Peak Movie Ideas
Forget the doomsday prophets and their cries of panic as we approach some alleged day of reckoning with our “natural resources”… Their is a bona fide shortage that must have peaked ages ago: Good Movie Ideas.
Unfortunately, it may be far too late to do anything about it. The steady increase in movie ticket price did not result in an increase in movie quality, as we had hoped… We may have to experience a Movie Apocalypse before we can revive the medium with good art.
Don’t believe that it’s gotten that bad? You must not have heard of Snakes on a Plane. Synopsis: On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who’s a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes. That’s right… It’s called Snakes on a Plane because, well, it’s about snakes… on a plane. As Erik puts it, next we’ll see movie titles like Someone gets stabbed and You just gave up $8.50 to see this?.
As an aside, if you don’t know what the title and the first sentence are referencing, I was alluding to the Peak Oil prophets. They claim that we’ve reached the end of our oil supply and the whole world is going to end because of it. The author of this Peak Oil website got more than just the idea for a ranting single-column layout from TimeCube guy. Besides our memories of the assorted Y2K-disaster theorists, if you need any reason not to waste your time on this disaster-du-jour you can browse the criticisms area of wikipedia.
But Good Movie Ideas… I would be interested in hearing a solution to this problem. Lately, Nicole and I have spent more time at the independent theater than the standard theater. But, we’ve been watching mostly documentaries, so I don’t think it stands in opposition to the problem necessarily.
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10 months later:
fuck this shit!
10 months later:
I have this idea for a movie im not sure what i would name it but it would be about true events that actually happened to my family about ghost sightings and other supernatural incidents, let me just tell you some of the things that happened to them,” My Friends Mom was driving on the road in the night and she looked at her window and there was a Witch flying next to her and she got all freaked out and started going faster and then she looked at her mirror the one thats on top and there, the witch was in the back seat my friends mom stopped the car and left running and she became mute couldnt talk because she was so frightened , this other story is when my dad, mom, and his brother and her sister where in mexico when they were young like in their 20’s they were living in this house and then there was a all the lights went out and there was a thunderstorm, then a cat came in the house and started walking with his back! the cat had his arms and legs up and it was walking towards them so my dad and brother started to hit it with these pans and the cat kept dodging them like a human or something it was pretty freaky when he told me,and there are alot more stories that could be made into a film that could become one of the most scariest films ever! just letting you know!