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The scene where the ship explodes


Apparently we're supposed to think Royce stole the alien's ship and starts to fly away in it, so the alien blows the ship up and you think Royce is dead and it was kind of funny and cool at the same time. Only Royce was never actually in the ship. So why was the ship flying away, and why did the alien blow it up?

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Royce didn't know how to fly the ship. When he saved the predator that was captured, the predator starts the ship and set the course to earth. This part makes sense.

He blew it up because it was cooler than making it land and kill the guy who was probably inside it and because the movie wanted to make you think that Royce was dead. This part was dumb, they needed to "surprise" the audience and they didn't care that the scene was going to look stupid when somebody thinks about it for more than two seconds.

Also Royce suddenly caring for the girl when he was an a$s the entire movie leaving people behind makes no sense. Royce saving the girl after being selfish the entire movie and thus getting the girl at the end was such a cliche too, I've seen it many times.

Movie was pretty good though.

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He blew it up because it was cooler than making it land and kill the guy who was probably inside it and because the movie wanted to make you think that Royce was dead. This part was dumb, they needed to "surprise" the audience and they didn't care that the scene was going to look stupid when somebody thinks about it for more than two seconds.
Could you explain that more because I don't see how it's stupid.

Royce saving the girl after being selfish the entire movie and thus getting the girl at the end was such a cliche too, I've seen it many times.
it's not like they kissed. She saved his life and was valuable to him. Like he said, he's really not a good guy. For all we know he could've missed his ride because his dilemma was not with saving Isabelle but with making sure the Berserk Predator was killed so the ship, that he knows can be controlled by wrist comps, doesn't simply circle back or blow up. Royce is a survivor, if this film got a sequel I wouldn't be surprised if he flat out told Isabelle that he didn't actually come back for her. Big deal.

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No response. Interesting.

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Yeah, the ending was very generic. I thought the two of them were going to kiss or maybe jump in the air while holding hands.

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The other Predator Blew it up because he killed the good predator and Royce some how knew not 2 get on it, he must've seen the previous pred movies.

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