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Some of Those Responsible: Ray Nelson

They Live

Author capcomPosted on September 23, 2008December 12, 2023Categories Empty Balcony, Shitty Movie Sundays

After heaping backhanded praise on three John Carpenter films, never totally lauding nor completely decrying them, there is nothing ambiguous about my critique of They Live, Carpenter’s paranoid vision from 1988 of rampant consumerism and Reaganomics. It stinks. Continue reading “They Live”

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