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#160118
Topic
Women and Action Films
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/160118/action/topic#160118
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Exactly. In all honesty, we've gotten to a point where gender doesn't matter in action films. I could point to several examples of action films carried by women or placing women in supporting roles where they're not treated like scenery, but unless the film actually has something going for it in the first place i.e. plot, solid characterisations, etc., nobody's going to see it.


You are correct.
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#159830
Topic
Women and Action Films
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159830/action/topic#159830
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
I BELIEVE THE REPORTER IS CORRECT. LOOK AT JAPANESE ANIME. MOST OF THE HEROES ARE FEMALE. ANIME HAS BEEN GAINING MORE AND MORE POPULARITY AROUND THE WORLD OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. COULD THIS JUST BE A FAD ??? SURE, BUT THAT WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE AUDIENCE OR LACK THERE OF.


The article was more about live action films than Japanese anime.

I must admit though, the critical and box office failures of Catwoman and Elektra seem to disprove the articles, especially alongside the success of stuff like Batman Begins, Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean.
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#159794
Topic
Women and Action Films
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159794/action/topic#159794
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Source: London Times
Nov 6 2005
John Harlow, Los Angeles

Goodbye Hollywood hunks, hello superbabes. Women action heroines are now more popular with cinema audiences than traditional granite-jawed heroes. Film studios are skipping over a generation of “sensitive” young men and turning to Oscar winners such as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charlize Theron and Halle Berry to woo audiences back to the multiplex.
A report for Warner Bros said a female superhero will generate about 25% more in box office receipts than a man in tights. “Young men have realised they prefer to spend two hours in the dark with a wild woman than a man,” said the report.

But the rise of the cinematic superbabe is worrying campaigners for family- oriented films. “These women are both more sexually aggressive and, helped by special effects, much more rawly violent than John Wayne or Arnold Schwarzenegger used to be,” said a spokesman for Plugged In Movie Review, a syndicated conservative radio programme.

“The old-school heroes would just gun a baddie down and then make a banal quip. The women, aided by invisible wires, keep kicking you in the head until you crumple. It’s more realistic in a way and some of them are just terrifying.”

A case in point is Aeon Flux, a Japanese comic character about to be brought to athletic life by Theron. The former model describes Flux as a “strong free-thinker”. Teenage boys are more likely to be attracted by her scanty clothing and big guns.

The film, to be released in Britain in February, will be followed by a tidal wave of post-feminist fury. Milla Jovovich, the Ukrainian model, will beat up zombies in Resident Evil: Afterlife; Kate Beckinsale will hunt werewolves in Underworld: Evolution; and Berry will play Storm again in X-Men 3. All three films are expected to earn a lot of money.

All this may be bad news for Hollywood’s vintage action heroes Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone who are all planning to revive their muscle-bound alter-egos.

Film executives have long been fretting about a lack of young male action stars.

“Many young men think playing an Arnold-type role is silly and could not do it without a patronising smirk,” said a veteran agent. “That is why today the action women of Hollywood are glowing.”

Do you think this is valid?
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#159792
Topic
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159792/action/topic#159792
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
HERE'S THE DEAL, GUYS. IF THERE ARE ANY MORE PROBLEMS IN THIS THREAD I WILL ASK JAY TO LOCK IT. THIS CAN BE A REALLY FUN THREAD, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE A PROBLEM. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO PLAY NICE, AND SOME PEOPLES OPINIONS SHOULD BE KEPT TO THEMSELVES. THAT SAID, LET'S GET BACK TO TOPIC.

SHE'S BEEN ON HERE MANY TIMES BEFORE, BUT WE JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF HER...

MONICA BELLUCCI

http://www.maximonline.com/girls/monica_bellucci/monica-bellucci-gm_l1.jpg

http://www.maximonline.com/girls/monica_bellucci/monica-bellucci-gm_l10.jpg

http://www.maximonline.com/girls/monica_bellucci/monica-bellucci-gm_l5.jpg

I think Monica's been done before, but hey, you can never have enough Monica.

http://www.blackflix.com/images/articles/sedgwick.kyra.jpg
Kyra Sedgwick

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#159483
Topic
phantom menace first thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159483/action/topic#159483
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Originally posted by: Tim Lehrbach
It's interesting hearing people talk about growing up with the prequels, now that it's over, It makes me feel like they missed out growing up on "real" Star Wars, because back in the late 70's early 80's everything was so much different than it is today, everything was much more limited back then, especially in cinema, I think it would have been a difficult task in any sense for Lucas to duplicate today the same effect the OT had on kids imaginations growing up in that period, when everything by todays standards Is so much more visually stimulating for kids.


I've heard the argument that I'm using my old expectations of the OT to compare the prequels with, so I've set my self up to be dissapointed, which is complete bullshit. I enjoy movies from all generations, and don't judge films based on if they are black & white, have outdated special effects or outdated acting or if it has 5.1 THX stereo surround or not, I can recognize weither a film I watch is enjoyable, has a good story and acting and overall is of good quality or not...I can say without hesitation, the prequels lack all the essential qualities the OT had, other than effects/technology, they just don't have the quality depth of story, enjoyable characters or imaginative dialogue including humor. It all just comes off as forced creativeness.

