🎥 Movies of 2021, 86: They Live. Despite being a John Carpenter fan since I was way-too-young to be a John Carpenter fan I’ve never seen They Live. And it may be because it starred Roddy Piper.
My parents took me to see every dang sci-fi film. Didn’t matter how R rated it was or how young I was. But we didn’t go to this one. We saw other Carpenter movies. I saw The Thing in the theater when I was 7. I watched Dark Star on Betamax. Same with Halloween. But not this one.
In every way this movie was right up my parents’ alley. Classic sci-fi look, anti-Regan, darkly satirical. But it starred a pro-wrestler. And I can see my family (and me) being classist enough to say “no thanks”. Weird.
Anyway, it’s fun.
