Is Predator responsible for Sigourney Weaver's career?

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2005)

What we have here is the classic, "alien civilization (Predator) from another world and time traveling to earth 4000 years ago, enslaving humans (in turn teaching them how to build pyramids spawning the great African, South American, and Asian pyramid empires), and then creating another alien civilization (Alien) so it has something to hunt resulting in a battle for Earth in the present day which takes place below the ice in Antarctica" genre. I know you're thinking, "A run on sentence and that's all its about? 'Whoever wins, we lose'?" Yes, you do lose. You lose for watching it.
However.
Once you get through all the atrocious dialog, bad timing, and shoddy (at best) paintings of pyramids 2000 feet below the surface of Antarctica, you get to the meat of AVP. Detach yourself from linear time and step into movie time. This movie is essentially a prequel to the Alien series and establishes their conception as a species. Long story short, Predator creates Alien in a lab (they should have cut to a montage of Predators in lab coats looking down into a beaker with a HR Giger designed clipboard nodding, and maybe sharing a laugh with a strategically placed copy of Richard Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game" in the background all to Herman's Hermit's "I'm into Something Good"), Alien evolves and flies off into space where thousands of years later it runs into Ripley's crew and ignites Sigourney Weaver's career. I mean before 'Alien' her biggest role was as Woody Allen's date for five seconds in 'Annie Hall'.
Does Sigourney Weaver owe Predator her movie career? You be the judge. Does this movie deserve to be ranked a 10 by me? Yes. I mean come on there's almost a make-out scene between Predator and the main actress.
'Whoever wins, we lose'? Yeah about an hour and a half of your life but its worth it.