tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099941524071948470.post5012255337662512976..comments2024-02-16T04:52:09.887-06:00Comments on Your Stupid Minds: They Live (1988)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099941524071948470.post-84965010626065332332017-11-09T21:23:52.072-06:002017-11-09T21:23:52.072-06:00The movie was considerably dumber than how I'd...The movie was considerably dumber than how I'd remembered it 5000 years ago. 0.25 Starschemistryguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14718432605072962178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099941524071948470.post-39083774716099329382016-03-20T01:57:57.189-05:002016-03-20T01:57:57.189-05:00
great article : D<br />great article : DLizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02076861643556863971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099941524071948470.post-30899821358857138832011-10-09T16:15:29.923-05:002011-10-09T16:15:29.923-05:00My high school girlfriend originally showed They L...My high school girlfriend originally showed They Live to me and I didn't believe her when she said there was a 10 minute fight scene about sunglasses. How wrong I was.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590796377262919417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099941524071948470.post-75410212275740812822011-10-07T22:11:06.925-05:002011-10-07T22:11:06.925-05:00My wife will occasionally react to things that go ...My wife will occasionally react to things that go on too long with, "Just put on the stupid glasses!"AncillaryRedoubthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13619130773318796705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099941524071948470.post-61832769944842794112011-10-03T21:34:24.886-05:002011-10-03T21:34:24.886-05:00There is a 10 minute YouTube documentary on the &q...There is a 10 minute YouTube documentary on the "Max Headroom incident" that makes a case that it was a political broadcast by somebody either employed by the station or a former employee. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch/v?=_ecRz2dOx_o<br /><br />It looks like a High School AV Lab project, and the narration is bad, but you will learn a little more about what happened (not that anybody truly knows why the thing happened.)<br /><br />To me, TV/radio piracy is about actually running your own transmitter on an empty frequency and not hijacking somebody else's, unlike the Headroom incident or the "Ashtar Galactic Command" episode (1977) in the UK, where the sound transmission of a British TV station was intruded on to broadcast the 5 minute message of a space alien (!) to viewers in the Southeast of England.<br /><br />***<br /><br />Yes, with "They Live" the beings don't want to control the humans, they want to abandon their planet for ours, but in order to live better, the atmosphere has to look like Mexico City's in the 1970s. Looking back at the film I always took the story as a metaphor for gentrification, hidden elites, and yuppiedom (notice that none of the aliens are working class: all of them are powerful people.)Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099941524071948470.post-26143021092438842432011-10-03T18:39:59.021-05:002011-10-03T18:39:59.021-05:00I would have mentioned the South Park scene, but I...I would have mentioned the South Park scene, but I couldn't find a decent clip of it on YouTube that didn't include speedmetal blasting throughout. I forgot about them polluting the planet, I thought the "polluting our brains" aspect was the primary message, with the perpetrator (and victim) of the aliens' reign to be media.<br /><br />And thanks for the info about the Max Headroom incident. People tend to misuse terms like "pirating" and "hacking" and I'm certainly not exempt. I mentioned it because it bore similarity to the actions of the organization in the film.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590796377262919417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099941524071948470.post-41958423873041722832011-10-03T15:36:40.020-05:002011-10-03T15:36:40.020-05:00Actually, the Max Headroom incident is properly ca...Actually, the Max Headroom incident is properly called "broadcast signal intrusion" and having it happen on TV is pretty rare. On radio however, the BBC FM transmitter network was jacked into two times in the mid-1970s to play two hours worth of banned records, while in the Soviet Union of the 1970s-80s it was common to have shortwave radio "intruded upon" after the broadcast day was over and used to transmit banned Western rock music.<br /><br />There is a reason "Nada" is attacking the aliens; beyond their mind manipulation, the things are using industrial pollution to make the atmosphere more like their planet. You should've mentioned that the guys behind "South Park" are fans of this movie, which is why they had an episode where the two crippled children, Timmy and Jimmy, fight each other and the fight is very similar to the Piper-David beatdown.Strelnikovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660962615198939441noreply@blogger.com