Using the Bechdel Test

I came across another use of the Bechdel Test in my blog reading today. (I lost track of where I came across it, so sorry to whomever I'm not hat-tipping.)

The Bechdel Test checks the essential misogyny of a film (or book, or television show, or any other narrative. It has three simple points. To pass the test the film must:

1. have two named female characters who
2. talk to each other
3. about something other than a man.

I've known about the Bechdel Test for a while now, but for some reason, I've never applied it to my favorite narratives. So let's do that:

• Battlestar Galactica passes with flying colors. This is why its the best show on TV
• Carnavale also passes with zero trouble.
• Ditto Six Feet Under.
• Ditto Dexter.
• Ditto The Sopranos.
  
• Deadwood, surprisingly (given its strong female characters) barely squeaks by with a Bechdel conversation perhaps once per season.
• Donnie Darko almost fails (I think I remember Mom Darko talking to the evil, brainwashed teacher about her daughter.)
• Harold and Maude fails! Sob!
• Obviously, Thelma and Louise is made of Bechdel, although now that I think about it, a suprising amount of their dialogue is about a man or men in general.
• My Beautiful Laundrette fails! Double sob!
• Unbreakable fails! Heartbreak!
• Most heartbreaking of all: the quintessential Gen X chick flick, Say Anything, would fail but for one or two character-building scenes in which Diane Court talks to an elderly resident of her father's nursing home.
• Lessee, what about other superhero movies? The Spiderman franchise fails miserably, So do X-Men (although the men the women talk about are often the bad guys and these are professional conversations, but still), Batman reboot, Hulk, Iron Man ... ugh, I want to stop now. We'll see what happens when Watchmen comes out, if that incredibly important, but lone, scene between the two Silk Spectres will be kept or trashed.
• Racking my brain for favorite films that pass and it's really hard. But here's an interesting one: Pitch Black, the original Vin Diesel Riddick movie. Of course, Chronicles of Riddick fails effortlessly. But then, Riddick wasn't the protagonist of Pitch Black. The protag was the Radha Mitchell character. Great movie.

Okay, that's enough from me. Now you. What are your favorite movies/TV shows and how do they fare with the Bechdel Test?