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UPDATED WITH WINNER!! Aint It Cool News, Terry Malloy, And Scream Factory Want To Give You A Copy Of THEY LIVE on Blu-ray!!
UPDATED 11/08/12...
What’s up, Contenders? Terry Malloy here reporting live from the Waterfront.
“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubble gum.”
THEY LIVE is one of the most outrageous films in director John Carpenter’s amazing filmography. A homeless and vagrant Roddy Piper uncovering a heinous alien invasion via a pair of magic sun glasses? Yeah, that happens. Carpenter takes that crazy scenario and turns it into a wildly entertaining and paranoia-filled political statement that suggests that the 1% may really be out to get us.
John Carpenter is easily my favorite living director, and quite possibly my favorite of all time.
And so it is with unbridled excitement that AICN and myself anticipate the Blu-ray release of THEY LIVE from Scream Factory on November 6th! (Keep in mind that Shout Factory are TOTALLY releasing this movie on Election Day and are 100% aware of the awesome irony inherent therein.)
With an all new high definition transfer, for the first time on Blu-ray, we get the film, a John Carpenter/”Rowdy” Roddy Piper commentary, new interviews and making of featurettes, and more!
In celebration of this awesome film, we are giving away a copy of the brand new Blu! Thanks to Scream Factory for providing the prize.
All you have to do to win is obey, consume, and sleep while we slowly and silently assume control of your petty little lives.
All you have to do to enter is the following:
- Follow the official Ain’t It Cool Twitter feed: @aintitcoolnews
- Follow MY Twitter feed: @Ed_Travis
- Send an email to my AICN account with the title: I’M ALL OUT OF BUBBLEGUM. Make sure to include your mailing address and a confirmation of your Twitter handle in case your real name and twitter accounts sound nothing alike.
I will randomly select a winner and WILL double check to make sure that winner follows both Twitter accounts and has emailed me before contacting them as the winner. If I randomly select someone who hasn’t met all requirements, I will choose another winner.
The Blu-ray Releases on Election Day, Tuesday, November 6th. So I’m going to announce the contest winner that same day! I’m sure the tension will be just as high surrounding this Blu-ray giveaway as it will be surrounding the election.
And I’m Out.
Terry Malloy AKA Ed Travis
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Oct. 15, 2012, 8:25 p.m. CST
*The steel mills were laying people off left and right. They finally went under. We gave the steel companies a break when they needed it. You know what they gave themselves? Raises.*
by lv_426
I swear, John Carpenter must be some kind of prophet... this film is more relevant to the times than ever. They Live, along with Sir Ridley's Blade Runner, Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop, and Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, they might actually be the the four most eerily prophetic science fiction films that comment on the current politically polarized and socially upheaving times we live in.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 8:56 p.m. CST
Yes, it's so wonderful living in Obama's Socialist Utopia. I think the "They Live" aliens would do a better job!
by Cureguy
I love "They Live" as a film, but you cannot raise up the poor by weakening the wealthy. Never has worked,never will.
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I don't like this one bit...not one bit
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Oct. 15, 2012, 9:11 p.m. CST
Yes, let's give more money to secret alien job creators, by taking money out of the pockets of the poor and middle class
by lv_426
As for aliens doing a better job running our planet, how do we know they aren't already doing so? Think about it. An extremely advanced alien race (which they'd have to be to traverse the stars to get here), could easily be here already. Either watching us, or perhaps interfering with our piddly human affairs. Kinda like in Star Trek, how they could study more primitive races from the Enterprise without the natives of whatever planet they were peering down upon even having a clue. Not unless the Enterprise or its crew purposely made themselves known. So yeah, I bet there are aliens at the very least watching us now. Or maybe I'm one of them and I'm just fucking with all of you?
