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Economic Development of Taiwan: Early Experiences and the Pacific Trade Triangle

Frank S.T. Hsiao and Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao

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Taiwan's economic growth since the 1970s has roots in its pre-war development and post-war formation...

The Spirit Over the Earth: Pneumatology in the Majority World

Gene L. Green, K.K. Yeo and Stephen T. Pardue

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Though the global centre of Christianity has been shifting south and east over the past few decades,...

Philosophy of Technology in Spanish Speaking Countries

Carl Mitcham

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This text collects and translates a broad spectrum of philosophical reflections on technology from...

Reputations

Anne McLean and Juan Gabriel Vasquez

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A taut new novel by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling - 'one of the most...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Predator (1987) in Movies

Feb 13, 2018

Predator (1987)

1987 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

8.4

(62 Ratings)

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Testosterone-drizzled SF action movie. Elite team of mercenaries - 'veer wescuers, not assahseens!' declares Arnie at one point - are dropped into Latin American jungle on shady political mission, proceed to kill everyone in sight (maybe they need to reconsider how they think of themselves), discover formidable alien big game hunter has plans to turn them all into trophies.

The cast is charismatic, the action is exceedingly well-staged, and there's a very good monster (Jean Claude van Damme was originally supposed to play the Pred but was sacked for complaining about the suit and not being beefy enough). There's also a surprisingly understated subtext about the Vietnam War, for which fighting an invisible monster in the jungle is a not-unreasonable metaphor. Not far off the quality of the other big-name 80s SF movies; inability to produce an equally memorable follow-up suggests the Predator is a one-trick pony, however.