Describe "your" movie

[Grandpa]

Do you ever get ideas or read a story or see a movie and think, "Yeah, with the right people and equipment (and money), I'd like to take that to the screen"? What are they?

Me, I wrote a story that I'd love to make into a little independent film. It's a little thriller, mostly with two people involved.

I'd like to rewrite and redo a 1940 movie Dr. Cyclops. Updated quite a bit. But I know just how I'd do it.

A comic book thing with a hero or heroine who's physically debilitated but can put on a costume of metal mesh and capacitors and processors that allows for independent movement and even flight when wearing the outfit. Sorta like Iron Man, but without the big metal suit, and yes, I thought of this about 30 or so years ago, before I ever saw the Iron Man movie.

And something called Zombie Robot Mermaid, but I haven't thought it through yet.



If you were given a cast, crew, equipment, and a budget, what would you like to do? Something original? Adaptation? Remake done right?

 

[Riot87]

Great thread Grandpa

I'll have to think about this though.

 

[kingricefan]

My life story and it would most definately be directed by David Lynch!

 

[morgan]

My life story and it would most definately be directed by David Lynch!

That made me think of Blue Velvet. *shudder*

 

[kingricefan]

That made me think of Blue Velvet. *shudder*

Oh, mine's on a whole other level...... More like The Elephant Man, minus the compassion.....

 

[morgan]

Oh, mine's on a whole other level...... More like The Elephant Man, minus the compassion.....

Yikes.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I absorb information on WWII constantly. I probably take in about 20 hours per week. So it's not too hard to guess my choice.

I always wondered why a movie was never made about one of the final European theater battles we fought in, which took place 5 days after Hitler committed suicide. Anti-nazi troops joined forces with Americans along with French VIP prisoners at Castle Itter and fought against the Waffen SS. But I hear a movie is now being made about it.

So I would probably make one about the valiant efforts of the French troops holding off the advancing Germans, which allowed the British forces to escape at Dunkirk, and fight another day. Those French efforts are often compared to the Spartan "300."

 

[Grandpa]

I absorb information on WWII constantly. I probably take in about 20 hours per week. So it's not too hard to guess my choice.

I always wondered why a movie was never made about one of the final European theater battles we fought in, which took place 5 days after Hitler committed suicide. Anti-nazi troops joined forces with Americans along with French VIP prisoners at Castle Itter and fought against the Waffen SS. But I hear a movie is now being made about it.

So I would probably make one about the valiant efforts of the French troops holding off the advancing Germans, which allowed the British forces to escape at Dunkirk, and fight another day. Those French efforts are often compared to the Spartan "300."

DiO, did you see The Monument Men? I thought it was a good idea for a movie about a little-known aspect of WWII - although I didn't think the movie lived up to the idea, unfortunately enough.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

DiO, did you see The Monument Men? I thought it was a good idea for a movie about a little-known aspect of WWII - although I didn't think the movie lived up to the idea, unfortunately enough.

I agree. I almost went to a movie theater when it came out. I haven't seen a movie in a theater since Needful Things, except for some children's movies with the kids. I'm glad I didn't. It could have, and should have, been made so much better given the talent the had.

 

[hipmamajen]

Oh, mine's on a whole other level...... More like The Elephant Man, minus the compassion.....

As long as it's not Eraserhead. Between the "baby" that never stopped crying, and the tiny swollen lady who danced in his radiator, that one just hurt my sanity.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

There are a few I would like to do.

First, I'd like to to do a film of some of the things my Dad experienced during his 40 yrs. on the Boston Police Force. A few incidents come to mind:

• My Dad's involvement in the whole Boston busing controversy in the 70's. My Dad actually got death threats for just doing his job making sure the kids being bussed got to school safely and keeping the crowds out of the schools.
• The night my Dad and his partner saved several children from a house fire. They received their department's Medal of Honor for that. They were also almost killed in a car-crash returning home from the award ceremony where they received their medals. Luckily, everyone survived. My Dad had to be resuscitated at the scene and was in the hospital for almost a month after.
• Another time , he and a different partner came across a burned up victim of drug dealer and Boston gangster Darryl Whiting, aka "God", in the trunk of a car while they were investigating another case. The movie In Too Deep with Omar Epps and LL Cool J is based on an informant who infiltrated Whiting's gang. LL Cool J played "God". My Dad's case was not part of the film, but it did tie in.
• Crowd control after the Red Sox beat the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS. There was a riot in Kenmore Square after the winning game. I was watching news coverage of the riot and the police response on TV when they cut to a shot of some moron throwing fire works in the crowd. A couple of cops tackled him. My Dad was one of the cops.