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Oct. 15, 2012, 9:24 p.m. CST
Hey cureguy put your Hope n Change glasses back on this instant!
by baldalienprobeinhighheels
So that you are blind to the ideology slithering into our schools and replacing our unique American history, scorning our heroes, devaluing our values, and elevating the collective over the individual. We must not be allowed to notice that it has infiltrated our government at the highest levels and blurred the party lines, shifting both ever further left so that differences are almost indiscernible, trampling on our Founding Documents, the foundation of this great country. We must NOT be allowed to awaken to decide whether we are to remain a free nation or if we are to become the North American States of the United Nations. sleep........obey
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Knock knock...
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Oct. 15, 2012, 9:33 p.m. CST
Goddammit, does every thread have to turn into a political circle jerk recently?
by Mugato5150
This one wasn't even started by Herc. And you got the quote backwards.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 9:39 p.m. CST
I think it would be interesting if the sunglasses didn't really work
by Monroville
When I first saw THEY LIVE, I could appreciate the basic themes and all, but let's face it: it's goofy as shit. Did I say goofy? I meant stupider than shit. A 10 minute fight over putting on sunglasses? The Aliens control everything and put all of these subliminal messages out there so they can do... what? They aren't breeding humans for food, as warriors or as sports commentators. You get these nice glimpses of alien teleporters that are never dealt with again, and somehow a single satellite dish (that could have been some guy's movie channel reception) gets blown up and everyone can see all the aliens... I mean people with okay facial make-up and blue and purple body paint. The movie then ends on a joke with a woman screwing one of the aliens, who looks up and says "What?" Really? Now when I found out that THEY LIVE was essentially JC's inverted INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (a liberal's fear of conservative philosophy taking over, as opposed to communism consuming all independent thinking human beings), it made a bit more sense. Still, nothing is really done with the idea other than simply to present it. Yeah, I understand: low budget. But you can't tell me that a better way to deal with the subject matter still couldn't have been written up. Even so, watching it recently I thought: " What if the sunglasses did not let you see "the truth", but it enhanced your inherent paranoia and showed you what you wanted/feared to see (ie. all those "aliens" Roddy and co. killed were really humans after all)?" Kinda puts a different perspective on the movie...
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Oct. 15, 2012, 9:43 p.m. CST
Excellent! ...looking forward to that Carpenter/Hot Rod commentary
by Ted Knight
Get ready for lots of clicking cigarette lighters and excitable reminiscing of weaponized coconuts and dog collar matches with "The Hammer".
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Adding the *knock, knock* felt better for effect. Either that or I haven't recovered from the shock of naked Gyp Rosetti walking around a bloody hotel flapping his dong all over the place. And the notion of following the white-haired Biden, which would have to be a tattoo of a half-rabbit/half-Joe Biden figure on the arm of a gothy chick is just beyond silly. I don't want to turn it into a political circle jerk either. I just mentioned that the movie They Live was a cool flick that happens to be relevant to our current times. It is funny that whatever one's political affiliation is, they see themselves as Roddy Piper and Keith David, fighting for the good of America's future.
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I was talking about the bubble gum quote at the top.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 9:49 p.m. CST
Sorry to let the cat out of the bag lv_426,
by baldalienprobeinhighheels
but we're all really inside the Obamatrix which is inside another Matrix which is inside the Cube from Cube 2: Hypercube which is part of the nexus of all fiction which is all inside poor Tommy Westphall's mind.
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stretched out to a feature film, hence the 10 minute fight scene and nothing really happening for the first 1/2 hour or so.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 9:51 p.m. CST
mugato5150 -- no problem, I did mangle the Matrix quote a bit
by lv_426
I was joking so I figured no one would care. Now I'm off the chew ass and kick bubblegum... and I'm all outta ass! Oh wait, that's not right. Damn it to hell!!!!!!! Dirty Apes stole my bubblegum!!!!!!!
