Comments on: John Carpenter’s They Live Gets a Remake

By: Utopianist

Utopianist — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:18:20 +0000

a remake would be great, first time i saw it i thaught the plot was great but so crappy made for a 80’s movie, b movie that dosnt get the audience i needs, so a remake is a great idea as long as they stikk to the plot, and make it relevant for todays consumer society! & at the end of the movie people should wake up, the game should be over, and we all burn our money, not just gonna be a movie, but history!

By: Vinny

Vinny — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:07:49 +0000

Well they are remaking this movie, Im a little worried about it. its going to be weird, this movie should not be remade in my opinion. Its just hard to see it work…the reason I say that is because the few people that actually know about the original and love it the way I do are just going to sit there and compare and its going to drive you nuts in the theater if its not completely like the original or they screw the story line up or cast the wrong people or change the story to a more modern day one. What made the original so great was the setting, the music, the great lines, and the cheap effects. and you know already those aren’t coming back..its going to be a much like a modern day conspiracy theory movie! if thats even going to be allowed. Im just scared they will ruin it. Stop rapping 80s movies. damn it! Piper is the man! who can fill his shoes in that movie?

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:40:59 +0000

I read a post on IMBD that suggested Mickey Roarke take the title role. BEST. IDEA. EVER!!!!!

By: Nada

Nada — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:05:23 +0000

It will never top the original. " I've got one that can see !!! " +theyliveandwesleep.com+ " Cable 54 " +theyliveandwesleep.com+

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:50:39 +0000

Huge Carpenter fan, but this is probably the one movie of his that begs to be remade. The subject (enslavement of the poor by an alien upperclass, partly through the use of pervasive advertising, bent on using up all our resources and destroying our world) is even more topical now, and there was frankly a lot of unmet potential with the original, which is enjoyable more for its cheese than for being a great movie. As long as they don’t water down the “message”, I’m all for it. It SHOULD have been remade during the Bush Administration, though. Cheney is DEFINITELY the alien leader.

By: Brick

Brick — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:40:50 +0000

I’d like to see a cameo from Keith and the Hot Rod. In the remake, they could be the aliens that are shown at the end of the fight scene.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:11:35 +0000

I don’t think this would be hard to remake because it was set in a pre internet time, all you would have to do is set it in the late 80’s.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:50:51 +0000

You can’t remake this movie without the Piper… and lets face this movie had the greatest sound track ever duh duh duuuuuuhhhhh duhn… You just can’t beat that! I would also like to see the fight scene over putting the sun-glasses.

By: Mike Reid

Mike Reid — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:40:10 +0000

One of my favorite movies. The Matrix was a high tech remake of this movie.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:28:30 +0000

It would be too hard to remake this film. You have to remember, They Live was set in a time that was PRE-INTERNET. It would be waaayy to hard for people to hack into signals and stuff in a post 9/11 era. I would love to see this remade and updated with new graphics and aliens, but everyone knowns it will be ruined. And when it’s ruined, it’ll make people think that the original sucks as well..

just my opinion…

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:05:01 +0000

Riding on the coattails of the “V” miniseries (well, 4 episodes so far), a “They Live!” remake would be appropriate.

By: ugn

ugn — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:23:55 +0000

I agree, watching the movie I thought, this is ripe material for a remake, this movie can really benefit from a bit of budget and modern CG. Done properly (not turned into another crappy, well, remake) this can be a a great sci-fi movie.