Clouder's Choice competition Jan 2011

Thu, Jan 6 2011 06:44pm GMT 1
John Taylor
John Taylor
916 Posts
This competition is inspired by my favourite line in 'Eats shoots and leaves' (with or without commas).

Lynn Truss demonstrates the colon with, 'Gandhi II: the Mahatma strikes back.'

What I want is a proposal for a film sequel in no more than 200 words. But the winner may be forced to sit through an excruciating sequel with no popcorn.
Mon, Jan 10 2011 03:04pm GMT 2
JtF
JtF
167 Posts

Todd Martin Mystery shopper 2 - fully loaded.


Spare a thought for those poor rich souls who don't know what they want - but they want it NOW!
Todd's back in town with a limitless mystery shopper Mondo card and he's ready to shake up the shopping experience.
Your wildest whim is Todd's command; one customer wants a rocket ship, another wants a planet!


Keeping up with the super rich's super-egos can be tough but Todd's so stupid he can bear it. Single handedly Todd soon brings the mystery shopping global giant OMG! to its knees, wins the Nigerian lottery (without buying a ticket) and has a tricky time explaining to love interest Nikki his lifetime supply of 'herbal' Viagra.


Expanding on the theme 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing,' you'll laugh, you'll cry and you will avert your eyes in alarm as Todd's misdirected mayhem keeps you mesmerised.

Todd Martin Mystery shopper 2 - fully loaded is a credit crisis caper that's unbelievably credible in this click through corporate consumer age.

Featuring: Keanu Reeves as Todd Martin with Angelina Jolie as Nikki

184 words

Thu, Jan 13 2011 09:19pm GMT 3
SecretSpi
SecretSpi
588 Posts
PANTS ENCOUNTER

Nearly seventy years after David Lean’s masterpiece, Pants Encounter is a dark romantic comedy.

Laura, the great-granddaughter of Brief Encounter’s Laura, is a bored Home Counties SAH mum. Married to the boorish Rick, a Sudoku-obsessed BNP member, Laura’s only excitement is a weekly escape to her aerobics class in Milford.

Travelling home one Wednesday, Laura has a contact lens drama on the railway platform. Ali, a hunky young eye surgeon, steps in to help and the two go for a coffee in the station Starbucks.

Handsome, educated and principled, Ali is the opposite of Rick. Laura feels drawn to him. Feelings are reciprocated and the two agree to meet again. But this meeting and subsequent others are sabotaged by a train strike, leaves on the line and the wrong sort of snow.

Meanwhile, the blossoming romance between Sanjay and Tomasz, two cheeky baristas, adds comic relief.

Unfortunately, Laura’s affair is made public by Dolly, the self-appointed Twitter Queen of Milford.

Terrified of Rick’s reaction, Laura vows to throw herself under the 17:18. But even this is thwarted. Ali is really the leader of a terrorist ring and a bombing results in indefinite suspension of all services.
Thu, Jan 13 2011 11:50pm GMT 4
Tony
Tony
2108 Posts
Love it, Spi! When's it out?

Cool
Fri, Jan 14 2011 11:42pm GMT 5
Malcolm
Malcolm
700 Posts

Crouching Canine, Foxy Feline

This gritty, hard hitting sequel updates the adventure to modern Hollywood. Action hero Arnold S. Van Damn stars in this feast of furiously paced action. Pale Chinese symbolism of imminent danger represented by crouching tigers is swept away when ex-marine Lance Lethal (Van Damn) discovers his family massacred, his house aflame, and a dog dumping on his front lawn. Lance’s own brand of justice sees a rocket launcher ends the dog’s dumping days for good.

The action accelerates when Lance learns his family were collateral damage in a failed attempt to kill Dog Control Officer, Susan Slinky (Charlize Knightly). Lance rescues Slinky by kidnapping her in her own dog van and escapes in a hail of bullets and multiple deaths among innocent bystanders.

Lance and Slinky, a recovering alcoholic, shell-shocked ex-SEAL and cat lover, work to defeat the corrupt police commissioner, thwart his foul design for every dog in the city mess on random front lawns and extort millions from distraught homeowners, and blow up the half of the city without lawns in the process.

An enormous promotional budget, explosions and, depending on what the censors will let slip, sex will ensure this film’s commercial success.

Sun, Jan 16 2011 11:43am GMT 6
Sucatraps
Sucatraps
20 Posts

I'm going along the theme of adult entertainment and erotica, mixed with a gritty war film... thinking of calling it :- Shaving Ryans Privates...

Sorry... had to...

Sun, Jan 16 2011 05:41pm GMT 7
Wrathnar the Unreasonable
Wrathnar the Unreasonable
212 Posts
The life story of a African-American lesbian theoretical physicist, set in the Deep South during the 1930s:

"Quantum chromodynamics of the colour purple"
Sun, Jan 16 2011 06:48pm GMT 8
Weens
Weens
998 Posts
How about The Da Vinci Code on Ice?
Mon, Jan 17 2011 05:10pm GMT 9
Fiona
Fiona
1 Posts

Prequel to All the President's Men.

The FBI loses patience when Nixon misses the third court hearing in a row. Waterwait.

Tue, Jan 18 2011 03:28pm GMT 10
anchovy
anchovy
2 Posts
A sequel to 'The Edge of Reason'. An achingly funny comedy of social inadequacy, misunderstood flirtation and dodgy underpants, among a close circle of friends who have matured less than gracefully.
Working title: ' Bridge at Joan's'
Tue, Jan 18 2011 05:21pm GMT 11
John Taylor
John Taylor
916 Posts
In a sub-category of the competition, I think that Arnold S. Van Damn will be be hard to beat for best Actor. (And could decimate the opposition should any appear.) Rumour has it that he's offered to take office as governor of that island with the the cute Union Jack.
Thu, Jan 27 2011 08:54am GMT 12
Kim
Kim
207 Posts

The King's Speech II: The Sssss... The Sss...The s...The Ssss...The Ss sss ss. Tttthe ss. Ssss... The Ss. The Ss ...aSetback.

