Mortug

Corrected entry: As the crew reaches the whaling station in the beginning, the Scottish chemical engineer goes off alone into a kitchen or something of the kind. He tries to pick up a cup, which is frozen solid, and the handle breaks off in his hand. Yet at the very end, when Lex and the Predator are trying to tie off the Alien, she goes to pick up a frozen shovel and it doesn't break.

Correction: The cup breaks because the cup is frozen to the table and the handle is fragile because of the frost.

Mortug

Corrected entry: In the middle of the film, when the pyramid configures itself, trapping everyone in different compartments, Miller and the other guy are talking in one of the compartments, if you notice when the camera cuts to the other guy for the first time, the symbols on the pyramid are on the left of the guy, yet in other shots the symbols are on the right. (00:47:15)

The-Immortal

Correction: If you watch in the overhead shot there are four monuments with the same symbols on each side of the room. No wonder they appear to change sides between the shots.

Mortug

Corrected entry: When all the doors close inside the pyramid, the woman inside the sacrificial chamber tries to put a wedge under the door. There is one box by the door and one next to the wall by the door. Just after the door crushes the box, she moves back, and the box by the wall has vanished, then reappears. ( Slo-Mo maybe required ). (00:40:35)

The-Immortal

Correction: I watched it in slo-mo and as far as I can tell the box is in every shot, except for one where it simply is out of camera angle.

Mortug

Corrected entry: When we see Lex in the whaling station scene, she opens a door to see Weyland with his inhaler, if you notice when she opens the door he is holding it with his right hand, then in the following shot he is holding it with his left. (00:22:20)

The-Immortal

Correction: There is a shot of Lex with enough time for Weyland to put the inhaler in his other hand, which makes sense as he reached for the inhaler lid with the hand he held the inhaler with first.

Mortug

Corrected entry: As the crew begins their trek to the whaling camp, their faces are almost entirely exposed throughout the journey. With all her talk of safety and being prepared, you would think that Lex would encourage complete coverage against the elements. Wouldn't this result in severe frostbite in the middle of Antarctica?

Steph_Jared

Correction: Not necessarily. They travel most of the trip to the whaling camp inside a snowmobile. And covering their faces is only needed when it's windy, which it isn't in this case.

Mortug

Corrected entry: Close to the beginning, when Lex, Sebastian, and Miller are talking on the side of the boat, the life preserver in the background keeps changing from left of the hatch to the right. (00:11:00)

The-Immortal

Correction: No, if you look closely the life preserver is left to the hatch with the writing "Cabins 7-14" above it. Then you see the life preserver to the right of the hatch with the writing "Cabins 15-21" above it.

Mortug

Corrected entry: When the first Predator is killed by the Alien, how does the Alien see it, given that it's fully cloaked in invisibility? All the Alien should be able to see is Lex, but it deliberately attacks the Predator, not her. There is nothing in any Alien films to suggests that they can see in infra-red (and even though the Alien's in this film are genetically modified, there's still nothing in there that suggests they have this ability), so there's no logical way it should have been able to know exactly where the Predator was before attacking it.

Correction: The invisibility cloak doesn't make the Predator totally invisible. Also the Alien could have smelled the Predator, as they are great hunters as well.

Mortug

Corrected entry: It has been said before on this site that apparently we or Lex would not have heard the helicopter land, as it could have come from the other direction (even though the echo would have been bounced all around the high mountains), but as she was so close to the top (and the helicopter was not there a few previous shots back) surely some surface snow, from the landing helicopter, would have been blown over the edge landing on her?

Correction: In fact you can see snow coming over the edge above her in the scene after she says "Let me guess, he's suing us again?" This should indicate the possibility of a helicopter landing over her.

Mortug

Corrected entry: In the scene where they first get into the Antarctic, you can hear strong winds in the background, though snowflakes fall down really smooth, like there is no wind at all. (00:14:25)

Correction: That's not the sound of wind. It sounds more like thunder. The sound is made when the laser beam shot from the Predator's mothership hits the atmosphere and creates the tunnel in the ice.

Mortug

Corrected entry: The predators return to Earth every hundred years to train. If this is the case, then surely everyone would know about them, as the story is bound to have been passed down through generations. They say in the film that it was an honour to sacrifice yourself, so that the hunt could begin, so surely there would be some people who would want to continue the tradition?

Correction: When Sebastian tells the story about what he's learned about the Predators and the humans that worshiped them he says "But if the hunters (Predators) lost, they made sure nothing survived", in other words something went wrong and the Predators wiped out everything, killing those who would be able to continue the tradition.

Mortug

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