Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Stogi on August 02, 2011, 01:44:46 AM
Title: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Stogi on August 02, 2011, 01:44:46 AM
We've all seen a lot of movies and we pretty much consider ourselves critics because of it, but does anyone consider themselves creators (other than Big Perm)? Do any of you have any ideas you would love to see on screen?
On long road trips, to pass the time I love coming up with movie ideas. Bouncing them off my friends or family, imagining scenes, settings, characters and dialogue is as enjoyable as watching a movie itself.
So this thread is dedicated to that purpose. Post your ideas and lets discuss them. If you have a script you've been working on, go ahead it link it here, but be warned: Most of us probably won't read anything too long.
A man is trained by God to save the souls of those who have been unrightfully taken by Lucifer. He must earn the respect of the Angels, conquer and unite the Jinn, and march on Hell's Gates.
Summary:
As peoples' bodies burst in a plume of ash and their souls ascend to heaven, from the shadow the Devil's Reapers intercept and devour them, sending them to hell instead. Muryark, an unknowing and unlikely hero chosen by God, watches his wife and children literally split open by demons and can only cower in fear as they consume their souls. Before he too faces the same fate, he is saved by the Archangel Gabriel who summons a roar of light and destroys and scatters the demons back into darkness. Gabriel transports Isaac to Heaven where he meets the rest of the four commanding Archangels. There is Raphael, the wisest; Michael, the bravest; and Uriel, the compassionate; and of course, Gabriel, the divine. They tell him of his mission, to defeat Lucifer's army and free the captive souls, but also tell him he is not ready. He must first conquer and unite the three kingdoms of Jinn under his banner as Heaven's numbers are no match for Lucifer's. Each of the archangels teaches Moryark. Raphael teaches him strategy. Michael teaches him how to fight (but is at first unimpressed and scornful since he lead the army's against Lucifer before). Gabriel teaches him all the manners of the universe and the strength within himself. And Uriel is his guide, his guardian and ultimately his love interest.
Moryark receives a weapon made of light that can transform into anything he can imagine but is only as powerful as his will. He conquers the kingdoms of the Jinn, all of which are very unusual and unalike, with his wit, bravery and strength. Along the way he meets a few friends who are memorable, bizarre but ultimately, remarkable. He commands the Jinn to follow him and free the souls of his kind, warning them that if Lucifer defeats Heaven, they are next.
They march on Hell is filled with treachery. Lucifer's army is even more massive than they could have imagined and his defenses too great. This part is in need of some work, but Moryark is tricked with the projection of his wife and loses hope and is captured. He is then beaten and tortured and brought before Lucifer. In his Grand Hall, Moryark is once again shown his wife and children as they are set on fire. Uriel appears and fights Lucifer only to be killed by him. He then drinks her light. This sends him over the edge and like Avatar the Last Airbender or Dragonball Z, he goes Super Saiyan, growing giant wings and unleashing a A-bomb of light. Before the explosion is even finished, he walks over to Lucifer who is now cowering in fear and is naked, and in an incredibly powerful voices commands him to release the souls he has captured or else whither and die. As his skin rots and his face melts, Lucifer agrees. Moryark saves the day, sees his wife in Heaven, is congratulated, and becomes the new Archangel, yada yada yada the end.
Possible Title:
Moryark
Estimated run time:
3 movies/~ 2 hours a piece.
Estimated rating:
PG-13 or R (R preferred)
Genre:
Epic Fantasy
Outline:
First movie --
He goes to heaven Learns and garners respect from the Angels Falls in love Uriel Micheal becomes jealous Ends with an epic battle against Micheal for the right to lead the angels and to use the ultimate weapon.
Second movie --
He goes to the other plane of existence with Uriel as his guide He conquers the three kingdoms of Jinn though Lucifer's treachery is afoot He makes a few friends He ultimately uncovers the treachery to divide them and unites them under his banner and prepares them for war
Third movie --
He goes to hell with his army of Jinn and Angels and travels down the circles of Hell He is tricked by Lucifer and is captured He is tortured and sees his family burn and Uriel die He goes super sayian and kills everyone. He saves the day. He goes back to heaven and becomes the new archangel.
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So yeah, now you can either critique my idea, adding your own thoughts and ideas or even writing out or describing a scene, or put your own idea down for others to read.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Morari on August 02, 2011, 03:01:49 AM
I regularly write and direct (and edit, and choreograph, do the f/x, etc) short films as a hobby. I have several feature length scripts under my belt, but have not yet found the time nor manpower to realize them. I won't discuss them here however. Good ideas tend to get stolen. After all, Hollywood is always desperate to molest any idea they can get their hands on. :P
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Stogi on August 02, 2011, 04:25:37 AM
That's awesome but I think you give us too much credit. I don't think anyone here has the means to produce a full feature length film, especially one that might be heavy on the CGI like my popcorn flick idea.
