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anonymous
20-07-2008, 12:57 AM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/

Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

Just watched this movie and quite frankly my jaw dropped at the beginning and barely closed until the end. No doubt it has been posted here before but I couldn't find it in the search, probably because the title is two very commonly used words. I wouldn't be surprised if that was deliberate to stop the masses finding out about this movie and discovering their secret.

steevo
20-07-2008, 02:08 AM
I heard somewhere that the title "They Live" comes from a phrase "THEY live and WE sleep" or something similar to that.
Yeah it's a great movie.

nofuture
20-07-2008, 03:45 AM
Yes it's great. I don't think I've ever seen it on TV though, pity it can't be shown at peak time on a main channel.

darketernal
20-07-2008, 03:59 AM
There is a streaming copy of it on google video. Or there was awhile back at least. It might be gone now.