From: howddgrhol@yayoo.com   
      
   I watched Aliens again after a long while. And though it is still a fun,   
   Dirty Dozen-style movie, I couldn't help but think all the way through how   
   ridiculous it was. Pretty much everything should have been done by robots.   
      
   Instead of colonists terraforming the desolate planet, it would have made   
   so much more sense to have robots doing all of the hard work and send   
   people up after it had a decent climate. Instead of the evil corporate   
   minion sending a clueless colonist family to investigate the alien crash   
   landing site, it would have made so much more sense to send a robot.   
      
   Instead of sending the quirky band of multiethnic space marines to kill the   
   aliens, it would have made so much more sense to send in a bunch of robots   
   and drones. They already had the technology to create humanlike androids,   
   so it should have been easy to flood the place with remote controlled,   
   shotgun wielding R2D2s and sat back in comfort while the metal men cleaned   
   up.   
      
   Setting all of that aside, it's still great to watch. Sigourney Weaver is   
   perfect as the scarred, dislocated survivor. Bill Paxton's jittery Hudson   
   is hilarious, and Paul Reiser turns in the best acting of his career as the   
   weaselly corporate hack. And the budget was only around $50 million in   
   today's dollars, but it looks more impressive than a lot of movies made   
   today with advanced CGI and much bigger budgets.   
      
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