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Yeah, and Aliens is actually GOOD.

Came here to say this. Why do people forget about Ellen Ripley?!?

She was widely ridiculed for the quote with Alien as a notable example.

I think the rest of the quote was pretty accurate. She was speaking to gender bias in Hollywood and saying she was happy to be an exception, which I think was fine. But because she said something boneheadedly wrong to tee up the point, that's all anyone really remembers about it.

Alien isn't an action movie. It's a horror. Aliens, however, is absolutely an action movie.

Dude, there are at least:

• Alien
• Doomsday
• Planet Terror
• Aeon Flux (edit: not Aron Flux)
• Catwoman
• all Charlie's Angels movies
• and literally all Mills Jovovich movies

They are not all that well known, but the claim is still complete nonsense.

Edit:

• Ultraviolet
• Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
• Sucker Punch
• Salt
• Pans Labyrinth
• Lara Croft
• Kill Bill !!! (How the f did I forget Kill Bill?)

Or Terminator 2?

Absolutely does. But they wanted to introduce us to one of their favorites. Which if I must say absolutely is an underrated awesome movie. Gina Davis is great in almost everything she's ever been in. They didn't imply it was the first.

As you said aliens definitely predates it and also counts. But the statements that it was the first big female led action movie was just so ridiculous because there are so many good ones that are easy to point out. Just how that blue origin launch with the all female crew was somehow this big step for females in space. Completely ignoring and down playing all the female astronauts throughout NASA's history.

Pam Grier would like a word

Shows the age demographic

"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.

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.

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