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Predator Fool.
Monday movie night with Alien Vs Predator.
I went to the first show so I spent less and it was a good choice (suspicious plot: there were 6 of us, and at 40, I was the youngest—what does that mean, huh?). I’d say the saga of the poor “Predator Fool” could be priced even lower than 4.5 euros a pop.
Someone else wins again in this case. I remind myself that in the first movie, Schwarzenegger beat him black and blue. In the second, big Danny Glover chopped him up with the space frisbee. In the third appearance, that is, the first encounter with the alien, the Predator made a fool of himself by losing control of the experiment. This time, he seems truly dumb. The Predator sits on his throne, presumably at home. He receives a help signal from his companion who got caught by an alien, boards his spaceship, and rushes to fix the damage. Meanwhile, the aliens have landed on Earth and are having breakfast with whatever they find. Our dethroned Predator picks some alien juice and uses it to erase traces of their extraterrestrial presence from various crime scenes. Note that the alien juice is a bottle that never seems to empty.
After a couple of skirmishes with the worms, the aliens take over the city while he is still wandering around, becoming less and less invisible and visibly struggling. Comparisons with the Italian political situation are numerous. But that's not the point, as Ferrara would say. The point is that, no matter what situation arises, the super-technological Predator cannot face or defeat his enemy. He gets beaten, tossed around the set, and even sustains a nasty injury. One would assume that a super race with unparalleled culture and technology would know how to take advantage of what they have. This poor guy, on the other hand, always loses. He’s a super predator who lacks cynicism, healthy opportunism, and is vaguely unlucky. He always misses the target and arrives a moment too late. Then, with that helmet that’s supposed to be terrifying, he can only see in front of him: so take it off, fool! The metabolism of the aliens, however, is the most interesting thing. To grow enormously in a few hours, what do they eat? What is the average survival time of an alien on an empty stomach? Maybe just not feeding them for a couple of hours would suffice to outlast them. And spend those two hours watching another movie.
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