The Resident Evil movies are awesome from that standpoint. Hell, the big two asskickers in most of the movies are Milla and (insert name of big female costar here, as it changes in all three movies).
Admittedly, the horror genre has this strange love/hate relationship with women. I could go on and on about the Final Girl trope, but I won't. But it is about subverting the power into the hands of the female who would normally be the victim.
Like Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween or Ellen Ripley in the Alien films. Admittedly there's also a bit of theory wherein that 'power' is associated with 'male-ness' in these, but that's another can of worms entirely.
On a side note, I always feel like I need to bring up The Descent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_descent) in these discussions, since it needs to be talked about more.
It's a standard haunted house trope, subverted so they can't just walk out the front door. (Replace 'haunted house' with 'deep spelunking caves').
For 90% of that film? There are no men. It's just women, caves, and some seriously screwed up stuff they have to deal with, and kick its ass.
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Admittedly, the horror genre has this strange love/hate relationship with women. I could go on and on about the Final Girl trope, but I won't. But it is about subverting the power into the hands of the female who would normally be the victim.
Like Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween or Ellen Ripley in the Alien films. Admittedly there's also a bit of theory wherein that 'power' is associated with 'male-ness' in these, but that's another can of worms entirely.
On a side note, I always feel like I need to bring up The Descent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_descent) in these discussions, since it needs to be talked about more.
It's a standard haunted house trope, subverted so they can't just walk out the front door. (Replace 'haunted house' with 'deep spelunking caves').
For 90% of that film? There are no men. It's just women, caves, and some seriously screwed up stuff they have to deal with, and kick its ass.