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They Live is a fun sci-fi film made by John Carpenter and stars former wwe superstar "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.

The story is about John Nada, a homeless unemployed construction worker, who finds a pair of sunglasses, that when worn suddenly reveal a world runed by upwardly mobile, capitlist, yuppie aliens hellbent on kepping the human race sedate and brainwashed with sublimminal messages fed through advertising and the media, so it's down to John and a few others to get the world to wake up and see how much deep s**t the human race is in.

This film has great action bits, funny moments in your face satire and one of the best fist fights i've seen, I also think it's John Carpenter's most accomplished film to date, oh I have also heard news that they are remaking this film and I bet it will suck!! but untill that happens sit back and enjoy this film.

This delightfully eerie movie demonstrates that great films are not necessarily pretentious; world-class art can appeal to regular folks; you needn't read John Taylor Gatto to lean the truth about 'Education;" and although you could study "alternative economic history" for months on end at the Yamaguchy website, Mary E. Hobart and David Astle aren't the only reality gurus who can clue you in to what's really going down here on the third stone from the sun. Not at all! John Carpenter manages to do just that in his 95 minute "B-Movie" masterpiece, 'They Live!"

So read the other reviews, form your own opinions, but by all means be sure to see "They Live." And if you are an "art snob" or one of those people who seek cultural justification for pursuing the enjoyable, then consider that what this film divulges is exactly what Benjamin Disraeli had in mind when he penned his cryptic phrase, ""The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." (!)