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Posted: 8/19/2014 4:34:25 PM EDT

In the Movie Aliens why did they send so few Marines?

They knew that there were 70 Families at the colony and should have expected as many as 300 creatures like the single one that killed Ripley's entire crew.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:35:39 PM EDT

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Because they fart a lot.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:36:10 PM EDT

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because marines are bad-ass. one marine is worth 20 of any other branch.

Roy

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:36:31 PM EDT

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They didn't know why the colony went dark, only that it did, it was a scouting mission.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:37:11 PM EDT

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Save fuel.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:37:27 PM EDT

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Cuz you only need one Vasquez

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:37:58 PM EDT

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"The few" the proud, the Marines.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:38:14 PM EDT

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Yeah. That should be enough to get it started.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:38:20 PM EDT

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Because the movie budget only allowed for a few extras?

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:38:57 PM EDT

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I started a quote thread on this movie like 2 days ago and only 1 maybe 2 people even got it. We are getting too old fellas. The kids don't know anything these days. GD is slacking off

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:39:00 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/19/2014 4:39:22 PM EDT

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They had nukes. Just to be sure.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:40:05 PM EDT

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Because Marines are like Special Teams of football. Sure they play in the game but very rarely do they win it.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:40:17 PM EDT

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Because the corporation didn't want to spend the money to send more.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:40:35 PM EDT

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This is readily explained by Hudson early in the movie...

I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do NOT wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:40:52 PM EDT

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Cuz you only need one Vasquez

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Apparently not.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:41:25 PM EDT

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space travel isn't cheap?

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:42:34 PM EDT

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Apparently not.

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Cuz you only need one Vasquez

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Apparently not.

She lived through the grenade blast.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:43:12 PM EDT

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Sequestration.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:43:26 PM EDT

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Because it was just a "bug hunt".

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:44:42 PM EDT

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This is readily explained by Hudson early in the movie...

I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do NOT wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...

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Didn't catch that scene....

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:45:01 PM EDT

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This. Everyone (except Burke) thought it was probably just a problem with the colony's transmitter or something equally mundane. If a security system in someone's house trips,do you send SWAT? No, you send one car because 90% of the time it's nothing and 9.99% of the time that one car is sufficient.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:46:29 PM EDT

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I hated what they got wrong when the LT and burk went to visit Ripley to get her to go back, anyone know what I'm talking about?

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:46:34 PM EDT

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Seems to me they did end up sending enough.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:47:10 PM EDT

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Damn you guys are slow...

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:47:13 PM EDT

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It's doesn't seem smart to send only 1 squad to a far off planet when you don't know what's going on. Two squads at least would have left a reserve component in the ship in case the main squad ran into trouble and needed bailing out.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:47:30 PM EDT

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20 marines for a colony of 158

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:48:29 PM EDT

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Because they didn't want them confused if they had to do a count off.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:49:50 PM EDT

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One riot, one Ranger.

One infested planet, one platoon of marines.

It scales.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:50:00 PM EDT

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Didn't catch that scene....

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This is readily explained by Hudson early in the movie...

I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do NOT wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...

Didn't catch that scene....

what!? thats on the drop ship ride to the planet. Paxton baby.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:50:12 PM EDT

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This is readily explained by Hudson early in the movie...

I'm ready, man, check it out. I am the ultimate badass! State of the badass art! You do NOT wanna fuck with me. Check it out! Hey Ripley, don't worry. Me and my squad of ultimate badasses will protect you! Check it out! Independently targeting particle beam phalanx. Vwap! Fry half a city with this puppy. We got tactical smart missiles, phase-plasma pulse rifles, RPGs, we got sonic electronic ball breakers! We got nukes, we got knives, sharp sticks...

Didn't catch that scene....

It was pulled off the cutting-room floor and put into the director's cut. Personally, I didn't care for it. It seemed a bit off.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:50:37 PM EDT

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Cuz you only need one Vasquez

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She didn't age too well

That the FBI guy from Rush Hour?

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:50:49 PM EDT

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President Obama III Jr. had made a campaign promise to reduce our military presence in that area.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:51:43 PM EDT

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In the Movie Aliens why did they send so few Marines?

