The main difference is they allowed her to be sexy, even showing her nude (at least in some versions of the first movie I guess) and that's why she's fundamentally more buyable as a character because a woman's beauty is part of a woman's "strength"The bizarre thing is that the series as on OP mary sue in the form of Alice and yet I legit believe she is a better strong female character type than most female characters done nowadays. I guess because back then there was this power fantasy and "look how badass and hot my wife is" element to it while nowadays its to preach some sort of girl power...
I cant believe Im somewhat complementing the Paul Anderson movies for not being woke despite having all the ingredients to be so
An actual "strong" female character is one that is also beautiful, that's just what resonates with the human psyche, Ripley is another good comparison, we see her in her underwear in Alien and Aliens, her sexuality is never the central focus but it's allowed to be there in at least some small degree as opposed to purposely hidden away like Rey in Star Wars, which another good comparison is Leia and her "slave bikini" outfit, Leia being sexy was never the main focus of the character either, but again, they still allowed it and didn't shun it and again, they went out of their way to make Rey "non-sexualized" as possible.
Sex is just a part of life, sex is a part of love, a part of simply being a human being, a compelling human character is always at least to some small degree going to have sex appeal.
What Woke fundamentally is is a war on human beings as we really are, an attempt to shape us into something less than human, the scale of the evil that is being committed in our modern world is too much to take sometimes and it really does feel like the wrath of God himself is going to be felt soon.