topbanner_forum
  *

avatar image

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
  • Thursday March 28, 2024, 5:44 pm
  • Proudly celebrating 15+ years online.
  • Donate now to become a lifetime supporting member of the site and get a non-expiring license key for all of our programs.
  • donate

Author Topic: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"  (Read 6744 times)

Renegade

  • Charter Member
  • Joined in 2005
  • ***
  • Posts: 13,288
  • Tell me something you don't know...
    • View Profile
    • Renegade Minds
    • Donate to Member
The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« on: October 14, 2012, 12:33 PM »
I just saw the next "They Live" movie. "Branded". It really is the next version of "They Live". (If you understand "They Live", you'll get it. If not, well...)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1368440/

If you haven't seen it, watch it.

If you understand "They Live", you'll get "Branded".

If you don't understand "They Live", well... I feel for you. Watch it again.

Wicked cool movie that really has some nasty points to make.

These are the modern (recent that is) versions of 1984. Brilliant stuff.

If you didn't like "Idiocracy", well, again... I feel sorry for you. This is another in the series of films exposing reality.
Slow Down Music - Where I commit thought crimes...

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. - John Diefenbaker

40hz

  • Supporting Member
  • Joined in 2007
  • **
  • Posts: 11,857
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2012, 12:41 PM »
Very cool! I've suspected those QR codes for years... :tellme:

Better be careful next time I get prescription sunglasses though. One mistake by an optician and my life could change forever...

----

Check out an equally paranoid but less sci-fi webisode cousin called TYRANNY - all eighteen (between 6 and 11 minute) episodes available for viewing here or on YouTube if you haven't seen it already. :up:

Here's the first 6 minute installment:


 :Thmbsup:
« Last Edit: October 14, 2012, 12:58 PM by 40hz »

Renegade

  • Charter Member
  • Joined in 2005
  • ***
  • Posts: 13,288
  • Tell me something you don't know...
    • View Profile
    • Renegade Minds
    • Donate to Member
Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2012, 12:44 PM »
Very cool! I've suspected those QR codes for years... :tellme:

Better be careful next time I get prescription sunglasses though. One mistake by an optician and my life could change forever...

If anyone understands the flick, you will. I'm certain you'll love the movie! :)
Slow Down Music - Where I commit thought crimes...

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. - John Diefenbaker

nudone

  • Cody's Creator
  • Columnist
  • Joined in 2005
  • ***
  • Posts: 4,119
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2012, 03:57 PM »
Thanks for mentioning Branded. Wouldn't have heard about it otherwise. Will watch it this week.

(Sunglasses scene in They Live might just be the most profound few minutes I've seen in a movie. Well, nothing else springs to mind right at this moment.)

40hz

  • Supporting Member
  • Joined in 2007
  • **
  • Posts: 11,857
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2012, 06:02 PM »
Thanks for mentioning Branded. Wouldn't have heard about it otherwise. Will watch it this week.

(Sunglasses scene in They Live might just be the most profound few minutes I've seen in a movie. Well, nothing else springs to mind right at this moment.)

How about the scene towards the end when the character Ivy Walker climbs over the wall in M.N. Shyamalan's The Village?  :)

Movie-The-Village.jpg

Renegade

  • Charter Member
  • Joined in 2005
  • ***
  • Posts: 13,288
  • Tell me something you don't know...
    • View Profile
    • Renegade Minds
    • Donate to Member
Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2012, 10:08 PM »
Key point in the movie -- spoiler
Quote from main character:

It used to be that brands were formed from people's desires.

Now it's the people that are being formed according to the desires of the brands.

Slow Down Music - Where I commit thought crimes...

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. - John Diefenbaker

nudone

  • Cody's Creator
  • Columnist
  • Joined in 2005
  • ***
  • Posts: 4,119
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2012, 01:43 AM »
Thanks for mentioning Branded. Wouldn't have heard about it otherwise. Will watch it this week.

(Sunglasses scene in They Live might just be the most profound few minutes I've seen in a movie. Well, nothing else springs to mind right at this moment.)

How about the scene towards the end when the character Ivy Walker climbs over the wall in M.N. Shyamalan's The Village:)
 (see attachment in previous post)

Heheh. Hmm, I'll admit I didn't guess the ending of that one. I do remember that I felt a bit cheated by it; the twist being so great it was almost insulting the audience... A Dallas Bobby Ewing Shower moment. (I suppose if I'd guessed the ending I'd have felt really smug and loved the film.)

Tinman57

  • Charter Member
  • Joined in 2006
  • ***
  • Posts: 1,702
    • View Profile
    • Donate to Member
Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2012, 07:36 PM »
Idiocracy is hilarious.  I've got it on DVD....

Renegade

  • Charter Member
  • Joined in 2005
  • ***
  • Posts: 13,288
  • Tell me something you don't know...
    • View Profile
    • Renegade Minds
    • Donate to Member
Re: The Next "They Live" - "Branded"
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2012, 08:14 PM »
Idiocracy is hilarious.  I've got it on DVD....

+1 ;D A great flick, and a favourite!
Slow Down Music - Where I commit thought crimes...

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. - John Diefenbaker