The Thousands

“I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass.” Hold on a minute, let me just print that out and stick it on my bedroom wall right next to “Buying stuff, getting laid.” Never have I been so inspired by such bad-ass-ery! It’s a quote from the ’80s sci-fi They Live, in which ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper finds a pair of sunglasses that reveal to him a plot by aliens to enslave humanity. Screen Sect say, “One highlight of Carpenter’s consumerist satire is the absurdly long mid-film fistfight that threatens to completely derail the story.” I say, I’m there!