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from a poster where I found the original link:
Burseq:I know a fair bit about the Yautja (Predators) and how their society works, and a bit about the Aliens themselves. To me, it is painfully clear that this guy did no background research at all, and maybe only heard about the Predator films from a mate rather than actually watched them.
If he had, he would have known that the Yautja are in fact cold blooded (only in the hottest months this happens, and this year it grows hot...) so there is absolutley no way in hell that they would touch down in a place like Antartica!
They also actually haven't had much to do with Humanity until recently. They tend to avoid human colonies as they are more dnagerous to hunt than the Aliens since we have all guns and stuff and are smarter.
Actually, thinking about it now, it is likely he has read one of the Aliens vs Predator graphic novels, as many of his plot elemts are lifted directly from it. It's one where a human farm colony was used as a hunting ground for a group of Yautja (they just so happen to have touched down at a bad time - all the Yautja hunting grounds have been used for centuries and Alien infestation is planned by a transport vessel sending out a predetermined ammount of eggs). A lot of the stuff that happens in the film happened in that - the whole ritual scarring thing, a Yautja teaming up with a woman (only because it was badly injured in a fight and they help bring him back to full health, thereby earning his gratitude), both of them teaming up to help kill a queen (which shouldn't have been there, the Yautja never allow queen eggs to touch down on a planet, lest they loose control of the degree of infestation, but the Queen on board the breeding ship managed to let a queen egg slip through by blocking the scanning device with the tip of her egg-laying thing) and before he dies he gives his partner a ritual scar using a finger from the Queen. Also, the woman in the end earns the respect of the Yautja by displaying her kills, especially the Queen, and by showing them the ritual marking on her forehead.
The Yautja themselves were handled pretty badly too - that small ammount of Aliens should have been absolutely no bother at all for them to kill in hand to hand - that's what they're trained for. A hunting party like that can be expected to deal with maybe a hundred Aliens or more. Plus, their weapons are designed for hunting those things, and so are impervious to the acid.
Seems to me he just saw the comic and thought he could make a film out of it that that he could pretend was all his own idea.
and another because I feel like adding fuel to the fire
Vyre_Sel:
Well they show up with melee weapons (which were apparently purchased from Predator Walmart or something, judging from their low quality) but the shoulder cannons were hidden in this little maze of death training dungeon thing.
No, really.
The entire treatment of the Predators reminded me of inane comic book writers who can't handle Superman's appropriate power level and so tone him down. For one thing there were only THREE of the damn things, two of which get fragged early on; and they are seperated from their high-tech edge through a lame plot device. Even when he gets the goddamn cannon, he only uses it for about five seconds before a rampaging plot devi... I mean alien hits it away.
And seriously, if you're going to do a movie where aliens and predators fight, then have them FIGHT IN YOUR DAMN MOVIE! Sheesh, I was really looking forward to a high degree of mindless extraterrestrial beatdowns with minimal plot; WHICH I WOULD HAVE BEEN FINE WITH! But as it turns out it's like 90% sh*tty plot and 10% poorly orchestrated fights (okay, "Pred" was pretty badass with his casual decapitation of the alien, but other than that...).
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