Ever since I was a kid, I always thought it would be amazingly creepy if a movie did something like this; a bunch of kids are doing “bloody mary” at a sleepover or something, but nothing happens (as usual). At some other point in the film - preferably a few scenes later, and a day or two later in film time - the same mirror is shown in the background of the scene, or even just as a character walks past, with a dark figure in it. It wouldn’t be overt, called attention to, or even be a part of the movie’s plot in any way, but would just be something stuck in the background like the “ghost” in Three Men and a Baby - something that viewers might pick up on on repeated viewings. Bonus points if the film isn’t a horror movie at all, but a romantic comedy or family drama.
I want to see a brilliantly choreographed kung-fu style fight scene… on ice skates. Probably crazy dangerous to film, but that never stopped Jackie Chan anyway. Must include at least one good skate-blade-to-jaw kick.
a few years ago i foolishly dreamt I could write a script for an action movie. I never ever got past the first scene… but still, i really feel a movie needs an opening scene like this -
You know who spends more money on tinnitus research than anyone else? The U.S. military. Seems that all that stuff they’ve got which goes boom! creates hearing problems for a lot of their personnel.
Not quite on this level of gravity, but E-Ring did an episode where Colonel McNulty was accused of sexual harrassment, and it turns out that accusation was groundless, and that the accuser was pressured to accuse him by her boss.
Actually, one of the best things about that show is how it’s not afraid to turn PC conventions on its head - in another episode Christian extremists take over a mosque.
Actually, that would seem to be VERY PC.
Well, waddaya know. Did this go direct to DVD maybe?
I wonder why my geek friends didn’t make this common knowledge? Gonna have to swat them with their slide rulers.
A scene where someone logs onto the Dope. 
Or…a fight scene where the little martial arts guy has to fight the huge henchman after his first defeat and a long training montage…and the big guy just wipes the floor with him. The little guy gets up and says “There’s no bloody way I can beat him.”
This one is specific to Futurama, if indeed they make new episodes of it:
Through some contrived situation, Leela is wearing a very revealing top that not only shows off her generous bust but pushes it up and out considerably. Then, as they’re escaping in the Planet Express starship from wherever they are, Leela is at the pilot’s controls and yells out “Thrusters at maximum!”. To which Fry responds, “Yeh, I can see that!”.