Not sure if this has been done before, but what the heck: post a single scene you’d like to see in a movie. You don’t have to explain what the whole movie is about, just a scene that would make you laugh, cry, go Wow!, or say “I can’t BELIEVE they had the balls to do that!”
Here’s a couple to start with:
in an action-adventure movie the hero’s partner (who you know is doomed of course) got as a gift a souvenier watch from Graceland that he can’t figure out how to turn the alarm off. We see it go off a couple of times to demonstrate that. Then, a scene comes when he is trying to hide in a parking ramp from a hired killer and as he’s ducked down behind a car his watch starts playing “You Ain’t Nothin but a Hounddog”; and it gets him killed.
Perhaps in the same movie. The hired killer corners someone who starts trying to talk his way out of it. The killer doesn’t pause or hesitate for an instant, and shoots the guy in the head in mid-sentence without paying any attention to what he was saying.
This kind of happened in Firefly. An alliance agent was holding Simon standing behind him with gun to head in the cliche pose. Malcom returns to the ship, the agent stands to talk about how they now have to listen to him. Before he finishes the sentence Mal shoot him in the eye.
Bond trails a suspect into a bar. He sits down and orders a drink while watching the suspect. The suspect talks to someone quietly. Then a typical fat loudmouth American slobby tourist sits down next to Bond and talks obnoxiously. Eventually The suspect gets a package leaves and Bond follows. Chase ensues, but Bond loses suspect. Walking back down street he sees fat guy tackling and handcuffing suspect masterfully.
The Fat guy pulls a badge and says “Okay everybody, it’s all okay , I’m CIA this guy’s is under arrest.”
Random chick in crowd “You’re in the CIA?”
Fat guy, 'Yeah did you think us spies actually ran around in $3000 suits, expensive cars and sat around sipping Martinis? That really doesn’t work as a cover."
Scene I’d like to see in a movie: a horror/slasher flick where someone makes the dumbass suggestion that the characters split up for some reason and someone else pipes up with “The hell with that! We sit in a room with one door and no windows holding whatever weapons we have and don’t move till morning!”
I’d like to see a car chase in a big city where there’s actual close-to-average traffic in the wide shots. It really galls me when the streets are empty but for the good and bad guys’ cars.
You know that scene near the end where the bad guy is finally cornered and goes into a long spiel about why he did the unspeakable horror that he did? Here’s how I’d like it to go:
Good Guy: “Why did you do the unspeakable horror that you did?”
Bad Guy (taking a long, deep breath): Well, it all started when…"
Good Guy shoots Bad Guy then says to his dying face: “On second thought, I’m not really that interested.”
Now that’s good cinema!
On a related note, I always wanted to see a bad guy who is cornered and disarmed by the gun-toting hero say in that scornful, I-know-you-won’t-do-it tone, “You know I’ll come after you again. You should kill me.”
Then have the hero look thoughtful for a second, say “You know something, you’re right” and shoot him.
Yet another shout-out for the late, lamented Firefly.
[spoiler]Captain Malcolm Reynolds is trying to return the money given to him by a pyschopathic criminal boss for a job which Mal wound up not doing.
Large, tattooed, extremely violent henchman of the aforesaid psychopathic criminal boss, standing there with his hands tied behind his back: “Keep the money. Use it to buy a funeral. It doesn’t matter where you go or how far you fly. I will hunt you down, and the last thing you see will be my blade.” Captain Malcolm Reynolds: “Darn.” Mal kicks large, tattooed, extremely violent henchman into a running jet engine intake.[/spoiler]
God, I love that show.
Now, the scene I’d like to see in a movie is Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin and Summer Glau splashing each other while lounging in a large bathtub. The play gets soapier and soapier, until they finally towel each other off and adjourn to the shuttle bed, where…
I’d like to see a rape-case plot where the guy keeps insisting, "But she’s lying! It was consensual! She came on to me!" And it turns out he’s telling the truth.
Actually, this is something I’d rather see on a TV show than a movie. Because I’ve seen so many TV plots (in L.A. Law, Law & Order: SVU, many others) where it turns out the suspect using the “Potiphar’s Wife” defense is either lying out his ass or deluding himself (“You know how a woman sometimes says ‘No!’ when she means ‘Yes!’?”). It’s been done so many times it’s gotten predictable.
In Under Seige, I would’ve LOVED it if, when Ryback (Seagal) tried to hide Jordan (Eleniak) and she went ape, making all kinds of racket, he’d just said, “F*** it,” and dumped her overboard.
I’d like to see a modern variant on the old 50s heroine who gets chased but has trouble running and trips a lot (she’s wearing high heels in the woods). In my version, a bunch of guys are being chased through the woods by a crazed serial killer/big snake/hungy-hungry hippo, and one of the guys is wearing those low-riding pants with all the pockets and the crotch down around the knees. As soon as they begin running the pants totally fall around his ankles and he is promptly killed/eaten.
Jackie Chan, in the middle of one of those big ole fight scenes with about 20 guys and have Another Hero from another Totally different Movie doing a totally different fight scene bump into him mid battle, have them pair up for a couple then part ways…you could run it in both flicks shot from each ones perspective.
Something like that was done in The Untouchables. The bad guy is taunting Ness, about how Sean Connery’s character died, and says Ness won’t do anything to him because he’s a cop and they can’t fool around with the suspects. Ness pushes him off the building.
