DreamMovie #11: It's A Family Affair

Time Out​

The year is 2245. Time travel has been developed and it is often used by people for a 'holiday destination', ie, maybe visiting the crusades to experience it, or kicking back in the 60s.

Enter the Thompsons.

Jake, the 17 year old son (Thomas Dekker) is the reject of the family. His dad Peter (Nathan Fillion) is the opposite to him in every way. Jake is a dark, almost goth heavy metal lover, dating a black girl named Tina (Tessa Thompson). Peter was the stereotypical Jock in highschool, and eventually married the prom queen, Jakes mother, who died in a car accident a year ago, coming home from a party with Peter, who had been drinking. Jake has blamed his father for his mothers death ever since.
They live with Jakes grandfather, Jackson (Bill Nighy). A racist Christian Fundamentalist jackass, Jackson has all but disowned Jake for dating Tina, and has never forgiven Peter for marrying Jakes mother, who was Jewish. Peter has had issues with his father stemming from this, and the fact that Jackson refused to go to his own daughter-in-laws funeral.

Peter attempts to reunite the members of his family with a holiday through time, with stops visiting Jakes mom, and other memorable points in the family history. That is until Jake, dumped by Tina due to her disgust of his family, just before the holiday, decides to end his life in the most spectacular way possible. He intends to hijack the time hopping holiday, and kill Jackson, his grandfather, before he ever had the chance to father Peter. Now it is up to the reluctant duo of Peter and Jackson to travel through the timeline, and track down their wayward family member, before he changes history so that the family had never existed....

Jake
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Tina
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Jackson
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I see this as a black comedy, with plenty of bickering between Peter and Jackson as they hop through time hunting Jake. The mention of the 3 generations put the Grandfather Paradox in my head for some reason, so I decided to run with it.
 
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Ultimate Houde said:
Now, as usual with these movies, I tend to base the characters around UC'ers, so keeping that in mind....

I need an ourchair.
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Keone Young from Deadwood. "San Francsico ********er!"

But seriously, for better or worse, it feels like Aaron Yoo (Disturbia, Rocket Science) is now the go to guy, when casting directors need a "generic youthful Asian guy". Especially when other prominent Asian American actors (regardless of their ethnicity) are already known for particular roles: Masi Oka is Hiro, John Cho is Harold, etc.

You might want to go with Sung Kang, though. He's generally better known for playing generic bad-asses in movies like Better Luck Tomorrow, and The Fast & the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift. But for me, he'll always be known for his role as President Gin Kew Yun Chun Yew Nee in MadTV's Korean drama parody segment, Tae Do (Attitudes and Feelings Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive). It's hilarious stuff, especially if you're already familiar with the style of Korean soap operas:

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compound said:
You might want to go with Sung Kang, though. He's generally better known for playing generic bad-asses in movies like Better Luck Tomorrow, and The Fast & the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift.
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You must not have watched the same Better Luck Tomorrow and The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift I saw, because he hardly played a generic character in the former, and a bad-*** in the latter.

compound said:
But for me, he'll always be known for his role as President Gin Kew Yun Chun Yew Nee in MadTV's Korean drama parody segment, Tae Do (Attitudes and Feelings Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive). It's hilarious stuff, especially if you're already familiar with the style of Korean soap operas:

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****ing hilarious.

However, Korean soap operas aren't very much like that. At all.

And I say that as someone who doesn't even like Korean soaps.
 
ourchair said:
You must not have watched the same Better Luck Tomorrow and The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift I saw, because he hardly played a generic character in the former, and a bad-*** in the latter.
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Here's what I remember:

Better Luck Tomorrow: model minority honor student (generic) secretly running underground crime racket (bad-***)

Tokyo Drift: Kato-like ally to white protagonist (generic) with dark past in the US that led him to relocate to Tokyo criminal underworld (bad-***)

Now, admittedly, I may be fudging the details. I found the former extremely disappointing, especially relative to the hype from the "Giant Robot crowd", and the latter just plain unmemorable.

And I know I'm referring to the right characters, because I remember they were named "Han" in BOTH films (which were both directed by Justin Lin, incidentally).

Anyway, this is straying way off-topic, for something that just began with a casting suggestion for Houde.

If you want to dispute the accuracy of the MadTV parody, then repost it in the all-purpose TV thread, and continue it from there, or break it off into it's own thread.
 
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Brothers​

A Romantic Comedy movie that runs about two hours long.

The main protagonist of this movie, is Brandon Rice, a white male in his 30's. He is going through a small crisis, having just lost his job, got kicked out of his apartment, lost his fiancé, and forced to go live in his parent's home. The conflict is that he hasn't been home since he left home at 18, now it's 15 years later, and everything he hated about his hometown is still around. The small town-ness, the clichés, the stupid arguments stemming from generational hatred, and through all of that, he finds himself once more, and in the end, finds love, a new life, and meaning. Typical family type stuff, except his family is anything but typical.

So, when Brandon comes home, he is re-introduced to his family, and some oddness that has occurred since him leaving. Brandon will be played by Sean William Scott.

First, his parents. His mother is Theresa Rice, a typical small town soccer mom, she is overprotective of her sons, all five of them. She can be the tough girl though, considering she lives with seven men. Theresa will be played by Katey Sagal.