Well said.

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#159157
Topic
Mighty Mouse - 2007
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159157/action/topic#159157
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
a pro might be that hopefully the 1987 series will get a dvd release.

(if you cant tell from the above statement, i have seen some of them, though i was pretty young and only vaguely remember the show)

-Darth Simon


Yeah, I only vaguely remember it at best too. The episode I recall most clearly had Mighty Mouse being followed around by a cat that wanted to be his sidekick, and this got him ostracized by his fellow mice. Well, here are some quotes from that Mighty Mouse show brought to you by Internet Movie Database -


[Trapped in a Scooby-Doo parody]
Mighty Mouse: I can feel my I.Q. getting lower by the minute!

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Ski-Nose: [a villain who's obviously Bob Hope, arriving to steal a trophy] Thanks for the memorabilia!

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[as thousands of ping-pong balls fall from the ceiling... ]
Man: Only one man could have done this!
Bat-Bat: Yes, but Captain Kangaroo's been in re-runs for years.

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Mighty Mouse: Now I know why they call television a medium: There's nothing on that's either rare or well-done.
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#159154
Topic
phantom menace first thoughts
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/159154/action/topic#159154
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I saw the Phantom Menace in theaters when I was 15, really geared up. I remember feeling that the film was very hollow and flat, with a big glaring inconsistency in regards to the first trilogy: Qui-Gon Jinn. I like Liam Neeson well enough, liked him in "Darkman" and "Michael Collins" etc, but Qui-Gon was not really all that necessary. As pointed out the on the 78 Reasons to Hate Episode I list hosted by Chefelf's Nightlife site, Qui-Gon was basically a carbon copy of Obi-Wan, and he ended up being a continuity error because he was shown discovering Anakin, befriending him, freeing him, taking him to the Jedi Council, lobbying to get him accepted, etc. This was all stuff that Obi-Wan Kenobi should have been doing. Anyone who's seen Return of the Jedi has heard the ghost Obi-Wan's speech to Luke "When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot, but I was amazed at how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi. I thought I could instruct him just as well as Yoda. I was wrong." So really Episode I should have had Obi-Wan Kenobi discovering the young Anakin, befriending him, freeing him, lobbying for his right to study the way of the Jedi, etc. But instead, Obi-Wan Kenobi spent the bulk of the film lurking in the background as a 2nd banana when he should have been leading the bloody film. Had George Lucas remembered his own continuity, he would have remembered the ROTJ speech and had Obi-Wan finding Anakin etc; if he could have at least followed that the film would have been at least slightly better than it was. Because Lucas couldn't remember this, or remember the fact that Anakin's friendship with Obi-Wan is somewhat crucial to his turning to the Dark Side, Episodes II and III are even weaker; it's hard to believe they're really friends in any of their scenes because we never saw the formation of the friendship.

Jar Jar Binks, of course, was just annoying. Don't know what Lucas was smoking when he thought up that elongated waste of special effects money. The whole fight between the Gungans and those ridiculous looking robots, sort of a cross between a dog and an anorexic Daffy Duck, was just a rehash of the fight between the Ewoks and the Imperial Stormtroopers in ROTJ, yet not as much fun (assuming you enjoyed the earlier brawl).

Darth Maul might have been silly looking, but killing him off after all the hype they put into him was kind of stupid.

Pernilla August, who played Anakin's mom, looked more like the mother of Natalie Portman. Miss Pernilla probably had more chemistry with Liam Neeson than Natalie Portman had with Hayden Christensen in the follow ups.

I had nothing against Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu. Didn't have anything against it then, don't have anything against it now. I just can't find the hate for Jackson's presence, which I've seen in other corners of the net.

Jake Lloyd... meh. No fun watching that kid, though he seemed more into it than his successor Hayden Christensen. Kind of insulting how he just blew up that giant ship that looked like a donut with a hole in the middle by accident. Those star fighters weren't much to write home about either.

Ian McDiarmid seemed more restrained in his brief Sidious moments than he did in ROTJ where he seemed to be going for the highest ham factor possible. Unfortunately, that did not help the film (I still like Clive Revill better).

Looking back at it, I think Natalie Portman might have shown more feeling in her non-queen moments of Episode I than she did over the entire course of Episodes II and III.
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#158658
Topic
Mighty Mouse - 2007
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/158658/action/topic#158658
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Originally posted by: ADigitalMan
Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones


Linda Cardellini was pretty hot though as Velma.


Especially when she turned into slutty Velma. Mmmmmmm .... orange leather.

That image is forever fixed in my mind - "Who's your mommy?"

But I guess we should get back on topic and discuss the pros and cons of a new Mighty Mouse and Mighty Mouse related material. Did anyone see Ralph Bakshi's Mighty Mouse series from 1987?