center. But resistance to what? After putting on a pair of special sunglasses he finds at the church, Piper learns a terrifying secret. The well to do are actually aliens whose identities are revealed by the glasses. All sources of media are also subliminally ordering people to consume, obey, and procreate. Small drone aircraft buzz overhead to keep watch on things. The aliens seem to have people totally under their spell. When Piper tips his hand at his ability to see the aliens for what they are, he becomes a hunted man. Can he stay alive long enough to help the resistance expose the entire alien scheme? Who can he trust, if anyone?

They Live has too many serious over and undertones for it to be simply dismissed as a low budget exploitation flick. Still it relies heavily on old fashioned shootouts and ass whipping to get its point across. There is nothing subtle about it, despite its low-key first act. Piper is about as subtle as a cinder block thrown through a stained-glass window. At one point, he and Keith David have a long fight that seemed to be like a choreographed Wrestle Mania encounter. It brought plenty of guffaws from the audience. The conclusion is awfully abrupt, too. But this is still a solid and diverting picture, and as timely as ever. In this country, the gap between rich and poor is ever-widening. And people seem less inclined than ever before to “put on the glasses” and take a hard look at things. What are they afraid they might see? 7 of 10 stars.

The Hound.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 34 min (94 min)
Budget 4000000
Revenue 13008928
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director John Carpenter
Writer Ray Nelson, John Carpenter
Actors Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster
Country United States
Awards 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (4 channels), Dolby Surround 7.1, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Gold, Panavision Super High Speed Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 2,576 m (5 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 125T 5247, 400T 5294)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2020 remaster), Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384)