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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1986651" data-attributes="member: 707">I think the problem is that Hollywood may tend to treat action movies with female leads as a kind of genre-film.  So when they create such a movie, they expect the genre itself to carry the film, rather than create a compelling story that also happens to be part of the genre.  A lot of bad sci-fi is produced this way as well.  The writers/producers expect sci-fi fans to make a movie a success just because it's sci-fi, whether or not its a bad movie.The turning point will come when Hollywood remembers that an action movie with a female lead is still, first and foremost, an action movie.  The movie needs to be written well enough and directed well enough and acted well enough that it can succeed without depending on the sexuality of a female lead to pull it through.  At that point, the female action hero movie will make a dramatic leap in quality, which will lead to a commensurate leap in monetary success.  Indeed, at that point I would go so far as to suggest the female action hero movie might become the preferred action movie, since it would have all the writing/directing/acting quality of a modern male-anchored film, with the added advantage of offering a sexy female lead.Others have already mentioned successful movies with a female lead.  Alien, Aliens, Kill Bill, etc. etc.  The key to all of them, in my mind, is that they were written primarily to be good action films, with the fact that the lead is a woman only a part of that main goal.Or at least, so it seems to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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