Found They Live! on Netflix instant so I watched it again... twenty years after I first saw it on VHS. This prototypical Matrix story was directed by John Carpenter and stars pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper. In They Live, the human race exists in an alien-induced trance. We live only to breed and consume so that the aliens can use us as a power source. The heroes wear special sunglasses (they look like ordinary glasses) so that they can see what's really happening around them—aliens walking amongst us, propaganda everywhere (see above).
What makes this a definite B-movie is that image trumps everything. Sure it's fun to see the propaganda and the aliens, but it just doesn't make sense. Why are the aliens there acting like humans? How does the conspiracy work? This is another B-movie trope: sacrificing sense for image.
1 comment:
maybe because with b-movie plot and effects questions, the answer is always "who cares?" or "it doesn't matter". those can be decent answers though, that's why b-movies are fun.
-david
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