Female Superhero movies - Has there been any good ones?
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bbanzai
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Brenda Starr?
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Bergerjacques
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Yeah, that's her. No super powers, but she does appear/appeared(?) in colorful comic panels.
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bbanzai
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Well, if they'd bothered to make the series as quality as the books, maybe that wouldn't have happened...
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I believe that Barbarella was based on a French comic.
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El Santo
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And in her specific case, I suppose we could maybe count ####ing as a superpower...
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Heroic Trio: The Executioners -- made under the assumption that what people really wanted was for all the fun and thrills to be sucked out of the first film, leaving nothing but slo-mo wirefu and overwrought melodrama.
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Barbarella may not be superpowered but she does have superhero-like adventures... I was going to mention her myself.
Another marginal case: Charlie's Angels.
As far as a pure superhero goes, My Super Ex-Girlfriend may actually be as close as we've gotten to not sucking.
I suppose we should not forget about ensemble superhero movies where there are some women on the team... in which case the best specimen is probably Trinity.
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Would Buffy the Vampire Slayer count? She's the Chosen One of an entire generation...
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I think it says a great deal about the situation that we have to keep asking each other, "Does this count? Does that count? What about this other one?" in the first place. With the boys (or with the couple of coed teams that have had movies made about them), we know damn well what counts and what doesn't, and would most likely end up seven or eight pages into the thread before we got around to trying to figure out whether marginal characters like Indiana Jones or John Rambo met the minimum criteria for acceptance as superheroes.
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Bergerjacques
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I haven't visited your site in awhile - sorry, I'll work on it - but if you have not yet had the chance to watch The Heroic Trio, it may supplant easily your opinion that My Super Ex-Girlfriend is the closest one to not sucking.
I am mostly lukewarm to it, but I've only seen the very last of it. Others have said it was pretty good to darn good. Given your interest in comic book movies, it might be worth your attention.
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Well, in the case of someone like the Bride or Buffy they don't have powers, per se; they just open up a Foster's can of whoopass. Nobody could argue that the ability to turn green, be ten feet tall and bulletproof, and throw cop cars around are actual super powers. But being really good with a sword? If the Bride is a superhero then Indiana Jones might be one as well. And to me, action heroes (James Bond, Indy, Doc Savage, etc) have highly trained human potential while superheroes (Superman, the Incredibles) do things that are completely impossible for a standard human being. Batman's in a grey area on this, because he's just a dude. But he's a billionaire playboy who built himself a gimmick to terrify psychopaths--which means he's more of a superhero than Indiana Jones would be.
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Buffy is super strong--and I don't mean Batman-strong, I mean her level of athleticism is supernatural. That's definitely a power.
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Bergerjacques
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Plus her menstruation lets her know if vampires are near.
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I'm assuming that you're referring here to Blade: Trinity, in which case: NO. NO. Seriously, better than any of the X-Men movies? (X-Men 3 may not be all that great, but I'd watch it any day over the third Blade movie.) Hell, even just in this context, the X-Men movies are better than Trinity, because the X-Men movies at least have multiple female leads (Jean Grey, Storm, Rogue...), whereas Trinity only has Abby Whistler, who honestly kind of sucks.
Also, why does Batman Returns not count? Catwoman gets more screen time than Batman does, and she's only villainous for, like, one or two scenes; otherwise, she's an anti-hero. Plus, she gets all the movie's best scenes.
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Flangepart
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Dude, that is SO dead on.
She is a great character. Nice to look at, strong and smart, whats not to love?
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