I saw Ultra Violet, too. WTF was that? Seriously. A writer shouldn't even have been credited for that. As for action with a female lead, what about Aliens? Not necessarily action in the traditional sense but people die.
And no, there are no action chicks with real star powet right now that could open their own film. But the studios and such need to help that along by providing females decent action roles that can build up that sort of cred, and nobody really offers that sort of thing. Ultra Violet was nothing but pretty colors, costumes, and polish with no one bringing a fucking good story. Mila does more acting in the Feria hair color commercials. And while I hear everywhere how a woman can't carry a film or how no one wants to see an action film with a chick, I don't think that's the point at all. Putting aside my bone of contention with the sorts of scripts offered, WTF kind of logic is boycotting all scripts with a woman in the lead role? What about being pickier about what you make and fund and choosing high-quality scripts, period (no pun intended). Whether the lead is a man or a woman or whatever race or whatever should have nothing to do with anything. The bonanza scripts are what should get made. What morons greenlit the "the Brave One"? Boycott those mofos. For all they know, there's a diamond of a script with a female lead, and they're gonna pass on it or worse, "man it up" with a boyfriend or daddy-figure that pops in to save the day. And with at least one major studio (though there are surely more) refusing to so much as look at scripts with leading females, why would anyone be motivated to go out and write a good one? It's all bs.
