Wednesday, July 02, 2003

How NOT to make craptastic sequels

As you may have guessed from the title, I saw Terminator 3 today. While it wasn't as mindblowingly cool as other movies, it held its own and had a car chase that was just as entertaining as the one seen in Reloaded. Since I am an aspiring film maker, I have given movies a lot of thought and I believe I have figured out how to make successful blockbuster sequels. Through lots of time spent sitting on my ass coupled with a lot of anger I have developed the following thesis:

People will see anything if....

1. It looks really expensive (i.e. The Hulk)
2. Their are attractive women in it- REGARDLESS of acting talent (Charlie's Angels)
3. Shit gets blown up (anything with a budget that can afford explosives)

Therefore, I have written the following action block buster thrill ride entitled

FORMERLY FAMOUS ACTORS NEED A FATTY PAYCHECK 6

Act 1
The hero(s) suddenly find they are in a situation not all that unlike the one we have seen them in the last five times we watched their characters. Oh NO! A new bad guy wants to: kill them, take over the world, blow up the world. I guess they will have to employ the same methods they used last time. Oh look, its comic relief man. HI GUYS, I am here to make you mildly laugh, so you ignore the fact you are watching a movie you have already seen! Sometimes I am black to contrast the stick-up-his-ass white guy's lack of humor. Isn't that whack?

Act 2
Oh boy a story twist! Lets see- do our heroes suddenly find themselves lost and confused? Have they lost faith in eachother? Has the writer run out of clever dialog? YES, so very quickly we move along to....

Act 3
LOTS of STUFF is gonna get blown up now. Yippeee. Now the villain seems like he is going to actually kill our heroes- could it be? Could his complete lack of any real motivation to be evil overcome our heroes desire to be good? NOOO! Of course not, our heroes miraculously take out a couple buildings (no civilian casualties) throw a few wisecracks in for good measure and kill the bad guy (who never has any friends or family who notice he has gone missing)

Evil Guy's Family Reunion:

Uncle: Uhh, anyone seen Joe lately?
Aunt: Well, I heard he was trying to take over the world.
Uncle: Oh... Well... he always was ambitious. Remember the time he killed the family dog because he "was feeling evil?"
Aunt: What a character.

Sorry, back to our story. The heroes win and of COURSE, we look forward to the next sequel with an open ended conclusion implying there are even more bad guys who want to take over the world and blow more shit up.

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