10 Awesome Ways Movies Got Back At Critics

5. Siskel & Ebert Are Revealed To Be Aliens - They Live

John Carpenter's incredible sci-fi satire revolves around the efforts of a drifter, Nada (Roddy Piper), to reverse a covert alien invasion on Earth, where the aliens pose as the ruling class and attempt to control regular folk through media manipulation and capitalism.

The film's fantastically abrupt punchline of an ending sees Nada finally destroying the signal that allows the aliens to maintain their human disguises, revealing their true, skeletal form to the world.

This leads to a brief aside where a film critic, whose suited-up appearance and nasal voice are clearly intended to parody Gene Siskel of Siskel and Ebert, decries the excess of violence in modern cinema, and how directors such as Carpenter and George A. Romero "have to show some restraint."

Granted, Siskel and Ebert were both quite charitable towards these filmmakers in their heyday, so this isn't so much a particular stab at those two critics as it is those who complain about their movies being too violent.