N.B. Bring refreshments; it's a long film!

Thu, Jan 27 2011 06:54pm GMT 13
Caoimh
Caoimh
89 Posts

American Cycle

The 80's are over and Patrick Bateman is getting fed-up with life on Wall Street. Cocaine, business cards and high class hookers have lost their appeal, so our anti-hero Patrick decides a change of scenery is needed.

He heads to England, where he discovers ecstasy, football hooligans and Britpop. Everything is going swimmingly until a dodgy pill leaves him pondering the futility of it all. In a panic, he steals a BMX and makes for the newly opened Channl Tunnel.

He decides to try and get his old life back, but armed with just a fishing hat and a stolen bike, he has to try and make his way back to the US of A.

Christian Bale returns as Patrick Bateman, with a supporting cast including Justin Bieber, Russel Brand and Lady Gaga. Original Soundtrack by The Stone Roses.

Fri, Jan 28 2011 01:41pm GMT 14
stephenterry
stephenterry
1882 Posts

Hostel Regurgitated, sponsored by Hammersmith Horror, is a…

CUT

No…not you…the girl. Damn it – CUT THE GIRL.

…budget movie starring Katie P Rice…

CUT

No…not Katie, you idiot – Jordan 2; the stand-in girl.

…and Hannibal Lecter…

CUT

Anthony, darling…no Axe budget – Bread knife? Scissors?

…set in rich modern…What? Oh…

…set in Richmond, the plot focuses on eleven substitute WAGS…

CUT

Get me another WAG…Anthony, darling…just a touch less heavy-handedness.

…who are invited to Stringfellows celebrity bash…What? Budget…Oh…

…invited to a murder hour at Haunted House Hostel. Haunted? Are you serious? Ah…it’s cheap…

CUT

Katie…your audience need to see BLOOD dripping over your torso…No, Anthony; don’t puncture the silicone – no insurance.

…One by one, the WAGS realise too late that a killer is amongst them – and they are the victims…

CUT

Get me more blood buckets…Health and Safety be damned. Tea break? Katie, you are being cut into tiny pieces – after the rape scenes…OK? Sod Equity…I have a deadline to meet.

…Will Katie outwit...outwit? Oh yeah…

…Will Katie…er…

…er…Will Lecter kill Katie – or is there a twist? Like, if she survives? How do I know? The bloody script isn’t finished…why are you looking at me?

Hey…Quentin, don’t…

CUT

That’s a wrap.

Fri, Jan 28 2011 07:05pm GMT 15
Tony
Tony
2108 Posts

THE VON TRAPPS GO TO HOLLYWOOD – long-awaited sequel to The Sound of Music.

The Von Trapps escape over the Alps to Switzerland, where they sit out the war with Max securing them gigs on the strength of ‘The Lonely Goatherd’ yodelling song. After hostilities cease, they’re called to Germany to entertain American troops in Berlin, where Edelweiss is remembered fondly by Austriophiles among the peace-loving Germans.

A GI from Los Angeles gets his record-producing ‘old man’ back in the States to sign them up and they move to Hollywood, where the lifestyle takes its toll on Captain Von Trapp who succumbs to booze and then drugs. Maria divorces him and marries a film producer called Blake, who puts her in his films and eventually persuades her to appear topless in one. The Captain sees this film and the shock pushes him over the edge. Dying from an overdose he sings with slurred speech, ‘So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodnight.’

Maria is devastated. Conscience-stricken, she leaves Blake and returns to the Austrian convent, knowing her children are all safe with parts in Beverley Hills 90210. The film ends with the Mother Superior singing, ‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?’

[200 words]

Cool

Sat, Jan 29 2011 01:06am GMT 16
MinxieAD
MinxieAD
278 Posts
Homeless Alone...

The Tramp starring Maccaulay Culkin...
Tue, Feb 1 2011 09:19pm GMT 17
John Taylor
John Taylor
916 Posts
WELL, FOLKS... IT"S CLOUD OSCARS NIGHT.

Some great titles could attract a concept-planning meeting. 'Shaving...' in particular could begin a whole new genre.
However, I needed a film proposal. My favoured concept would be 'American Cycles,' but I'm afraid it's just too edgy and unexpected to draw a big-bucks backer, Caoimh. See you at Sundance next year?

My winner, then, for its shear inevitability – the sense that I will have to sit through this sequel in the very near future – is CROUCHING CANINE, FOXY FELINE. I call on Arnold S Van Damn to collect the complimentary popcorn (no, I didn't mean the girl, Arnold). But would someone please disarm him before he enters the building. Congratulations, Malcolm – I hand the Clouder's Choice competition on to you.

And can I make a final plea, Malcolm. Engage Stephenterry as your director. He shows promise.
Wed, Feb 2 2011 05:31am GMT 18
Malcolm
Malcolm
700 Posts
Pack your bags Stephen, we're off to HOLLYWOOD!
Wed, Feb 2 2011 06:12am GMT 19
stephenterry
stephenterry
1882 Posts
Malcolm - great news - it should be all action. I look forward to your sequel...
Wed, Feb 2 2011 10:31am GMT 20
Tony
Tony
2108 Posts
Congratulations on your 'Oscar' Malcolm! Can't wait to hear what he next Clouder's Choice will be.

Cool
Wed, Feb 2 2011 06:48pm GMT 21
MinxieAD
MinxieAD
278 Posts
Congratulations on winning the Malcolm, Oscar :]

Am going to see what the next comp is... Well done x

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