Movie Ideas

Cube of Creation

A scientific drama/thriller in the vein of Primer, Melancholia, etc. The story is about a physicist who discovers that time is made of four simultaneous corner-days, and the efforts he must go through to convince the broader scientific establishment of his theory.
 
The Secret of The Mimic

Guy wakes up with a doppelganger in his appartment eating popcorn then he realizes that he is the doppelganger
 
Shawshank's Revenge

The prison warden's humiliation in allowing Dufrense's escape has ruined his life, and now he must hunt him down. Hijinks ensue. Morgan Freeman makes another appearance even though it would make no logical sense for his character to ever appear again.
 
After accidentally stealing from a grocery store due to having trouble with the self-checkouts and causing a scene with the store manager, recently widowed Ed Marino is visited by his daughter Sally Marino-Decker who wants him to move in with her family. Ed does not want to leave his house because he built it himself, but Sally, concerned about her father's well-being, convinces Ed to move in with her and gives him her son Peter's bedroom. Peter is not happy about giving his room to his grandfather and being moved to the attic. Ed is welcomed by Sally's husband Arthur and two daughters, Mia and Jenny. During his first day, Ed spends most of his time in his new room, sitting in his chair and looking at the sky while still thinking about his late wife.

Peter then tells his friends Billy, Steve, and Emma about his grandfather moving in with his family and living in his room. After a miserable first night in his new room, Peter decides to declare war. Ed agrees, as long as they follow the rules of engagement: they cannot damage other people's belongings and cannot tell the family about their arrangement. Peter pulls a series of pranks, including replacing Ed's shaving cream with quick-drying foam and damaging his record player. Ed gets back at Peter with pranks including removing all of the screws from Peter's furniture and rewriting his school report. Ed turns to his friends Danny and Jerry for some advice. Over time, Ed begins to spend time with his granddaughters and son-in-law and learns how to use modern technology, such as self-checkouts and apps.

Sally learns that Mia is dating a boy named Russell, whom she does not approve of. Ed invites Jerry, Danny, and a store worker named Diane, who Ed has befriended to play dodgeball against Peter and his friends. Peter and his friends win the first round, but Ed and his team manage to beat them during the second round. However, during the third round, Danny's jaw is injured, and the game is declared a tie. Later, Peter pushes the button on Ed's emergency call necklace and Ed picks Peter up from school to take him fishing. The two discover that it is illegal to fish there. Ed then takes Peter to his old house and explains that he left some secrets in the walls.

Ed learns that Peter is being bullied, so he, Danny, and Jerry throw the bully in a dumpster. At Jenny's Christmas-themed birthday party, Peter keeps his promise about not pulling any pranks. Peter rigs up an ejector seat for Ed, who is supposed to be playing the part of Santa that night. Unfortunately, a last-minute change results in Jerry being dressed up as Santa. Throughout the party, Peter and Ed are asked to help out. Instead, they continue to prank each other, including spraying bottles at each other and Peter plugging the cord to the lights as Ed checks them, shocking Ed. As a result of their hijinks, they inadvertently reveal their war with each other to everyone. Jerry gets ejected from his chair, resulting in further property damage and injuries to multiple guests. During this, Jenny's Christmas tree prop falls onto the house, leaving a hole in Mia's room and revealing Mia's secret tryst with Russell. Afterwards, Ed is injured and taken to the hospital.

As punishment, Arthur and Sally place Peter and Mia under "work arrest" for six months. Russell shows up; Sally initially seems angry at him, but instead welcomes him. Sally goes to pick up Ed from the hospital, but learns that he has already checked out and his Lyft driver Chuck has taken him to his old house. Peter decides to make amends and begs Ed to move back in with the family. The two finally reconcile, as Sally listens.

As time passes, Ed and Peter seem to finally be getting along until Ed leaves one day to be with Diane, with whom he is now in a relationship. Peter looks on angrily, declaring a war on both of them as they leave.
 
Too many Batman movies focus on the question of whether Gotham needs Batman. Instead, I propose a Batman movie that questions whether Gotham needs Bruce Wayne.

It starts off looking pretty good: by focusing his money on community support, you can see a few villains have been reintegrated back into society (Riddler, Two-Face, Ivy, Catwoman are probably the easiest). Bruce is clearly awkward at important gatherings, sometimes nostalgic for the good old days of punching faces, but he's willing to put up with it for the good of the city.

Enter Penguin. He's never been crazy enough to be institutionalized, or poor enough to care about the lower classes. He's getting his own investments up and running in Gotham (possibly with some Lexcorp funding if we're leaning towards a later crossover). Bruce may have a head start, but he's got too many standards to thrive in cutthroat business, even for government contracts. Crime begins to rise as the social safety net collapses, which as far as Penguin is concerned just means his investments in security and prison companies is paying off. Police corruption is enough for Gordon to resign. The villains from earlier are bringing their old costumes out of storage. Gotham is back to how it used to be, and there's nothing Bruce Wayne can do about it.

