Do you need the names of the Cynthia Rothrock films where she looked muscular?
Only if you want to. I haven't seen her movies so I can only take your word for it.
That goes for anything I put on the list as well. I haven't seen everything so if there is anything on the list that you guys feel doesn't belong, then you're welcome to state your case as to why it shouldn't be there. Up to now I've just been taking everyone's word for it if it's something I haven't seen.
Olga Kurkulina in Kick-Ass 2 2013. Not technically a lead, but she's got some of the best scenes and lines in the movie.
I'd rather just stick with lead roles for this thread. There are many, many movies where a GWM might appear in one scene for just a few seconds, and there's not much of a point to investing time in watching an entire movie just for that. This thread is intended more for movies where the main focus is on the woman, and of course the more muscle she has the better.
I guess it's fine if you guys want to list movies where they have smaller roles, but I won't be adding those to my list in the original post.
Angela Bassett in "What's love got to do with it", was incredible. Although why she got so muscular to play Tina Turner I've no idea. But for a movie that had nothing to do with fitness or anything similar, this must be the stand out.
For Angela that was her role of a lifetime, and probably her best known role to date. I'm leaving "Strange Days" on my list instead because it's more obscure and users can still look up her name and see what else she's been in.
For this list, I feel like lesser known movies will bring more value to it. Users who browse through this thread will likely be looking for movies they haven't seen yet.
Not familiar with the "Nemesis saga," is this a movie franchise?
I guess this is the same thing.
I'm leaving out animated and CGI muscle.
EDIT: Updated the list with another one I remembered, "Lady Bloodfight."
I'm also only choosing 1 movie per actress. Demi Moore was mentioned for both G.I. Jane and Striptease so I just chose G.I. Jane. Angela Bassett was also mentioned for 2 movies so I chose Strange Days.
From what I remember, Lucy Lawless wasn't muscular at all. She wasn't out of shape, but most of the appeal of that role was fantasy-based. Her character was super strong etc, etc. But the actress didn't strike me as anything out of the ordinary. You can argue this if you'd like and I might be convinced with examples where she is actually showing some muscle. I just don't remember her having any.
The Nemesis movies were quite bad, but worth seeing for Sue Price. I think she was nude a lot in Nemesis 4 if I remember correctly.
Angela Bassett in "What's love got to do with it", was incredible. Although why she got so muscular to play Tina Turner I've no idea. But for a movie that had nothing to do with fitness or anything similar, this must be the stand out.
Another one is Emily Blunt in "Edge of tomorrow".
And Cynthia Rothrock who made a load of films in the 80's & 90's. I think she was world champion at karate or Taekwondo or something.
Brigitte Nielsen in "Red Sonja".
Alexandra Paul in "Getting Physical". Where she played a girl who becomes a bodybuilder.
There's a movie with Jacqueline Fuchs that is going around the festival circuit, but has no release date, at least in the United States. It is called "Body Odyssey". You can find information and a trailer at https://www.intramovies.com/production/body-o....
It's hard to say how well this movie is doing since no one has disclosed the budget, but it feels like it came and went. I'm friends with movie buffs, and they haven't even mentioned it. I seriously thought this movie would make a bigger splash than it did, given how exciting the trailers looked.
Enough (with JLo), GI Jane, Terminator 2, Ravenhawk, Nemesis saga, Million dollar baby
Not familiar with the "Nemesis saga," is this a movie franchise?
Sue Price in the Nemesis movies
I guess this is the same thing.
The Legend of Korra.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
I'm leaving out animated and CGI muscle.
EDIT: Updated the list with another one I remembered, "Lady Bloodfight."
I'm also only choosing 1 movie per actress. Demi Moore was mentioned for both G.I. Jane and Striptease so I just chose G.I. Jane. Angela Bassett was also mentioned for 2 movies so I chose Strange Days.
Xena warrior princess?
From what I remember, Lucy Lawless wasn't muscular at all. She wasn't out of shape, but most of the appeal of that role was fantasy-based. Her character was super strong etc, etc. But the actress didn't strike me as anything out of the ordinary. You can argue this if you'd like and I might be convinced with examples where she is actually showing some muscle. I just don't remember her having any.
Another that comes to mind is the original "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" with Rooney Mara. Her muscles aren't really on display for most of the movie, but in one particular scene she shocked me by how ripped she looked. Her muscles weren't big (especially by this site's standards) but they were very pronounced.
The Daniel Craig version (with Rooney Mara) was a shot for shot remake of the 2009 Swedish original which featured Noomi Rapace.
