Comments on: Thursday Night Trivia: How Many Women Can One Script Sustain?

By: Shadow Boxer

Shadow Boxer — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:08:09 +0000

D.E.B.S. It’s mostly female characters, kicking ass and taking names, there are 3 men who show up enough to have names, and only one is a fully developed character. I wasn’t going to put it up because I thought it was way too obscure, but I saw it played on HBO over the weekend, so it’s no longer obscure. Fantastically fun movie!

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:00:11 +0000

Oops I forgot the subject of the post. There were some strong women in the National Treasure movies, wasn’t Nicholas Cage’s mother a kickass archeologist?

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:53:20 +0000

To be honest, the Conan Doyle canon has always left me underwhelmed.

Me too Becky, Didn’t Edgar Allen Poe start it anyway with The Purloined Letter and Murders in the Rue Morgue?

By: Brennan

Brennan — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:25:55 +0000

I just ran through a mental list of the superhero movies I’ve seen in the last decade or so. Here’s the ones that *didn’t* make the cut: Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Superman Returns, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Captain America, Jonah Hex (ew-getitoffofme), Watchmen.

The ones that sort of almost make the cut: Spiderman 1-3 (if you consider Aunt May and Gwen Stacey substantive characters).

Movies that make the cut:
X-Men. Thor.

This is sad.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:37:51 +0000

@Lurker: Oh yeah. I think I saw that on a long plane flight. It would qualify, since the OP never said they had to be good action-adventure movies. See also: “Bad Girls.”

By: lurker

lurker — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:55:18 +0000

Set It Off.

By: Verity Khat

Verity Khat — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:44:44 +0000

“Hanna” has multiple badass women! A teenage assassin, a nasty CIA agent (played by Cate Blanchett!), a hilarious teenage friend, a fierce mother, a liberal mother, and a quiet-strength grandmother. I think they outnumber the men, actually, unless you count red shirts as characters.

@MM…are we reading two different Arthur Conan Doyles? Because even in canon Holmes and Watson are CLEARLY each other’s primary life relationship (it may not be sexual, but it is primary) and the movies have that spirit. As a friend of mine blurted years ago, “How can Mary not see that Sherlock needs John SO much more than she does?!”

By: Mackey

Mackey — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:21:44 +0000

How about Aeon Flux? (not the cartoon series, but the movie that was made based on the cartoon series) You have Aeon, plus all the other kickass women as well. Sithandra, the Handler.. best of all, she’s a kickass assassin

In terms of counting “women” I reckon it’s a character who identifies as such..

(@Es, I too went through the DVD collection, unfortunately I have a lot of tv series with kickass women characters, not a lot of movie dvds)

By: Es

Es — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:11:05 +0000

(Oh, then I just noticed it was action/adventure we’re after – never mind about half the ones I suggested then!)

By: Es

Es — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:10:10 +0000

Peering at my DVD collection as it’s next to my work desk: Kill Bill? Harry Potters? The Breakfast Club? St Elmo’s Fire? Coraline? Like Water for Chocolate? (Most of Tita’s family are pretty strong characters.) Hotel New Hampshire? The World According to Garp, if you’re counting MTF transsexuals?