So he needs to stop wasting time being Bruce Wayne. He was never built to work within the system. He is built to bring justice to evil that cannot be reached by normal means, whether that impassibility is a hidden base in the sewers or the wealth and connections to exploit polite society. He is Batman. And Gotham needs him more than they ever needed Bruce Wayne, billionaire.
 
chroma_2903 said:
chris pratt as jonesy and jack black as the fish one
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His name is "Fishsticks" you uncultured philistine

Thread Tax: A Smash Bros. Movie: but the characters aren't really the characters. They're interpretations by a childish boxer/wrestler who's really into Mario (or maybe Captain Falcon). He interprets his opponents as different characters and the stages are the rings in different colors.
 
Ironmage said:
Too many Batman movies focus on the question of whether Gotham needs Batman. Instead, I propose a Batman movie that questions whether Gotham needs Bruce Wayne.

It starts off looking pretty good: by focusing his money on community support, you can see a few villains have been reintegrated back into society (Riddler, Two-Face, Ivy, Catwoman are probably the easiest). Bruce is clearly awkward at important gatherings, sometimes nostalgic for the good old days of punching faces, but he's willing to put up with it for the good of the city.

Enter Penguin. He's never been crazy enough to be institutionalized, or poor enough to care about the lower classes. He's getting his own investments up and running in Gotham (possibly with some Lexcorp funding if we're leaning towards a later crossover). Bruce may have a head start, but he's got too many standards to thrive in cutthroat business, even for government contracts. Crime begins to rise as the social safety net collapses, which as far as Penguin is concerned just means his investments in security and prison companies is paying off. Police corruption is enough for Gordon to resign. The villains from earlier are bringing their old costumes out of storage. Gotham is back to how it used to be, and there's nothing Bruce Wayne can do about it.

So he needs to stop wasting time being Bruce Wayne. He was never built to work within the system. He is built to bring justice to evil that cannot be reached by normal means, whether that impassibility is a hidden base in the sewers or the wealth and connections to exploit polite society. He is Batman. And Gotham needs him more than they ever needed Bruce Wayne, billionaire.
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A movie with the message that community support, even with access to a billionaire's wallet, is an ineffective "waste of time," because you just can't improve society, you just can't, but at least the unfixable wretched hive of Gotham gets vindictive glee when their ubermensch-cop punches irredeemable scum? And Bruce is happy he can get back to punching people, instead of the chore of helping them for theirs and society's sake. Christ, that's a dark and bleak movie.

It also doesn't explain its message that you can't improve society. Why does the social safety net collapse? Why can't Bruce do anything about it? Etc.
 
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My latest psychosis is getting somewhere like 40-55% of the way to convincing myself a Go Nagai Cinematic Universe is a good idea. Far too lazy to cobble a proper pitch together but my thought process is that Netflix One Piece was at its core an ultimately successful last push to make the series mainstream in North America and I want that for the works of the GOAT. Our destiny was to make soulful Mazinger Z shitposts with the mexicans but we were denied this by the cucks who decided on cartoon broadcast standards in the 70s. We must make haste and correct the timeline.
 
Ironmage said:
Too many Batman movies focus on the question of whether Gotham needs Batman. Instead, I propose a Batman movie that questions whether Gotham needs Bruce Wayne.

It starts off looking pretty good: by focusing his money on community support, you can see a few villains have been reintegrated back into society (Riddler, Two-Face, Ivy, Catwoman are probably the easiest). Bruce is clearly awkward at important gatherings, sometimes nostalgic for the good old days of punching faces, but he's willing to put up with it for the good of the city.

Enter Penguin. He's never been crazy enough to be institutionalized, or poor enough to care about the lower classes. He's getting his own investments up and running in Gotham (possibly with some Lexcorp funding if we're leaning towards a later crossover). Bruce may have a head start, but he's got too many standards to thrive in cutthroat business, even for government contracts. Crime begins to rise as the social safety net collapses, which as far as Penguin is concerned just means his investments in security and prison companies is paying off. Police corruption is enough for Gordon to resign. The villains from earlier are bringing their old costumes out of storage. Gotham is back to how it used to be, and there's nothing Bruce Wayne can do about it.

So he needs to stop wasting time being Bruce Wayne. He was never built to work within the system. He is built to bring justice to evil that cannot be reached by normal means, whether that impassibility is a hidden base in the sewers or the wealth and connections to exploit polite society. He is Batman. And Gotham needs him more than they ever needed Bruce Wayne, billionaire.
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better idea: a batman movie that's told entirely through the lens of a rehabilitated riddler's burgeoning escape room business
 
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