Alien Resurrection : Why have soldiers onboard if they evacuate when actually needed?

Why have soldiers onboard if they evacuate when actually needed?

I always did find that part of the movie odd. One would think that they would be there in order to hunt down escaped xenomorphs. Instead they do not even attempt to make a stand, but simply rush to evacuation pods. There were not that many xenomorphs around anyway, so it would appear that they would have fairly good chance at making a stand. Compared to the marines in Aliens they actually had the numerical advantage after all. Considering that the ship was set to return to Earth in case of an emergency it would seem extra important to contain the situation before the ship would arrive.

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Re: Why have soldiers onboard if they evacuate when actually needed?

I've just watched this. Good point.

The story is kind of a non-starter all round but what if you're considering:

The guy with glasses that is still alive in the scene where all the others have had their chests burst - he had no idea he had anything inside him. What if the escape pods were disseminating the spawn in case Ripley did what she did.

The con of that argument though is that the xenomorph that got in the pod they blew up wouldn't have killed them if they were already hosts.

So I guess it's just dumb.

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Yep, plus the fact that the officer was throwing a grenade into the pod. I doubt he would do that if they were intended for saving the creatures.

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I'm thinking that fear of becoming a casualty was a high motivator. Those aliens are pretty resistant to firearms and close distance pretty quickly and facing something like that could kill your morale in no time flat. That, and the potential of the aliens' acid blood damaging the hull likely made escape seem like the most logical choice. Another explanation is these soldiers were only trained to deal with human threats and panicked at the sight of the aliens.

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I was wondering the same thing. I guess the soldiers evacuating was just a plot device to set the scenario so that the small group of mercenaries and Ripley got to be alone with all the Aliens on board. Otherwise the movie wouldn't be suspenseful. I mean, if all the marines had fought and killed off the 12 Aliens that escaped, one by one, and solved the problem, then the movie wouldn't have been much else beyond that. lol

I also don't understand why they needed to create 12 aliens from 12 human hosts. I mean if you want to do experimentation on a dangerous species, one or two is enough. You don't need to create 12 of them, and have a queen too. That's too much to handle.

I could ask similar questions about the movie "Alien vs. Predator 2: Requiem". Why did they only send 2 groups of National Guardsmen to that Colorado town? After they were all killed, why didn't they bring in the US Army by helicopter to deal with them? That's what would have happened in any other movie. There was no need to nuke the whole Colorado town with a nuclear weapon. The Aliens were killable with bullets so the Army could have taken care of them easily.

But these kind of movies never like to wrap up with something as simple as, "The army came and took care of all the Aliens and that's all. End of story." lol

Instead, they always exaggerate the number of Aliens as if they were out of control and too many to count, which makes no sense, because that Predator ship that crashed (what the hell was it trying to do anyway?) couldn't have been carrying that many face huggers to create an unlimited number of Aliens. lol. So they always exaggerate numbers in this movie franchise. lol



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Re: Why have soldiers onboard if they evacuate when actually needed?

I don't think the soldiers were there to protect against the xeno morphs, but against people like the pirates. Once the creatures got out it was someone else's problem and protocol was probably the equivalent of "dust off and nike 'em."

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I agree with churchr-1 thatg the soldiers were there for security of the site and not to fight the aliens.

Maybe, the new company knows how hard ot kill these Aliens are from the previous experience? It's a bit dumb that the protocol on the ship would take it back to Earth in an event of an emergency though.

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agree 100%. in fact just posted a similar thread before I saw this.

This movie sets the stage of being on a MILITARY ship with a bunch of soldiers, the first like 20 minutes the viewer naturally (especially after Aliens) is getting into the comfortable idea that POSSIBLY there will be some colonial marines like battles between soldiers and aliens...
but what do they do!? as soon as the xenomorphs escape all of the soldiers jettison off the ship on escape pods? are you kidding me :/

talk about a lame decision. It would have been a much better move to try and keep some battalions of soldiers on the ship and have some battles between marines and xenomorphs in vein of "Aliens" (1986). Talk about a missed opportunity.

It sort of shows how poorly thought out the visionaries of this film made the story. It feels like such a contrived way to have a band of characters (unlikable ones at that) fighting off the aliens.

Imagine if Resurrection had went more in the direction of like "Aliens", there might have been potential.

At any rate, sure, logically the military abandoning ship might make sense if they are aware of the experiments and uncontrollable situation once something like that happens, however in terms of plot and story its just an absurdly dumb decision

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Re: Why have soldiers onboard if they evacuate when actually needed?

I'm guessing that having the army guys immediately evacuate was just a way for the filmmakers to thumb their nose at Aliens because they didn't like that it went into an action movie direction, despite the fact that it still had more horror than Resurrection. Gave the director a chance to say, "*beep* you! I am French!"

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