Corrected entry: In many shots we can see spiderwebs that are wiped away by the characters to reveal hieroglyphs etc. As far as I am able to ascertain, no spiders (or any other member of the arachnid family) have ever been recorded in Antarctica, and therefore spiderwebs should not be present.
Tailkinker
4th Jan 2006
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
13th Jul 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: As shown in the scene where the Predator let's Weyland go after discovering that he is riddled with cancer, and thus not worthy 'game', the Predator's won't hunt something that they feel won't offer much of a challenge. So why does one kill a guy who is lying partially frozen on the floor, with no weapon whatsoever, and most likely had a large number of his bones shattered after falling down an enormous shaft? Seems inconsistent with their way of hunting. It's not as if he had previously proved to be a worthy opponent, all he did was run away and fall down a hole.
Correction: Possibly you didn't watch very carefully as he does rather more than just run away and fall down a hole. He picks up a gun and fights back - he then tries to defend himself against the Predator hand-to-hand before being knocked down the shaft. More than enough for the Predators to consider him worthy of killing.
2nd Jul 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: How does the Italian guy manage to work out that the pyramid reconfigures every ten minutes when it only happened once. For all he knew, it could reconfigure at completely random times.
Correction: He's proposing a theory that it changes at that interval, one that is subsequently proven to be correct. It could have changed at random intervals, yes, but it's a reasonable supposition, given the mechanical nature of the place, that it would take place at regular intervals and given the use of the metric system, ten minutes is a reasonable time period to suggest.
29th May 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: When the chief Predator turns the woman's face in the scene where they take the body of the dead Predator on to their ship: He turns the woman's face with his hand to look at the 'tau' mark but we are shown this in visible light where as we all know the Predators can't see for toffee in visible light, so this shot should have been shown through the Predators visible wavelength. But would he have been able to see it in his own wavelength?
Correction: Logically, yes, the Predators must be able to see such a mark. If they couldn't, there wouldn't be any reason for them to use it to mark themselves - what's the point of a mark of honour that can't be seen.
25th May 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: There is no explanation as to what initially causes the heat bloom that is detected by the satellite or how this is supposed to lure people to the area when it is presumed that this would be detected even though it is way under ground, and who or what knows that humans have reached the level of technology to detect things from space?
Correction: The heat bloom is caused by the power generators in the pyramid firing up. In case you missed the first two Predator films, the Predators have been visiting Earth on a fairly regular basis to hunt - they could hardly miss the presence of orbital satellites and, with their advanced technology, would be able to figure out their capabilities with ease.
23rd May 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: In the scene where the dead Predator is laid to rest on the slab in the space ship: shouldn't the other Predators be able to see the Alien inside him wriggling about, as they did a few times throughout the film? So therefore they would not have walked off and left him alone.
Correction: They have to intentionally scan the body to see it - it doesn't show up with their normal vision. Apparently they didn't scan their dead comrade - possibly a mistake on their part, but that's a character mistake, not a movie mistake.
23rd Feb 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: Near the end, Predator and Lex Woods escape the pyramid area via a lift and the Mother alien is just behind them. Seconds after they crash land on the surface, the mother alien is emerging from ice. How can the mother alien travel such a long tunnel within seconds without any lift while the entire pyramid area was getting nuked?
Correction: The Alien queen is ahead of them and has plenty of time to ascend the tube under her own power - it's the other aliens that are behind them.
24th Jan 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: It is shown the Predators can make metal that the Alien blood can't dissolve. In that case why didn't they make the restraints holding the Queen out of that metal? She was extremely important for the ritual so wouldn't they have used the strongest materials possible?
Correction: There are any number of plausible reasons. The acid-resistant metal may be very rare, so they can't spare enough of it to make the restraints - after all, it's shown that not all the Predator weaponry is made from it, implying that it may be quite uncommon. The possibility of the Queen getting loose may be part of the test, to force the Predators to take a proactive role in hunting down the Aliens before they can get her free. It may even be a simple oversight - honour-obsessed alien killing machines are quite capable of making mistakes.
1st Jan 2005
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: The antarctic is for the predators a very bad place to have a "training facility". In predator 2 and in the comic magazines they always says that the predators looks for warm places with conflicts. Even, in one magazine they go to some cold place and a human finds them in the boiler room.
Correction: Hardly a mistake - it's obvious why this is the case. This is more than just a training facility - it's the location for a ritual to prove themselves by going up against their most deadly prey, showing themselves to be the best. By putting the pyramid in a cold region, away from the heat they prefer, it simply increases the difficulty of the challenge even further.
29th Aug 2004
Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
Corrected entry: It has been shown in Alien 3 that the aliens won't hurt someone who has an alien inside of them. This doesn't seem to be the case in this movie. After the Predator is impregnated by the face hugger lots of aliens attack him, including the Queen. The Queen even impales him with her tail, which it seems should have killed the alien inside of him although she somehow managed to miss it.
Correction: It's shown in Alien 3 that they won't hurt someone who has a alien Queen inside them - remember, it's established in that film that Ripley's hosting a queen. Queens being obviously rather important, you can see why they'd want to preserve the host. The same consideration obviously doesn't apply to someone hosting one of the standard type of alien - after all, they can always make more of those. Queens are clearly a special case.
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Correction: True, there are no spider species that are indigenous to Antarctica, but that doesn't mean that they wouldn't be capable of surviving there, particularly in a large structure located within an ice cave. It hardly seems unreasonable to suggest that when humans visited the pyramid to be part of the sacrificial ritual, that spiders (and many other species) could have travelled with them on their ships, entered the pyramid and survived there.
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