I'd like to compile a list of movies and shows that feature a muscular woman (not just FBB's) in a lead role. A very recent example would be "Love Lies Bleeding" with Katy O'Brian.
Another that comes to mind is the original "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" with Noomi Rapace. Her muscles aren't really on display for most of the movie, but in one particular scene she shocked me by how ripped she looked. Her muscles weren't big (especially by this site's standards) but they were very pronounced.
Any others come to mind?
I'll update this post as everyone chimes in and begin creating an actual list.
(1979) Golden Girl - Susan Anton
(1984) Getting Physical - Alexandra Paul
(1985) Red Sonja - Brigitte Nielsen
(1986) Aliens - Jenette Goldstein
(1991) Terminator 2 - Linda Hamilton
(1995) Nemesis 2 (3, 4 and 5) - Sue Price
(1995) Strange Days - Angela Bassett
(1995) Xena: Warrior Princess - Lucy Lawless
(1996) Raven Hawk - Rachel McLish
(1997) G.I. Jane - Demi Moore
(2000) The Opponent - Erika Eleniak
(2001) When Billie Beat Bobby - Holly Hunter
(2002) Enough - Jennifer Lopez
(2004) Blade: Trinity - Jessica Biel
(2004) Million Dollar Baby - Hillary Swank
(2005) Elektra - Jennifer Garner
(2009) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Noomi Rapace
I am the type who prefers physical media, but I really might jump the gun on this early if it comes to digital.
It's so rare for a movie to linger this long in my mind. The last time was when I watched the Cronenberg version of The Fly over a decade ago in college.
"Rather be a schmoe than a schmuck" is fire. LOL I love it.
To the guy who said, "we're all schmoes here," I'm gonna respectfully disagree.
There's no hard and fast definition, but talking to ladies in the scene... to be a schmoe isn't necessarily good or bad, but it does mean that you're involved and fairly obsessed.
I look at this site every day, I subscribe to nearly a dozen onlyfans pages, I'm a member of herbiceps and awefilms, I do in person sessions, I'm a bodybuilder myself, and I go to (at least) the Olympia every year and ideally the Arnold too.
I'm a Schmoe. I'm down for life. The ladies like me because I'm polite, I'm not demanding or a creep, and I pay them for their time. Emphasis on that last part. They would call me a schmoe, and one of the good ones. What's not to like?
Contrast that with the random Instgram chud who sends message requests to every FBB, asking for their attention, never buys anything, never goes to shows, and only treats them like an object. He's a schmoe as well, but clearly a bad one.
If you like muscular women and you follow them on social media and check them out on this site, and it's hot when they show up in a movie or show... then you're not really a schmoe. You're just a guy who likes fit, buff women.
Same thing goes for gay men. I wouldn't say that gay guys have a term like "schmoe," but there's a clear difference between a gay guy who likes buff men (that's obviously pretty common) and a gay guy who's OBSESSED with huge muscular guys and worshipping them and getting dominanted by them all and that.
> I think if they put the Olympia on Netflix, it could attract new fans.
I remember years ago in the early 90's TSN broadcast the Ms.O a few times. It was reported that they had never received so many complaints about a program ever. Then I found that FBB disappeared except for the odd music video. Strangely enough I find there's reference to it in cartoons all the time so maybe they're conditioning the next generation? I have however seen coverage several times in the last week for Love Lies Bleeding in mainstream press. The girl in the movie is lightly muscled so maybe more people are ready for it now.
Yea but that was back when you had like 8 TV channels trying to appeal to pretty much everyone. so the football normies thought it replaced a more mainstream sport they liked. and they either had to watch this or something unrelated to sports like married with children or the x files or the news. that was fine but they wanted to watch sports. nowadays you got channels just for football. so people who don't want to watch female bodybuilding can just ignore it.
I think if they put the Olympia on Netflix, it could attract new fans.
I remember years ago in the early 90's TSN broadcast the Ms.O a few times. It was reported that they had never received so many complaints about a program ever. Then I found that FBB disappeared except for the odd music video. Strangely enough I find there's reference to it in cartoons all the time so maybe they're conditioning the next generation? I have however seen coverage several times in the last week for Love Lies Bleeding in mainstream press. The girl in the movie is lightly muscled so maybe more people are ready for it now.
Kids today think that a Movie actually represents Reality --- when no movie ever has in fact. Have any of you actually read a particular book (several times) and then watched the Movie Version? I think not.