His father is Trevor Rice, a small town mechanic, who is a work-aholic. Refusing to stop working, even at home, he always avoids heart to heart talks with his sons this way, instead talking about the latest car he's rebuilding in the garage. Hugh Jackman will play Trevor.

First up is his oldest brother. He was the jock who went into the military, and is now living at his parent's house because he can't keep a job due to violent outbursts. Currently, he is a bouncer at one of the local watering holes. His name is Thomas Rice. Thomas shall be played by Jason Statham.

His youngest brother is Parker Rice, who was born ten years after Brandon, but on the same date. Ever since then, Brandon has accused Parker of stealing everything in his life. His parents both dote on Parker, the father given him a car meant for Brandon, and the mother giving Parker permission to move into the garage when Brandon comes back home, forcing Brandon to live in his old bedroom. Micheal Cera will play Parker.

But this isn't it for the Rice family; they also have two adopted sons. One is Jay Rice, a half African American, Half Cacusian. He is two years younger than Brandon, and really the only one of the brothers that Brandon gets along with. Jay is known to be a womanizer around town, and followed Tom's footsteps in going into the military, but has since left the military, and trying to find out what to do with his life. Jay will be played by Dule Hill.

The other adopted brother is Matthew Rice, a Filipino boy, who gets annoyed because everyone thinks he can do karate, though he can't. He is great with computers, and works as a freelance web designer/writer. He currently lives in the big city that Brandon use to live in, but commutes back and forth to the small town on some weekends for the free food. The lucky one playing Matthew will be John Cho. Deal with it.

Brandon has a troubled grandfather, Craig Rice, one of those old men who refuse to die. Pushing 100, he is insane. He remarks who his only true grandson is Jay Rice, because he swears that his dead wife was African though this isn't true at all. The old man shall be played by John Cleese.

Thomas has a daughter, breaking the family tone of having all sons. The Daughter is Samantha Rice. She's from one of Tom's failed marriages (yes, there has been a couple), and the entire family loves her. She always seems way to bright for her own good, as she tends to chime in with whatever Brandon is thinking at the moment to push him. She will be played by Dakota Fanning.

This would probably work well as a sitcom, but we are supposed to make movies, so here it is.
 
War On The Homefront​


Cast:

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Clint Eastwood, Aaron Eckhart, Johnny Lewis III, Michael Angarano, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Kitsch​





Plot:

When retired WWII vet, Army Sergeant Major Greg Emerson (Clint Eastwood) is diagnosed with advanced colon cancer and told he has less than a year left to live, he begins to set his affairs in order. One of these affairs in need of straightening is reconciling with his estranged son, Anthony Emerson (Aaron Eckhart), a pacifist.

20 years ago, the 2 of them had a falling out due to Aaron's pacifist beliefs and death of his brother in the Army who was KIA during the first Gulf War. Now Greg believes that it's time to bury the hatchet and set things right before it's too late.

When Greg arrives at Anthony's home, he is greeted at the door by Anthony's son, Kevin Emerson (Johnny Lewis III). The arrival of Greg comes as a shock to Kevin since his father told his grandfather was dead. This big deception only furthers the growing dislike Kevin has for his father due to all the struggles Kevin is facing as a growing male teenager.

Although he's got his 2 best friends, Wes Tyndall (Michael Angarano) and Michelle Synger (Kristen Stewart), Kevin isn't fitting in at school due to the constant bullying of Cooper Halford (Taylor Kitsch). Adding insult to injury, Kevin has recently discovered that he is in love with Michelle, but unfortunately the emasculating incidences at school aren't helping her see Kevin in that new light. Kevin is looking for his father to help him become a man and to help deal with these problems. But alas, Anthony's pacifist resolutions aren't working.

With the arrival of his hard-*** grandfather, Kevin finally sees a chance to grow into a man. Anthony, of course, sees differently and resents the bond growing between his son and his own father, while he remains on the outs.

What follows is a humorous, touching and gripping "dramedy" about forgivness, acceptance, maturity and love.


****Film styling like Little Miss Sunshine, Dan In Real Life and Stranger Than Fiction****






I especially like the cycle of hate between fathers and sons. It's very Greek tragedy to me.
 
Much as i'd like to keep this open for Ourchair to join, the round has been active for long enough.

In fact, I already received one vote before I even officially closed the round.

Start PMing your votes, folks.

And the nominees are:

SSJMole for Family Unit

Hellsbuttmonkey for Time Out

Ultimate Houde for Brothers and

Victor Von Doom for War on the Homefront

Voting will end 24 hours from now, at 7PM Eastern time on Sunday, May 11.
 
Despite the small number of people who voted overall, we've got a decisive winner for this round. Everybody give it up for:

Time Out by Hellsbuttmonkey

Congrats, dude!
 
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*takes a bow*

I'd like to thank everyone who made this happen for me, my family, friends, and above all, the almighty Lord Xenu, for without his Thetans, I would be nothing more than a lowly Scientologist...

Now to come up with a new round...
 
compound said:
Despite the small number of people who voted overall, we've got a decisive winner for this round. Everybody give it up for:

Time Out by Hellsbuttmonkey

Congrats, dude!
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I forgot to vote, but my vote would have been for HBM as well.

It was a great idea, and straight out of left field. Loved it.
 
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