In honour of Gina Carano in Haywire, we each name our favourites among the toughest women in movies.
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Landlady (Yuen Qiu) from Kung Fu Hustle! That movie cracked me up more than I expected it to, and she was a large reason. Check out her wikipedia entry, she was also in The Man with the Golden Gun. “Say, WHAT!?”
The Long Kiss Goodnight contains the awesome quote from Samuel L. Jackson’s character: “Everyone knows when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of you and umption” which I say all the time and no one ever gets the reference because no one has seen the movie.
You mentioned my favorite two days ago, Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight.
Geena Davis’s coolest move in Long Kiss Goodnight is drinking the shot by rolling the glass across her mouth with an open palm. I may or may not have attempted to copy that move for months.
My fave ass kicking female lead has to be Anne Parillaud in Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita.
In terms of pure amount of ass kicked, you have to give it up for Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill”.
Zen (Yanin Vismitananda) from “Chocolate” is my favorite! The level of ass-kickery in that movie is ridiculously and awesomely high.
Not to be one of those guys who finds a way to talk about anime in every discussion, but Mokoto Kusenagi from Ghost in the Shell is really great. For those who don’t know, she’s a robot with a human brain that assassinates people for a living.
I almost brought up Izumi Curtis from the anime series Fullmetal Alchemist because she’s such a badass. In the manga there’s a few great panels where she’s busting baddies and screaming something like “I’M A HOUSEWIFE!”
Oh, it’s in the anime as well! Seeing her go to town on a horder of guys with her house slippers still on is fantastic.
When Joe started his introduction to The Long Kiss Goodnight by talking about Geena Davis, I got really excited because I thought he was talking about Cutthroat Island.
When I heard the topic my first thought was Geena Davis like Joe.
As for a scene, Linda Hamilton doing pull-ups in Terminator 2.
We saw “Aliens” opening weekend – end of July, packed audience and the cinema’s AC was on the fritz. When those doors opened, “Ripley” stepped out and delivered THE LINE (albeit the one that gave feminists pause) and the hot, sweaty audience CHEERED as one.
Last time I said anything to the screen in a movie unless you count the closing credits for Eyes Wide Shut where I said “Thank God that f*cker’s dead so he can’t do this to us again.”
Demi Moore in “G.I. Jane.” Hear me out. Yes, the movie script is a hot mess: it’s melodramatic, cheesy, and the Seal “training” sequences are so amazingly inaccurate as to be laughable. However! Demi got into amazing shape for this film (one-armed pushups, anyone?) and her character demands to be treated as an equal, going so far as to shave her head and bunk with the guys. Our girl Jordan deals with adversity with toughness, and without crying or whining about how “the boys are being mean to me! waaaah!” And, for the big climax, (spoiler alert!) she saves Viggo Mortensen first with her brains (by figuring out the escape route he will use), and then with brawn. But, Gina Carano in “Haywire”, it’s with ‘girl appropriate’ brawn. She doesn’t develop a sudden case of “The Hulk” and carry him, she drags Viggo out of the kill zone.
“G.I. Jane” is one of my poppy field movies. Also a “guilty pleasure” movie.