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Pitch me the worst idea for a movie you can think of

Sarah Karina-​Bogart

over 2 years ago

@Robert Hamilton: If that happened, I might have to shoot myself.

Tony Stark

over 2 years ago

Au Hazard Balthazar II – Kicking Ass!

The son of Balthazar gets revenge on the humans who tormented his father. Sort of a donkey-oriented “Oldboy”. Unrated version includes tasteful beastiality love scene….

Jirin

over 2 years ago

The Care Bears Movie 2

-Written by Aaron Sorkin

L West

over 2 years ago

Pitch A) A woman has a comedic misunderstanding or miscommunication that troubles her romantic relationship. At the same time, she meets another man. She then has to persevere and make a decision on which man to choose.

Pitch B) A group of men have to take down a bad guy. The men have different personality traits that grate on each other, but they persevere and work as a team to carry through the adventure and achieve their goal.

Danny Rose

over 2 years ago

About Last Night?

Leonard Shelby wakes up beside Lucy Whitmore, hilarity ensues and then a murder.

brady qw

over 2 years ago

About Last Night…

A retelling of the Manson murders, in the style of a romantic comedy.

Frank P. Tomasul​o, Ph.D.

over 2 years ago

Worst idea for a movie? Off the top of my head…

A lame cinephile type, with nothing else to do, posts a question on an AUTEURist Web site, hoping to gather some like-minded people into wasting their time too.

His thread is “Pitch Me the Worst Idea for a Movie You Can Think Of…” Dozens of other film nerds respond with inane and/or mildly amusing titles, log lines, and premises, including a wily cinema professor, who criticizes the entire effort from his ivory tower.

It’s an Internet remake of GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS.

brady qw

over 2 years ago

What happens when a kid from Korea meets a racist from Iowa?

Find out in the Korean and the KKK!

Danny Rose

over 2 years ago

@Frank P.

I want to know who is going to play the wily cinema professor. My money’s on Cheech Marin.

Frank P. Tomasul​o, Ph.D.

over 2 years ago

Danny Rose: I had Warren Beatty (in his prime) in mind to play me. Maybe in his MacCABE AND MRS. MILLER period, when he had a well-trimmed beard like mine. He looks more like me than Cheech Marin does. :-)

Danny Rose

over 2 years ago

this is how I see it.

Cheech and Mrs Miller

Frank P. Tomasul​o, Ph.D.

over 2 years ago

Danny: ^ A great picture and the “blunt” looks remarkably like the oversized one in UP IN SMOKE.

Vic Pardo

over 2 years ago

I got a horrible idea: a movie about the founders of Facebook. What could be worse?

Zach Wise

over 2 years ago

The Godfather Part IV. Starring Danny DeVito and Harry Connick Jr.

Miasma

over 2 years ago

Here we go: “A guy learns a secret.” There. Genius.

Jirin

over 2 years ago

I can’t think of a worse idea than Human Centipede.

I suppose they could have a snuff film where they kidnap people off the street and throw them into ceptic tanks, and film them trying to escape, then drowning. That would be slightly worse.

brady qw

over 2 years ago

Tom Green plays Frank P.

End of story.

Frank P. Tomasul​o, Ph.D.

over 2 years ago

I can live with this guy Tom Green playing moi. Yes!

I’m sorry that I’m not able to download my picture onto this site. It’s on my MUBI (ugh!) Profile, if anyone’s interested.

brady qw

over 2 years ago

I always thought you looked alike.

Anyway, he’s responsible for Freddy got Fingered.

Stephen Prokow

over 2 years ago

I thought they said worst ideas Brady.

brady qw

over 2 years ago

Oh, I knew people would like The Korean and the KKK!

I’mma go make it now. Thanks, Stephen.

Z. Bart

over 2 years ago

All right, stay with me here.

After the buzz that “Carlos” generated, Olivier Assayas needs to “up the ante” and to capitalize on the fact that the Sundance crowd now knows his name. He doesn’t need a new idea, per se; he just needs a Sonic Youth-fuelled mash-up of his previous films.

This is gonna’ be a 14-hour film—Assayas needs to beat Rivette’s “Out 1”—about a leather catsuit-wearing French nana (87, but smokin’) who lives on a verdant estate, from which she orchestrates terrorist bombings and peddles prostitutes to internet-abusing corporate types. On the side, she amasses the world’s loveliest assortment of splotchy abstract art. Upon her death, mayhem ensues! The studly bearded guys battle the spiky bustier crowd for control of nana’s international operations. And a bespectacled guy in a sweater vest sneaks the art collection into a rented Peugeot mini-van.

And that’s just the first hour!

Elston

over 2 years ago

Alright, here’s my idea for a film. In it, a woman cries, for over an hour, with lots of close-ups, and tears. It’s mostly an experiment for film form and I like to think it’s spiritual. It’s called The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Accept No Substit​utions

over 2 years ago

Napoleon Dynamite as Santa Claus
Divine as Mrs. Claus

guest appearance by Tim Allen

directed by John Waters for Disney

Accept No Substit​utions

over 2 years ago

A musical remake of Caligula directed by Mel Gibson

Post-Kyo

over 2 years ago

I don’t know but it would be brought to you by the same “creative” team that gave us SAW 1-7.

Francis​co J. Torres

over 2 years ago

A movie about a boy and an old projectionist who bond over their love for a small town theatre in Italy.

Francis​co J. Torres

over 2 years ago

Movies about people going out,dating. We’ll call them “Romantic Comedies”.

amacduf​f

over 2 years ago

One word. Trannyclaus.

Francis​co J. Torres

over 2 years ago

that is totally troma!