The Uncanny X-Men
With the loss of
Professor X as well as Cyclops and Jean Grey (We all know they never stay dead,
but we are taking them out of the picture for this movie and keeping with the
movie continuity.) The X-men find themselves at a crisis for leadership as
Storm (played by anyone else but Halle Berry) tries to assume the leadership
position and is met with opposition and stubbornness.
She revisits her
origins being worshiped as a goddess in Africa and wrestles with learning the
difference between leading a tribe of devoted followers and trying to lead a
team of individuals as powerful as herself.
Meanwhile a mysterious
time traveler (Played by Michael Clarke Duncan) tracks down the disgraced
Graydon Creed with seemingly unlimited resources and designs for an army of
robotic monstrosities called sentinels. The time traveler tells Creed tales of
a future where mutants enslave humanity and how this must be stopped. What he
doesn't tell Creed is that he himself plans to enslave humanity and only needs
Creed's assistance in eliminating any mutants that would oppose the rule of
Apocalypse.
What Apocalypse does
not know is that another time traveler has followed him and plans to put a stop
to his dastardly plan. Cybertronic telekinetic bad ass, Cable (Played by Dolph
Ludgren) is the future son of Scott Summers and Jean Grey and he tracks down
the X-men to inform them of the coming of Apocalypse and the Sentinels and lead
them into battle. Through his pure badassery he delivers up a dose of much
needed humility to Storm so that she can learn to lead the X-men as their
equal, and also to Wolverine to convince him to stay with the X-men.
The movie ends with
both the reincarnated Professor X and Magneto (who has just regained his
powers) coming onto the scene and joining forces to help defeat Apocalypse.
When Cable is getting ready to return to his own time he reveals his origins to
the X-men with a promise that Cyclops and Jean Grey will be returning to join
them once again as well.
Also appearing in this
film: Josh Brolin as Mr. Sinister. Another powerful mutant bent on total
enslavement of the human race. He plays the role of Joseph Groebells to
Apocalypse's Adolph Hitler.
Simon's Quest
(Yes I am taking a few
liberties with the plot, let the nerdrage commence.)
Upon discovering the
curse of Dracula that allows this powerful vampire to arise every 100 years,
the Belmonte clan thought they could put an end to Dracula once and for all by
dismembering him and sending the body parts to be guarded in various
monasteries throughout Eastern Europe.
Now it is the late
1600's and Dracula cannot manifest physically and thus his spirit is bringing
to life an army of terrors to plague the night. In order to put an end to the
curse the body parts of Dracula must be gathered together so that the evil
count can physically manifest himself and then he must be staked to the ground
through the heart and his body burned.
The Belmonte clan
knows that only the pure of heart can face these evils without the darkness in
their hearts being used against them.
The young Simon
Belmonte is chosen to undergo this quest aided by a holy morning star ball and
chain passed down throughout the Belmonte family since the era of the first
crusades. The weapon has been blessed with the power to destroy demons.
Simon's travels lead
him to cross paths with many evil monsters including Gorgons, and he is even
lead to the Grim Reaper across the river Styx by the undead ferryman Charon.
"Sure, I will take you to a nice place. He he he!"
It's a terrible night
to have a curse, and an even more terrible night to miss this action packed
monster fest.
George Orwell’s,
Animal Farm
Leave the kids at home
for this one because we are finally giving Orwell’s allegorical tale about
Soviet Communism the treatment it deserves.
No cutesy cartoons or
horrible computer animated moving mouths on live animals.
Here is what we would
do…
Tim Burton claymation
with at least a strong pg-13 rating.
Ayn Rand’s, Atlas Shrugged
After nearly 60 years the hastily made low budget movie
treatment that Ayn Rand’s masterpiece is being given simply will not do.
There is too much content to be forced into one movie so I
agree it should be put into three parts.
Here is where the current movies got it wrong though:
The current movies focus too much on the politics of the
book and strive to try to make the material relevant by putting it to a modern
setting. The book was not meant for a modern setting and so the movies are not
connecting at all.
This book was written at the height of 1950’s Film-Noir and
Sci-Fi. The performances thought to be dry and robotic by novice actors would
not have been out of place at all if the stoic characters of Hank Reardon and
Dagny Taggart were played by actors with the cool and deliberate delivery that
could have been given by masters of the era such as Humphrey Bogart and Lauren
Bacall.
If I had the ability to make this novel into a series of
movies I would focus entirely on the art direction and put the politics on the
back burner.
Trying to make these movies into right wing propaganda films
has made them into films that only those who regularly watch right wing
propaganda are willing to pay theater prices to see.
I would take the movies back to a 1950’s setting where they
belong and play up on the Film Noir style delivery of the performances and
would make these movies into a Film-Noir, Sci-fi, Steampunk masterpiece.
G. Edward Griffen’s, The Creature From Jekyll Island
Of course I would want to do a movie on the book that my
band has been named after (www.facebook.com/jekyllislandmusic)
Conspiracy thrillers are always a box office hot ticket
item, and what better way to bring to light the true causes of our current
financial crisis, the great depression, and any other financial fiasco since
1913 then making the story into a Hollywood thriller?
It would work a hell of a lot better then shouting at people
from a street corner with a bullhorn (cough)Alex Jones(cough)
What movies would you want to see done if you had the
ability or money?
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