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I just mentioned that the movie They Live was a cool flick that happens to be relevant to our current times. It is funny that whatever one's political affiliation is, they see themselves as Roddy Piper and Keith David, fighting for the good of America's future. "
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Oct. 15, 2012, 10:05 p.m. CST
Does anybody deliver dialogue better than Buck Flower in a Carpenter flick?
by Ted Knight
"What’s wrong with having it good for a change? Now they’re gonna let us have it good if we just help ‘em. They’re gonna leave us alone, let us make some money. You can have a little taste of that good life too. Now, I know you want it. Hell, everybody does." Now, how does this pertain to Obama's America? Here, let me tell you......... just kidding
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I never really connected with Roddy Piper or even Keith David. Keith was cool enough, though I lost all respect for his character after that 10 minute alley fight. Roddy's character, on the other hand, just came across as a little paranoid, and that's BEFORE the sunglasses! Now you can say he had every reason to be, but let's face it: Roddy just isn't Kurt Russell. Combine that with Aliens that never really came across as a menace and you got a kind of "meh" movie. Yeah, you got the oppressive police, the politicians, etc... but nothing really connected in a way like how THE MATRIX did. Governments and police forces have been oppressive for 1000's of years, so I never got the "the aliens are responsible!" angle (as if after exposing and defeating the evil conservative regeanombies the now-under-human (liberal democrat)-control government wouldn't just pick up where the aliens left off).
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Oct. 15, 2012, 10:14 p.m. CST
The aliens are just like us only they look different and are more advanced. They just want to live among us as the wealthy power elite
by Autodidact
You don't see that theme a lot. It's very David Icke.
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.. the chick suddenly smashes the glass jug on Piper's head and pushes him out the window.
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like we're some giant planet scale MMO game?
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Oct. 15, 2012, 10:20 p.m. CST
Carpenter should have made THEY LIVE AGAIN instead of GHOSTS OF MARS
by Autodidact
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Oct. 15, 2012, 10:21 p.m. CST
Actually, Matrix and They Live have the same sort of subtext running beneath.
by baldalienprobeinhighheels
You can stay asleep and be taken care of by the Matrix in relatively perceived contentment or, in the case of the latter, join their ranks, sell out and be a comfortable flunky to the skull faced invaders.
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Oct. 15, 2012, 10:33 p.m. CST
stargrove, agreed! Where have all the Buck Flower gone? Long time passing.
by baldalienprobeinhighheels
I......I'm the president alright
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Oct. 15, 2012, 10:43 p.m. CST
Or how about Buck Flower fucking with them school kids in Village of the Damned?
by Ted Knight
Poking at 'em with his janitors broom until they're so pissed they force him to take a dive off a ladder onto the handle impaling himself. Poor Buck, it never ended well for him in Carpenter movies.
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So I'm watching this gorgeously shot film, which I've seen before, and forgot Spencer Tracy's character's name in the film. Know what it is? MacReady. Awesome. You can tell Sturges was a visual influence for Carpenter, too, as it has those classical, patient compositions, no overabundant use of closeups, men standing in shots with other men that emphasizes their power position within said group...
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also, Plissken has a similar moment as Tracy when they are both a little short of options and then have a quiet seated moment (almost defeated) in relative silence. Plissken in front of the collapsed building where the president crashed and for Tracy in front of a filling station (if memory serves).
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Good observation. As Carpenter said often, he was really just making westerns in other genres... Dunno if you saw my post yesterday, I forget which forum it was...but I toured the EFNY shooting locations when I was in St. Louis last year, including the bridge. Twas fun.
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'cept Jesus, of course.
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I also love the look Keith David gives the hotel clerk when he takes his key and signs for the room.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 8:26 a.m. CST
does this disc have the carpenter/piper audio track? if not pass
by MST3KPIMP
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Saw that was on last night and forgot to put it on until it was about halfway through. Great movie though. As for They Live, are people really trashing it? It's B movie sci-fi greatness. And it contains probably the best acting performance by a professional wrestler(Look, Andre's a sweet lug in The Princess Bride but his acting isn't so good). And They Still Live would be great. Be nice to find out where those personal intergalactic wormhole transporters go. Hope it's not the Tall Man's dimension from Phantasm II. Speaking of Phantasm can we please get A PROPER ENDING TO THE SERIES!!
