So yup I'm swallowing humble pie and asking you lovely ILXors to go to www.sleazydans.co.uk and check out a barmy bizarre idea that came to me one drunken night whilst at uni chatting about weird movie ideas with an old friend of mine who looked like Jesus Christ (that's him on the website). I came up with a born again Christian using a strip joint to attract sinners to God.
Told you it was mad. But feedback appreciated - and if it's feedback of the 'you suck, it's shit' kind then please give a reason.
Ta in advance.
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Reason: you are Calum.
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)
It in fact sucks!Not that James Blount, for instance, can offer us anything creative because he just sits around on his fat arse slagging me off all day.
The others I could care less about, but I've warned you Blount. You are a complete moron with no life who badly needs to be strangled.
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
The idea is not to exploit the strip club angle, titties aren't really needed.
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm not making a movie away. I'm still floating the idea around, and have priced up one only one sequence. I only finished the final thing recently and have no idea if anything will ever come of this, it's just an idea I like and the comedy it allows I (and others involved) like as well. Which is why I asked for feedback...
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Because you are Caulm.
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)
Anyway, best of luck.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)
I'd also ask the moderator to remove the swans otherwise I'm just going to give up on serious threads and go back to the shit. I'm sorry, but if this cunt Blount - who I now have an ambition to meet in the flesh - is going to keep acting like a retard then that's the way it is.
I'm unlikely to post the script here considering the reaction I've got from some arseholes, but for the record - the script is set in modern times. I felt the web site would work better if it was portrayed in a certain period and that's what we worked at. Oddly enough, the web site has fooled a ton of people who actually did think it was real including Christians!
Anyway, I fully understand (being a huge movie buff) how fringe, comedic ideas can lapse into tastelessness - and I guess my current script does in places. I've tried to create a really funny set piece every five pages, and tried to keep the satire very obvious, but with social comments being included in both subtle and very 'in your face' way. I've also introduced the script with some background on the character - his upbringing, the reason he is how he is etc etc
The web site is an introduction to the main idea.
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)
I think I have me an idea...
It's the choice of ILX. I'm asking nicely at least...
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)
There's an elementary difference between porn and glowing wiremesh swans. If you cannot see this, then I weep for both you and the fates of all the wiremesh glowing swans in your immediate vicinity.
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)
My account is harrassed by [name] who sends people child porn[name] is currently being researched by Operation OAR.Be warned [name] is into child pornHe sent me an email with child porn[name] is a pervert and should be shot in the nutsHis obsessions are unhealthy[name] child porn[name] child porn [this was posted under james' name and his e-mail address but from calum's IP. i've edited it down to prevent googleability, but i'm not letting calum off the hook by deleting it outright. - mark p]
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)
Bastard. Share.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)
(ps i think its a terrible idea for a whole movie, but a decent gag for a one-off in the course of a novel about something else, like a vonnegut precis on a kilgore trout novel or sumthin')
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)
And you can believe THAT. Blount you are an Oakee twat.
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Surely too good to resist?
Anyway, thanks for the feedback. It can be a good idea for a whole film, I think, if enough set pieces and background are put into the script. Which was my intention.
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)
This is discrimination!
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)
calum, to actually answer the question i think this movie idea is one of the most spectacularly bad ideas i've ever heard (those of us who live in Southern Cali may have heard worse, though?)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)
I think the neon wireframe swans are lovely. I would really like a real neon wireframe swan of my very own actually.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm a huge film buff I'll grant you that, but I hate being lumped as a horror movie geek which paints the picture of this anti-social greasy haired, fat, lonely nerd slavering over slasher films which I promise I am not (much as you might want me to be!).
In response - I AM sorry for the allegations and would ask the moderator to remove them. I was recieving some really bizarre shit in my hotmail account this afternoon - nothing illegal but a bit more aggresive than the usual porn stuff you get as spam.
Finally, I did want comments on this as it's an idea I actually enjoy and have enjoyed working with for a while now.
― Calum, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
It would be cool if it was just like a one scene play (like the Cube) and it should consist of many single shots over a long time. like a 15 min shot here, and a 20 min shot there. With maybe some fast pace shots of strippers. It definitly has to have some strippers in it. Maybe open the movie with a shocking scene of a Stripper.
― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)
(Do you know what a "taint" is, Sir Noodles?)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)
Spell it out you rouges!
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― s trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― s trife (simon_tr), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)
As did I.
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― ron (ron), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)
Okay, if you want the best horror films you've NEVER seen then seek out foreign movies, dim the lights and enjoy (make it your worldy quest to this little lot as they are weird, wonderful and delightfully insane and well made and horribly underseen by your average every day fan - except maybe the Argento ones which are increasingly more and more well known). And if you really want a challenge try and get a hold of the Italian remake of Jaws called 'The Last Shark' by Enzo Casteralli which was banned for copyright reasons from virtually everywhere and is utterly nuts (it has James Franciscus as Roy Scheider and Vic Morrow as Robert Shaw):
*Deep Red (Argento, 1975)*Suspiria (Argento, 1976)*Inferno (Argento, 1980)*Opera (Argento, 1987)*Mask of Satan (Bava, 1960)*Uzumaki (2000, Higuchinsky)*Dark Water (2002, Nakata)*Funny Games (1997, Haneke)*The Beyond (1981, Fulci)
And added because it's a zombie film from Spain which is reason enough to check it out:
*Tombs of the Blind Dead (Ossorio, 1971)
― Calum, Wednesday, 23 April 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Thursday, 24 April 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)
RIP
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 17 June 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)
My god, ILX has IMPROVED it's discourse; I never would've dreamed.
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 18 June 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)
no the first few responses on this thread are pretty much OTM
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 18 June 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)
If people describe their own ideas as 'barmy', 'bizzare' or 'mad', those ideas will invariably be shit.
― chap, Monday, 18 June 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)
cf. Peter Sutcliffe
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 18 June 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)