Help me amuse myself

[Montfort]

So, I was riding the subway home tonight and I had an idea. I want to take themes and plotlines from several different but well-known stories and combine them into one.

Want to help me out? Name some movies I can crib from. Give me comedies, give me horror movies, give me a Disney classic and a costume drama, too.

I'll take the themes and plots and meld them into one new spectacular movie. An example would be Die Hard and Tootsie meets The Sound of Music and Jurassic Park: A NYC cop, in drag, protects an orphanage from terrorists in a strange zoo where dinosaurs have broken loose.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Put these together:

"Gone With the Wind"
"Flashdance"
"The Princess Bride"
"Some Like it Hot"
and "Fiddler on the Roof"

[Montfort]

Hmm, okay.

A lovely young plantation owner, who dreams of being a ballet dancer, running away from her kvetching father, who wants to marry her off to a soldier, is kidnapped by an evil prince. Coming to her rescue are two men in drag and a French giant.

Next!

[saepiroth]

try this on for size;

"apocalypse now"
"full metal jacket"
"saving private ryan"
"the thin red line"
"pokemon: the movie"

[Montfort]

Jeez, four war movies and Pokemon. Okay, let's see...

A cynical military reporter is a mission to go up the jungle river to kill the third son of a midwest farmwife. Her other two sons were already killed in country, and she will ascend to the Mewtoo level if her third is killed (kinda like how you get straight As in school if your roommate commits suicide).

On his way up the river, however, the reporter goes insane and hides out with a family of "native" people, where another soldier, renegade drill sergeant is whipping the natives into shape by asking them to name their bamboo spears.

(Was I close about Pokemon?)

[Cyn]

Bridge Over The River Kwai
My Fair Lady
The Full Monte
Paint Your Wagon
The Birds

[Kat]

Braveheart
Office Space
Footloose
Crocodile Dundee
Star Wars

[Sir Rhosis]

OK. . .

Rocky III (the Mr. T one)

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

Godfather III (hell, I don't remember the details, just throw two mafia dons in there and I'll be satisfied)

Alien3 (Ripley with the shaved head on the prison planet)

Lethal Weapon 3 (again, I couldn't tell one from the other, just have Mel Gibson show up to do a Curley from the THREE Stooges wiping his face routine)

And just for the hell of it, have Ringo Starr do a brief cameo.

Oh, and give it a title.

This is amusing.

Sir Rhosis

[woodstockbirdybird]

Problem Child 2
Goodfellas
The Last Dragon
Booty Call
It's A Wonderful Life

[Shayna]

OMG, this is too funny. You really must miss Aniz.

Ok, how about...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca &
Heaven Can Wait



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[deepbluesea]

Montfort, this is very much like a game my LO and I play to pass the time on long car trips and waiting for movies to start. It goes like this: person one gives three or four elements - actor, title, character, director, plot element, whatever - and person two has to come up with a complete movie package: plot, characters, cast, and, for bonus points, title and tag line. Catch: the other person has to agree that it sounds like a real movie - that the suggested cast and crew would actually be involved in - that could be released by a major studio this year. (Bonus points if the other person catches her breath in horror and gasps "But I would see that!")

So, here's my melange for you:

Tom Hanks stars in a movie featuring
aliens
an adorable special-needs child under the age of eight
and at least one musical number

[Montfort]

Originally posted by Cyn
Bridge Over The River Kwai
My Fair Lady
The Full Monte
Paint Your Wagon
The Birds
I don't know Paint Your Wagon, but I'll try the others:

An English professor has plucked a prisoner out of the death camp he oversees as his "special project". They fall in love as she teaches him how to striptease. She doesn't know, however, that a rescue mission is in the works.

As the rescue troop attacks the prison camp, a flock of psychotic seagulls attack, causing a mess of things, and a tragic end for the professor and his prisoner.

[Montfort]

Originally posted by Kat
Braveheart
Office Space
Footloose
Crocodile Dundee
Star Wars
Oh boy. This is a good one.

A reporter, sent to medieval Scotland to do an article about a rebellion, learns that the leader of the rebellion is a young farmboy who dreams of being a dancer (this is a recurring theme in this thread).

As the evil English warlords home in on the secret rebel base, an office building in downtown Glasgow, the reporter tells the warlords about the funny hijinks going on in the office. She successfully diverts them from attacking as the farmboy dances his way to FREEDOM!

