Top 10 Best Movie Women

It will come as little surprise that James Cameron has a finger with two of the epic women action heroines that tops this list, but he simply makes them rock. I love women but sometimes they have a tendency of being annoying bitches that you don’t believe, when you see them. It’s not just being baddass (e.g. Michelle Rodriguez) you have to add you own punch to the bowl. Make your character the one we route for. These are the best women film characters of all time. Fact.



1. Ellen Ripley.
Indisputable number one. First movie – first time you saw it. You had no fucking idea she would have been the star. That she would be the baddest piece of female ass on this side of Hollywood. But god damn she rocks. Then in Aliens she shows a horde of mean marines whose mean for real. Then Alien 3 (David Fincher’s perhaps weirdest film, except for his two upcoming ones – The Social Network (!?) and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (!?) both probably great movies – but not great by David Fincher’s measurements!), where she outshines an entire prison of bad ass prisoners. Then she rocks in Alien Resurrection as a reincarnated version of herself. Twice as mean and badass. Forever respect.




2. Sarah Connor.
The one and only person who could challenge Ripley on a fight and (probably win, actually) but also go down in flumes with her honor intact.




3. Eli
The girl vampire from Let The Right One In (not to be confused with the probably over-dramatic American version, Let Me In, where she’s called, Abby – even though it looks surprisingly good). She takes care of little Oskar (Owen) in a loving, caring affectionate yet sad and quite over-protective way. This movie moved me in a way I loved being moved in. Also extra kudos for how her actions are not justified or glorified. Even though she does some bad shit to good people. But we love that.

Now while we could and should stop here with this perfect top three, we continue this list with heroines such as




4. Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou in Amelie From Montmartre)
We all remember the first time we saw it. It was like a tornado had hit us and everyone wanted to move to Paris, play riddles with your loved ones and learn how to play the piano. It ended with us downloading Yann Tiersen’s music masterpiece and it was suddenly ok for even less artsy boys to love peculiar girls with bangs and weird attitude to life.



5. Leeloo (Milla Jovovich in the Fifth Element),
I went to the premiere sure to be shocked out of my comfort zone. Afterward I refused to recognize the movie as anything but a masterpiece. A complete masterpiece equivalent to my hero’s other masterpieces’ such as Nikita and The Big Blue. How much everything had to do with the epic crush I had on Leeloo (when she puts on the makeup for the first time (!) or fights the bad guys in the hotel room, is left unsaid. Die.



6. Juno McGuff (Ellen Page in Juno)
Unlike other “feelgood” (we really, really, really hate, hate those movies) Juno delivered. A lot of it had to do with the shy/mellow character that Michael Cera has now made into his trademark, but probably everything else has got to do with the cockiest, coolest 16-year old we have ever witnessed. She delivered. Literally.




7. Lolita
Besides our top two – the probably most important and singularly most iconic character in women film history. The only one who have become a verb, adjective, trademark and brand in itself. Not so badly done for a little tiny girl in a black and white movie based on a Russian author. Ey?




8. Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct)
While driving infamous sex addict Michael Douglas insane while being insanely hot is barely an accomplishment, but Catherine set a new standard for sex, women and incitement in film. Sax those legs, sugar.




9. Clarice Starling
“I don’t want you to get drunk, but that’s a very expensive Chardonnay you’re not drinking, Clarice.”
- Hannibal Lecter




10. Marge Gunderson – The Police Chief (Frances McDormand in Fargo
You gotta love these small time crooks, the small town, and small town police chief trying to solve a fake kidnap attempt of the wife of a desperate car-selling husband trying to bribe his step dad for money that goes so shit fucked it has to be based on one of the most tragic true stories ever dreamed up of. Calmest of them all, when everyone loses it is stellar Marge. Yup. And with an accent (based on Swedish) to die for.




BONUS and Honory Mention: Dana Scully (The X-Files)
I would almost be attempting to misbehave not to bring her in. and since they made (quite crappy) feature films, she gets her spot here. Every Thursday I was a slave behind the TV. Would she solve it, who was the Smoking Dude, who were the aliens and who the hell was X? The clues, puzzles and questions were always too many to be brought to light and be solved, but Dana did her best.