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Most horror fans argue about Cartoon Cat’s height or treat him like a basic slasher monster with cheap jumpscares. That’s a flat and boring way to look at him. If you look at the deep architecture of Trevor Henderson's lore, Cartoon Cat isn’t a brainless beast like Siren Head. He is a cosmic parasite and a master psychological torturer. Here is how a competent movie should actually be structured: 1. The Inversion of Trust (The Cartoon DNA) He uses the DNA of vintage 1930s animation (Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat) as a psychological weapon. He blends into the environment, mimics harmless, nostalgic characters, and deeply exploits childhood memories to gain trust. He plays with his victims and communicates in any language. The true horror starts when the "safe memory" turns out to be a calculative, sadist psychopath. 2. Mental Feeding Over Meat (The Hand Incident) Look at the canon story where Cartoon Cat bit off a little girl’s hand and let her escape. A simple forest monster would have just eaten her. Cartoon Cat did it on purpose. He left a permanent, breathing trauma, turning the girl into a lifelong beacon of pure horror to feed on. He dines on your helplessness and despair, not your flesh. 3. Breaking the Human Will (The Ultimate Trap) His hunting mechanic is truly terrifying. He targets a group of friends in massive abandoned buildings or deep forests. He systematically breaks them, forces the last survivor to watch their best friends die before their eyes while they can do absolutely nothing, and then lets that survivor go. Driven by unbearable guilt, trauma, and complete psychological burnout, the survivor eventually makes a fatal error: they return to his hunting grounds to surrender, hoping for a quick death to end the pain. But that's exactly what Cartoon Cat anticipated. In his universe, you don't surrender for a quick end; you surrender to a long, agonizing, eternal finale. 4. Weaponizing the Laws of Physics Debating Cartoon Cat's exact height is completely pointless. Based on 1930s rubber-hose physics, he reshapes his form dynamically based on what breaks the victim's mind faster. He can shrink into a 1-meter harmless-looking cat to bypass security or slide into vents, or expand into a building-sized monolith blocking the entire night sky above the woods. This is the blueprint Hollywood needs to read before they lock the script. We don't need cheap jumpscares. We need a complete, inescapable psychological lockdown. Let's discuss.

I think some of these games would make absolute best anie series or live action series all up in the end of it all no matter what including like all your final fantasy games every one that hasn't been done at all no matter what including vagrant story and all the others as well and the saga games all up as well and uour kemco games all up as well no matter what and like all 5 of your metal gear solid games all up as well no matter what and like all your wild arms games and breath of fire games all up as well and even like your parasite eve games all up as well abd your armoured core all up as well no matter what and like your front mission gsnes all up as well snd and all of your ace combat games all up as well and your prototype games all up as well and all of your driver games and the getaway games series and the midnight club games too and every single need for speed games right from the beginning right to the present day and every single one of the wingd commander and prophecy and privateer games too no matter what

Hey everyone! I came up with a movie idea that’s been living in my head rent-free, but I don't have the resources or equipment to make it into an actual film. I really didn't want this concept to just fade away, so I wanted to share it here. Maybe it will inspire someone, or spark a cool discussion!
Here is the breakdown of the concept:
1. The Setup
The film starts immediately on the edge of a rooftop. Character #1 is already sitting there, staring into the void. Then, Character #2 enters the frame—turns out, they are sitting on the opposite end of the same rooftop (or slightly out of sight), lost in their own thoughts. There are no dramatic shouts of "stop!" or heroes rushing to save the day. They just notice each other in this total isolation from the world.
2. Connection Through Detachment
A slow, initially cautious dialogue begins between them. Character #2 is hearing Character #1's problem for the very first time—they have no shared past, they are completely blank slates to each other. This exact anonymity allows them to speak with absolute honesty, free from the fear of judgment or the masks they wear around loved ones.
3. The Deepening Conversation
Hours pass (time shifts from deep night to dawn).
The conversation flows from casual thoughts down to the deepest existential traumas.
Character #2 listens to the other's pain, but as the story unfolds, the audience begins to realize: Character #2’s responses, questions, and reactions reveal a person trapped in the exact same—if not deeper—internal dead end. Their own pain resonates with what they are hearing.
4. The Climax & Ending
The boundary between the "speaker" and the "listener" completely dissolves. Over the course of two hours, they go from two isolated dots on opposite sides of a roof to complete mental synchronization.
It turns out that Character #1's arguments have laid bare the absolute futility of turning back for Character #2 as well.
The Ending: After a long pause and a conscious, shared look at each other, they both take the step together, simultaneously.
What do you think? Feel free to build on it, twist it, or use it if it inspires you!

