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Dear internet: I would like your favorite movies about women overcoming huge/galactic obstacles. Those obstacles should not be dudes.

Good example: Gravity, Coraline
Bad Example: Kill Bill, Bombshell

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Adam Shostack
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I can’t believe I have to come in here to say Star Wars.
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Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️
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@adamshostack are you seriously proposing that Leia achieves galactic objectives unrelated to dudes when her whole job is to be a sister, then a slug slave, and then rescue a dude?
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Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️
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@adamshostack Rey has a better arc, I’ll grant you, but Darth Hot Guy From HBO’s “Girls” does seem to get the lions share of her attention.
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Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️
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@xabean Spirited Away would count, I think.
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Eris
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I don't know. I kind of think Spirited Away counts. the obstacle is twofold: Yubaba and Chihiro's own self doubt.
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Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️
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@xabean I haven’t seen that one. Looking it up now.
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@hotsoup
I was thinking Orphan Black(for a bug chunk of it at least) or Killing Eve but they also fail to be movies.
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@Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️ there's a very weird movie called How I Live Now, assuming you accept that "civil war" is the background and figuring out day to day survival is the obstacle, it meets the critera. It's weird but wildly well acted.
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Tinker ☀️
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- A Quiet Place Day One - there's a dude sidekick, but the movie is about her and she's the one that has to overcome the massive alien invasion threat.
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Tinker ☀️
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- I wonder if Tank Girl counts. Like the main villian is a dude... but it's more the corporation is the main enemy, and the villian dude is the CEO of the corp. Like it could have been played by a woman and not much changed in the story (if im remembering it correctly)

I dunno.

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Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️
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I do want to offer as we are having this discussion that multiple people suggested Moana, I have been watching it for the last hour, it definitely counts, and the Psychedelic Treasure Crab will now haunt my dreams.

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Jens Finkhäuser
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@xabean Ghost in the Shell involves overcoming dudes, but mostly it's about self actualization, I'd say. It's a tricky one (and part of why I like it).
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Kat
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@hotsoup That was my first thought, too, but it fails on the "overcoming" part.
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Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)
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@xabean I don't think it fits the spirit of the question if the motivator throughout the entire movie is a dude.
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TatiMitStift
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@xabean
Wait, how does Howl not count? Sophie was cursed by a woman and had to overcome her low self esteem. 👀
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Not sure if it’s been mentioned already, but how about The Descent? I can’t rule out that the antagonists are dudes, but they certainly don’t need to be 😀
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adamrice
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@xabean I think Mononoke-hime would count, but I’m not sure she overcomes. It’s ambiguous. And it’s been a long time since I saw it.
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