Mo Measure

[cdybedahl]

communicator wrote about the "Mo Movie Measure". Which is this:

1. there are at least two female characters with names,
2. who talk to each other
3. about something other than a man.

So, since there seem to be no disasters going on and the builders are preventing any concentration anyway, I thought I'd look through the movies I own, have watched and will admit to owning and see which ones pass or fail.

A Better Tomorrow	Fail
Alien	Pass
Aliens	Pass
Alien 3	Fail
Alien Resurrection	Pass
Barbarella	Pass
Batman Returns	Fail
Being John Malkovich	Pass (with canonical lesbian couple)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure	Fail
Blade Runner	Fail, I think
Blow Dry	Pass (WCLC)
Bound	Pass (WCLC)
Bring It On	Pass
But I'm A Cheerleader	Pass (WCLC)
Charlie's Angels	Pass
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle	Pass
Clockwork Orange	Fail
Conan the Barbarian	Fail
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	Pass
Cruel Intentions	Pass
Dark City	Fail
Donnie Darko	Pass, I think
Dune	Pass
Fight Club	Fail
Fucking Åmål	Pass (WCLC)
Galaxy Quest	Fail
Gia	Pass (WCLC)
Hair	Fail, I think
Hardboiled	Fail
Heathers	Pass
Hellraiser	Pass, I think
Highlander	Fail
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1976)	Fail, I think
Josie and the Pussycats	Pass (WalmostCLC)
Kill Bill 1	Pass
Kill Bill 2	Pass
L.A. Confidential	Fail, I think
LA Story	Fail
Meet the Feebles	Out Of Bounds
Nikita	Fail
Peter's Friends	Pass
Pitch Black	Pass
Predator	Fail
Princess Mononoke	Pass, I think
Resident Evil	Pass
Scanners	Fail
Scream	Pass
Scream 2	Pass
Sense and Sensibility	Pass, I think
Soul Survivors	Pass (WCLC)
Spaceballs	Pass
Subway	Pass (barely)
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension	Fail
The Bone Collector	Fail
The Company of Wolves	Pass
The Fifth Element	Fail
The Haunting	Pass
The Mummy	Fail
The Mummy Returns	Pass
The Princess Bride	Fail, I think
The Prophecy	Fail
The Sticky Fingers of Time	Pass (WCLCs)
The Usual Suspects	Fail
Tipping the Velvet	Pass (WlotsCLCs)
X-Men	Pass
X-Men 2	Pass

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Now, whatever makes me think that your film collection is biased towards canonical Lesbian couples...

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Actually, half of those I bought because Jenny wanted them. Blow Dry Fucking Åmål and Tipping the Velvet aren't movies I would've bought for myself, since they're mostly about the kind of problems I find depressingly everyday. Not that I minded watching them (Tipping the Velvet in particular), but generally I prefer movies where the women are less victim-like.

[jennyaxe.livejournal.com]

Now, be fair. Tipping the velvet is the BSWs fault, not mine!

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

It is?

*think*

Hm, yeah, all right, it is. Forgot that. Not me, in any case :-)

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Absolutely fascinating, thanks. I think there are 'fails' for two reasons there - films about men (like Fight Club) and camp films where all the roles are deliberately stereotypes (like Galaxy Quest or Dark City).

I ought to start collecting films in which straight guys have a snog.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Straight actors or straight male characters?

I think the only one I have that would fit is The Prophecy.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Good question, and I'm not sure. I know BTW that this is a silly and ultimately self-defeating preference. But then that's the essence of desire in a way isn't it? desire for what melts away as fast as it can be realised.