Okay, I know the movie sucked huge donkey balls, but that’s not my problem. One thing has preyed on my brain from thsi movie and I’d like someone to explain to me if there’s a huge plot hole or if I just missed something.
The Alien Queen is sitting in her little breeding pit in the pyramid.
The Predators are coming to the pyramid to kill themselves some Aliens to prove how cool they are.
There are, however, no Aliens. Just the Queen and eggs. To get Little Aliens you need to incubate the Face Huggers that come out of the Eggs inside some People.
I didn’t notice the Predators bringing along any Sacrifice Bait (ie. Humans) with them so that they could create some Aliens so that they could Kill Some Aliens.
So…
They went to hunt something that wouldn’t be there because they didn’t bring anything to make what they wanted to hunt.
Even worse than that, when the Predators first touched down on earth, they started killing every human on the surface who they ran into, which brings up two questions…
why weren’t they capturing them to use as face hugger bait (which would have cleared up the plot hole you mentioned)
what are they doing killing HUMANS when they’re supposed to be hunting Aliens? They couldn’t seem to make up their mind about whether they wanted to kill everything in their path, whether to only kill a human if it has their weapons, or to the help the humans.
Ya know, I actually enjoyed AVP (although I think the A should be removed from that title as it was NOT an Alien movie, in the sense of the series) until I started reading post-viewing threads on SMDB about it.
You see, the complex Predator society is burdened with an overly-redundant bureaucracy composed of multiple overlapping layers. The Ministry of the Interior demanded an environmental impact statement in triplicate before it would release the funds for the hunt. The Ministry of Youth Development delegated this responsibility to the Deputy Secretary of Tribal Matters, who at the time directly reported to the Secretary of Technological Prowess who was golf buddies with the Minister of Youth Development.
However, due to budget cuts, the Deputy Secretary of Tribal Matters was laterally moved to the Re-Education Department (slogan: that acid shit burns, goddamnit, so quit getting it on you!) and the near-complete environmental impact statement was left unattended on his previous desk.
As a result, the predators dispatched to Earth were told that the human bait would be sent in a separate ship just as soon as the red tape was cleared up, and that’d be any minute now.
Really, it’s pure serenditipy that there were humans who activated the pyramid when they did, or else there would have been some very sternly-worded letters to the editor of Predator Weekly.
You did see the part of the movie where the Predator’s ship blasted a hole through the ice didn’t you? I think the movie also implied that the Predetor’s also did something to make the buried pyramid radiate heat so that it would show up and lure humans to that location, where they would find the convieniantly created pathway down to the pyramid, where they could wander in and find the sacrificial chamber. As I recall, that room was pretty much the first room you came to, and you had to go through it to get to the rest of the structure.
I was with you all the way until this part of your post. Everyone knows predators don’t play golf! Sheesh! Next thing you know you’ll be telling me Klingons enjoy bowling! Or The Thing enjoys foosball!
Apparently “Klaatu barada nikto” means “Catch the frisbee, Gort!”
“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. Nine ball, corner pocket.”
Well, who’s to say that it couldn’t be for both functions? Or, since we know that Predators have still been coming to Earth in recent decades, maybe since they knew now that humans had advanced technology, they could use the temple startup as a lure, saving themselves time they’d have to spend kidnapping humans.
Or, another thought…the three Predators who landed weren’t the hunting party—they were the initial crew who was supposed to make sure the temple was up and running, and clear out any intruders so that the hunt could undisturbed. The big ship itself might have been off collecting specimens to use to breed the aliens. (The Predator-Alien hybrid chestburster seen at the end of the movie seems tie in with the notion that the aliens incorperate the DNA of their hosts into their own bodies, to better adapt to local conditions. Maybe the Predators were looking to hunt something other than human-Alien hybrids…maybe some wildllife better suited for arctic conditions, like Polar bears?)
Eh, probably not, though. Ah, well. The important thing is, I got to see hideous monsters messily chopping away at each other for two hours.
Ranchoth
(When I saw it today, there was exactly 1 other person in the theater. No kidding.)
Remember the crew that disappeared in the early 20th century?
And the activity surrounded around the camp when the heat signature was discovered. Had there been no human activity, the Predators would have left or provided some.
