Recently I went to the movies and as I waited through the half hour of previews and actual commercials, that is a whole different rant, I thought about how I would rather see short films before the movie started. A few days later I was fishing on the columbia river and some bastards were zipping around on their goddamned jet skis and I got an idea for a short film. The opening shot is of a peaceful lake at daybreak. What you see is a dock and part of a ramp leading to shore, with the lake in the background. There are birds chirping and an old man wearing typical old fisherman type clothes, a plaid shirt, brown old man pants , a hat, walks down the ramp carrying a plaid thermos and a green and yellow webbed upright lawnchair, walks down the ramp into the scene. He sets down the thermos and sets up the lawn chair. He then shuffles out of the scene and comes back with a newspaper and a large black case. He shuffles back to his chair. sits down pours steaming coffee into the thermos lid/cup and sips. He then opens the case and assembles a sniper’s rifle with a scope. He lays it across his knees, pours another cup of coffee and opens the paper and begins to read, this goes on for a while, drinking coffee reading the paper. Then you hear a low buzzing noise. The old man swigges down his coffee folds his paper and starts jacking shells into the rifle. The buzzing gets louder and the camera cuts to a group of jetskiers zipping along. Then back to the old man. The next scene is down the scope with a jetskier in the crosshairs. BLAM! and its a shot of a person being shot of the jetski. Then more shots and with each shot a cut of the old man shooting, the view down the scope, people being shot off of a jetski. then the shooting stops. The old man disassembles and puts away the rifle, makes two shuffeling trips up and down the ramp, out and back into the scene carrying his stuff away. After he shuffles out with the last of his stuff the camera pulls back to show people floating facedown in the water, jetskies stalled in the water , some upside down and one puttering riderless in circles. I think that would really beat the hell out of a pepsi commercial and would also cause a whole aduience to sit there in stunned silence. I just looking for some feed back on this idea.
Don’t have him drinking coffee. Make this the Pepsi commercial.
Two words:
Professional therapy
No, really, sounds great! I’m just not into that shit. Sorry. Carry on.
I think that would definately make a cool short film, but you should hold off on revealing the sniper-rifle. Keeping the audience thinking it’s a fishing pole the old man’s assembling right up until the last second would really up the impact and humor of the whole thing.
Cool idea. Just don’t show it before Toy Story or Jungle Book - you’ll scare the crap out of the little kids!
Oh and can I make a friendly suggestion: paragraphs would have made your OP a lot more readable.
Please god I don’t want another “funny thing about the matrix” thread, I’m only tyring to be helpful, G-RAY. 
And hey, speaking of movie ideas, I’d really like to see a parody of movies like Titanic and Pearl Harbor centered around the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.
Surely I can’t be alone in this . . .
And make it the basis for a series of them, by gum. The next commercial, released some months later, will involve a similar setup, with the old man sniping people riding ATVs and tearing up wilderness trails.
Better yet, make it a campaign for a new drink from Coke designed to be the exact opposite of Mountain Dew.
A caffiene free/reduced soda for oldsters, with the old-timey mascot killing those dang-gum extreme sports dorks so closely associated with the Dew.
That’s perfect.
Shot: Mascot McGraw sitting peaceful behind a duck blind, grizzled old dog at his side. He skritches dog’s ears, tail thumps. Serene silence, natural sounds. Shotgun leaning nearby.
Cut: Standard Issue Twenty-Something Extreme Sports Dew Dude slams that familiar green can of soda–shot so that it’s not actually shown to be Mountain Dew, of course. Legal issues. Cue standard Dew Scream as he leaps out of plane on surfboard.
Cut: Ducks scatter through the air; Mascot McGraw stands slowly, taking up shotgun but makes no move to shoot at the ducks.
Cut: Standard issue Xtreme Skyboarding Stuntz, yo! While he continues to pour Dew into his mouth from unending supply of cans.
Cut: BLAM!
Cut: Dog off in a dash, then coming back dragging Xtreme Dew corpse by a leg.
Brings a tear to my eye. This must receive funding.
I’ve even got a name and tagline for the product!
Golden Cola The Choice of an Old Generation.
I don’t normally post negative comments in Cafe Society threads, but I can’t keep myself from doing so here. In addition to being mildly distubing, your idea just plain sucks.
It is an undisguised and uncreative revenge fantasy, devoid of humor, drama, suspense, character development, plot, or anything that could make it remotely entertaining. What you have is an old guy sniping people. That’s it. That’s all. There’s not near enough there to make a film around, and an audience cannot be expected to buy into your bloodlust simply for the sake of bloodlust.
The shock value sure wouldn’t sell it, either. With all the hyper violence in films today, the sniping of jetskiers would likely produce yawns. Remember that this is an audience familiar with all manner of cinematic deaths, ranging from the graphic depiction of blood and gore all but required in war movies to the pointless and graphic murder of innocents in films such as Natural Born Killers. What’s more, shock value, even if truly shocking (which your film wouldn’t be) isn’t enough. It never has been.
Your film would be nothing more than a self indulgent exercise in suppressed anger and the audience is not going to appreciate the emotional masturbation and sublimated rage represented by the waste of celluloid this film would inevitably be.
Sorry, kid.
Okay here is a better idea. Same old guy sitting on a street corner in Atlanta. A bunch on condescending douche bags come walking by…
How about subliminally flashing short films during really bad movies? 
How about this idea: A kid posts a movie idea on a message board, asking for feedback. Someone responds with some constructive criticism. The kid responds with insults, thus revealing his maturity to all who read the thread.
I’m thinking of pitching it to MGM… whaddaya think?