I laughed at that scene for a different reason. Namely, that it was fakest scene I could ever recall seeing in a movie made after 1970.
I’ll throw one in - Lethal Weapon 3, where Rene Russo kicks the crap out of four or five guys. ISTR it being fairly realistic.
This is what I was thinking of some of the above posts too. I have no problem with a superhero (female or male) beating the snot out of a large group of people if the whole premise is that they have supernatural/superhuman abilities.
So, the Bionic Woman? Fine. One of Charlie’s Angels, not so much.
That.
Looks.
AWESOME.
“I’m just fuckin’ with you, daddy!”
Totally overshadowed (and yet foreshadowing) the big, triumphant reveal at the end (I don’t think it needs spoiler tags, really). Condiering everything known about River, it was pretty realistic.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphi had a storyline like this, with Sweet Dee posing as a boy for football tryouts and stunning everyone with her kicking ability, then failing miserably after removing her boy costume and bragging. It was great.
Same here. It’s odd how some people’s minds work, where they can suspend disbelief to the ends of the earth, CGI, fake punching sounds, uneven matches and all… but not when their prejudices aren’t reinforced. I see it a lot in comic books. ‘Okay so she’s a mutant alien with telekinetic abilities and super strength, but she’s beating up those scary looking bad guys? Really? What if they hit her in the vagina (assuming she’s got one)?’
As others have pointed out, the whole ‘Baddies waiting in line to be dispensed of one by one’ is such a trope, any hero of either gender is going to have trouble doing it believably (unless it’s for comic effect).
This is possibly my favorite genre of movie, if I were forced to pick one. There’s LOTS and lots of great “tough broad” movies or, as I’ve seen them described, “flamethrower feminism.”
Showgirls
Thriller: They Call Her One Eye
I Spit on Your Grave
Coffy
Lady Snowblood
Ms. 45
Red Sonja
Alien
Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill!
She Devils On Wheels
Lady Terminator
Deadly Weapons
Switchblade Sisters
Naked Kiss
Audition
Come Drink with Me
Any number of Joan of Arc movies
Almost anything starring Meiko Kaji
Jennifer Lopez in “Enough”. A classic for the ages
To me, there are two more or less distinct memes or tropes or whatever you want to call it. One is perfectly fair and fun to watch. The other is annoying. It comes down to how realistic the setting is supposed to be.
If a show or movie is basically NCIS or above, that is the whole thing is kinda superhero-ish anyway, then there’s really no reason why Ziva shouldn’t be able to kick every man’s ass on the planet (except Gibbs of course, he’s Odin). Once you get to James Bond level silliness, it’s all fun.
OTOH, if the setting is below NCIS, that is, trying to actually be realistic, then the grrrrl power thing is annoying. The little girl will almost always be smarter and more athletic than all the boys, and most of the adult men. That’s just silly pandering to some weird sensibility we have about girls’ and women’s ridiculously fragile and confusing self-esteems.
The Thai movie Chocolate features a young girl beating the crap out of several groups of men.
Yeah. It’s like she can’t be a normal human being who sometimes fucks up but sometimes is awesome. Which in turn makes you think that it’s like…women are so frail that if they DON’T succeed, it’s more hurtful.
And plus it’s like, men can fuck up and it’s funny or wacky, but a woman is held to this superhuman standard. Obviously with exceptions, but it’s just kind of painful to watch. It’s like a whole David and Goliath thing–if the man wins, it’s just sad. But it kind of pisses me off that the woman is inherently seen as weaker which is why she “has” to win.
Hey it is magnitudes less stupid than the Home-alone Three Ninjas shit where 60 pound kids beat the crap out of groups of men.
Who kicked who’s ass in that movie?
I was curious about that, too. I don’t remember a lot of ass kicking.
There was some stairs-down-pushing, though. And I think I remember some ass licking, so maybe that’s a typo.
Jessie from Saved By the Bell kicked the crap about the bad guy at the end. I think he was the bad guy, I wasn’t actually paying attention.
What about when Ripley went into mother bear mode in Aliens? The colonel marines got cut in half when they went into the nest. Something like 150 aliens are supposedly running around. But Ripley goes into the hive by herself and comes out alive. She only had to kill like 10 of 'em somehow. Then the moviemakers have to make her get all emotional and waste all the grenades and bullets on the eggs and the ovipositor instead of, y’know, shooting the queen alien in the face. No other way to write around that?
She also took a fair bit of injury through the films. She got shrapnel in the leg in the first. In the second she got sliced down the back with the T-1000 sword-arm, shot in the thigh, and skewered through the shoulder.
Which has nothing to do with how many guys she didn’t beat up and more to do with the fact that she was looney tunes (at least initially).
It’s a classic rape revenge movie; she toplessly kicks a rapist near to death with her high-heeled boots just before leaving for LA to devour the entire male population.
ISTR her being heavily pregnant.
It’s about 100 when they first enter the nest. The director’s cut includes a shot of a signpost outside the colony that gives its exact population at around 120, and you have to figure that not every colonist got implanted. Some would have died fighting off the aliens. The marines get wiped out, but they do manage to kill some aliens. They also kill a bunch when Ripley breaks them out. In the director’s cut, there’s an additional scene before that where two sets of automatic sentry guns annihilate dozens and dozens of the creatures before their ammo runs out. And even more are killed when the aliens break into the control center and they have to retreat to the drop ship pick up zone. By the time Ripley goes into the nest to rescue Newt, it’s very likely that there’s only a dozen or so aliens left on the planet.
What I meant was she was a cop; not supernatural, a god, a genetically engineered supersoldier, a computer simulation, etc.