# Jamie Lee Curtis, BACK!, Linda Hamilton, BACK! - Who's next? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 2, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005 "2018-08-02T22:19:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/1 "2018-08-02T22:19:21Z")
Halloween and Terminator are bringing back their baddest, who’s left that could complete the trifecta of awesome? My first thought was Sigourney Weaver, but she never actually left, and she was there for two of the crappiest Alien movies. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/2 "2018-08-02T22:21:59Z")
I’d watch a Halloween/Terminator crossover. I’m sure it would be terrible, but I’d go watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/3 "2018-08-02T22:23:29Z")
Adrienne Barbeau! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/4 "2018-08-02T22:34:11Z")
The all-new Wonder Woman, starring the original Wonder Woman! ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/5 "2018-08-02T22:38:36Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Adrienne Barbeau! ☹ She was killed for (movie) real in Escape from New York, don’t think they could pull that off. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/6 "2018-08-02T23:30:46Z")
So? Ian Malcolm was killed, buried, and his grave firebombed in the first _Jurassic Park_, and that hasn’t stopped them from putting him in every Jurassic movie since. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/7 "2018-08-02T23:59:05Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > ☹ She was killed for (movie) real in Escape from New York, don’t think they could pull that off. Aye; she was killed in a lot of her movies (_The Fog_, _EfNY_, _Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death_, etc.), but Alice Cable wasn’t killed! Besides, who cares? Adrienne Barbeau totally fucking rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/8 "2018-08-03T00:02:42Z")
Sigourney, of course. In fact, Alien 4 left her half-xenomorph, half-human clone alive and well, having adventures alongside android Winona Ryder (Man, that movie was weird) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/9 "2018-08-03T00:38:51Z")
[Jane Badler](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Fnp-bfURL._SX342_.jpg) from V. Michael Myers needs backup. [Carol Kane](https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvtmsdjtuV1r7vdm9o1_r1_500.gif) And even though _An American Werewolf in London_ doesn’t strictly fit the genre, we need Jenny Agutter. Just because. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/10 "2018-08-03T03:50:05Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > [Jane Badler](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Fnp-bfURL._SX342_.jpg) from V. Michael Myers needs backup. > > [Carol Kane](https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvtmsdjtuV1r7vdm9o1_r1_500.gif) > > And even though _An American Werewolf in London_ doesn’t strictly fit the genre, we need Jenny Agutter. Just because. Jenny Agutter was in “Logan’s Run”, so she fits the theme. Jane Fonda as a septuagenarian Barbarella! (What???) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/11 "2018-08-03T09:48:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Adrienne Barbeau! Saw her recently in the Hulu series “Dimension 404” in fine horror-light form. IIRC she even managed to survive the episode, more or less. I was going to say that I wouldn’t mind seeing Lynda Carter onscreen again (although perhaps not in her old outfit) but apparently she’s had a recurring role in _Supergirl_ which I don’t watch. And Sigourney Weaver would have to complete the triumvirate of badass women, unless someone wants to give Reba McEntire her own Tremors spinoff. At least she got her Uzi back. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/12 "2018-08-03T10:35:07Z")
Mathilda as played by Natalie Portman. ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/13 "2018-08-03T11:52:39Z")
I thought Sanaa Lathan was pretty good in that Aliens vs Predator movie. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/14 "2018-08-03T21:04:24Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Mathilda as played by Natalie Portman. For a minute there I thought you were talking about the movie _Matilda_ and were going to correct you that Mara Wilson played the title character in that movie. Then I remembered Portman’s character in \*The Professional \* was named Mathilda. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/15 "2018-08-04T02:28:58Z")
Maybe Pam Grier? Or Cynthia Rothrock? Both were badass but neither were famous enough, I think, or have that cult status. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/16 "2018-08-04T02:45:51Z")
Pam Grier has cult status but cult status isn’t what Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis have. Pam Grier also has badass status, tho, so she’d fit in fine on that account. The thing is, her heyday was over with at least half a decade before JLC’s began. I thought the OP wanted another female 1980s thriller/horror movie star, not just a female thriller/horror movie star. I thought that was the point of the “who’s next?” in the thread title, but maybe I’m wrong. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/17 "2018-08-04T05:12:23Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Pam Grier has cult status but cult status isn’t what Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis have. Pam Grier also has badass status, tho, so she’d fit in fine on that account. The thing is, her heyday was over with at least half a decade before JLC’s began. > > I thought the OP wanted another female 1980s thriller/horror movie star, not just a female thriller/horror movie star. I thought that was the point of the “who’s next?” in the thread title, but maybe I’m wrong. No, you’re correct. I was trying to think of some other actresses that had not been mentioned, that could invigorate a film genre simply by appearing in a movie. I do think Jamie Lee Curtis has a cult vibe as regards the Halloween franchise, she’s a star certainly, but some of us always think of that role first. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/18 "2018-08-04T06:08:24Z")
I saw a commercial for Murphy Brown today. Does she count? Never watched it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/19 "2018-08-11T00:06:20Z")
Lindsay Wagner reviving a team of bionic agents? ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005/20 "2018-08-11T02:18:30Z")
> [@Grestarian](#): > > Lindsay Wagner reviving a team of bionic agents? That’s a great idea! I always liked Heather Langenkamp, from the Nightmare on Elm Street movies (though not all of them). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jamie-lee-curtis-back-linda-hamilton-back-whos-next/819005.md?page=2)