Strong believable female protagonist

Rating: 10/10 (29 December 2015)

Now this is a believable heroine. Ripley gets beat up, she's afraid and she rallies.
Sigourney weaver is fabulous as Ripley. She's not a cardboard cutout, instantly good at everything she turns her hand to barbie doll.
Recent movies cast female protagonists as impossibly good and almost incapable of working in teams but Ripley is a really well balanced character.
As a long time fan of science fiction she is a great role model for girls and it's an excellent movie with an original story that still holds up after all these years.
It also set the stage for one of the best sequels of all time. Aliens.