What kind of movie do you wish there was?

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Inspired by this thread.

(Should it be “wish there was” or “wish there were?” Anyway…)

Personally, I really want to see a full-length documentary on launching the mars rovers. Nothing over-dramatized, no tacked-on fictional backstory (like in “What the **** do we know”), just an honest-to-goodness documentary about the challenges involved, featuring interviews with the various people who worked on the project. If you ask me, the real story is interesting enough without making it more dramatic. I’d get a kick out of seeing that on a big screen, mostly because I know it’s something that would never come out of Hollywood since it doesn’t involve blowing things up. (Okay, technically it does, kind of…)

What kind of movie do you wish someone would make?

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I’d sure like to see a well-done movie or TV show that involves female geeks. Comedy, drama, action, SF, makes no diff to me. I’d just like to see some estrogen in the depiction of techie types. About the only believable geekette I can think of is Chloe on “24,” and she has apparently been phased out.

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An American romantic movie with an Asian or Hispanic male lead that’s not played for laughs.

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Hmm… A movie that doesn’t suck.

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More movies about time-travel. Or robots. Or time-travelling robots! Yeah, that’s the ticket…

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I’d love to see more atmospheric adventure movies, be they period pieces like Indiana Jones and The Mummy, retro sci-fi like Sky Captain, or film noir like the upcoming Sin City, which looks very stylized and experimental. I think the Indiana Jones movies got the balance perfect, combining old-fashioned movie matinee pulp adventure with modern standards for special effects and storytelling. I had high hopes for Sky Captain, but I feel like we got a gorgeous-looking but unfulfilling movie… the script should have met 2004 standards along with the visuals. I have high hopes for Sin City because I love the comic book it’s based on as well as the film’s director. Anyway, I’d just love to see more action, adventure, and sci-fi films that look backwards in tone and style as much as they look forward in entertaining today’s jaded audiences.

I’d also like more film noir/mystery/detective movies like L.A. Confidential and Angel Heart, and more Westerns, preferably more in the “darker” tone of Sergio Leone than the John Wayne epics. And steampunk! Yea yea, more steampunk on the big screen, please–and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and The Time Machine (the Guy Pearce one) should hardly count.

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My ideal hypothetical movie stars Famke Janssen and myself, and can’t be shown in the typical cineplex. :slight_smile:

Lou, you should enjoy this. Hardcore steampunk anime from the director of Anime. I’m practically vibrating with anticipation.

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Um, that would be “from the director of Akira.” I’m a dummy.

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Here’s one. Here’s another. And one more.

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Thanks for the heads-up! I usually don’t care for anime, but I love Cowboy Bebop (more noir influence) and Metropolis (some “retro sci-fi” style there).

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I think we need more '80s action movies. You know, the ones where they ALWAYS blew up something big (or, in the case of Tango & Cash, used really crappy special effects to make it LOOK like htey blew up something big) at the end, and always always ALWAYS has plenty of gratuitous titty shots.

I’d make a movie called “Big Booms and Big Boobies”. It’d star Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Jean-Clod Van Dammit, Steven Segal, Wesley Snipes, Chuck Norris, and Clint Eastwood. Each of them would have about fifteen seconds of screen time. The rest of the movie would be a lesbian sex romp.

I bet it’d beat Titanic’s box office gross.

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I’d watch it. :slight_smile:

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Three-second cameos from Jeff Speakman, Don The Dragon Wilson, Wings Hauser…

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Three in the last six years? I think you proved my point. :wink:

Saw Anna and the King in the theater, actually, and I have to say it was a total waste of Chow-Yun Fat’s talents.

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Mature animated movies. Scripts and stories that don’t have to involve action, space, fantasy or cute kids (not that I’m opposed to all of those things; I love Cowboy Bebop) but that tell really good stories and happen to be beautifully drawn. So few movies these days seem to have real visual flair.

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I want a movie starring Steve Buschemi, Willem Defoe, and Christopher Walkin.

It would be titled, “Creepy Lookin’ Mofos”.

One sequence of the movie would be a song montage of those three singing “Rainbow Connection”.

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I won’t go see it unless James Woods and John Malkovich are in there, too.

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Fair enough.

James Woods will play a man who wants to join the League of Extraordinarily Creepy Gentlemen (the afforementioned three). Much of the plot (and I use the word loosely) will revolve around his attempts to prove that he is creepy enough to join in.

Attempting to break up the group is John Malkovich, founder of Citizens Opposing Creepy Kooks. (The irony of this will be lost on every character, but not the audience.)

The guy who plays the Mouth of Sauron in the LotR movies and the Trainman in the Matrix movies will make a cameo and put the young upstarts in their place in the hilarious musical number, “Anyone You Can Scare, I Can Scare Better (I Can Scare Anyone Better Than You)”.

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Dennis Hopper must be in this film. Ever since Paris Trout, I can’t look at him without thinking “Creepy Lookin’ Mofo”.

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I have stated this on a previous thread, but here goes:

Pixar starting a studio label - the way Miramax started Dimension Films to do horror/non-“Oscar Material” movies - focused on films for grown ups. In other words, computer generated PG-13 and R rated movies.

The first one they’d do: The Watchmen.