What Happened in the '80s Stayed in the '80s (Or Did It?): "They Live"
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"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass," declares a character known only as Nada about halfway through John Carpenter's They Live, "and I'm all out of bubble gum." It's a great line, an imprecation of doom on the aliens who’ve taken control of America in the film, delivered immediately before Nada blasts healthy quantities of them into the abyss with a shotgun. It was, in the years after the movie came out, a line to be savored, smirked at, quoted endlessly by teenagers hanging around on Friday nights in the parking lots of gas station convenience stores back when our main form of entertainment was face to face: talking, laughing, telling tale tales, trying to score illicit beer and maybe renting a movie on VHS from a place that doubled as a head shop and tripled as a record store.
What Happened in the '80s Stayed in the '80s (Or Did It?): "They Live"
What Happened in the '80s Stayed in the '80s…
What Happened in the '80s Stayed in the '80s (Or Did It?): "They Live"
"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass," declares a character known only as Nada about halfway through John Carpenter's They Live, "and I'm all out of bubble gum." It's a great line, an imprecation of doom on the aliens who’ve taken control of America in the film, delivered immediately before Nada blasts healthy quantities of them into the abyss with a shotgun. It was, in the years after the movie came out, a line to be savored, smirked at, quoted endlessly by teenagers hanging around on Friday nights in the parking lots of gas station convenience stores back when our main form of entertainment was face to face: talking, laughing, telling tale tales, trying to score illicit beer and maybe renting a movie on VHS from a place that doubled as a head shop and tripled as a record store.