They Live!

[laramie]

It's been a slow start, but at this point I've mopped the kitchen and bathroom floors, shoveled the walks, gone out for fresh catfood and kitty litter and put a turkey breast in the oven to roast.

Right now I've got They Live playing on DVD. I heard that, if you take out the aliens, it's a scary indictment of consumer-driven society.

Meanwhile I plan to continue work on the drawing I started yesterday, before finishing up transcribing the final edits to my manuscript.

Comments

[mrgoodwraith.livejournal.com]

Aaarrgh. Every now and then somebody I care about hears that "'They Live' has a good message if you, you know, look past the aliens and Roddy Piper" and decides to watch it. Usually I try to dissuade them, but it's apparently too late in this case.

For the benefit of the rest of you who might be thinking about watching this film:

DO NOT BE FOOLED.

As much as I've liked other movies John Carpenter has done, "They Live" stinks like a mountain of week-old used cat litter. Its much-touted "message" is presented so sophomorically as to make itself ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned, it takes Ray Nelson's marvelous short short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" and turns it into an overlong, overdone, unwatchable travesty.

(Sorry about the tone of this diatribe, but it's the result of my being virtually *forced* to watch it again the last time one of my friends got this bug in their head. Certain parts of my brain have not yet recovered...)

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

So far it does drag, but I'm finding it enjoyable in a campy way.

[mrgoodwraith.livejournal.com]

Aaah! The aliens got you! Put on the glasses! PUT ON THE GLASSES!! :-D