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moments that could totally go into a movie

  • While talking about his nagging trophy wife to his friend, a man says “I need her like I need a hole in my head”; later, he’s executed by a pistol-shot to the head.

  • “I may be old enough to die in my sleep, but I want to go out in a blaze of glory,” OR “I may be old, but I don’t want to die because of the sniffles.”

  • Virginia Man Killed in Civil War Cannonball Blast (Fox News)

  • Torture: hang a person upside-down by their ankles, over a fire; they can't lower their arms or they'll dangle inside the fire, and the heat is boiling the blood that's pooling in their head.

  • Torture: coffin-sized box filled 2/3 with water; lie a person inside and cover top with fitted wire mesh, and a mechanism that holds the mesh steady; slowly lower the metal mesh screen so that it pushes the now-conscious person below the water level, drowning them.

  • Torture: waterboard someone with Drano—not only is it waterboarding but it burns the skin.

  • Torture: for someone heavyset, wrap their feet with barbed wire and make them walk. Their own weight—under gravity—forces the barbs into the soft underbellies of their feet. Coerced to walk; maybe moving flame across their back, or a chain pulling at their neck.

  • When taking pictures in Disney World, they throw up gang signs to be straight thuggin’, except that their gang signs are the “I Love You” hand gesture that kids do.

  • Moment where you're in space, aboard a ship with enemy robots on it: you all fight but the robots acknowledge that you need oxygen and they don't, so they blow the port and eject you all—they float but live, and you choke until you can find sanctuary.

  • Rich formerly-ambitious [but now beyond settled] man often hires a male prostitute and a female one, paying them to fuck each other while he watches.

  • A bunch of prostitutes try to be seen in better light by society by putting together a fundraising event, kind of like a marathon: “Sucking Dick for Cancer,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like.

  • (calls 911) "Hello operator? Send an ambulance. When you get here, I'll be dead. Please pick up my body. There’s a note with further instructions. Thank you."

  • NSFW = No Swimming For Weasels

  • "A Man Named Sarah."

  • Someone goes through ten emotions in thirty seconds of histrionic rant, and passes out.

  • "The Pallbearer."

  • GARETH.

  • "Hey come over here" to check out his cubicle where half-drank coffee, still burning cigarette, open files on desk and on computer. "What?" "Does it look like I was just here?" "Uh? Yeah, it does?" "Okay, good—I set up this display because I got a job at the place across the street, and it's my secret second full-time job. So if someone comes over here and asks where I am, you cover for me: point here and say 'I don't know, but he must've just been here! Look at his desk!'" "Two full time jobs? That's 80 hours of work a week!" "Yeah, I show up early here, do about six, and work late over there, and do about six. It's worth it."

  • Halloween costume for character: he wears ordinary clothes, but his face and hair are painted green, he has multiple name tags that say "hi my name is GREG," and he's carrying around a framed picture of a real astronaut chimpanzee. What is he? Green Gregs and Ham.

  • End of the film has the protagonist holding a pistol in his mouth, but there's a knock at the door. He pauses, unsure about whether or not to respond to the door or pull trigger and get it over with. Cue credits.

  • "The higher they fly, the farther they fall."

  • nbcnews…don-spirit-kills-daughter-six-grandchildren-bell-florida-n206861

  • washingtonpost…after-shooting-his-pregnant-wife-man-calmly-describes-murder-to-911/

  • cbsnews…grandmother-gets-minimum-of-22-years-in-grandsons-shooting-death/

  • Defending his shitty mustache: “I call it ‘an allusion to facial hair.’” Hating it in reply: “I call it prepubescent.”

  • Wild West settlements: Lincolnwood, Candyland,

  • “best bitch in college.”

  • "Spare the rod and spoil the child."

  • "Neither Seen Nor Heard": homeless referendum, to liquidate the blight on society.

  • Post-apocalyptic or dystopian priests who have scarred themselves in order to be closer to God. They've sacrificed a sense—sight, hearing, speech...

  • "Witness me!"

  • More like, US Department of Injustice.

  • PRAISE BORT – KNEEL BEFORE BORT – ALL POWER BELONGS TO BORT

  • License plate: KUN 563. (Twilight Zone reference: episode “the Whole Truth”)

  • License plate: 9906753 (reference to the crate the Ark of the Covenant gets stored in)

  • License plate: 6IHK398 (Nightcrawler reference)

  • License plate: 214782 or 24005 (reference to Erik Lehnsherr’s Auschwitz ID)

  • "This is Hot Balloon to Mother Dick. Mother Dick, do you read?"

  • "The name's Annabelle, but people 'round here call me Legs." Saucy strawberry blonde 1930s woman.

  • name the episodes of a show, or the chapters of a book, after Belmont Stakes winners.

  • “I could either be a generous resource or a bitter enemy,” said in negotiations for a proposed partnership, to assure an outcome.

  • “Mercy must be earned.” – seen as embroidered on a military badge

  • "There is no victory without sacrifice." Or, "Sacrifice precedes victory."

  • Solar Storm of 2012 could’ve fried the world’s electronics if the sun had faced us a little more.

  • “Sound the horns of war!” *thunderclap*

  • Don's 3 rules of surviving [a crash] in the wilderness: stay hydrated, stay warm, don't injure yourself—in that order.

  • "In memory of some; in honor of all." / "All gave some; some gave all."

  • "Come Fathers, Son, and Brothers! Rally behind [our leader] for defense of our lands! Fall into ranks and take back our soil! Vanquish the enemy and repel the invaders!"

  • "And this mightily flighty dike brought her bombastic tragedy."

  • Ed Walsh: born 1956, now crazy. In the late 80s-early 90s, he owned a gym/salon with a woman (or was this in the 70s-80s?); she ran the gym, he ran the salon – and one day she killed herself in the gym (gun to head) and he found her. He’s been fucked up ever since. – Now he comes to our gym, ranting and raving and rude and trying to steal Muscle Milk.

  • "He's the kind of guy who knows the lyrics to the entire Dave Matthews Band discography."

  • the rhyme “one two buckle my shoe” sung menacingly by the confident monster in a horror movie, as he goes about each of his careful and elaborate kills.

  • Liam Neeson should portray a pirate.

  • Cromwell!!!

Original document created 08/14/2013.

Urbania - the cityscape theme park

Theme park for Avatar: The Last Airbender

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