My list of why this movie was a waste of my time. (spoilers)

Rating: 4/10 (23 August 2004)

As an avid fan of these two series, and having waited quite some time for this film I tried to ignore all the bashing it was receiving online and view it with an open mind.... Knowing these movies and having a set of expectations for this film, I present to you my list of reasons why this movie blew.
1. The tone of the movie was all wrong, these are slow, suspense-building, dark movies, not bash 'em up popcorn flicks... my prognosis-- wrong director.
2. Where are the marines??? why was this movie set nowadays when it could have been fifty times better with the space marines???
Now we'll get a little more specific-
3.Why did they choose all the actors except for Lance Henrickson to suck? Was there method to this madness?
4. Why is Mullet from Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells a geologist? Why is he even in the movie?
5.How come the Archaeologist seems to know everything? I'm an archaeology student and the facts he's provided are believable for science fiction... but then he comes to these insane epiphanies from those facts, that no person could do. Especially the whole ten minute shifting pyramid thing (speaking of which didn't some of those ten minute periods seem really short while others were tremendously long?)
6.How come Sanaa Latham never seems phased once by any of the terrible things that are occurring, I'd be soiling myself in this situation, she stays cool???
7.Ms Latham also impales two aliens (something I doubt she could do considering their exoskeletons) yet she's never burned by the acid... wouldn't it just be spewing out of them?
8.Ms Latham is kicked against a wall by a predator yet she doesn't seem hurt or even really startled (see #6)
9.How do the aliens gestate so quickly compared to the other movies? the face huggers are birthed, plant their eggs, the aliens hatch and then grow full sized in like an hour.
10.Why do there seem to be more aliens running around than there were people to birth them?
11.Why did that new predator have a crappy like dollar-store Hallowe'en mask instead of a real predator mask? And okay, I can except that maybe they make new masks now, but at the end the predator takes his mask off and his mouth looks way different than the predator from the first movies... have they evolved since we last saw them?
12. Why do the predators have new ships that look nothing like the originals? as well as a new graduated hunter sign that they put on their helmets.. I don't remember the predators from the first movies having those on their helmets.
13. In predator 1 & 2 the preds see through their masks in a blue heat-vision, yet in this movie they use a red and green vision the whole way through... until the end where suddenly we're back to blue... And why when the explorers are carrying the predator plasmaguns, can the predators see the guns in their backpacks with a perfect outline, as though the guns have their own heat signature?
14.We all know that the aliens strength comes in their numbers... yet two predators are killed instantly by a handful of aliens..especially considering that later we see a flash-back to a stupid past back story/history (don't even get me started on that blasphemy) where three preds are wooping like a thousand aliens. And one of the predators is destroyed by an aliens inner mouth going right through his helmet (don't remember them being that strong).
15. Also the predators are supposed to be the perfect hunters, calm and collected... yet here they run around in this mad killing frenzy, just wiping out everything.
16. The predator dissattaches his little wrist computer and it detonates... yet in predator 2 the predator sets his detonator and then his arm gets cut off and the explosion never occurs, suggesting that the explosives for that device are on the suit and not on the computer device. can you say continuity? Also the new throwing discs-lame
17. How come she gets a way cooler gift from the predators than Danny Glover did??? lame.
18. Such an exciting ending... ooooooh a Predalien on an predator ship... what's gonna happen? can't wait for part two.... here's part 2, the predators find the predalien and kick it's woosy @$$ because there are a lot of them and only one predalien... the end
The real question is who allowed this garbage to ruin two amazing series(es?), why did anyone allows this yo-yo to direct and why did I waste my money on this garbage?
The actors in the predator suits weren't even trying to act, the CG was terrible like all CG is (directors and SFX wizards used to know how to make believable stuff without computers watch any Stan Winston movie for examples) The queen alien danced around like an idiot dinosaur from jurassic park and then died. Predators did not teach us how to build pyramids and then get worshiped as gods, they are interstellar hunters, they hunt the indigenous life on planets, take their trophies and leave. They go to other planets for other life... they don't bring it here. This is a huge atrocity in these movie genres and now any subsequent movies will have to make-up for the mistakes made in this film! Where's Sigourney? Where's Arnold? Where's James Cameron? Where's the taste? Where's the gore? where the hell is my money???