Bisexual SCIFI

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

My girlfriend and I just watched Blade Runner for the first time together recently. We both really enjoyed it. She also liked the new Star Trek a lot more than I did.

 

[RobertScorpio]

My girlfriend and I just watched Blade Runner for the first time together recently. We both really enjoyed it. She also liked the new Star Trek a lot more than I did.

My daughter love the new movie, or, she fell in love with Pine. Either way, I can count on her ass to be next to mine when TREK 12 comes out.

Rob

 

[Othello]

Have her watch both The Visitor from Star Trek: DS9 and The Inner Light from Star Trek: TNG. If thsoe don't hook her I don't know what will. :>))

 

[WillsBabe]

If you had a girlfriend, and you wanted to get her into scif (but not STAR TREK only) what SCIFI movies do you think would go over with 'normal' women???

Rob

Depends what she's interested in, in a wider sense. If she likes film noir, Sin City might appeal. If she's into big action films, ID4, 2012, Transformers might interest her. Is she's interested in the metaphysical questions in life, then Blade Runner might be up her street. Horror and suspense? Try Alien. The struggle for individualism against a totalatarian government? Blakes Seven and Firefly. Man's struggle to recognise himself in an apparently not Godless universe? nBSG. Half naked guys, the perversion of archetypes and potentially kinky sex? Buffy. The metapysical horror of never being able to go home again? Without a laugh track: Space 1999. With a laugh track: Red Dwarf. Hot girls in knee high socks and thigh high hems? Dollhouse.

My opinion, for what it's worth, is that if she was likely to be interested in it, she'd already be watching it. That's just my 2 cents.

 

[RandyS]

Star Trek IV (i.e. "the one with the whales") tends to be accessible to mainstream types, if you can get them through the first fifteen minutes of exposition about Klingons and probes and such.

That's a good choice, because it serves as a springboard to get her interested in the other movies. First, she'll want to know why Kirk and co. are on the run, which will require her to see III, then, after seeing that, she'll want to know why Spock is suddenly dead, and that will necessitate showing her II. By then, if she doesn't like the Trek movies, forget it.

 

[Greg Cox]

In my experience, some people who claim to hate science fiction don't really know what sf is. They think it's all ray-guns and robots and people with bumpy foreheads. I was having dinner with a friend just a few weeks ago who insisted that she didn't get science fiction, then mentioned that PLANET OF THE APES was one of her favorite movies.

"That's a science fiction movie."

"It is?"

Try the X-Files or something with a contemporary setting first. Some people are just automatically turned off by aliens with funny make-up on their faces.

 

[Myasishchev]

My wife is a "normal person" with no real love for science fiction... but I have been able to get her hooked on a few of the more mainstream accessible movies and TV shows over the years.

I'd start with something that is easily digestible, moves at a decent pace, and has some humor and relatable characters. Star Trek XI went over much better than 2001 A Space Odyssey, for instance.

You just never know. I have a female friend who loathes all scifi and fantasy ever written or put on the screen. I mean loathes it - we're both part of a listserv and when some of us started making "We hatesssssss it foreverrrrr" references, she had no idea what we were talking about and, once she found out it involved LOTR, she didn't want to. And it's fortunate that she never uses profanity because otherwise the email filter at work would block her views of Trek. And Star Wars.

And yet...

...She considers 2001 one of the greatest movies ever made, and she simply adores the book, too. I haven't asked her, but I'd bet big money she never has seen and never will see Star Trek XI.

That's a big WTF. Does she like other Arthur Clarke (I'm assuming not)? I guess if you were going to limit yourself to one SF author, he's not a bad choice.

 

[JustKate]

^ Yeah, I know. Tell me about it. I'll have to ask her about other Clarke.

She claims that 2001 "isn't really scifi" because it transcends the genre. But of course, other movies transcend the genre too. The whole thing baffles me.

 

[PhasersOnStun]

She claims that 2001 "isn't really scifi" because it transcends the genre. But of course, other movies transcend the genre too. The whole thing baffles me.

Others have views along those lines. The author Marget Atwood has been writing science fiction for decades, but will pitch a fit if anyone calls it that. She calls her writing "speculative fiction" even though her work is filled with futuristic scientific advances that haven't happened (and may never), which of course is the pillar of science fiction. But she feels that the term "science fiction" only refers to space and aliens and ray guns, and gets quite bent if anyone uses it to describe her...well...her science fiction.

Go figure...

 

[Kegg]

Eh. For some reason I've known girls to like the Spiderman movies (never seen them myself), and generally they can be keen on the latest blockbusters as much as people of the opposite gender. Generally the less culty the sci-fi, the better, unless we're dealing with a culty geek sort.

Yeah. The difficulty of this sweeping generalisation 'women' is that it's about as meaningful as the reverse. I guess being a man I should actually know how a car works or have watched or participated in at least a single token sporting event sometime in my rather peculiar life.

Others have views along those lines. The author Marget Atwood has been writing science fiction for decades, but will pitch a fit if anyone calls it that. She calls her writing "speculative fiction"

That in itself is amusing, as science fiction is a subset of speculative fiction - heck, I've even seen 'speculative fiction' be applied as a label to fantasy. So she's not like Arthur C. Clarke, god no, she's more like Ron E. Howard. Gotcha.

JustKate, I'm curious as to whether or not that friend saw Moon. If not, well, maybe she'd like it. As somebody who's been obssessed with 2001 since I was twelve I loved that film instantly and dearly and I think it treats the HAL idea in a fresh, amusing, and rather well presented way.

Also anyone who likes sci-fi as something serious and speculative and the like may find something to enjoy in that film.

Or whatever.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

In my experience the original Stargate movie plays well with women.

Not with me.

I like:

Contact
Empire Strikes Back
Star Trek XI (best one so far)
Twelve Monkeys
Dark City
WALL*E
Blade Runner

Looking forward to seeing Moon - I haven't been spoiled on it but I have a feeling I'll like it.