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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1707890" data-attributes="member: 7394">And which movies are you comparing these to exactly? These are average in comparison to the average action movie.   It holds up well enough as an action movie. It definitely isn't hard scifi, neither was Pitch Black, but its entertaining.  None of which matters. [SPOILER]There is absolutely nothing in any of the alien movies that says that the aliens couldn't have been brought to earth for a specific purpose during a previous time period and then frozen. What they did say was that aliens had never overrun the Earth. At any rate, since the aliens are destroyed at the end of this movie, this doesn't contradict the continuity as we know it. The corpses are buried under so much ice that its unlikely they would be found by Ripley's time anyway. There is no contradiction here. There is nothing stating that predators only hunt in extreme heat. It may suggest that they prefer to hunt in warm areas, but nowhere is it defined that they can only hunt in such areas. In fact, it is made clear that in this movie, the temple serves as a right of passage for young predators. This is an especially brutal test that they must pass to be considered a fully matured predator. As such, it makes sense that they would be sent into an environment that they do not prefer without their primary weapons.[/SPOILER]  This isn't a hardcore scifi movie. Alien was a horror movie. Aliens was an action/horror movie. Predator was an action movie. The only thing that these have in common with hardcore science fiction is that they feature aliens, advanced technology, and spaceships. Hardcore science fiction works take technology and address the way that it affects society. These movies have never done that. I haven't seen hardcore science fiction on the big screen since the movie 2010. I'm sorry, but if you expected this to be a perfect movie then you shouldn't be surprised that you went home disappointed.</blockquote>

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