So, as I was mentioning before, I went out and rented "They Live" tonight. Quite a bad movie, but I love the concept and all the jabs against Reagan and the conservatives. It was very thinly veiled. Very thinly veiled-- I mean, at one point they had a Reaganesque alien talking to his audience using references to "morning in America" and other stuff from his speeches, and then they even referred to the aliens as "free enterprisers." I guess this movie was trying to target the "joe-sixpack" crowd with its use of wrestlers for the main characters and the fact that much of the movie was wrestling, fighting, and shoot-em-up scenes. So they must have decided to go for the most direct and easiest of allegorical references. Still, it was fun even though meandering, boring, unscary, base, and banal. I can finally say I've seen it now.