[Spam] [Vision2020] Women kicking butt (was: Aeon Flux and King Kong)

[lfalen]

I would agree on the Avengers. The rest sound like trash to me although I have never seen any of them. I'll stick to Pete's Dragon, Ann of Green Gables, Little House on the prairie and Gary Cooper movies( with exception of Fountain Head).
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From: Joan Opyr joanopyr at earthlink.net
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:31:40 -0800
To: Vision2020 Moscow vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Spam] [Vision2020] Women kicking butt (was: Aeon Flux and King Kong)

> On 15 Dec 2005, at 16:25, Chasuk wrote:
> 
> > Aeon Flux was fun, and Charlize Theron looked wonderful in black
> > leather.  I'm a self-confessed fan of women-who-kick-ass-believably
> > films.  The original Charlie's Angels and Police Woman failed the
> > believability test, but the Drew Barrymore Charlie's Angels films were
> > awesome (the first one, at least).
> >
> > My favorite women-who-kick-ass-believably film is Sin City.  I'm
> > drooling for the sequels already.  Of course, there is that scene from
> > Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in which our 98 pound heroine takes on
> > zillions of guys and wins.  I loved that scene!  On second thought, I
> > might have just described the whole movie.
> >
> > Battle Angel Alita is an anime that you might like, Joan.  James
> > Cameron is slated to make a live-action version.  Sort of a
> > Japanese-style Dark Angel.  I loved Dark Angel.  And I love Alias.
> > Then of course there is Adrenalynn, the probably-scrapped film in
> > which Christina Ricci was going to play/will play an "orphan turned
> > into a half human-half cyborg, programmed to destroy" (from IMDB).  O
> > course, Natalie Portman was great as the junior wannabe assassin in
> > The Professional...
> >
> > And Drew Barrymore is still apparently developing Barbarella!
> 
> I agree with all of Chasuk's picks, and I'll check out Angel Alita.  I 
> used to think anime was, as my brother-in-law Lew once said, Japanese 
> for "bad cartoon," but I've since mended my ways.  I got hooked on 
> Witch Hunter Robin, and Hiyao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving 
> Castle) is a genius.  Here are a few other 
> women-kicking-butt-realistically films I enjoy:
> 
> Tomb Raider, both the first and the second.
> Mr. and Mrs. Smith -- Angelina Jolie, again.
> Underworld -- Kate Beckinsale; lots of black leather; no CGI.  Very 
> realistic-looking action sequences.
> Constantine -- sure, Keanu Reeves is theoretically the star, but Tilda 
> Swinton as the Angel Gabriel owns that film.
> The Mummy Returns -- Rachel Weisz and Patricia Valasquez duking it out 
> dressed only in paint!
> Any movie starring Pam Grier
> The Avengers TV series with Diana Rigg as Emma Peel -- Dame Rigg 
> invented kicking ass.
> And, finally, how could we forget, Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Alien 
> and Aliens?  (I'm pretending that the third and fourth films in that 
> series were never made.  Why?  Because they SHOULD never have been 
> made.  Ridley Scott and James Cameron said all there was to say, and I 
> want Ripley to remain burned in my psyche as Motherhood Triumphant, the 
> Wingede Victory in outer space.)
> 
> Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
> www.joanopyr.com
> 
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