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I remember buying all the Fangoria magazines that had the makeup and effects from this movie in them. Then I remember the total disappointment when every last one of the aliens was black and white because of those damn sunglasses. The disappoinment I felt at that alone made this film much less watchable. I re-watched it recently on Netflix, and have to say it was much better when I didn't have overblown expectations.
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And I'll tell you why, for releasing region-locked discs. I dislike region encoding generally but I can sort of understand way a major studio might want to control the distribution of big new releases. But what sense does region locking a catalogue title like this make? Absolutely none. If these discs were region free you'd sell a small but lucrative enough number to international customers (i.e. non-US) such as myself who want these discs. You'd also make these discs AVAILABLE to international customers. As it's painfully obvious you've no intention of releasing them elsewhere anyway. So you've robbed us of these releases and yourself of some sales. Nice one, dickheads. Take a leaf from a label like Twilight Time whose discs, though limited editions, are all region-free.
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Sure, it's got a great concept and cool aliens, but, barring the bubblegum line, has insipid dialogue, terrible acting and hardly any plot. Isaw this movie in the theaters on it's original release, and I almost walked out when Roddy and David beat the shit out of each other for no reason for 20 minutes. So buy all means: consume. Obey.
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You mean release a blue tinted version of a film that was never blue like Night of the Living Dead 1990, with barely any extras, sell through an obscure website, and then charge 30 something bucks? My guess is Shout region locks due to legal reasons put on them by whoever they are licensing the films from.
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At least you guys are getting some of the Hammer films on blu ray, we don't have any here in the states!
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Blu ray with Carpenter and Roddy, but no Keith? Unless he passed, then this is missing a big piece.
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Oct. 16, 2012, 12:04 p.m. CST
That's like puting perfume on a pig. You're okay, but this one
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
formaldehyde face.
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Mama don't like tattletales.
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I remember seeing this movie in the theatre - and obvious political undertones aside - it was pounding that "Big Brother" phenomena into our conciousness. Carpenter was ahead of the curve - and please don't fucking remake it; just let me dwell in Meg Foster's eyes once more.
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fact.
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What is the fucking deal with EVERY single promotion these days genetically linked to social media? Hey, I'm NOT social...posting here and a few other sites like Slashdot are about it. Don't do Twitter, FaceFuck, etc. So I guess it's a new form of reverse discrimination - if you don't drink the TwitFace Kool-Aid, you're fucked. Well, eat shit and die...I'll buy the damn movie.
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Twilight aren't perfect, I don't understand the limit of 3000 units. And I know they've passed on extras they could have easily included. I can't speak about NotLD2 as I've not seen that disc. But their Fright Night disc looks and sounds superb (albeit missing obvious extras). And, crucially for me, it's region free. Which apparently isn't a big issue for Twilight but is for some reason for Shout? I don't buy it. I think it's laziness. I think there's probably less negotiation if you agree to limit a release for whatever reason. But there's no GOOD reason, only an EASY reason. Of that I'm sure. And Re: the UK Hammer discs. I sympathise. And agree. WHY? There's no reason for these to be region locked. It's stupid. If it makes it less of a bitter pill, they're a mixed bag. Quatermass and the Pit looks utterly fabulous. GREAT print. But possibly the one I was most looking forward to, Dracula Prince of Darkness,is a shockingly awful print. "It's the best we could do," they bleat. Yes, using a pool of only ONE original print, it probably is. Apparently the idea of sourcing multiple prints and producing the best composite is something alien on this side of the pond.
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What the hell is this guy's email address? When I click on his email link I go nowhere.
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Nov. 8, 2012, 12:13 p.m. CST
Why is this blu-ray region A locked? we european readers are screwed! :(
by Gorgomel
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It has yet to arrive, and they won't provide tracking information. So far, their customer service sucks ass.
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Nov. 8, 2012, 3:48 p.m. CST
Ottumwa is a real place? I thought it was one of those made up places, like Kalamazoo.
by ATARI
Wait! What?
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Yeah, Ottumwa is real, and so is Kalamazoo and I've lived in both of them. My favorite place to live is still Austin, though. I should be moving back there soon.
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