Aliens has her beat by a few decades.
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Yeah, and Aliens is actually GOOD.
Came here to say this. Why do people forget about Ellen Ripley?!?
It's strange, because Ripley is like the #1 "I don't hate women in movies, just bad writing" excuse
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How quickly we forget Foxy Brown.
Shows the age demographic
What about Underworld ?
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La Femme Nikita (original French), Alien, and Terminator 2 all had seriously kick-ass female leads.
I wasn't allowed to watch "violent" movies as a kid, so I missed a lot of action classics like RoboCop, Rambo, etc. But there were a few exceptions we had on tape so they got watched a lot. Long Kiss Goodnight, T2, Alien,... I rewatched this one again a couple of years ago and was shocked at how violent it actually is. It finally clicked that my single Mum was making an exception for iconic kick-arse women.
The internet loves ridiculing women who slip up, or like Jennifer Lawrence in this case, are maliciously taken out of context for the purpose of ridiculing women
"I remember when I was doing 'Hunger Games,' nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldnβt work β because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead."
I'm curious how you're gonna spin that as being taken out of context.
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I think some of it is because we love our action women! Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hamilton were fucking AWESOME action stars that were unique, smart and complex; and not just "woman who acts like a douche male" type that most modern poorly written female action stars are.
And IMO they were way better actresses and better written than whatever hunger games was.
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Doesn't the internet ridicule everyone who slips up though?
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There are like...so many exceptions that she's just wrong. But Long Kiss Goodnight does rule and it's worth noting
Fuck guys, I forgot about this. I'm going to write a strongly worded tweet to Jennifer because I bet she forgot she was wrong too!
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This feels more like she was obviously exaggerating for dramatic effect versus outright lying. In a conversation, I think most would understand that she meant not very much and she was talking about the young adult genre in general.
Other female led action movies that came out in 2012 include- Brave, Underworld: Awakening, Resident Evil: Retribution, Silent Hill: Revelations... but I feel like I'm belaboring the point that many others have made by now.
Aeon Flux?
EDIT: Ah someone beat me to it.
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Aeon flux i remember being a female led action film.
Am I wrong?
Oh. Em. Gosh, I've watched that movie so many times since I was a kid, I couldn't even count. She's awesome and terrifying!
Mary Pickford "dude wut" Also Pearl White in the perils of Pauline 1914 there's probably earlier but early film and fire etc
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