The title. If you had full Hollywood sex pest money and power what movies would you have made?
I’ve had a concept for a movie just called Action. It would open on a street corner, a car would come Tokyo drifting around the corner with another car chasing it. The entire movie is only chases, fights, explosions and stunts. There are two bad guys and two good guys and they refer to each other literally as the bad guys and the good guys. The bad guys got away with the briefcase that contains the codes, it is never specified what the codes are for. All dialogue is immediate exposition “they’re getting away!” or snappy one liners. It would be all practical effects and cost more to make than most wars
OP, have you seen The Raid: Redemption?
I remember I once went to Die Hard 5 (or whatever it was, basically Bruce Willis goes to Moscow), and I fucking hated it. I’ve grown up on Schwarzenegger, Stallone, etc, so I wondered: the movie has all the helicopter explosions and shootouts, so why didn’t I like it? Why was I exhausted by it? And I realized: the plot was awful, but the action didn’t need plot. So instead of sacrificing the plot for 100% quality action, I got shit action and shit plot. So I always wanted a movie just like yours: the movie literally starts with a fucking explosion or something, and it’s just non-stop gunfights & car chases and shit, with zero story.
Then I watch The Raid, and it’s exactly that. The plot is minimal (but not meaningless, you get the required minimum of backstory to root for the main hero, and understand who bad guys are and why they’re bad). It stupid as shit, it’s very self-aware that it’s stupid, and it’s so much fun. Favorite action movie of all times.