[Montfort]

Originally posted by Sir Rhosis
OK. . .
Rocky III (the Mr. T one)
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Godfather III (hell, I don't remember the details, just throw two mafia dons in there and I'll be satisfied)
Alien3 (Ripley with the shaved head on the prison planet)
Lethal Weapon 3 (again, I couldn't tell one from the other, just have Mel Gibson show up to do a Curley from the THREE Stooges wiping his face routine)
And just for the hell of it, have Ringo Starr do a brief cameo.
Oh, and give it a title.
A mafia don, wanting to retire, is forced by his rival, who pities no fool, into exile. As he searches for his advisor, Tom Hagen (played by Ringo Starr), who years ago left la familia, he crash lands into a strange planet where movie stars lose respect by doing bad movies.

He's chased by the movie stars on the strange planet, as well as his mohawked rival.

It all ends in a gigantic musical number, sung by our hero, Tom Hagen, and the rival, which gives the film the title: Three is the loneliest number.

[Montfort]

Originally posted by woodstockbirdybird
Problem Child 2
Goodfellas
The Last Dragon
Booty Call
It's A Wonderful Life
Problem Child 2 was the one with the evil girl, right? Here goes:

Two misunderstood but precocious children, separated at an early age, grow up leading parallel, but different lives. He becomes a mob runner, ultimately falling in love with her, a karate student who is seeking out a grand master. Hijinks ensue as they get distracted by other paramours, and ultimately our hero is talked down from the bridge on Christmas by her.

[Montfort]

Originally posted by Shayna
[B]The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca &
Heaven Can Wait
Hey Cous! Long time no see!

A Cabaret-era drag queen is killed in a horrible accident, but is told by St. Peter that it all was a mistake, and he gets sent back to earth, in the body of a suave WWII spy.

As he tries to figure out what his life is, he falls in love, and is ultimately caught and sent to prison. There, in an exciting and inspirational third act, he meets up with one of his old drag buddies and breaks out of prison.

[Cyn]

Gawd, you're good

but..... Paint Your Wagon is a musical starring Clint Eastwood
Still....you're good

[bouv]

Originally posted by Cyn
Gawd, you're good

but..... Paint Your Wagon is a musical starring Clint Eastwood
Still....you're good

[Clint Eastwood singing] Gonna paint my wagon/gonna paint it good[/Clint Eastwood singing]

[Anniz]

Here's one for you.
Toy Story 2,
Eye's Wide Shot,
Lassie and
Fight Club.

[iampunha]

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Truth about Cats and Dogs
Good Will Hunting
Metropolis
Animal House

And when you're done with that one:

Bridge over the River Kwai
13 Monkees
Unbreakable
Legends of the Fall
October Sky

[SqrlCub]

Ma Vie En Rose
Schindler's List
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Harold & Maude

HUGS!
Sqrl

[SqrlCub]

PS: The Schindler's List of movie combinations.

PPS: Thanks the City Paper for that one.

[Tequila Mockingbird]

The Name Of The Rose
The Aristocats
Raising Arizona
O Brother Where Art Thou
and Silence Of The Lambs

[Crunchy Frog]

Originally posted by iampunha
Bridge over the River Kwai
13 Monkees
Unbreakable
Legends of the Fall
October Sky
I think you have enough on your plate without me adding to it, Montfort, I just wasn't aware that Terry Gilliam had made a sequel to 12 Monkeys. And from the spelling of it, either Davy Jones has a cameo or Mike Nesmith produced. ;)

[Montfort]

Originally posted by Anniz
Here's one for you.
Toy Story 2,
Eye's Wide Shot,
Lassie and
Fight Club.
Hej! This is different from the one you had me do on the phone. But, min älskling, here goes:

A boy, Timmy, goes away for summer camp and while he's gone, his favourite toy and dog are kidnapped. When he returns, Timmy goes on a strange voyage through temptation to meet Tyler Durden, the thief. Tyler dares Timmy to punch him as hard as he can, and when Timmy does, Tyler leads Timmy to a strange orgy at a mansion. There, he finds his toy and his dog being used like toys and dogs shouldn't be used.

[Montfort]

Originally posted by iampunha
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Truth about Cats and Dogs
Good Will Hunting
Metropolis
Animal House
A young genius goes to college in Washington (hmm, it's the story of my life so far) and enters a fraternity. There, he falls in love with a girl who's not the gorgeous girl he thinks she is. She's not a girl at all, she's an android.
Bridge over the River Kwai
13 Monkees
Unbreakable
Legends of the Fall
October Sky
I've already done one with Bridge on the River Kwai, so I'll use the others:

A comic book hero is sent back in time to figure out how a poor coal miner's son was able to join NASA's rocketry group. But, through a screw-up in the time machine, he's sent to the west in the 1910s, not West Virginia in the 1950s. He falls in love with his brother's girlfriend, and finds out that his puppetmaster is evil.

