How about “Honey, I Shrunk Marmaduke”, the adventures of a suburban family with a normal sized dog, who, because of his new found normalcy, isn’t very interesting and doesn’t really play into the plot at all. Sort of like an “Ordinary People”, and they have a dog.
The Family Circus, as one of those evil-child movies that were popular in the 1980’s. Billy and Jeffy join a Satanic coven.
HA! Thats 2 Family Circus “Demon children” references ive seen in a week! I think there may be something to this
I actually entered this thread to talk about this very thing, except it was going to be more like Children of the Corn, complete with a power struggle between Billy and Jeffy. They will occasionally see the spirit of granny who will convince them to purge the world of the unwashed, heathen masses. The children will make the streets flow red with the blood of the non-believers and in their wake is death, decay, and black dotted lines.
Alternately, FoxTrot done as a Requiem for a Dream style foray into the serious nature of addiction.
(By the by, this is my very first posting anywhere on the Dope, spent too much time lurking in the shadows, felt the need to contribute something, no matter how trite)
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How about a ‘Cathy’ movie in which the titular character becomes an ass-kickboxing, vampire-fighting ‘Buffy’ style superheroine all while making light-weight observations about being a modern day woman?
Prince Valiant–in Brokeback Mountain mode.
Both?
Those aren’t drops of sweat she’s shaking off her head!
Jack Chick tracts–turned into a movie by somebody who actually belived he was just kidding.
I wonder what Wes Anderson might bring to Funky Winkerbean.
No wait, Alexander Payne.
No, stuff it. Those might actually be good. How about Larry Clark?
Larry Clark’s not available, he’s committed to Marvin.
Peter Jackson brings you the 9 hour trilogy of
THE WIZARD OF ID
Prince Valiant in Purple Rain.
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This could be mis-realized on the big screen with a Shakespearian tragedy treatment, where all the petty grievances turn into blood feuds and every eavesdropping nurse is stabbed behind the arras.
Actually, I had the first interpretation in my mind when I posted, but I like your alternate just fine, so I’ll go with you and DiggitCamera on the possibility of swinging it either way.
Hey, I’d pay $8 to see either one.
Also, a second on Czarcasm’s vampire Farley. “He’s back, and he’s all BITE”
And while I’m at it, Terry and the Pirates (the original Milt Caniff version) screams for a Sin City interpretation. It’s already got a character known as “Dragon Lady”…