The other day I was informed that my wife hadn’t seen any of the Lord of the Rings series, yet felt like everyone kept quoting it like Starwars in the 90′s. Being the good spouse that I am I set out to the public library to scour for these quality if not “Epic” flicks. She sat through the first one with complaints about how they are never going to Rivendell, and asking when they get to return there.
A few days later I was asking whether or not she wanted to see the next in the series, and she proceeded to tell me she could write her own Science Fiction movie/story and proceeded to exactly list the plot to the 3rd movie in the Chronicles of Narnia series exchanging a few of the characters for Orcs and Elves. Needless to say she was the most productive I’ve ever seen on her laptop when I put the “Twin Towers” in.
Is there anyway that we can make movies interesting to both men and women without having it be a romantic comedy? All decent Sci Fi shows either turn into a soap opera, or they are “too scary”. I don’t know any one though other than my wife that would want to sit through 2 and a half hours of elves and unicorns running around Rivendell.
How dare you compare Battlestar to a soap opera?… I am a recent comer to the rebooted battlestar, and I devoured all the seasons in a matter of months.
Your post makes me recall travelling to a wedding once on the far western side of North Dakota with my (then girlfriend) wife. I thought I would try to share my passion for Tolkien with her by getting The Hobbit (arguably the most palatable of his books for first timers, and if read in the proper order, truly the first book) on CD to play while we drove. She would keep drifting off to sleep to the somewhat monotonous narrator, and I would pause the book. She would wake up 15 minutes later and I’d unpause the cd player. This continued until about Dickinson, when she finally exclaimed “Those damn hobbits aren’t any farther than they were when I fell asleep last time!” It was at that point that we agreed to disagree on Tolkien, and I have been excused from Yoga class for all eternity
Convince her to watch the first two episodes of BSG and then you will start questioning whether it is a Soap Opera or not! I actually don’t know any women that don’t like watching it do to the large amount of character building, classical music, and lack of action.