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This past weekend I watched Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem. It's one of the most misogynistic movies I’ve ever seen this side of American Psycho. Giger’s Alien is a pretty horrid creature with it’s perverse use of the human body as an incubator after an oral sexual assault from the infamous face hugger, the beast that dehumanizes everything around it. AVP:R was more violent and disturbing than I remember from what I caught in the theater since this time, I watched the director's cut. The first time I tried to see this in the theater one of my friends was and is a staunch opponent of violence against children, pregnant women, animals and men with equal weight given to tall.   Now they just hate all violence in movies.  The first time I tried to see this movie, he cried out with his signature, “Aw, heelll-naw!” as one of the creatures prepared to assault a pregnant woman and we left before the true nastiness could begin. We left and went to get ice cream instead.  T...

The story of the war waged by the Empire the final (first released) chapters of the Star Wars trilogy is an insurgency speculated on a galactic scale. The enemies come from within, rather than from without, and in fact are the unknown children of a major player within the regime. The first figure we are introduced to in the large terrorist cell in Star Wars is the Princess Leia Organa. Raised by Bale Organa, a major player in the old regime, rendered mute over the years by the new power structure, Organa apparently raised a fierce and single-minded young woman whose only goal is to restore the old regime at potentially great cost to herself. She did so boldly, using nearly anyone loyal to her to strike a blow against the Empire. She employs spies and eventually, with the help of a member of the Imperial Navy, secures the plans for the Empire’s ultimate weapon. The Death Star was a costly endeavor, no doubt, judging from its size and the amount of personnel required to run it. ...