[Montfort]

Originally posted by SqrlCub
Ma Vie En Rose
Schindler's List
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Harold & Maude

HUGS!
Sqrl
Ooh, I like this one.

A young comedian dresses in drag to impress the old woman he meets at a holocaust-era concentration camp. Madness ensues as his bicycle is stolen, leading him and the old woman across the U.S. and Europe in pursuit of it.

(Yes, I did get the idea from the City Paper.)

[Miller]

Oo! Oo! Can I do one?

The Name Of The Rose
The Aristocats
Raising Arizona
O Brother Where Art Thou
and Silence Of The Lambs

Psychopath Hannibal Lector learns that his wife is going to re-marry, so he conceives a plan to break out of prison with his two wacky companions. Along the way, they kidnap a child from the local furniture tycoon and end up hiding in a monastary. After several murders, Dr. Lector is the obvious suspect, but in the stunning climax he proves that the murderer was, in fact, a group of animated cats hiding in the library.

[Montfort]

Originally posted by Miller
Oo! Oo! Can I do one?
Oh, yikes, I missed one. I was going to disqualify the two Coen Brothers films because well, they're two Coen Brothers films (I want to keep this as disparate as possible).

So, yeah, you can do one. But that's all. :)

[SqrlCub]

Good one Monty. I actually said it was the Schindler's list of movies from something Phil said a while back when we discussed movie reviews on the City Paper. Basically, the City Paper doesn't like anything that isn't Schindler's List and Phil said something about "Dude, where's my car?" I think. Anyway, he said, making fun of the City Paper, that it was "The Schindler's List of teen sex comedies." Hilarity ensued. :)

How about another one.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Scooby Doo Movie (the one with the aliens)
Escape from Witch Mountain (that was an awful movie)
Farewell My Concubine

HUGS!
Sqrl

PS. This is a good thread. I hope you are having fun with it. :)

[Olentzero]

Hmm... where can we go with this?

I Am Curious (Blue)
Jacob's Ladder
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Free Willy

[Montfort]

Originally posted by SqrlCub
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Scooby Doo Movie (the one with the aliens)
Escape from Witch Mountain (that was an awful movie)
Farewell My Concubine

PS. This is a good thread. I hope you are having fun with it. :)
Y'know, you really should read the OP. I'm looking for common, well known movies. I've never heard of Tetsuo, and I didn't realise there was a Scooby Doo movie (I know of one in production). Escape from Witch Mountain I haven't seen when I was 5, and Farewell My Concubine I don't think I've seen.

I'm flattered: I made Threadspotting!

[Montfort]

Originally posted by Olentzero
Hmm... where can we go with this?
I Am Curious (Blue)
Jacob's Ladder
How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Free Willy

I haven't seen I Am Curious (Blue), so I'll base it on (Yellow).

A young man, haunted by the whale rescue he did when he was younger, attempted to break into filmmaking. As he does so, he discovers two things: that his life is echoing the film, and he has no life at all: he's dead.

[jmhsox]

Pulp Fiction
any Muppet movie
American Beauty
Thirtteen Days

[mothman]

A Fish Called Wanda
Muppets Take Manhattan
Big Top Pee-Wee
On Golden Pond
Life Is Beautiful

[Wing]

Try this one

The Matrix
Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within (It's brand new, couple days old)
Top Gun
Battlestar Galactica
Bambi

In case you havn't seen the Final Fantasy movie, feel free to replace it with Star Wars: Episode 1

[Montfort]

Originally posted by jmhsox
Pulp Fiction
any Muppet movie
American Beauty
Thirtteen Days
I'm going to use The Muppet Movie, my favourite one.