I think the choice to set the movie in the 80s wasn't just about conveying the advent of bodybuilding as a backdrop, but also showing to a now mostly online audience that the feeling of not belonging remains even if you aren't spending all your time in a virtual space instead of a physical one. It also was very upfront about the consequences of the main characters' actions in a way I truly felt sad about, especially at the last scene. I'd personally rank it an 8/10, but for normies it's probably closer to a 7 because some of Stewart's acting in the climax felt a little overbearing. O'Brien carried the film because she truly seems like someone who has the mind and body of her character IRL, and this is the first media I've seem with either of these actresses.
I felt like the twist with the bodybuilding competition and Jackie's breakdown was a conscious rebuttal of the pipe dreams people have about easily becoming fitness influencers or just going in and winning a competition. If that happened today, her misfortune would be captured on multiple smartphones in 4K for the whole world to see.
> Just saw the movie in an early screening. I really like A24 films and bodybuilding, so watching it was a no brainer. It is a good movie with some very sexy scenes all throughout and some people will enjoy the ending as it scratches a specific adjacent itch (I’ll be ambiguous as I don’t want to spoil anything). However, if you are expecting a very bodybuilding focused movie, I’m sorry to disappoint you but it isn’t. It’s a good and entertaining thriller that just happens to have a FBB that wants to compete in a show as a protagonist.
> I’ll give it a 4/5 as a movie
Are there many muscle growth scenes?
Back from watching it, I didn't feel there were many but they were fitting and simultaneously tasteful & erotic by keeping it to the roid rage. The movie is basically sort of about venting a fetish without being a fetish movie by also being a story about not fitting in. I think the choice to set the movie in the 80s wasn't just about conveying the advent of bodybuilding as a backdrop, but also showing to a now mostly online audience that the feeling of not belonging remains even if you aren't spending all your time in a virtual space instead of a physical one. It also was very upfront about the consequences of the main characters' actions in a way I truly felt sad about, especially at the last scene. I'd personally rank it an 8/10, but for normies it's probably closer to a 7 because some of Stewart's acting in the climax felt a little overbearing. O'Brien carried the film because she truly seems like someone who has the mind and body of her character IRL, and this is the first media I've seem with either of these actresses.
Last note, I feel this was the FMG story I wish I could have written but never had the time, merit, or experience to produce, as I wanted to know more about the psychology of muscle girls and female muscle growth underneath the physical process. For me, it provided some of that and I felt I could relate to Jackie's dysmorphia, myself once being a chubby boy and now trying to work it off but never feeling sufficient still.
I really liked it, but I also felt like it ran with some common stereotypes about female bodybuilders. It's not as obvious or as dumb as Kris Murrell's cameo in Grown-Ups 2, but still...
For one thing, is it realistic for steroid use to make a person hallucinate like that? Roid rage was literally a plot point.
Even a film like this treats the hypermuscular female character like some kind of mentally unstable oddity or sideshow freak. To my knowledge, there's not a female equivalent of a movie like Stay Hungry.
My thing is, what was she expecting? The marketing of the movie has been practically selling sex and steroids.
I really take reviews from people like this with a stack of salt. It’s no different from a rage tuber complaining about woke movies and then finding all the evidence they can to support their complaints.
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Only if you want to. I haven't seen her movies so I can only take your word for it.
That goes for anything I put on the list as well. I haven't seen everything so if there is anything on the list that you guys feel doesn't belong, then you're welcome to state your case as to why it shouldn't be there. Up to now I've just been taking everyone's word for it if it's something I haven't seen.
I'd rather just stick with lead roles for this thread. There are many, many movies where a GWM might appear in one scene for just a few seconds, and there's not much of a point to investing time in watching an entire movie just for that. This thread is intended more for movies where the main focus is on the woman, and of course the more muscle she has the better.
I guess it's fine if you guys want to list movies where they have smaller roles, but I won't be adding those to my list in the original post.
For Angela that was her role of a lifetime, and probably her best known role to date. I'm leaving "Strange Days" on my list instead because it's more obscure and users can still look up her name and see what else she's been in.
For this list, I feel like lesser known movies will bring more value to it. Users who browse through this thread will likely be looking for movies they haven't seen yet.
The Nemesis movies were quite bad, but worth seeing for Sue Price. I think she was nude a lot in Nemesis 4 if I remember correctly.
Angela Bassett in "What's love got to do with it", was incredible. Although why she got so muscular to play Tina Turner I've no idea. But for a movie that had nothing to do with fitness or anything similar, this must be the stand out.
