Alien vs Predator
Today, Sam, Fred, Donovan, Shan, Marcello and I ended up heading out to the movies after we hung out at the Lonestar. We ended up seeing Alien vs Predator, a brilliant film which uses deft allegory—oh, who am I kidding...this movie is for nerdy mooks who like to see things blowed up real good. And sometimes, I'm a nerdy mook.
It was a fun movie, except for its attempt to insert the Predator culture into human history as the template—if not the source—of some religions. Now, don't get me wrong, they do fit the bill quite nicely....they're, well, predatory, they manufacture their own raison d'être by unleashing a horror on the world and then accepting the mantle of 'savior' for themselves. They expend the unwitting by convincing them to serve a greater good while refusing to abide any cost to themselves.
Oh, and when all else fails, there's always a scorched-earth policy and destroy all evidence just in case people want to bring up the past to use against them.
Perhaps this is unfair to religions. There are other groups, other phenomena for which the above all apply.
So, the best thing the movie had going for it? Two words: Raoul Pova. Click on the pic for a bigger version.
Add to the list using sex to steer the populace, I suppose. GoodLordJesusSkateboardingChrist, he's pretty.