They Live Movie Review
He paused, waiting for my reaction, taking this time to gnaw on the toothpick sticking out of his mouth like a butch woodchuck. I rolled my eyes and said “This is an idea that’s been batted around forever. What else do you have?”
“They’re aliens with weird zombie faces.”
I walked away.
This was a mistake.
He tackled me to the ground and kneed me in the groin several times while screaming for me to put his sunglasses on. If he wasn’t so fervently knee-punting my doodlebops I would have agreed immediately, but I was in for about five minutes of continuous nutcrackering before he finally calmed down. In a voice that was several octaves higher than I remember my voice being when I woke up that morning, I agreed to put them on.
What I saw changed everything.