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I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum. John Nada (Roddy Piper), 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.
Certified Fresh 85% - Rotten Tomatoes
Ranked #7 on Rotten Tomatoes "The 20 Greatest Fight Scenes Ever" list.
Ranked #18 on Entertainment Weekly magazine's "The Cult 25" list.
Selected for the Venice Classics section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
"The film was was responding to the start of the US rust belt and Reagan-era consumerism, but its themes of working-class subjugation and omnipresent media control have only become more pressing." - Guardian
"John Carpenter's They Live has cult favorite written all over it, and part of the reason is the way it regenerates the cheap, juicy, surprisingly potent sci-fi of the 1950s." - Boston Globe
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Escape from New York (1981)
In 1997, a major war between the United States and the Soviet Union is concluding, and the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison. When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes into the island, the president (Donald Pleasence) is taken hostage by a group of inmates. Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a former Special Forces soldier turned criminal, is recruited to retrieve the president in exchange for his own freedom.
Certified Fresh 86% - Rotten Tomatoes
"It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape (and escapist) movies of the season." - The New York Times
"The pleasures are right in your face, beginning with the million-dollar idea of turning NYC into a walled-off prison where criminals run free. Even born-and-raised New Yorkers (of which Carpenter was decidedly not) could smile at that histrionic setup; it’s an outsider’s joke made funny by our willingness to be entertained." - Time Out
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