<font color=plum>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA!!!!!!!!
That was absolutely hilarious. I liked the movie myself, but I have to admit this guy is pretty much "dead on" with his analysis and criticisms -
especially regarding the horrid lack of continuity...not just with the other movies, but even within this movie itself.
I don't really mind the buried pyramid/battleground bit, but
surely they could have come up with a half-assed plausible explanation for part of the team being trapped in the Sacrificial Room and implanted, then trapped there for several hours until the incubation process takes place. The rest of the group could have returned to the Base Camp to figure out how they were going to save their seperated comrades, which would have given the newborn aliens time to hatch and begin to grow. The Predators could simply have delayed their arrival by two days and the continuity would have been held intact. In fact, DR even said at one point "OK, we're done for today." She then said they were going to return to Base Camp and come back tomorrow. But I guess the director then immediately forgot that would actually allow him to preserve continuity with the Alien incubation process. He could still have had the required number of "red shirts" get trapped in the Sacrificial Room as they left. After all, the French dude activated the Queen's "re awakening" by stepping on a pressure plate......and we know from hordes of mummy movies that pyramids are typically saturated with such pressure plates.
I also agree with the lack of continuity when the Queen spears the remaining Pred. In Alien 3, Ripley was
spared by a drone because it could apparantly sense or smell the embryo she was implanted with. And if drone can figure that out, surely the Queen could too.
The fight scene between "Wayne" and the Alien
was pretty awful. Just like this guy, I honostly couldn't tell what was happening through the whole "grappling sequence".
Having the Pred's weapons be affected by the acid once, but then immune to it from there on out was another major gaffe. Since this Ritualist Hunt has been occurring for thousands of years - and the Pred's come from an advanced society of Hunters - it's perfectly logical to assume they have found a metal (or developed an alloy) for their weapons that is immune to Alien Acid. I mean, geeez, the KNOW what happens when you stab one of these things....so it looks like perfecting the "non-melt-down-alloy" would have been pretty high on the priority list for the Elders who are sending the Chosen into this combat.
One point I disagree with the critic on is that I thought the spear and Alien-Head shield looked kinda cool (although I also wondered at how he Pred was able to completely wipe away ALL he Alien Acid Blood from he skull to prevent "DR"'s arm from burning off too.
One other scene in the movie that defies continuity is the "horde" of Aliens that attacked the final Pred. Exactly WHERE did ALL those Aliens come from. I didn't keep an accurate count, but there certainly seemed to be a LOT more Aliens than there were impregnated humans. I know the Pred blasted at least 4-5 Aliens with his shoulder cannon and DR killed another. Add the one which got it's head casually cut in half by Pred earlier, and you're already pretty close to the number of humans that were available for incubation. The Pred killed the one from Frenchie immediately after birth, but there were still 3 left to return to the Queen and sacrifice themselves so that her bonds would be melted away (again, WHY did it take the Queen so many thousands of years to come up with that plan...and WHY didn't the Pred's make her shackles out of the same Acid-proof metal most of their weapons were made of. After all, if the Queen does escape, their Ritualistic Hunt is totally FUBARRED....so it seems like making her shackles acid-resistant would actually have been an even higher priority than doing the same for their weapons.
Well, bottom line is that the movie was fairly enjoyable - but obviously had the potential to be SO much better as far as the storyline and action sequences go. Still, I guess I'll have to add this to the Guilty Pleasure Thread....a movie that has a lot of flaws but is still fun to watch.</font>