celeb news Jennifer Lawrence says Hunger Games was the first action movie with a female lead

[bjorn]

Kill bill?? 
Tomb Raider?? 
 

 

[fauxtography]

I mean, she kinda has a point if just referring to young adult franchises.

 

But ultimately not true in the statement in OP "action movie fronted by a female"

[Feanor]

Well, she's wrong and Katniss wasn't the first one, but she's also right and many people indeed think that boys can't identify with female leads.

It's the same in music, where everyone can enjoy male artists, but female artists have very few male listeners.

[kellysclarkson]

It is the highest grossing...

[Rafael]

Yall just loooove to drag her for everything. She has a point and at the same time, she could have worded it better but she's no wrong.

Jlaw is still an Oscar winner ICON and yall will have to deal.

 

Also, they paired Viola to her because Viola is doing the Hunger Games prequel movie.

[Jay L]

 she really thought huh. Ma'am Alien, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Kill Bill, Underworld all exist too

[dabunique]

is she on crack, did she not kno dat films existed before HG

 

i'm like why is legend Angelina trending with another legend, Sigourney and now i kno why

 

da outrage lol

[X~MoviePoP]

She probably meant AT THE TIME when hunger games was being made....

 

But once again twitter will drag her

[PieceByPiece_KC]

[dabunique]

 

[HausOfPunk]

1 minute ago, X~MoviePoP said:

She probably meant AT THE TIME when hunger games was being made....

 

But once again twitter will drag her

"At the time" like she's talking about the 1940s  I can think of 5 female led action films off the top of my head that pre-date Hunger Games by many years.

[fridayteenage]

reminds me of sam smith, just doesn't really care that much about their fields

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/how-sam-smith-got-it-wrong-11-notable-out-oscar-winners-70650/

 

 

[Saddy]

Sigourney Weaver is laughing rn

[BOOMBAYAH]

She clearly meant that it was highly unusual for someone to have done it, like in a “no one was wearing baggy jeans before the 2020s!” not her saying she was literally the first ever 

[Gorgeous]

I mean after The Hunger Games there was a boom of female leads in action movies that still carry on through this day so she's not wrong, she was the first one from this generation too. 

[Rainy Devil]

Quite stupid of her to think and say that. 

[mystery]

1 minute ago, BOOMBAYAH said:

She clearly meant that it was highly unusual for someone to have done it, like in a “no one was wearing baggy jeans before the 2020s!” not her saying she was literally the first ever 

It wasn't unusual at all and there are countless examples of it happening before her. Even Saoirse Ronan led an action movie just a year before her.

[Katamari]

The way she’s wrong on every level

[The Last of Us]

Resident Evil? Charlie’s Angels? Tomb Raider? Kill Bill? Underworld? Colombiana? Salt? Nikita? Point of No Return? 

[jqnetto]

she is right and she should say it

[thatsmydemi]

20 minutes ago, dabunique said:

 

 

Her wording is wrong. There have been other female leading roles. However, I remember that the Hunger Games came out in a really drought time for female leading roles in action movies. She was (or felt) like the only one and definitely the biggest. 

[Khal]

Maybe if she was illiterate and or English was not her first language, I'd understand the people trying to excuse her. She literally says "no one", if she wanted to say "few" or that not many people were doing it, she could have said that

[Marla Singer]

[Outlaws]

Who lies to these people on a daily basis? 

[Just a Gay on ATRL]

I think people are taking her wording way too literally. Her general point as far as I am concerned is that she’s commenting on how few female led action movies were being made at the time, and on that front, she makes a valid point. People in this thread are mostly naming the exceptions to the rule IE Aliens, Kill Bill, Aeon Flux, etc. but these are hardly enough examples to negate her overall point about female led action movies being few and far between.

 

Her specific wording and saying “no one ever” is obviously very wrong but I don’t think she was being very articulate, but I don’t think she was being problematic or saying anything crazy off base. I think some people just don’t like her tbh.