I'd also like to do an in-depth film of what happened to the USS Indianapolis. It would be big-budget with good actors. I'd definitely find a way to include Captain Quint from Jaws.

I'd love to do a Ramones bio-pic as well.

 

[CriticAndProud]

It would be bizarre. Very bizarre. Most likely a very, very dark comedy, as in, so dark, the only people who would find it funny would be freaks like me. In terms of format and presentation, it'd be thriller with very over-the-top, Tarantinoesque violence, and the world in which it would be set would be set would be similar to ours, but weirder. The soundtrack would be (like my tastes in music) quite strange, with a very varied mix of music.

Oh, and it would most likely be a rural setting. I like rural settings.
So think a mix of Django Unchained, A Clockwork Orange, Mad Max, The Mighty Boosh and South Park.

Sort of.

 

[blunthead]

From mid to late adolescence, and especially during those years, my life has included some wonderful, near unbelieveable events which I've since felt almost obligated to share with others. I've made numerous attempts to organize my thoughts and write down some of these things, usually in a chronological order, but I'm not a writer and so find it difficult enough to record effectually that so far I've always given up. I haven't wanted to make a movie about my life, though were it to be adequately reported I wonder if someone might want to.

Other than that thought, I like stories which involve not so much time-travel but the kind of playing with time; the exposing of time as the mysteriously flexible substance we know it to be (time must be a flexible substance since gravity effects it; when two watches known to be running as close to exactly the same as possible are separated, one left on Earth the other sent up in a jet, are reunited back on Earth, the two watches show different amounts of time having passed), and how humans can be effected by time's possible strange behavior. Likewise, I like stories which question certain scientific assumptions in attempts to explain certain phenomena (for instance, a scientist once postulated that abduction experiences and/or sightings of so-called extraterrestrials might have something to do with magnetic fields, so he set up a lab experiment using magnetic fields and a volunteer human subject. The subject was equipped with recording devices and left alone in a darkened room with the machines which created magnetic fields [I'm reduced via ignorance to lacking specifics in terms of scientific jargon]. After a predetermined amount of time the subject was brought out of the room and asked what, if anything remarkable, he experienced. The volunteer said something like the following: "At first I felt nothing special. Then I felt very alone. Then I felt a presence, as if someone else was in the room with me. Then I started getting scared. Then I started getting terrified. And then the grays came ["grays" is a common term used by people in reference to extraterrestrials they've had encounters with. Grays tend to be described by people around the globe in a way similar enough for there to be no possiblility of coincidence].). This experiment approaches answering one question, while asking another even more important one: why, if extraterrestrials actually exist but only within us, do they appear to all peoples the same way? And...what or who are they?

 

[GNTLGNT]

...a documentary of my Grandpa's service as an Army Doctor in WW2...

 

[Riot87]

I would like to be in an action movie maybe with Bruce willis or Jason Statham


It would be fun to play the bad person because thats so not in my character

Also to be in a movie where the people have special powers that would be cool as well.


I feel i am a good actress so anything like those ^^

 

[kingricefan]

It would be bizarre. Very bizarre. Most likely a very, very dark comedy, as in, so dark, the only people who would find it funny would be freaks like me. In terms of format and presentation, it'd be thriller with very over-the-top, Tarantinoesque violence, and the world in which it would be set would be set would be similar to ours, but weirder. The soundtrack would be (like my tastes in music) quite strange, with a very varied mix of music.

Oh, and it would most likely be a rural setting. I like rural settings.
So think a mix of Django Unchained, A Clockwork Orange, Mad Max, The Mighty Boosh and South Park.

Sort of.

Are you going to play Kenny? 'Cause he always dies in South Park............

 

[GNTLGNT]

Are you going to play Kenny? 'Cause he always dies in South Park............