A young frog, trying to make it to Hollywood to be famous, gets caught up with a robbery gone wrong in a diner. A clandestine deal with Khruschev solves that crisis, but another one ensues as a gay military leader, deep in the closet, shoots the frog as his dream of being famous is finally realised.
A Fish Called Wanda
Muppets Take Manhattan
Big Top Pee-Wee
On Golden Pond
Life Is Beautiful
An old couple reminisces about their youth, when they were in the circus and attempted to get on Broadway. But, their plans were waylaid by WWII, and they were captured by Nazis and placed in a concentration camp. They put on shows to keep themselves alive and to fool their young son, Kermit.
The Matrix
Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within (It's brand new, couple days old)
Top Gun
Battlestar Galactica
Bambi

In case you havn't seen the Final Fantasy movie, feel free to replace it with Star Wars: Episode 1
Would you believe I've never seen Battlestar Galactica, and no, I haven't seen Final Fantasy yet, but I think I know enough of the plot to crib it.

A young man learns that his mother was killed in the Matrix, a weird virtual reality world where nothing is real. The Matrix is controlled by aliens that have taken over the earth. Driven by revenge, the young man joins the air force and leads a fighter crew against the alien's ship, the Battlestar Galactica.

[SqrlCub]

Well, I can give you some plot synopses of the movies.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

A young Japanese man imbeds metal into his body and slowly has it take over. It has no dialogue and he basically runs around in a weird stop motion photography type way. It was around an hour long but seemed like 8 or 9 since it was so boring.

The Scooby Doo Movie (the one with the aliens)

The Scooby gang solve a mystery about "aliens" who are mining oil at a government installation of somekind while befriending a hippy girl and her dog who seem like detective members of Greenpeace, supposedly FBI Agents but really the real aliens out to make out with Shag and Scoob.

Escape from Witch Mountain (that was an awful movie)

A stupid girl with weak powers tries to save her brother (who is kidnapped and brainwashed by lackies) by making out with a gang of prepubescent gangsters (I always thought they were the Crips and were going to cut me) while hiding out from the truant officer.

Farewell My Concubine

This is the story of two male Peking Opera stars during the rise of communism. The man who plays the woman falls in love with the lead man who rejects "her" until the end when communism has taken over China he realizes he really loves her and I believe commits suicide.

Is that enough to work with?

HUGS!
Sqrl

[Themis]

How'bout these:

-The Party (with Peter Sellers)
-Scarface
-Taxi Driver
-Cheech and Chong: Up in Smoke
-Mary Poppins

Great game by the way,
Themis

[Fish42]

How about...

Night of the Living Dead
Shakespeare in Love
A Hard Day's Night
and
Blow-Up

[Tretiak]

Okely Dokely, try this..

Jaws
Gandhi
Glory
Unforgiven
Charlie Chaplin and the Choclate Factory

[jonpluc]

OK heres one....1. Pink Floyd The Wall 2 Eraser head 3 Hi Opal! 4 Highlander 5.Leaving Las Vegas 6. Vacation This is fun YAY!!

[missdavis102]

The Silence of the Lambs
A Clockwork Orange
Good Morning Vietnam
The Crying Game
Tommy (the rock opera by the Who)
Space Cowboys
Up in Smoke (the Cheech and Chong movie)
and Disney's Fantasia

[missdavis102]

How about a Robin Williams Special?

Big
Good Morning Vietnam
Mrs. Doubtfire
the one where he's the english teacher at the boys school
any others I've missed

Bonus points for [i]Mork and Mindy

[labradorian]

Give me comedies, give me horror movies, give me a Disney classic and a costume drama, too.

Comedy: Pink Flamingos
Horror: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Disney classic: Old Yeller
Costume drama: Pink Flamingos again! :)

[kaylasdad99]

I Love You, Alice B Toklas

What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Butterflies are Free

and/or

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The Big Chill

Run, Lola, Run

Memento

[Pnuk Guy]

The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
and
Full Metal Jacket

Have fun. :)

[Montfort]

This thread makes Threadspotting on Monday, not Friday night when I first started it and was bored. Okay, let's play catch up:

-The Party (with Peter Sellers)
-Scarface
-Taxi Driver
-Cheech and Chong: Up in Smoke
-Mary Poppins
I don't know The Party, but here goes. A taxi driver becomes a drug smuggler for a notorious Cuban mob boss. As he is chased by his two most frequent customers, he hides in a mansion where he secretly replaces the sugar with his own "taster's choice" powder, leading a nanny to have to take her charges to the ER after they OD while making the medicine go down.
Night of the Living Dead
Shakespeare in Love
A Hard Day's Night
and
Blow-Up
Oh, I like this one. Four loveable moptop rockers discover that a murder of a famous playwright in a bar wasn't really a murder, because he was already dead. Now that they know his secret, he hunts them down.
Jaws
Gandhi
Glory
Unforgiven
Charlie Chaplin and the Choclate Factory
Willy Wonka, you mean, not Charlie Chaplin?

