They Live

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Patrick and I, for whatever reason, ended up hell bent on watching a bad-ass movie late Saturday night. After a few minutes of arguing, we agreed that it had to be a John Carpenter movie. And that posed a tough question... which John Carpenter movie is the most badass? Clearly, it came down to They Live and Escape From New York.

So we actually called up a friend of Patrick's (who I am told is such a big Carpenter fan that he actually owns a copy of Memoirs of an Invisible Man) to have him settle the dispute. And the rest is history.

They Live is tied with probably 2 or 3 other movies as Carpenter's best, and hence earns a spot somewhere on the all time greatest list. It is the most accurate movie ever made about America. It was made in the mid 80's, and it's about how Republicans are all secretly alien monsters from another dimension that have taken over Earth. Rowdy Roddy Piper finds this out, and so he spends the last hour of the movie shooting everyone and eventually teams up with Keith David, who also shoots a bunch of people. If you haven't seen this movie, there is something wrong with you and fuck you go see it immediately. I'm outtie.