Another one is Emily Blunt in "Edge of tomorrow".
And Cynthia Rothrock who made a load of films in the 80's & 90's. I think she was world champion at karate or Taekwondo or something.
Brigitte Nielsen in "Red Sonja".
Alexandra Paul in "Getting Physical". Where she played a girl who becomes a bodybuilder.
There's a movie with Jacqueline Fuchs that is going around the festival circuit, but has no release date, at least in the United States. It is called "Body Odyssey". You can find information and a trailer at https://www.intramovies.com/production/body-o....
That'll do it, LOL
I wished there was more character stuff. When I watch it again, all the stuff that freaked me out the first time will probably make me laugh.
The movie was awful. Bizarre. Unwatchable. Extremely disappointing.
It's hard to say how well this movie is doing since no one has disclosed the budget, but it feels like it came and went. I'm friends with movie buffs, and they haven't even mentioned it. I seriously thought this movie would make a bigger splash than it did, given how exciting the trailers looked.
Elsa Pataky in Interceptor 2022
Olga Kurkulina in Kick-Ass 2 2013. Not technically a lead, but she's got some of the best scenes and lines in the movie.
Not familiar with the "Nemesis saga," is this a movie franchise?
I guess this is the same thing.
I'm leaving out animated and CGI muscle.
EDIT: Updated the list with another one I remembered, "Lady Bloodfight."
I'm also only choosing 1 movie per actress. Demi Moore was mentioned for both G.I. Jane and Striptease so I just chose G.I. Jane. Angela Bassett was also mentioned for 2 movies so I chose Strange Days.
From what I remember, Lucy Lawless wasn't muscular at all. She wasn't out of shape, but most of the appeal of that role was fantasy-based. Her character was super strong etc, etc. But the actress didn't strike me as anything out of the ordinary. You can argue this if you'd like and I might be convinced with examples where she is actually showing some muscle. I just don't remember her having any.
The Daniel Craig version (with Rooney Mara) was a shot for shot remake of the 2009 Swedish original which featured Noomi Rapace.
https://www.girlswithmuscle.com/images/?name=...
Sue Price in the Nemesis movies
I'd like to compile a list of movies and shows that feature a muscular woman (not just FBB's) in a lead role. A very recent example would be "Love Lies Bleeding" with Katy O'Brian.
Another that comes to mind is the original "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" with Noomi Rapace. Her muscles aren't really on display for most of the movie, but in one particular scene she shocked me by how ripped she looked. Her muscles weren't big (especially by this site's standards) but they were very pronounced.
Any others come to mind?
I'll update this post as everyone chimes in and begin creating an actual list.
(1979) Golden Girl - Susan Anton
(1984) Getting Physical - Alexandra Paul
(1985) Red Sonja - Brigitte Nielsen
(1986) Aliens - Jenette Goldstein
(1991) Terminator 2 - Linda Hamilton
(1995) Nemesis 2 (3, 4 and 5) - Sue Price
(1995) Strange Days - Angela Bassett
(1995) Xena: Warrior Princess - Lucy Lawless
(1996) Raven Hawk - Rachel McLish
(1997) G.I. Jane - Demi Moore
(2000) The Opponent - Erika Eleniak
(2001) When Billie Beat Bobby - Holly Hunter
(2002) Enough - Jennifer Lopez
(2004) Blade: Trinity - Jessica Biel
(2004) Million Dollar Baby - Hillary Swank
(2005) Elektra - Jennifer Garner
(2009) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Noomi Rapace
(2011) Bad Teacher - Cameron Diaz
(2012) Worship - Dallas Malloy
(2013) The Machine - Caity Lotz
(2014) Edge of Tomorrow - Emily Blunt
(2014) In the Blood - Gina Carano
(2016) Lady Bloodfight - Mayling Ng
(2018) Pearl - Julia Föry
(2018) Tomb Raider - Alicia Vikander
(2018) Traffik - Paula Patton
(2022) Interceptor - Elsa Pataky
(2023) Body Odyssey - Jacqueline Fuchs
(2024) Love Lies Bleeding - Katy O'Brian
Yeah, I see a lot of praise for Katy O’Brian’s acting which I agree with. I saw the movie and thought it was great.
I am the type who prefers physical media, but I really might jump the gun on this early if it comes to digital.
It's so rare for a movie to linger this long in my mind. The last time was when I watched the Cronenberg version of The Fly over a decade ago in college.
