Don't you know - they are
syndromes
, now, not stereotypes?

Or in the 'warehouse' when she could have, should have, taken the glass and cut the bad guy's throat instead of doing the cliched thing of dropping to her knees sobbing and NOT paying attention. Despite its attepts to appear vaguely feminist, the movie still traded on the stereotyped behaviors/tropes of woman-in-jeopardy without re-thinking them.

That was a very lousy thing to do indeed. She even got the knife from the dead guy and could have very easily just slit the throat (or stab in the back or whatever) of the main culprit and it would all have been over. Instead she ran away, ditching the knife. Women!

I am more pissed off at Jules ran to save herself when she could easily stab or shoot the guy to death when shuttle crashed.

Who are you talking about? I can't recall anybody in the movie saying they lived near a bay.
"This isn't TV, it's real life. Can't you tell the difference?"
"Sure - I just like TV better."

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The negative consequences were minimal, if not non-existent.
More importantly, she made a considered choice. She weighed her options and she felt that she was willing to risk dying/being raped, that that was something she was willing to live with. And she will have to live with that.

are you American by any chance?

I wouldn't have hesitated for ONE second. BAM! Dead. Regardless of having killed someone before or not. Shoot!

Hmm I'm not so sure this is right. It isn't easy to take a human life if you've never done it before, not when there are other alternatives available. At this point in the movie the victims were in control, had the gun, and apparently outnumbered the villain 4 to 1. I didn't find the character's decision in that scenario too far fetched, as she was a rational type, rather than a Charles-Bronson-style vigilante, and was no doubt considering the consequences of just shooting someone in cold blood.

Exactly. It's not about vengeance when your life is still in danger. As long as that guy was alive, he woud be considered a threat.
There was NO reason for her not to shoot him. They were in the middle of nowheresville. It's not like the police station was just two minutes away and they could drive on over to it and send him into the arms of justice.
Why would you want to drive around with a maniac who wouldn't think twice about killing you if need be? Dumb dumb dumb.

Not vengeance. To make sure that the threat really was neutralized. Which obviously it wasn't because the bad guys got the upper hand again.

I don't understand all the complaining about this scene. They thought they had the situation under control and could just deliver him to the police. Sure they could have shot him just for vengeance, and some people would do just that, but not everyone would.