John Carpenter’s They Live (1988 – yes 1988!)
This week the club shuns dancing and corner putting and returns to manly popcorn flicks… well we hoped anyway. There are a lot of guns in this and a lot walking around but there is also what feels like the longest fight scene ever!
I’m never quite sure what to say in these little introductions since we’ll be talking about the film in the podcast and don’t want to give anything away in a sad attempt to interest you enough to listen. Lee and Dan nickname one of the characters ‘Dead Eyes’ if that helps? They also completely don’t bother to learn anyone’s name in the film except the guy who has no name… ummm I might quit whilst I’m ahead.
Join Lee and Dan as they talk about John Carpenter’s They Live!
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Themocracy
That was one of the funniest podcasts you’ve done guys. Good job. Of course, you had the material to work with. That movie is just asking for it. It’s one of the worst great movies out there. As you said, it starts out excellent, with so much promise, devolves into something completely useless and almost incoherent, and then starts to show promise again, right at the very end… but doesn’t quite get there. And it has Rowdy Roddy Piper – right there that pretty much tells you all you need to know. Such an excellent, excellent premise, just ridden mercilessly into oblivion by bad acting and writing. And that’s just about what makes it worth watching, IMO. A study in how easily a good movie can go wrong, and once it takes that turn, how far wrong it can go. Love the “overlong Twilight Zone” comparison. Absolutely perfect.
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Dan Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 11:01 am
@Jeff, You hear that Lee? “Absolutely perfect”.
I bet you wish you could come up with “absolutely perfect” movie critiques eh? But what chance have you got, you don’t even know what incongruous means.
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Lee Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
@Dan, pffft have you even seen the entire original run of the Twilight Zone? I expect not, you haven’t even seen Seinfeld or Farscape. Your knowledge is incongruous at best.
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Boy, like you’re ever going to catch me suggesting a movie to you guys again.
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Dan Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 10:59 am
@JJ Daddy-O, I don’t blame you. Much.
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Lee Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
@JJ Daddy-O, I was caught out too, I was really hyped up to see it and then it smacked me in the face like an angry bubblegum-less wrestler
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Come on… they can’t destroy your favorite movie… they can only dent it a little.
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