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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFx9pTXP6UE

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  • anonApril2025@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How quickly we forget Foxy Brown.

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  • tatann@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about Underworld ?

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  • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    youtu.be/lNCSI59jo58

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    aliens

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  • recall519@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • jimmux@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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      • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Kill Bill? or its inspiration, Lady Snowblood?

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  • AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    IIRC she was specifically talking about the young adult genre.

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  • GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aeon Flux?

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    scroll down for good movies

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mary Pickford “dude wut”

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  • anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Great movie.

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  • Rylos24@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Aeon flux i remember being a female led action film.

    Am I wrong?

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  • LavaPlanet@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • Lootboblin@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cherry 2000!

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  • Lenny@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Doomsday 2008

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