Quote from: NecronomIV on Jun 22, 2022, 01:12:46 PMBut the alien biochemistry thing works both ways: technically there should be a large amount of Terran biological material that is toxic/inimical or at least fundamentally incompatible to life that evolved elsewhere. We can see, to start with, the Earth atmosphere is not perfectly suited to them; they prefer to wear helmets with either some kind of filter or air-supply.
You don't see Predator's eating anything local. Well, not in the films I've seen (which isn't all of them).
The director states: "the ingenuity of a human being who won't give up, who's able to observe and interpret, basically being able to beat a stronger, more powerful, well-armed force."
The key words there are "observe" and "interpret".
Also I think your language "girly teen hero" is pretty derogatory, bordering on misogynistic. How about "heroic young woman"?
Look, regarding "girly teen hero", I come from a culture and age where we didn't have terms as misogynistic and modern liberal nonsenses. When I was young men had firm handshakes and testosterone levels were much higher than today. You won't change my viewpoints, I was raised before those silly terms were invented and propagated by mass media, and when men like Conan and Rambo were the heroes.
https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/grip-strength-millennials-weaker-handshakes-fathers-study/I described hero of this film as I see it, weak primitive girl who is fighting a high tech beast. Native Americans were stone age culture, they didn't even have metallurgy in North America, it is good question can wooden arrows without sharp metal tip even penetrate Predator's reptilian skin.
I don't know about Predator's IQ, but by looking their technology, and knowing they are capable of going on interstellar trips, they should have at least same level or higher IQ than humans. It is not like it is easy to outsmart them, but I admit their biggest weakness is their self-confidence. E.g. Jungle Hunter could easily kill Dutch numerous times, but he decided to play with him.
Girly hero in this movie is not a scientist so she won't figure out what poison/venom can harm Predator. They have some trouble breathing Earth's atmosphere, but you can't figure out which compounds are they missing. Maybe they need less Oxygen, maybe more, maybe they are missing some molecule which isn't present in Earth's atmosphere.
This girl doesn't know that there are other planets in space, that Earth exists in Universe, that there is Solar system, etc., even in Europe at that time only small amount of astronomers knew that Earth is revolving around sun. So she can't even assume this is alien from another planet, probably she will think it is some kind of God, Spirit, animal which was not discovered before, or something like that.
At the end, idea with poison/venom just won't work because we are talking about alien with green blood. From previous movies we've seen Predators in multiple environments, and nothing was toxic to them. Our girl hero will probably think that Predator is sensitive to the same venoms and poisons as her, because she can't comprehend that there are other planets with beings evolving there.