The Longest Fart. It’s a 90-minute feature.
I’ve been kicking around a space opera for about a decade now. Originally it started as one story that could basically summed up as “What if the aliens invading Earth were the protagonists of the story?” Now it’s become 3 separate trilogies, spanning several hundred years and following the ruling family of an empire that spans half the galaxy.
The first trilogy, set in modern day, follows three brothers, the sons of the emperor. When one gets stranded and imprisoned during an exploratory mission on Earth, a rescue mission is mounted for him. When seems like an accident is really part of a military coup, and the brothers must form an alliance with a secret organization on Earth in order to save both their world and Earth.
The second trilogy, set a few hundred years earlier, tells the story of how the Empire was formed, following an invasion of planet X (part of the reason why I haven’t put anything down on paper is I can’t think up names for anyone or anything) by an unknown force. When all hope seems lost, three friends save the day. However, the fame and fortune that follows their heroics eventually tears their friendship apart, creating a ripple effect that will affect the empire for centuries to come.
The third trilogy, set a few hundred years in the future, follows the sole daughter of the royal family. Earth and Planet X have formed an alliance and are the two cornerstones of the empire. The daughter leads a small expedition into the one section of the galaxy that has never been explored, and ends up releasing a horror that is unlike anything the empire has faced.
I’ll admit it’s pretty damn derivative (seriously, in one first draft I had one of the villains reveal to the hero that he was his father), but I’m constantly making tweaks to it. (I need to make a change now, because the whole first act of the final move was basically Gravity). It’s basically an homage to all the Sci-Fi epics that I love. I know it’ll never get made, but I still like imagining watching it on the big screen.
I’d make a bio-pic of Effa Manley, Negro League team owner who is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, starring Halle Berry or Kerry Washington. Her husband was supposedly a gambling kingpin.
My other idea is a fantasy about the American Revolution set in the modern day. How would the Founding Fathers react to having the Continental Congress broadcast 24/7 on MSNBC? How would it be to have George Washington’s army labelled as terrorists by Fox News, etc. It needs work, I know.
Sounds like it might make a better novel than movie.
A Star Wars movie I thought would be interesting: “The Empire attacks Earth!”
What if Earth today was attacked by the Empire? Assume they want conquest and don’t use the Death Star. Go by the Original Trilogy movies, not EU.
I think Earth would stand a pretty good chance against them.
Empire has better technology… however it may not be as effective against solid projectile weapons (like a shell or missile). The Falcon had no trouble getting through the Star Destroyer’s shields in ESB. All it takes is a kamikaze A-Wing, or in our case, an explosive-laden drone.
Supersonic jets would be too fast for TIE fighter blasters and turrents. Our radar-guided missles would give us a huge advantage over long distances.
SAMs firing at the TIE fighters. Much more accurate than the lasers.
Many of the Empire’s ground weapons don’t have indirect or long-range fire capabilities. Tomahawks and batteries miles away would have easy pickings.
We all know the Stormtroopers’ aim is bad, but they would get cut down by automatic weapons before they could recalibrate their aim. Stormtroopers’ armor is weak, if it can’t deflect Ewok rocks, bullets should have no problem.
Nuclear weapons. Empire doesn’t have the equivalent of that. If a crashed A-wing can take out a super Star Destroyer, imagine what a well-placed nuke could do.
Set in Europe during WWII, a young Jewish girl is hiding with her family from the Nazis in a friend’s attic. Unfortunately they are discovered and sent to a concentration camp, where she soon dies. Her father, an eccentric scientist, survives. He vows revenge against those that murdered his daughter and, using equipment he found in an old castle, manages to bring her back to life to destroy those who destroyed her. The title?The Diary Of Anne Frankenstein
I would actually watch that movie. But I liked Dead Snow, so my vote might not count for much.
Raising A Little Hell: a young woman is seduced by a charming devil, and it turns out that it’s literal. Unfortunately for her she’s really pro-life and realizes that she has to carry the baby to term, even though she’s scared to death what’s going to happen with her half-evil offspring. The baby’s born and he looks normal so she’s relieved, at least until he’s about 18 months old and instrumental in the nanny’s death. Mom can’t prove it, but she worries. And her worry goes up as the body count rises. Determined to love the evil out of him, she nervously attempts to keep more people from dying, but there are a few failed attempts along the way. Towards the end Mom gets committed for believing that he’s evil despite trying to pray it away, and the hospital convinces her that it’s all in her mind. Armed with anti-psychotics, she’s released and has a reunion with her boy. She happily arrives at the foster home, though the foster mom doesn’t answer the door so Mom has to let herself in. The final scene is her son holding out his arms to her for a hug, and instead of a hug the camera slowly pans towards the floor: a vicious red puddle slowly crawling towards Mom, a pair of pumps with very still feet in them enter the scene, fade to black as mom screams “no!” It’s not a comedy, not a horror movie, but a dark drama with hints of both.
This coming from a user who hasn’t posted shit about any movie ideas he/she might have. Sheesh.
No, you misunderstood. We see the last 8 minutes in various people’s lives even though they don’t know it’s their last 8 minutes. It’s not one of those ‘my life’s almost over, what do I do?’ kinda movies, it’s just a snapshot of various people and what they happened to be doing their last 8 minutes, oblivious to their impending fate.
I don’t want to put words in anyone’s mouth, but: I think that was Cheshire Human’s point: normal, mundane, everyday life is boring. Why would I go to the movies to see that? I live that shit everyday.
I can walk down the street and see that for free.
Well, first of all, I got the impression that Cheshire was referring to more of my ideas in this thread than just the 8 Minutes on Earth one (he used plural, ‘ideas’). I’ve shared like 25 ideas in this thread, and gotten feedback on only a handful from a few users. Sheesh.
Second of all: the 8 minutes in people’s lives we see will be profound, representative of different aspects of human existence, morality, good, evil, intelligence, stupidity, hatred, love et al, all of which is about to be vaporized (unknown to any of the characters). It’s a commentary on what man is in the universe and whether he should or shouldn’t be vaporized from it.
Here’s another idea I have: One Shot: this guy has one shot to save his friend, but the movie is also filmed on a digital camera in one shot, no cutting or editing, which would be the first action movie to be filmed thusly.
Stuntwork without cutting away, getting all the stunts right the first time through with no time for setup or doing safety checks? Impossible.
Frankly, for someone claiming to have a lot of ideas for “major motion pictures”, most of your ideas wouldn’t even make it as art house “B” movies. They are highly derivative and mostly unworkable.
Naysayer. 
Also, I’m thinking that if a bad enough mistake happens, we can edit out the image of it on the final film, which isn’t cheating maybe because we’re not cutting the film we’re just erasing an image from the film. But even then, I probably wouldn’t do that either, I’d just leave in all mistakes and only change the final film by adding sound effects, music, and credit sequences. I was also thinking that the night we filmed it a live broadcast of the filming could be beamed by satellite to paying viewers, like through the net, Netflix, and even select movie theaters, maybe.
If you want to critique my ideas, do they one by one, with specific criticisms for each, don’t just label them all bad as a group.
Now you know why I’m trying to start that website I posted about.
It can’t be made because no state in the union would allow something that unsafe to go into production, and no union member would go near it with a ten foot pole.
Then we’ll film in Canada, Mexico, ____, wherever. Gimme a break.
Here are the three you put out as your best:
James Cameron would sue your ass for both stealing and defamation.
Are you tryng on purpose to make a movie that people will protest at the very few theatres that will show it?
Here’s an even better title for you: Scary Movie:rolleyes:
Let me clarify it for you: No stuntman with an I.Q. over 45 will go anywhere near such a dangerous production.