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Some of the action films that started coming out in the 90's were hard to take seriously. Carrie Fisher taking command of her own rescue party and bullseyeing stormtroopers in Star Wars was funny and somewhat original for the time, but nowadays every female lead in an action film has to be as butch as the men and be capable of taking out someone two to three times their body weight, especially if the story is set in any decade before a member of NOW burned a bra. It's one of many over-used elements in pop culture these days.

On the other hand, Linda Hamilton was one of the best characters in T2 because she really did look like she had put on some muscle and she didn't act like she was as immune to pain and fatigue as Arnie's character was.

That's one of the problems I had with the alien movies. It is the type of movie where the male marines quickly get massacred (well, there was one woman among them), while the female lead ends up saving the day. Particularly galling is when the marines start getting massacred, and the support people are frozen into inaction. The female lead gets disgusted with them, takes over an armored personnel carrier and goes in and saves the marines. Aaaaaaagh!

I agree with you about Linda Hamilton...of course, when she was filming a movie near here....maybe a volcano movie...I never saw it....there were countless rumors about her living with another woman....very scandalous.....LOL

what about the gal from "alien"...she looked like she could kick a lot of arses...I understand she's about 6' tall.....