"Rather be a schmoe than a schmuck" is fire. LOL I love it.
To the guy who said, "we're all schmoes here," I'm gonna respectfully disagree.
There's no hard and fast definition, but talking to ladies in the scene... to be a schmoe isn't necessarily good or bad, but it does mean that you're involved and fairly obsessed.
I look at this site every day, I subscribe to nearly a dozen onlyfans pages, I'm a member of herbiceps and awefilms, I do in person sessions, I'm a bodybuilder myself, and I go to (at least) the Olympia every year and ideally the Arnold too.
I'm a Schmoe. I'm down for life. The ladies like me because I'm polite, I'm not demanding or a creep, and I pay them for their time. Emphasis on that last part. They would call me a schmoe, and one of the good ones. What's not to like?
Contrast that with the random Instgram chud who sends message requests to every FBB, asking for their attention, never buys anything, never goes to shows, and only treats them like an object. He's a schmoe as well, but clearly a bad one.
If you like muscular women and you follow them on social media and check them out on this site, and it's hot when they show up in a movie or show... then you're not really a schmoe. You're just a guy who likes fit, buff women.
Same thing goes for gay men. I wouldn't say that gay guys have a term like "schmoe," but there's a clear difference between a gay guy who likes buff men (that's obviously pretty common) and a gay guy who's OBSESSED with huge muscular guys and worshipping them and getting dominanted by them all and that.
Yea but that was back when you had like 8 TV channels trying to appeal to pretty much everyone. so the football normies thought it replaced a more mainstream sport they liked. and they either had to watch this or something unrelated to sports like married with children or the x files or the news. that was fine but they wanted to watch sports. nowadays you got channels just for football. so people who don't want to watch female bodybuilding can just ignore it.
Katy O'Brian is considered "lightly muscled?"
I remember years ago in the early 90's TSN broadcast the Ms.O a few times. It was reported that they had never received so many complaints about a program ever. Then I found that FBB disappeared except for the odd music video. Strangely enough I find there's reference to it in cartoons all the time so maybe they're conditioning the next generation? I have however seen coverage several times in the last week for Love Lies Bleeding in mainstream press. The girl in the movie is lightly muscled so maybe more people are ready for it now.
Kids today think that a Movie actually represents Reality --- when no movie ever has in fact. Have any of you actually read a particular book (several times) and then watched the Movie Version? I think not.
I felt like the twist with the bodybuilding competition and Jackie's breakdown was a conscious rebuttal of the pipe dreams people have about easily becoming fitness influencers or just going in and winning a competition. If that happened today, her misfortune would be captured on multiple smartphones in 4K for the whole world to see.
Back from watching it, I didn't feel there were many but they were fitting and simultaneously tasteful & erotic by keeping it to the roid rage. The movie is basically sort of about venting a fetish without being a fetish movie by also being a story about not fitting in. I think the choice to set the movie in the 80s wasn't just about conveying the advent of bodybuilding as a backdrop, but also showing to a now mostly online audience that the feeling of not belonging remains even if you aren't spending all your time in a virtual space instead of a physical one. It also was very upfront about the consequences of the main characters' actions in a way I truly felt sad about, especially at the last scene. I'd personally rank it an 8/10, but for normies it's probably closer to a 7 because some of Stewart's acting in the climax felt a little overbearing. O'Brien carried the film because she truly seems like someone who has the mind and body of her character IRL, and this is the first media I've seem with either of these actresses.
Last note, I feel this was the FMG story I wish I could have written but never had the time, merit, or experience to produce, as I wanted to know more about the psychology of muscle girls and female muscle growth underneath the physical process. For me, it provided some of that and I felt I could relate to Jackie's dysmorphia, myself once being a chubby boy and now trying to work it off but never feeling sufficient still.
I really liked it, but I also felt like it ran with some common stereotypes about female bodybuilders. It's not as obvious or as dumb as Kris Murrell's cameo in Grown-Ups 2, but still...
For one thing, is it realistic for steroid use to make a person hallucinate like that? Roid rage was literally a plot point.
Even a film like this treats the hypermuscular female character like some kind of mentally unstable oddity or sideshow freak. To my knowledge, there's not a female equivalent of a movie like Stay Hungry.
Bummer that there are so many prudish people. it's like me calling the old Schwarzenegger movies gay porn and all the fans are gay
I really take reviews from people like this with a stack of salt. It’s no different from a rage tuber complaining about woke movies and then finding all the evidence they can to support their complaints.