Originally posted by JB73 
the "too much time interacting wiht people" or whatever... thye had to develop somewhat of a story.. or were you going to translate all the hyroglyphs yourself?
Why would I even care to translate the hieroglyphs?  The previews made it clear that it was gonna be a B movie but with cool effects.  As such, the only good part of the movie was going to be the Predators fighting the Aliens.  All else was pointless, and unecessary.  Had I sat down, and it was simply a 90-minute back and forth bellybutton kicking from start to finish, I would have been satisfied.
Had they actually wanted to make this into a movie with a plot and dialogue to go with the action, they should have come up with a decent storyline and gotten a good writer to put it on paper.  As it was, it was 80% chitty dialogue and uninteresting characters with 20% alien/predator interaction.  I mean, damn, Alien 4 was better than this terd.