A man of peace finds himself hunting down a black Civil War soldier in a strange, wondrous land where sharks swim in seas of Chocolate.
The Silence of the Lambs
A Clockwork Orange
Good Morning Vietnam
The Crying Game
Tommy (the rock opera by the Who)
Space Cowboys
Up in Smoke (the Cheech and Chong movie)
and Disney's Fantasia
Sheesh, eight films? I'll do three:
A young FBI recruit chases four droogs in the wild and wooly world of the dinosaurs, while an apprentice wreaks all kinds of havoc with his master's pinball machine. Okay, I lied, it was four.
Big
Good Morning Vietnam
Mrs. Doubtfire
the one where he's the english teacher at the boys school
any others I've missed

Bonus points for Mork and Mindy
Bonus points? That's the easiest one!

A space alien visits a magical genie who he asks to make him BIG. He's so grown up, though, he's sent off to Vietnam and has to dress in drag so he won't have to fight.

Wait, Robin Williams wasn't in Big. But, I like these themes: keep them coming.
Comedy: Pink Flamingos
Horror: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Disney classic: Old Yeller
Costume drama: Pink Flamingos again!
A strange family and their dog is hunted by a cannibalistic serial killer.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Big Chill
Run, Lola, Run
Memento
Already done Willy Wonka, but the other three are easy:
A man's life is lived in reverse, from death to college, as he lives it not once, but three times, while he faces important decisions that determine not how the story ends, but how it begins. (I actually like this one.)
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
and
Full Metal Jacket
Hmm, Disney and Kubrick. I can dig it. A young Arabian pauper lion finds himself in bootcamp. After a rambunctious dinner party ("Be Our Guest!"), the old, head,lion dies, and the pauper finds himself to be the new Lion King. Then, he can seduce the lovely, curvy mermaid he meets.

Okay, new rules:

No more than four movies, please.
Don't name a movie that I haven't seen.
Don't name a movie that someone else has already suggested.
Theme films (like Robin Williams or the second sequel ones) are good.

Thanks!

Apologies in advance if the coding is screwed. I don't have time to preview.

[jonpluc]

Hey ya skipped mine !! one tiny question...HOW EXACTLY are we supposed to pick movies that you have or havnt seen?? Is there a master list someplace that i missed???Well your doing fine keep it up

[Zebra]

Could you do a version of Platoon meets My Fair Lady so

make it a musical

set it in the future

and make it for kids

[Montfort]

Originally posted by jonpluc
Hey ya skipped mine !! one tiny question...HOW EXACTLY are we supposed to pick movies that you have or havnt seen?? Is there a master list someplace that i missed???Well your doing fine keep it up
Oops, sorry. No, there's no list, I'll just let you know what I have and haven't seen. As for your post:
OK heres one....1. Pink Floyd The Wall 2 Eraser head 3 Hi Opal! 4 Highlander 5.Leaving Las Vegas 6. Vacation
Hmm, I've seen Eraserhead, but I can honestly say I don't remember the plot.

A burned out rock star tries to drink himself to death in medieval Scotland. A bumbling family keeps him alive, however.

And, Zebra: no cheating. Name the movies.

[ChiefScott]

Mermaids
Splash
Hans Christian Anderson (the one w/ Danny Kaye)
The Little Mermaid

Bonus points: Deep Throat

[Montfort]

Originally posted by ChiefScott
Mermaids
Splash
Hans Christian Anderson (the one w/ Danny Kaye)
The Little Mermaid

Bonus points: Deep Throat
I'm not familiar with the Danny Kaye film (is it a biopic), and I've already done The Little Mermaid. But...

A young mermaid deals with her wacky sister as she falls in love with a human and tries to live on dry land.

[kjorsty]

Tron
Guys and Dolls
The Fox and the Hound
Our Man Flint
Pretty in Pink

[jpariury]

Hmmm.... can I make multiple submissions, or would that be too greedy?

Movie 1:
Birdcage
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything
Jeffrey
M. Butterfly

Movie 2:
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures
Endless Summer
Lethal Weapon
Bad Boys

Movie 3:
Indiana Jones
Witness
Working Girl
Apocalypse Now

Movie 4:
Blade
BladeRunner
Sling Blade
Zorro, The Gay Blade

[Knorf]

How 'bout:

Red Storm Rising
High Fidelity
Bowfinger
2001: A Space Odyssey