Jennifer Lawrence was quoted implying that The Hunger Games was the first female-led action movie ... today I want to introduce you to one of my favorite exceptions: The Long Kiss Goodnight.

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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

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  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “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.

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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    • recall519@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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  • madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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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    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fun fact, the character of Ripley was written for a man, and only once the script was complete did they randomly decide to cast a woman for the part and see what happened.

      And yes I completely agree with you. Implications about how Hollywood does things are left as an exercise for the reader.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Doesn’t the internet ridicule everyone who slips up though?

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  • Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    True. There’s certain asymmetry in how internet likes to shit on women. You would have to be blind to not notice

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    • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’ve been downvoted for my feminist opinions being unforgiving towards men. I hate you for your job title, not your gender.

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  • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Internet also takes every opportunity to elevate women, warranted or not. I suppose it balances out.

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• ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Zorro’s Black Whip beats Hunger Games by 68 years.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    they will say anything, it’s literally their job on the promotion circuit

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    • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Its almost like they’re fed lines to say and…act?

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How quickly we forget Foxy Brown.

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  • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Shows the age demographic

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  La Femme Nikita (original French), Alien, and Terminator 2 all had seriously kick-ass female leads.

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• anonApril2025@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you observed Jennifer Lawrence and tried really hard to put her fairly on an intelligence tier list she would be safely in the middle. Overanalyzing what she says in any context is an utter waste of time.

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  aliens

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• AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  IIRC she was specifically talking about the young adult genre.

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• tatann@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What about Underworld ?

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• jimmux@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Kill Bill? or its inspiration, Lady Snowblood?

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• GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are like…so many exceptions that she’s just wrong. But Long Kiss Goodnight does rule and it’s worth noting

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• recall519@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Aeon Flux?

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• KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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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  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Be sure to include some kind of passive-aggressive “joke” about how everyone in Hollywood who’s left of Harvey Weinstein is stupid.

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  scroll down for good movies

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• Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Aeon flux i remember being a female led action film.

  Am I wrong?

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• LavaPlanet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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!

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  All debates aside, this is one of my all time favorites movies.

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• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Mary Pickford “dude wut”

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• Rylos24@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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• Lootboblin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Renny Harlin directed some good action packed movies in the 90s. Die Hard 2 (1990), Cliffhanger (1993), Cuththroath Island (1995), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Deep Blue Sea (1999). Geena Davis and Renny were also a couple in the mid 90s but he cheated on her with some movie assistant and they broke up.

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• Atomicbunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Cherry 2000!

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• ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  youtu.be/lNCSI59jo58

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• anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Great movie.

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• Lenny@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Doomsday 2008

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