Posted 06 May 2009 - 12:35 AM
I hated Tank Girl. It came out at the height of political correctness, in the era of Thelma and Louise, and it is just as tainted as that ridiculous travesty. There's a woman in there, a madam, who enslaves underage girls and sells them as sexual playthings for creepy men. Tank Girl and Jet Girl naturally don't like this so they punish her by making her put on a song and dance number. And there's a dude in it, who hits on Jet Girl, and is pushy even though she says no, but he never ever actually crosses the line and tries to force himself on her, because most guys don't do that. Jet Girl punishes him by shooting him dead.
I remember when I saw that in the theatre none of the girls in the audience (and no, I don't say women) seemed to think there was anything wrong with it. I remember someone even applauded.
That was a terrible time to be an observer of North American society, and Tank Girl was a product of that time. I am certain it has not aged well.
"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).