But if you don't want to share them I get it. Since you have experience writing a script, maybe you can round out others ideas.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 02, 2011, 04:55:32 AM
My latest idea was for a porn. Bases around a popular girl group.
It would star celebrity look-a-likes. Beyonce, Kelly & Michelle.
One (''18yr old") girl with big dreams and pushy parents puts together a girl group who is willing to do anything, and I mean anything, to make it in the music industry. Lots of back stage deals and greased palms to make their way up on stage for the chance to become big stars.
The name of this movie biopic parody would be... Destiny's Child bioPornography
It's a movie that is destined to sell.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: TJ Spyke on August 02, 2011, 05:32:59 AM
LOL at the title, you might even get some unintended sales based on the name.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: ThePerm on August 02, 2011, 06:03:08 AM
other than me? Does that imply exclusion of me from the conversation, or does it imply im known(possibly to attention whore levels) for my creative activity, or claim thereof, on the boards?
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Stogi on August 02, 2011, 10:45:31 AM
It implies the latter.
BnM: Does your movie have a cat fight scene when Beyonce decides to go solo?
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 02, 2011, 12:32:29 PM
That is saved for the second sequel.
The first movie ends with them finally making it big after being pimped out by the parents.
The first sequel is them taking advantage of fans and groupies until Beyonce lands the Big Fish... Ray J. Zee (He likes to be called J. Zee for short). J. Zee suggest B breaks off from the group and go solo after lots of internal drama from J making all sorts of suggestions regarding the group.
The second sequel is her breaking off for a solo career now that she feels she doesn't need the other 2 girls. It starts off with a catfight that turns into a lez scene (ofcourse) and the girls all go their separate ways.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: bustin98 on August 02, 2011, 01:16:14 PM
Mike Meyers look-alike needs to show up in the second sequel with his 'gold member', courting Beyonce to begin her movie career.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on August 02, 2011, 02:49:54 PM
LOL at the title, you might even get some unintended sales based on the name.
That is the beauty of the title. All the media attention over the name and then all misguided purchases/views from the sickest individuals in the depths of society. Just imagine the google searches. I would hope for it to get so big and have so many sequels that it gets it's own named section in every porn shop.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: ThePerm on August 09, 2011, 04:00:21 AM
so this thread isn't really a movie idea thread...its a porno idea thread?
in that case i would like to see a video thats about 10 minutes long of just bouncing boobs, and every 4 seconds or so the pair of boobs changes. The beat of the shake would be about 120bpm
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: bustin98 on August 09, 2011, 11:15:31 PM
LOL! What? No story? Boob and boob, together, then get seperated, and then find each other once again... wait, I think bouncing boobs will cover that.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: ThePerm on August 10, 2011, 12:38:33 AM
the story is these boobs went up and they went down, id imagine the bpm would steadily increase towards the end and then slow down. About 3 quarters of the way through the video a penis flashes on the screen for about 1 frame.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Stogi on August 10, 2011, 03:31:34 PM
I got a movie idea...
It's about someone who is possessed by some sort of demon (not the dangerous kind, more of the trickster type) and most dwell into their own mind and soul to find it and expunge it.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Stogi on October 25, 2011, 11:05:27 PM
I got another idea....
This movie follows a lighter. Like Pulp Fiction, there is no meaningful story arch. Instead, there are several different stories that intertwine through the finding of this lighter.
This is not a really fleshed out idea, but I would like the story to start with someone finding it in the desert while pissing or something. After an hour or so of several different stories, we go back in time (though the audience doesn't know it yet) to another story and eventually the abandoning of that lighter in the desert.
I'm thinking some of the stories should include amateur bank robbers, pawn shop owners, a politician, an Armenian drug gang, a pair of irish immigrants and a professional gambler/rackateer.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: EasyCure on October 26, 2011, 12:13:41 AM
I can't believe I never posted here (or bothered to read any of your comments, sorry!)
An idea I had a long time ago that recently resurfaced due to recently watching Paranormal Activity 3..
"Paranoid Activity" should be a movie about stoners who THINK they're experiencing paranormal activity. Okay maybe it won't be enough for a movie, probably better for a quick parody sketch, but this **** had me damn near pissing myself when I thought it up.
Picture a couple of friends getting baked on a couch, watching scary movies (putting them in the wrong frame of mind) and one bites into Fritos or something, and the others get scared "did you hear that!?" type of ****. You know, basically the same BS that goes into those awful Paranormal Activity movies, but INTENTIONALLY funny :)
I had a similar idea today, again because of watching PA3; You know how they have those "black movies" which are borderline modern-day blacksploitation? I want another PA parody done in that style. I had a funny thought of your stereotypical ghetto guy getting out of his ride, while being filmed by another guy, getting something out of the trunk and as soon as it's closed you see a figure appear in his passenger seat (thru the rear window) which would be the "scary" moment in the real movie, but seeing as this is a parody, homeboy goes up and starts yelling at this bitch to get up out his car, yo! Out of nowhere the guys girlfriend shows up and gets mad when she sees another woman in the car, goes to confront ghost girl shouting things like "oh hell no, you best get up out thurr, white girl!".
