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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!
Be sure to include some kind of passive-aggressive “joke” about how everyone in Hollywood who’s left of Harvey Weinstein is stupid.
Mary Pickford “dude wut” Also Pearl White in the perils of Pauline 1914 there’s probably earlier but early film and fire etc
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.
What about Underworld ?
Aliens has her beat by a few decades.
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
They’re transphobes
Huh?
Cannonicly joan lambert the navigator is trans, but i dont think that annyone knows this since it is only shown through a medical file that was in some scene. I dont get why this has annything to do with the fact that people apperently ddont think rippley was a female lead since again most people dont know that about lambert.
How quickly we forget Foxy Brown.
Shows the age demographic
Are we forgetting Princess Leia in the original Star Wars Trilogy?
Leia wasn’t ‘the’ lead, she was ‘a’ lead, so there’s some debate as to whether that qualifies. But a great example and one where the lead actress herself pointed out the disrespect from J-Law, is Alien with Sigourney Weaver. Or Aliens if you don’t count the first one as action.
Besides, OP was just adding to the list of examples. There’s more. Kill Bill is also a more recent example.
Renny Harlin directed some good action packed movies in the 90s. Die Hard 2 (1990), Cliffhanger (1993), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Deep Blue Sea (1999). Geena Davis and Renny were married in the mid 90s but he cheated on her with some movie assistant and they broke up. They did 2 movies together. The other one was Cutthroat Island where Geena did her own stunts.
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
Doesn’t the internet ridicule everyone who slips up though?
The Internet also takes every opportunity to elevate women, warranted or not. I suppose it balances out.
“I remember when I was doing ‘Hunger Games,’ nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — 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.
To be fair, I don’t think she meant it literally. I could definitely see how in a conversation she meant little to none which is true.
OK, but how does what you think matter to what she said? You’re not her.
Well, to your point, everyone’s opinion in this post doesn’t matter.
That wasn’t my point at all, you just failed to understand a very simply written sentence.
Which sentence? A written quote from a verbal conversation without any context? Or your sentence where you said it does not matter what my opinion because I’m not her?
Neither, and the fact you can’t figure that out tells me that arguing with you is pointless because I’ll spend more time explaining everything I write to the two brain cells knocking about inside that otherwise empty head of yours than anything else.
Besides, you don’t strike me as the sort of person who can think critically about their own viewpoints. You know you’re right, and nothing anyone says is gonna change that. You have more in common with Trump than you’re probably willing to admit.
she’s talking about an attitude studios had at the time. you have no evidence that this exact conversation didn’t happen. fuck, you can see right wing babies cry and throw a fit right now whenever they see a woman in the lead of any movie let alone action.
That’s a pretty piss-poor attempt at an argument. She specifically states nobody had ever cast a woman as an action lead. And as for not having evidence, that fact that she didn’t deny it, and issues an apology tends to imply she fucking said it.
After #MeToo, liberals have over corrected so much that as soon as a woman says anything, you take it as fact. And if that woman is wrong, you twist her words like some MAGA chud with Trump to try and make her right all along. It’s absolutely ridiculous. You know it’s ok to admit that sometimes a woman somewhere will say some stupid shit, right?
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you completely misread the part about evidence.
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you didn’t have to go full MRA but ok that’s a choice I guess
Ah, the good old “if you don’t agree with every woman, you’re sexist” argument. It’s right up there with the “if you criticize Israel you hate Jews” on my list of viewpoints to respect.
dude in the span two comments you somehow linked believing a woman paraphrasing a conversation to defending genocide so I don’t think you’re in a position to talk about arguments
No, I linked calling someone sexist to calling someone antisemitic. If you’re gonna twist words, at least be clever about it, or find someone who is.
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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.
True. There’s certain asymmetry in how internet likes to shit on women. You would have to be blind to not notice
I’ve been downvoted for my feminist opinions being unforgiving towards men. I hate you for your job title, not your gender.
The death threats aren’t because you’re a woman, the death threats are because you’re a parasite and don’t provide anything to society by hogging up housing and keeping it from being affordable. No land lord/lady has ever provided a useful contribution to their community.
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.
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aliens
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.
Kill Bill? or its inspiration, Lady Snowblood?