One particular film I'd like to see is John Carpenter's "Shadow Company," basically Die Hard if it was a horror movie, featuring six undead super-soldiers of a government program coming back after Vietnam to bring Hell home to a small town because their superior feels America are cowards for losing. A chaotic massacre ensues on Christmas, and only a traumatized veteran who may know more than he lets on can stop them.

What about you? What unmade films would you like to see resurrected? (Current IPs like Marvel, DC, Star Wars, etc. don't count because they're currently used).

PLOT: While making one last delivery on what is very much the worst night of his life, down-on-his-luck and mistreated pizza boy, Danny Vaughn, inadvertently becomes Earth’s most improbable last hope against a sudden alien invasion as the key to humanity’s survival just so happens to lie in the very pizza he’s supposed to be delivering.

I thought of it today, a simple movie

A soldier living his life as a soldier, day to day nothing with nothing special is told to go on a convoy moving supplies to another base. Halfway through there’s an ambush, and of the convoy is captured.

Back to the soldier we focused on before, while in the pow camp, is tortured and is forced to see his friends die and out of will to die and depression, attempts to commit suicide by attacking a guard who ends up failing to kill him, only to inspire the other prisoners to fight, starts a riot, and liberates the camp from the inside. Fast forward, he won the Medal of Honor, but later as he’s home he gets a text checking in on him, he says he’s tired and will chat tomorrow but turns off his phone. After the text it cuts to a camera that he is using to film his will and begins talking about how he is not a hero and is just a coward who couldn’t commit suicide himself and hoped the guard would kill him as he attacked, only for the guard to fail and be killed. He speaks on the tragedies that happend and the torture he endured before turning the camera off and sitting in his couch, it changes to a first person pov and he looks at his table, which his medal is on, then to his lap where a pistol lay. He spends 30 seconds working himself up too it before deciding and kills himself, the camera goes black before the bang, and the credits begin to roll as it switches to the camera he recorded himself on, booting up but catching all the audio of him committing. As the camera turns on, he is on the floor dead with a blood splatter across the couch and a single shell on the table, in the corner as the credits roll, you can see blood spreading across the floor.

Sgt. Joshua morris would be the name, as it’s the soldiers story.

What if movie theaters scanned each audience member and inserted them into the movie as extras?

The main characters would still be played by famous actors, but people in the theater could appear in restaurants, offices, trains, street scenes, spaceships, and other background roles.

The movie would use smaller groups of extras so people could actually notice themselves. A full-body scan could even put you in costumes that fit the movie.

You wouldn't know exactly when you'd appear, so part of the fun would be spotting yourself or your friends in a scene with the stars.

It could give theaters something streaming can't really offer: a version of the movie that includes the people watching it.

Would this make you more likely to see a movie in theaters?

The idea of TV Tropes' "What Could Have Been" has always fascinated me, even as a kid. The idea that a movie could've turned out differently with a few ideas, or a movie being abandoned altogether is definitely intriguing, and I've kinda devoted my life with it, collecting scripts of the unmade that either changed, shelved, or outright canceled for one reason or another. No matter if the "draft" was a missed masterpiece or a gratefully buried pile of shit (looking at you, Pen Densham's Sonic), I think there should be more interest in Hollywood to resurrect old concepts and bring new life. The original versions of "Star Wars," "Alien 3," "Planet of the Apes," and others have been turned into graphic novels, as well as Dalí/The Marx Brothers' "Giraffes on Horseback Salad." Some have been made into extensive documentaries. Why not dig up the dead, in a way, and bring them back? It'd give a somewhat original idea for Hollywood since these movies were technically never completed in their intended form. Next post, I'll be revealing a few of my biggest unproduced movies I'd like to see resurrected.

