Corrected entry: Lex mentions that beyond the Point of Safe Return, they would have to ditch in the ocean and would freeze to death in 3 mins. The next shot shows them flying over thick ice, which a helicopter could easily land on.
Corrected entry: The Scottish scientist eventually tells Weyland that the "drilled" hole (the laser beam) was used to power up the pyramid. If this is so then why does the hole end a convenient distance away from the pyramid. Shouldn't it have hit the pyramid, which would entail the hole ending right above or next to it?
Correction: The Scottish scientist never said the laser beam powered up the pyramid. The laser beam just created the hole so they could get to the pyramid. The pyramid was already powered up when the satellite detected the heat signature.
Corrected entry: The Italian guy sets his watch timer for 10 mins on a hunch about metric time, even though the pyramid shifted once and he had no indication that it would ever shift again.
Correction: Actually, the pyramid shifted twice. The first time after they took the weapons, and the second time after they were attacked by the Predators. It was after this second time that Sebastion had his hunch.
Corrected entry: AVP contradicts the continuity of the previous "Alien" films by having Lance Henriksen appear as "Charles Bishop Weyland". According to director Paul Anderson, Weyland is supposed to be the human inspiration for the Bishop android, later built buy his company in Weyland's image. Lance Henriksen has already played the human creator of the Bishop android (Bishop II) in Alien 3, which is set several hundred years in the future. Bishop II is undeniably human - 1) He bleeds red blood when struck in the head. 2) The fact that he is truly human is stated in the commentary from the Special Edition included with the "Alien Quadrilogy" (the statement applies to either cut of the film). 3) The novelization of Alien 3 makes it clear that Bishop II is indeed human. From page 217: "The pipe landed hard on Bishop II's head. The impact was spongy. The man staggered, twitching...Real blood poured from Bishop II's cracked skull."
Correction: It's conceivable that Bishop II is a clone of the original, hence the II. He might believe he's the original, but that doesn't make it so.
Corrected entry: Tommy Flanagan appears in a couple of shots in the hold of the Weyland ice-breaker ship just before the team descends to the whaling town in their crawlers, and he has a big looping scar that goes down to his jawline on his left cheek. A few scenes later, when the team has actually entered the pyramid in a scene with Ewan Bremner the scar appears on his right cheek, where it really is on his face. The scar switches back and forth throughout the movie, almost as if the filmmakers put the finished film together reversing the frames for certain shots to get background continuity, not necessarily character continuity...
Correction: While some shot angles may be reversed, Tommy Flanagan has scars on both cheeks from a knife fight several years ago.
Corrected entry: If the Predator ship can land on the surface and Predators can just walk out, then why did they send the first ones in landing pods?
Correction: The predators use the pyramid as a training ground. Dropping them off in pods and letting them trek through the snow and locate the pyramid is part of the training program.
Corrected entry: In the initial shot of the Predator ship, it shows some vents being used and the steam going down from the top of the ship to the floor and then spreading out. The problem is that with the lack of gravity the steam would not react like that. It would bounce back to the vent and then waft equally in all directions due to the lack of a predetermined direction that gravity would provide.
Correction: I think it can be assumed that since there is a walkway inside, there is also artificial gravity to enable use of said walkway.
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.
Corrected entry: It was nice for the predators to give Lex the spear at the end of the movie but maybe they could have given her a ride home or some clothing. She was stranded on Antarctica at night with no jacket and a long distance from where the ship was docked.
Correction: When they are on the hunt, Predators are expected to be entirely autonomous. By showing Lex the respect of offering her a trophy, they recognize her as a warrior and would expect her to be able to take care of herself.
Correction: I just finished watching the movie and had this same thought. However, after the Predator ship leaves, the camera shows the Snowcat, which is the proper name for the snow tractor, with its headlights still on. She could have driven back to where they left the ship in relative comfort.
Corrected entry: When the Predator makes the mark on Lex's face (that kind of looks like a "T") the acid used to make it, which chews through metal and armor, barely even makes a dent on her cheek.
Corrected entry: At the end of the film, the Lord Predator hands Lex a "sword". This is a complete departure from their usual procedures to give a "warrior's gift" because it is their own technology. The Predators never allow their technology to fall into human hands.
Correction: Says who? This film is a different continuity to the AvP games and comics, as well as the Predator films. There's no information on the predators of the film AVP except for the information given in the film.
Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, Lexx gets acid on her jacket and has to take it off. She only has a light shirt or sweater. Seeing as she is in Antarctica shouldn't that exposure kill her? She doesn't even appear to be cold at all.
Correction: Adrenaline will do crazy things for you. American wrestler Rulon Gardner crashed into the wilderness, swam in 44 degree water for over an hour, then survived all night in 28 degree weather and only lost a toe. I'm she that Lexx was cold, but she could probably live for a while.
Corrected entry: In the scene when the scientist figures out that the Predators built the pyramid to change every ten minutes, he figures that the reason behind this is that the Predators employ a metric-based time system. If so, how can that translate to ten minutes when minutes and hours are based on the ancient Sumerian time system of sixty (sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes to an hour)? He mentions the Mayans using a decimal system, but a decimal system wouldn't use the sixty-second minute; besides, the Sumerians and Mayans were on different continents, developed their systems independently, and never could have shared systems.
Correction: Sumerians and Mayans may have ended up on different continents, but it is said that this was the FIRST civilisation, and as such, contains a combination of all that follow, supported by the fact that the pyramid contains 3 styles of architecture. It follows that a combination of time keeping standards may have existed which diverged as the respective peoples did.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Corrected entry: The clip that shows the eggs opening & the face hugger moving around is just the same shot being played over & over again. :).
Correction: Um. No, the same shot isn't simply repeated, it's all different shots.
Corrected entry: A whaling station at the location of the movie would have been totally impractical. For six months of the year, during the winter, it would have been uninhabitable. Even now, the permanent bases on Antarctica are cut off completely for about four months of the year. During summer the base would have been extremely difficult to maintain. Even in October a modern ice breaker is needed to reach the island. Whales can't swim under ice, they need oxygen to breathe. So at best the whaling station could have operated for two or maybe three months a year. As far as I know there have never been whaling stations as far south as the movie implies.
Correction: It's possible that the people who built the whaling station misjudged the timing, since this was 100 years ago. It's possible they stayed there waiting for the ice to melt and got caught in the middle of the Alien/Predator conflict. Therefore this is not necissarily a mistake.
Corrected entry: Obviously, the Predators have made weapons out of alloys that are invulnerable to the Alien's acid blood, but in the first fight scene, the Predator slices off the tip of the Alien's tail which causes the Predator's retractable blades to melt instantly. Why the inconsistency?
Correction: The Predators have a very complicated idea of what is and isn't "sporting" so they limit how much "Alien specific" equipment they use to hunt them.
Correction: When she said they would have to ditch in the ocean and freeze to death, she did not mean this literally. She was just explaining to him the danger of leaving the PONR not saying that they would have to ditch in the ocean. He was bothering her so she wanted to shut him up.