Friday, September 2, 2022

Friday Watch Party: They Live




In ways I cannot calculate, They Live had a tremendous impact on me.  Not like Star Wars or Star Trek or The Godfather, but it left me cackling in the theater and - as I got older - made me appreciate how you can take something like a goofy sci-fi film and put even a single idea in it, and everyone who sees that movie *gets it* and will respond to that idea forever.  For a kid verging on teendom when I saw the movie, this was a perfect packet delivery system for teaching me a way to look at the world.  Who knew?

They Live has several key things we will be looking for

  • Meg Foster and her eyes
  • Keith David
  • the world's most unnecessarily protracted fight scene
  • the greatest line ever delivered in cinema, that you know whether you've even heard of this movie or not
Join me, Jamie and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as we take in the John Carpenter opus that just keeps being awesome 30-odd years after its release

Day:  Friday 09/02/2022
Time:  8:30 Central
Service:  Amazon
Price:  $3-4

(link live 10 minutes before showtime)


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