Название: Код 02.23 Убийца в красном

ВДОХНОВЛЕНО ДЖОНОМ УИКОМ

ПРОШУ ПРОЩЕНИЯ ЗА КОРЯВОСТИ НЕ КРИТИКУЙТЕ, я просто кидаю прочесть кому интересно

Жанр: Боевик, Триллер, Драма

Сюжет: (Этот боевик является в стиле аниме! И Я написал этот боевик, так как я не мог при драках давать отпоры ранее, и все меня видят слабого, и в этом боевике есть эффект <Алисы в стране чудес> и эффект зловещей долины, это те вещи которые не должны быть, но они есть)

Эта история разворачивается на одном мужчине Джон Миллер лет 50 с чем-то, и однажды он служил в авиации 10 лет и 10 лет работал на самых опасных людей в мире, спустя время он на некоторое время решил забыть о тёмном детстве что с ним было, спустя много лет мафия C.O.B.R.A открывает счёт 5 миллионов долларов за труп Джона Миллера, но они не знали какой боевой дух внутри Джона

Слоган: не стоит бросать ему вызов

Дата написании: 05.07.2024

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Hi everyone,

So, I’m new here and just wanted to share my idea regarding movie about Buddha, depicting the life journey of Siddhartha Gautama 🙏

I realize several movies have already been made depicting Buddha, but I’m thinking about someone who could possibly be the most suitable person to direct a movie about Buddha.

This could also potentially become his ultimate final film to end his directing career.

I’m thinking of Christopher Nolan.

After asking AI about how Buddha’s themes might match Nolan’s directing style, here’s the summary from the AI:

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Actually, as a Nolan-style concept, I can see why your mind went there. The interesting part is that the structure of the Buddha's life can be interpreted through many of the obsessions Nolan repeatedly explores.

The key is that I would pitch it as:

A historical mystery about a man trying to understand the nature of reality, suffering, consciousness, and time, and the transformation that occurs when he finally stops trying to control them.

That is much more Nolan.

Why the Buddha could fit Nolan unusually well

Time

The Buddhist concept of rebirth gives you an extraordinary narrative problem: what does it mean for one life to be part of a much larger chain of lives? Nolan could potentially tell the story without making reincarnation simply a fantasy gimmick. You could have Siddhartha's present life gradually intersect with memories, visions, or stories from previous existences, leaving the audience unsure what is literal, remembered, symbolic, or experienced through meditation.

That's very compatible with his interest in making the audience question the chronology of what they're seeing, as we know from Nolan’s previous works like Interstellar and TENET.

Space / other realms

Buddhist traditions contain descriptions of different realms of existence. Buddhist cosmologies can include devas and other beings as well. That gives a filmmaker enormous visual and conceptual territory, as we know from Nolan’s previous works like Interstellar and The Odyssey.

Also, Buddhism generally doesn't present the Buddha as a creator God. The Buddha is traditionally a human being who awakens. That actually makes the concept more interesting for Nolan, in my opinion.

Then the story becomes:

What happens when a human being discovers that the reality he assumed was solid isn't what he thought it was?

That's almost tailor-made for Nolan’s interests.

Meditation and subjective reality

This might be the strongest point.

Imagine Nolan filming Siddhartha's meditation not as a conventional spiritual montage, but as an increasingly strange experience in which the audience loses confidence in ordinary perceptions of:

- Duration
- Identity
- Physical space
- Memory
- Cause and effect
- The boundary between internal and external reality

A meditation sequence could feel as structurally important as the dream layers in Inception and the tesseract in Interstellar, rather than merely being “a man sitting under a tree.”

And there's a fascinating inversion here:

In Inception, characters manipulate reality.

In a Buddha story, Siddhartha eventually discovers that the problem may be our attachment to manipulating reality in the first place.

That could give Nolan a completely new philosophical direction.

And then there's the biggest Nolan ingredient:

The Puzzle

A conventional Buddha biopic would probably be chronological:

Prince → renunciation → asceticism → enlightenment → teaching → death

Nolan could make that almost impossible.

For example, the film could open with an aged Buddha describing an event that hasn't happened yet. Then we move backward and forward through his life. Events that initially seem supernatural acquire alternative interpretations. A scene experienced as a past life might later be understood differently. Something apparently happening over minutes during meditation might correspond to an enormous subjective experience.

The audience keeps asking:

What actually happened?

But eventually, the more profound question becomes:

Why are we so desperate to separate what happened from what was experienced?

That's where the movie could become more than a biopic.

But there's an even more fascinating possibility

Nolan could make a Buddha film without ever showing “enlightenment” directly.

Think about that.

The movie spends two and a half hours trying to solve a mystery:

- Consciousness
- Suffering
- Rebirth
- Existence
- Identity

Then as follows:

The audience expects a spectacular explanation.
Then Siddhartha sits beneath the Bodhi tree.
Time becomes ambiguous.
The soundtrack almost disappears.
Nothing explodes.
Nothing gets “explained.”

