They Live
"You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong."
(1988)
Director: John Carpenter
Writer: John Carpenter
Genre: Things Are Not As They Seem
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Plot Synopsis:
What a difference a pair of sunglasses makes! Aimless drifter (Rowdy) Roddy Piper stumbles across a vast alien conspiracy in Los Angeles, revealed through a pair of high-tech sunglasses.
Favorite Moments:
- "I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."'
- The skeptical Holly: "You're fighting the forces of evil... that none of us can see without sunglasses..."
- Holly stossing John out a second floor window.
- "Brother, life's a bitch. And she'd back in heat."
- Adapted from Ray Nelson's short story Eight O'Clock in the Morning
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