Monday, March 1, 2010

My problem with Aliens…



That’s the movie, not aliens in general.

The movie centers around a group of futuristic Space Marines going back to the planet Ripley left in the first movie because colonists had landed there to make the planet hospitable for the rest of humanity.

Great plot, lots of action. Here’s my gripe…

Remember when the Marines first wake up and they give their CO some shit about “bug hunts” and “chickenshit outfits”? The CO gives orders about getting things ready in an unrealistic time frame and one of the female Marines…wait for it…starts to whine.

I call Bullshit.

Now me, I’d be whining on the bus all the way to Louisiana. I do not have what it takes to join any branch of the military and am the first to admit it, but there’s no way a female Marine today would even THINK about whining, especially after going through Paris Island. There, cadets could whine and complain all day long. But once they’ve passed through boot camp, Marines shouldn’t be whining. Period.

So there is no way a future Marine, male or female, would whine or complain in deep space on a mission to save colonists from possible alien life forms.

Bull. Shit.

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