John Carpenter is a genius. I mean, the dude cast "Rowdy" Roddy Piper in a parable about consumer culture. I find this movie fascinating because on the surface, it seems like just another cheesy B-movie. But it's actually a pretty clever social statement. Rowdy Roddy plays a nameless drifter who comes to a nameless city looking for work and a patch of dirt to sleep on. He notices some strange happenings at a nearby church, and decides that snooping around in there is an awesome idea. It actually is, because he ends up stumbling upon the raddest sunglasses in movie history. They allow him to see the world for what it really is- full of subliminal messages intended to manipulate the middle class into consuming every product in sight, obeying authority, reproducing, etc. and aliens disguised as upper crust snobs. The always excellent character actor Keith David plays his reluctant sidekick. The two of them have a bizarre 5 1/2 minute long fight scene that will be parodied to death till the end of time. Eventually the aliens figure out that normal people can see them, and start laying the smack down on middle class losers. The ending is not what you'd expect. It comes totally out of left field. If I say anything more, I'd be giving too much away.
Best Line: "You... you look like your face fell in the cheese dip back in 1957." -Nada
Grade: A
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