I dunno, it was funnier in my head. I was drunk.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Stogi on October 26, 2011, 01:00:45 AM
I laughed at your PARANOID Activity sketch. I could easily see that being on SNL or something. Get Tracy Morgan in it and you got TV gold.
I actually made something like that (well we were stoned and it was scary, though not very funny until it was over) already a long time ago, but it was just me and a few friends going into an abandoned Hotel about an hour out of the city in the middle of nowhere. We have never been there and got lost, but eventually we found it. This place was freaky. You have to drive up this long narrow dirt road with trees on either side brushing against your car. Finally, you pull up to a clearing in a field and a big hotel is standing in the middle of it. The moon illuminating the building that is covered in vines and moss. There was a thick fog. I'm telling you...
This place was scary. All the windows were boarded up, so you couldn't even take a peak with a flash light inside. That would have been helpful considering as soon as you enter, there is no foyer or main lobby, it's just a long hall way with door openings every few feet on either side. So after much debate (and people trying to pussy out), one of my friends decides to walk in first. He gives a big "HELLLOOO!". Nothing responds, but the small feet of an animal are heard scurrying away.
We walk in a bunch formation, each of us shining a light in a different direction, investigating rooms as we continue in. There's multiple tags in all the rooms of swastikas and KKK; drawings of people with X's for eyes; the words HELL appeared in several sentences, but most disturbingly in "HELL IS HERE!" This place was fuckkkkkkkked up.
Finally, we make it through the hallway and into a big open room. The ceiling is cracked and looks like its about to fall. There's a big fire place on the far wall with a pile of crack pipes. There was a bent stair case to our right. We decide to go up and immediately bats are flying around our heads. I've never heard my friends voice go so high.
Upstairs there were multiple hallways. One of the paths led to where the ceiling was cracked, the other to the rooms the bats flew out of, so we decide to go down the last hallway. Past more rooms only feet apart, we start to see a light. Further and further we continue until we reach the end and we're outside, on the roof. It was grassed covered and had a small dead tree in the middle of it. It was eerie, but it was pretty damn cool. So we smoked a bone there and decided we had our fill and it was time to go.
That's when we heard a gunshot. We stood there like deer, waiting for a frame of reference. BOOM! Another shot. That's when we started to panic. We bolted back down the house and through the door and back to our car. As we were getting in, we saw two people emerge from the tree line behind the hotel. That's when we pulled the car around and bailed.
Freaky freaky night. It's too bad, the recording of it sucked. There were so many times the camera would just fall to the way side as we investigated rooms and pointed flashlights at crazy things. There was one good moment. It was my friend and the look on his face as we entered was priceless. Genuine fear.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: ThePerm on October 26, 2011, 01:19:24 PM
hahaha, at least you got out, thats how real horror movies, a bunch of people in their 20s go to some abandoned hotel in the middle of the night, chaos ensues. Then Id be posting on the forums wondering where the **** Stogi went? Not knowing he got axe murderd by Neo-nazi clansmen.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: EasyCure on November 01, 2011, 01:33:34 AM
I'm still curious about that gunshot. Ever find out what that might of been from?
Coming back from Atlantic City about a month ago, my brother and some friends swear we saw a UFO floating above the Jersey country-side. He immediately went home to Google news about UFO sightings in that general area, and while he didn't turn up anything from the night we saw whatever it is we saw, he did find out that the particular area of Jerse' we were in has had a rise in UFO activity/reports in the last 3 years and was even able to find at least two videos of something similar to what we saw.
Not that I want you to ruin your story with a valid explanation of where the shots came from, just saying sometimes it's fun to look into things like that, just for the **** of it.
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Stogi on November 04, 2011, 04:07:32 PM
I always figured the shots were from the two people who emerged from the woods. Maybe they were shooting people, most likely they were shooting animals. Crackheads need to eat too.
I went back out there about a month later and walked around. It wasn't scary at all. It was just a dilapidated old building, though we did see plenty of bullet holes. We exited the hotel and continued into the woods where we saw them pop out. Turned out there was only about 30 yards or so of woods before you get to the next clearing. We exited the woods and that's when we saw it. A coffin, sitting right on the edge of the woods. It wasn't completely closed and there was a black trashbag sticking out. It was begging for us to open it. It could have been money, drugs, and even a dead body. Either way, it was bad news. So we didn't open it and just headed back. Anti-climatic, I know. But would you have opened it?
Title: Re: The Movie Idea Thread
Post by: Ceric on November 04, 2011, 04:40:03 PM
