Seems a bit suspicious - Survey says...
The Bravo cable channel has a three part show - "Ultimate Super Heroes, Ultimate Super Villains, Ultimate Super Vixens" (an hour each) on tonight/tomorrow. Narrated by Adam West. You have to wonder who picked them. They seem to have lots of clips from movies that aren't out yet... and movies that bombed... and you have to wonder about their experts...
And the "Entertainment Weekly" review is correct... all the clips with actors/actresses who played the characters in movies/tv are old... and obviously promo material filmed way back when...
And for some of the movies... all they have are bits of trailer... you have to wonder which movie advertising company paid for this "thing" - Marvel? Most of the movie clips are with Marvel comic book characters... including the new Fantastic Four movie that isn't out yet...
Apparently they couldn't find enough female super heroes for their "Ultimate Super Vixens" Top 20 show so they also dragged in a few "evil" villianesses like #19 Mystique... (Hence the show title - 'Vixen' covers good and bad with sexual connotations.)
But #20 "Barbed Wire", #18 "Red Sonja", and #17 "Barbarella" ?
And #14 "Felicity Shagwell" (Heather Graham in "Austin Powers and the Spy Who Shagged me.")
And #10 Breathless Mahoney, who made it on their list JUST because she was played by Madonna in the Dick Tracy movie. And yes, the narrator (Adam West) did say that.
Who picked them? And what's with all the clips from Daredevil?
Okay... now that the lame ones are out of the way... some other interesting choices...
(Not necessarily in order...)... very few of whom I would classify as super heroes...
| #16 Elektra | (Jennifer Gardner in the movie) |
| #15 Mrs. (Emma) Peele | (Diana Rigg) (No interview/clip) |
| #13 Storm | (played by Halle Berry in her first character on the list.) |
| #12 The Bride | (Uma Thurman in "Kill Bill" - the 2nd character on the list she played) |
| #11 Jamie Summers - The Bionic Woman | (Lindsay Wagner) (No interview clip?!) |
| #9 Princess Leia | (Carrie Fisher) |
| Wonder Woman | (Lynda Carter in the series) |
| Charlie's Angels | (Huh? Do they get 1 or 3 entries) |
| #6 Ripley | (Sigourney Weaver) |
| #5 Xena | |
| #4 Lara Croft | |
| #3 Buffy | |
| #2 The Bond Girls | (Isn't that cheating?) |
| #1 Catwoman | (Okay... based on the other women who made it onto the list - she deserves to be on this list - but not #1. Especially after that Halle Berry atrocity ) |
Oh well... at least Lara and Buffy made it into the top 5...
But where is Max (Jessica Alba in 'Dark Angel') - I wasn't a fan of the show after the 1st season but she was more of a "super vixen" than some who made it. Jessica Alba getting screen time during the Super Hero segment on the Fantastic Four isn't quite the same thing. Must have been a promotional thing... at least they didn't give all the spots to current pop favorites like most Top 20 shows do.
10:14:41 PM 
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