If Andy is strong enough to hold up the elevator with one arm for some time, then he should at least be able to physically overpower the aliens, yet he never tries to do it once, not even as a last resort.
When the characters first enter the space station, the artificial gravity briefly turns on and then off again. Shortly thereafter, they enter a room where several objects are hovering in mid-air. If the objects had momentum immediately after the gravity switched off they should be moving on a trajectory, and if not they should still be against the floor. Either way, they should not be unmoving several feet off the floor.
When Rain turns off the ship's gravity and shoots all the aliens, all their blood is suspended in midair in long, smear like patterns. Zero gravity in real life causes liquids to form into sphere shapes, not spread out into long, flat pieces like in the movie.
When Rain, Andy and Tyler had to go through the room filled with face-huggers, the temperature was raised to body temp, as temperature is one of the ways face-huggers track people, in addition to movement. As soon as the doors were opened, the room temperature would have immediately started dropping, making the effort meaningless.
The mining colony is on a planet with Saturn-like rings on it. But these can only form in a stable way on planets whose gravity is far far greater than Earth. If most of the mining operation is extremely deep underground, this might still work, but it would be unfeasible if the mines were near the surface of the planet.
In zero gravity, liquids form up into blobs and spheres due to surface tension. When Rain shoots the xenomorphs in zero gravity, their blood stays stretched out and acts unrealistically.
Since this movie takes place between parts 1 and 2 and it is shown that the Weyland-Yutani Corporation already did some extensive research on the Xenomorphs, they had no reason to send Ripley to LV-426 in Aliens (1986), because by that point they already knew what they would find and most likely knew more about the species than Ripley did. However, the project was in all probability top secret so Burke, who was not a part of weapon division, wouldn't have known about it.
No explanation is given as to how the probe found a xenomorph within the wreckage of the Nostromo. There was only one alien onboard the Nostromo, which survived the destruction of the ship only to be blown out of the shuttle's airlock by Ripley and incinerated in the shuttle's engine thrusters. To suggest the specimen survived that is ridiculous since the aliens are not indestructible and it has already been established that they can be killed by bullets and flamethrowers, or even by running them over in armoured wheeled vehicles (all of which happened in Aliens (1986)).
At the time, humans had yet to encounter and fully document Xenomorphs. There would be no way of knowing how durable the "perfect organisms" were.
At the time, humans had yet to encounter and fully document Xenomorphs. There would be no way of knowing how durable the "perfect organisms" were.
The various newborn aliens increase in mass dramatically in a short period of time, with no apparent source of nutrition or plausible biological explanation. The incubation has never been a matter of minutes or seconds, but over a period of hours at the fastest.
This is simply how the Xenomorphs and their other related aliens function. Part of why they are considered "perfect organisms" is because they require very little sustenance and reach adulthood incredibly fast. Their incubation and growth times have never been consistent either and almost always change to suit the plot.
This is simply how the Xenomorphs and their other related aliens function. Part of why they are considered "perfect organisms" is because they require very little sustenance and reach adulthood incredibly fast. Their incubation and growth times have never been consistent either and almost always change to suit the plot.
Andy is only one that is in no danger from the face-huggers. He should be going in there first by himself and grabbing them by their tails and shoving them into boxes or some other container to neutralize their threat.
Facehuggers are not defenseless animals. The one that attacked Kane in Alien (1979) spat acid onto his helmet and it took 3 grown adults to keep one from choking Ripley in Aliens (1986)
Facehuggers are not defenseless animals. The one that attacked Kane in Alien (1979) spat acid onto his helmet and it took 3 grown adults to keep one from choking Ripley in Aliens (1986)
At the start of the film, a probe finds parts of the wreckage of the Nostromo floating in space near Zeta² Reticuli following it's destruction a couple of decades earlier at the end of Alien (1979). Despite it being dubious there would be any wreckage left after what was such a monumental explosion, any parts of the ship that were not vaporised would not be simply floating in space around the area the explosion happened decades later. The force of the Nostromo's self destruct would have projected remnants of it in all directions at considerable speed, and since this is the vacuum of space, the remnants wouldn't slow down, they would simply keep flying through space at speed.
No explanation is given as to how the company scientists on Romulus reverse-engineered the alien to make facehuggers (and seemingly without eggs too). Not even the far more advanced scientists over 200 years into the future in Alien Resurrection (1997) could do that, they had to clone Ripley in order to get the queen alien embryo from her and enable it to produce eggs in order to produce facehuggers and subsequently full-size aliens. This suggests there is a queen somewhere on the station, but if there is she isn't shown or mentioned.
Rook has no way of knowing there was a sole survivor or that Ripley had blown it out the Air Lock. Ripley's log at the end of the movie never mentions blowing it out the airlock, or that it was even in the escape ship. But additionally this wasn't a transmission that Ripley made, only a log. If it was a transmission then why wouldn't she wake herself up in 6 weeks when she reached the frontier to broadcast more reports to get picked up sooner instead of floating in space for 50+ years.
Andy is Weyland/Yutani proprietary tech, how is Rain allowed to have that on a W/Y mining world? They would definitely want that back. To decommission, or have destroyed at the very least if it is obsolete. There is no way they would allow some skid row teen go around using it to access their systems. Much less a top super secret alien research station.