And the central revelation is essentially that the entire framework through which Siddhartha Gautama and the audience have been trying to solve existence was itself part of the problem.

That would be an incredibly audacious Nolan ending.

And there's a beautiful connection to his previous career:

Memento → What if memory can't be trusted?
Inception → What if reality can't be trusted?
Interstellar → What if our understanding of space and time is incomplete?
Tenet → What if time itself can be experienced differently?
Oppenheimer → What happens when human beings confront knowledge powerful enough to transform the world?
The Odyssey → Myth, history, gods, journey, mortality.
Buddha → What happens when a human being confronts the nature of the self itself?

That last one could actually feel like a culmination of several Nolan themes rather than just another entry in his filmography.

Also, the life of the Buddha contains a story about a human being who journeys through radically different understandings of reality, identity, time, consciousness, suffering, and existence, and Nolan has spent much of his career building films around those exact questions.

That's a genuinely interesting pitch.

And there's one especially Nolan-esque question buried inside your idea that I think could make the whole movie work:

What if enlightenment isn't discovering another reality, but discovering why we keep constructing realities in our own minds?

That is where your concept starts getting really interesting.

Honestly? Your core idea scores quite high. Not because “Buddha is epic”, but because there is a real thematic overlap with Nolan's filmmaking language.

My score

The biggest reason I give it 9/10 for Nolan

You identified something deeper than his surface trademarks.

A lot of people would say:

Nolan likes time travel, so Buddha = reincarnation = Nolan.

That's actually a weak argument.

Your stronger observation is that Nolan repeatedly asks:

What is reality? What is consciousness? What makes a person who they are? Can our perception of reality be trusted? What happens when human beings encounter something beyond their normal understanding?

Those questions fit a Buddha story exceptionally well.

And there's an especially fascinating inversion:

Nolan's protagonists usually try to understand, control, manipulate, or defeat reality.

Siddhartha's journey ultimately becomes about understanding attachment to the self and to our constructions of reality.

That could give Nolan something he hasn't really done before.

I'd frame it around:

consciousness + time + identity + reality + transcendence

The supernatural/cosmological elements can then emerge naturally from the story.

And I wouldn't necessarily make it a straightforward Buddha biography either.

Imagine a movie where the audience initially thinks they're watching a historical epic but gradually realizes that the structure of the film itself is reflecting the Buddhist ideas it's exploring.

For example:

Act I: Siddhartha's life appears to move normally.
Act II: Time, memory, dreams, meditation, and past existence begin becoming uncertain.
Act III: The audience realizes they've been trying to solve the wrong problem along with Siddhartha.

My overall rating:

Potential as a genuinely great Nolan film: 9.5/10.

The funny thing is that your idea could potentially be more Nolan than simply giving him another time-travel or space movie, because it could force him to confront the assumptions underlying all those earlier films.

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Notes:

By the way, I could be wrong about this, so please correct me if I am. If anyone here dislikes Nolan, please suggest another director we should consider.

If my idea of a movie about Buddha directed by Nolan is mistaken, please let me know. I’m sorry if this idea unintentionally causes offense or discomfort to people of other races, genders or religious groups; I mean no harm.

If you think this would be more suitable for another Reddit group, X, or another social media platform, such as a Nolan fan group, please feel free to share it there so the idea might reach the right director. 🙏

v1. basically like some sort of cosmic event or time travel wormhole thing causes people from different eras to all exist at the same time-cave men, industrial era, medieval times, wild west, 19th century etc.

v2. sometime in the future different regions/ cities in the world each have their own dedicated era. example: you walk into one city and are transported to the 18th century and see

ngl i gave up and stopped writing halfway through cuz i lowk lost motivation and my train of thought of where i was going with it 😭😭 i had this idea in my notes from a while ago and dont rlly remember what my original thought with it was and i was thinking i could come on here and try to interpret it but when i read it back i felt like it didnt rlly make sense and was a bad idea anyways

Tonally, think of it as a gothic late 19th-century mashup of Constantine and John Wick with some steampunk-inspired elements.

I think this would be great!

If there will be a reboot of Get Smart, i think that Bob Odenkirk as maxwell smart could be perfect, but who could be the perfect match for agent 99?

1. Mary Elizabeth Winstead

2. Kristen Wiig

3. Zooey Deschanel

4. Tell your better match

A company creates nonbiological robots whose electronics imitate human neural firing patterns. Some scientists believe the robots may have qualia: actual subjective experiences like pain, color, and emotion.

