At the end compare the shots taken from the top when the predator is lying dead over the snow; right after he dies and when the other predators are going to pick him up. His left arm changes position and his "rasta locks" are spread in a different pattern. See more...
There is a dipping bird in the background of the receiving station in Nebraska just like the one in the first Alien movie. Also, the morse code in the background says, "whoever wins. we lose." See more...
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, starring Colin Salmon, Ewen Bremner, Lance Henriksen (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller
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Numerous times while in the outside, you cannot see their breath in the cold. For example while Lexx is being persuaded on the ship by the two men to help with the expedition, because of the cold, you should be able to see their breath, but you don't. They are in Antarctica which should be very cold. [As explained several times for other movies, visible breath has nothing to do with cold. It is the humidity of the air around you that matter.]
Corrected by Twotall
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. [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 by Nick Bylsma
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. [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.]
Near the beginning of the film when we see Miller in one of the rooms in the Whaling Station, he looks at his camera to set a timer on it to take a picture of himself. If you look closely on the camera's digital display it says 12/10/2004. Later on when the group arrive in the sacrificial chamber, the scientist with the video camera is talking with the woman with the short blonde hair, the shot goes to a view from the camera, it says 10/10/2004. [Demonstrating the fact that people don't always set the digital displays on their cameras properly.]
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. [The cup breaks because the cup is frozen to the table and the handle is fragile because of the frost.]
Corrected by Mortug
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. [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 by Tailkinker
Weyland's satellite is shot in such a way that it resembles the frontal section of the Sulaco ship from "Aliens" (1986). [Actually the satellite is modeled to look like the alien queen when viewed at a certain angle, as revealed in the DVD commentary.]
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. [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.]
Corrected by Mortug
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 ). [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.]
Corrected by Mortug
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. [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.]
Corrected by Mortug
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? [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.]
Corrected by Mortug
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. [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.]
Corrected by Mortug
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. [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.]
Corrected by Mortug
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. [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.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
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? [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.]
Corrected by Mortug
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. [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.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In Predator 2, the predator's weapons (spear, etc.) were visible while in use. In AvP, the weapons (for example, the blades on their wrists that they stab people with) are invisible when the predator is. Can't have improved in the few years between Predator 2 and AvP, as the Predators are seen to have similar technology many years before in the pyramid scene. [The trilogy has taught us that predators hunt in clans, probably for competition. This could simply be a different clan than in Predator 2, with access to better weaponry.]
The whaling station should have been totally covered in snow after 100 years. [Antarctica is technically one of the driest deserts on the planet, averaging less than one inch of precipitation annually. With windspeeds on the coast (where the movie was set) reaching up to 198 MPH, most of the tiny amount of snow that does fall is simply blown around; very little of it accumulates.]
Corrected by Mobrien316
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. [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.]
Corrected by Mortug
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? [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.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
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