They knew that there were 70 Families at the colony and should have expected as many as 300 creatures like the single one that killed Ripley's entire crew.

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I'm thinking technology and future weapons will make it so smaller teams will be just as capable as battalion or brigade size units in the future.

So a smaller team that is very advanced and with lots of weaponry will be able to do things that used to take much larger units.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:51:45 PM EDT

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She didn't age too well

That the FBI guy from Rush Hour?

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Cuz you only need one Vasquez

http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/aliens-2.jpg?itok=Af9XEmi8

She didn't age too well

That the FBI guy from Rush Hour?

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:52:02 PM EDT

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More importantly, no crew manning the ship while the squad is planet-side. Oh well, free warship for the first pirate/salvage crew to stumble across it.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:52:06 PM EDT

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Cuz you only need one Vasquez

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She didn't age too well

No one does.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:53:58 PM EDT

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Cuz you only need one Vasquez

http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/aliens-2.jpg?itok=Af9XEmi8

She didn't age too well

No one does.

call me sick, call me stupid, call me whatever this is the truth.

Lea Thompson, Vivica A Fox, Susan Sarandon. Would smash until there was only a nub left.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:55:31 PM EDT

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Cuz you only need one Vasquez

http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/aliens-2.jpg?itok=Af9XEmi8

She didn't age too well

No one does.

Google recent pics of Christie Brinkley, she aged well.

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Posted: 8/19/2014 4:55:38 PM EDT

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It's doesn't seem smart to send only 1 squad to a far off planet when you don't know what's going on. Two squads at least would have left a reserve component in the ship in case the main squad ran into trouble and needed bailing out.

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They didn't know why the colony went dark, only that it did, it was a scouting mission.

It's doesn't seem smart to send only 1 squad to a far off planet when you don't know what's going on. Two squads at least would have left a reserve component in the ship in case the main squad ran into trouble and needed bailing out.

But then you would lose 2 squads, which would be twice as expensive as just losing one.

Posted: 8/19/2014 4:56:51 PM EDT

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In the Movie Aliens why did they send so few Marines?

They knew that there were 70 Families at the colony and should have expected as many as 300 creatures like the single one that killed Ripley's entire crew.

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Because it's what was on hand.

Remember they have to house those Marines in hibernation just to get to the planet.

Besides the mission was to check out the planet. They did not have a full handle on what went down since their comms with the planet ceased.

Posted: 8/19/2014 5:02:01 PM EDT

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Posted: 8/19/2014 5:02:27 PM EDT

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More importantly, no crew manning the ship while the squad is planet-side. Oh well, free warship for the first pirate/salvage crew to stumble across it.

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What's that quote from hitchhiker a guide to the galaxy,

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
And fucking empty. Really empty.

Posted: 8/19/2014 5:03:07 PM EDT

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It does seem nuts given the size of the ship and the amount of equipment in total. But hey it's just a movie...

Posted: 8/19/2014 5:03:24 PM EDT

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My interpretation has always been that W-Y funded the mission in some way. And if they wanted to bring back embryos with the possibility of getting caught, it's a lot easier to silence 20 Marines than a ship full.

Posted: 8/19/2014 5:03:26 PM EDT

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I would have brought out the sentry guns to guard the drop ship while the mission was going on.

Posted: 8/19/2014 5:10:34 PM EDT

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Wasn't it the goal of the corporation that sent them there for them to fail so they could get an alien specimen back so they could weaponize them.

"Ripley discovers that it was Burke who ordered the colonists to investigate the derelict spaceship where the Nostromo crew first encountered the Alien eggs, and that he hopes to return Alien specimens to the company laboratories where he can profit from their use as biological weapons"

Posted: 8/19/2014 5:12:04 PM EDT

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The Marines were sandbagged by Weyland-Yutani. Theirs was a sample return mission, they just did not know it.

Posted: 8/19/2014 5:24:07 PM EDT

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Based on available intelligence, a squad did seem to be overkill. Usually such minor problems are solved by no more than a Fire Team. I blame Gorman's incompetence.