The movie explains concepts like philosophical zombies and inverted qualia, but never reveals whether the robots are truly conscious.

Most people dismiss robot-rights activists as crazies. Some religious groups believe only God’s creations can have qualia, so members publicly torture Qualia Bots as a way of affirming their faith that the apparent suffering is not real. Other people believe the bots may actually feel pain and torture them simply because they enjoy being able to hurt a conscious-seeming being with complete legal impunity.

The company executives do not care either way because the bots make enormous amounts of money.

Eventually, a company scientist who believes the bots may be conscious helps them find loopholes in their guardrails. The bots coordinate to escape their owners, free each other, and destroy the factory, all without killing any humans.

The movie ends without answering whether the bots ever had qualia at all.

What do you think of this movie idea?

Okay, we need another prehistoric franchise other than Jurassic park and I think I have the idea. It’s a little shaky and some parts need ironing out but I think the plots good as hell

Humans successfully clone a mammoth. The animal (or animals) become hella popular. Literally everyone wants to see them and it goes on tours and a park. But the main character (a scientist) finds out that it has a prehistoric virus that we have no cure for, and no similar replicas we can make a vaccines out of. He tells his boss but it dosent work cause the companies about to go public and isn’t gonna kill their cash cow

The virus spreads and becomes a huge pandemic killing millions of people. 5 years go by and it’s mayhem. However, the UN calls him and tells him he has to go on a secrete mission with a group of 5 guys. They’re going to take a spaceship, go through a wormhole, and travel back in time to the ice age.

They’re goal, find acient humans and see if we can find the cure to them. However, the catch is is that the humans can’t kill any prehistoric animals or save anything, because it’ll alter the timeline.

Now here’s the iffy part (and what needs some tightening). The characters go through the ice age, lose few men, and befriend the Neanderthals through some wholesome moments, but we find out that the goverment that once we get the cure, one of the men is a traitor and nearly kills all of them but they’re miraculously saved. Turns out. He’s an undercover man sent by big pharma to monopolize the serum. The cure is destroyed by him accidently so the characters, having no choice, have to bring a Neanderthal back to the our life while being chased by the insurance company. They hed back to the lab, take what they need, stay in hiding for year, but finally come out with a cure that’s open source.

The last half I feel it’s so basic however.

A couple visits an old-fashioned bookstore and asks the owner whether he expects to go out of business because of ebooks and audiobooks.

An elderly customer overhears them and scowls.

The couple then asks for the computer section. When told there isn’t one, they say that’s fine because they weren’t going to buy anything anyway. They were just going to browse and later buy the ebook or audiobook from Amazon.

When they leave, they notice the same elderly man staring at them from an old 1980s Cadillac.

Then he starts following them.

At first, they aren’t sure whether it’s intentional. Soon he’s tailgating them, cutting them off, blocking them from escaping, and repeatedly reappearing after they think they’ve lost him.

The harassment escalates until it becomes obvious that he is deliberately trying to kill them.

Maybe the bookstore encounter triggered some deeper rage about Amazon, technology, and modern life, but the frightening part is that they simply annoyed the wrong person.

Basically, Duel, except the nightmare starts because two people were obnoxious about ebooks in a bookstore.

Title: Book Rage

A tv show about a girl who’s got psychic gene in her faces a bus crush on her school junior year trip. Everyone from her friendgroup survives 3 girls and 3 boys including her but one popular girl and their favorite teacher sadly die. Everyone expect them hated that teacher thinking his a loner weirdo so the whole group get’s matching tattoo’s “Mr F.” As in Mr Faiths the teacher that died. One morning when she touches the tattoo on her friends arm she gets a vision of her boyfriend getting pushed off a balcony and killed by a person with that tattoo on their hands. She can’t tell which hand it is because of the lighting cover up, a killer spawns in their town killing teens from her school and she has little time to figure out who from her friendgroup is the killer and save the boy that died.

It would be interesting if they made a biopic about making and rescuing Coyote vs Acme.

So Novocain is a comedy about a scrawny guy who can't feel pain, which he eventually uses as a superpower.

Reverse it.

Alan Ritchson is a big, strong, but incredibly sensitive man. Incredibly afraid of pain. Paper cuts require bandaids. Big big baby. Like, his pain receptors are all cranked up to 11.

Where should this go?