For instance:
Hilarity ensues when a mild-mannered suburban family adopts a troubled San Francisco homicide detective.
Clint Eastwood, John Lithgow, and Margaret Langrick star in?
Dirty Harry and The Hendersons
Or:
A retired English butler reminiscences about his time in service to a Lord’s estate while also trying to convince his fellow townsfolk that recently arrived aliens come in peace.
Keanu Reeves and Anthony Hopkins star in?
The Remains of the Day the Earth Stood Still.
Or:
The boss of a Los Angeles crime syndicate enlists the help of a top British Spy to help recover a stolen briefcase by going undercover at an exclusive high-stakes poker game.
Ving Rames, Daniel Craig, and Samuel L Jackson star in?
Casino Royale With Cheese
Dominic Toretto and his street racer friends go around making some ridiculous claims.
An FBI agent must enlist the help of a killer to catch a dangerous fiend, who's crime is shushing people on public transport.
An archaeologist/adventurer is hired to venture inside a proton to see what particles he can find.
You might enjoy Says You (public radio show). They do this category from time to time. Most recently 2 weeks ago, SY-2630, round 3, starts at ~20:30 in. :)
- Knight Rider
- Maybe "The Expendables"?
- No idea, but I feel like I want to watch it!
- a place to be wrong on the internet
- reddit, but with hope
- well.com/../actually
but finally,
- something to appreciate
Some gems included:
- A guy and a sass-talking car fight crime together.
- Seven Samurai meets the Equalizer, but with american war criminals.
- Screwball comedy but with homages and tropes instead of sight gags and jokes, with an ensamble cast of has beens doing swan song performances.
When I hear about twitter clones, the pitches for platforms become the jokes we make about them:
- a way for old people to yell at each other.
- bully safari, where you can go to antagonize people without conseqences.
- a way for people to share pictures of their butts.
- Orwell's 'two minutes of hate'
- a fame simulator where robots flatter you
- a place for smart people to act stupid
- warcraft for passive aggression
These are mostly empty snark, but some of them can be funny, and they take us out of thinking that we should re-make something we have today with some minor augmentation, independent of the original context it was created, and start looking at what something genuinely new might be.