[lbo-talk] great movies -- was: "great" "conservative" movies

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 19 15:36:16 PST 2009


As far as left-wing horror movies, what do you all think about John Carpenter's "They Live"?

Starring Rowdy Roddy Piper as the working class he-man who leads a revolt against bourgeois parasites who, it turns out, are actually an alien race in disguise, feeding off humans?

There are some preposterous moments, like a 15 minute wrestling fight scene in an alley (and which is on YouTube) over the "put on the sun sun glasses!" debacle, but overall, the theme is pretty brilliant. It's like Twilight Zone meets Das Kapital.

-B.



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