Genre-crossover nightmares

[Matt Frisbee]

What mixed-genre premises would you find disturbing? Here's an example:

"Mel Brooks and Akira Kurosawa collaborating on one movie." (Mixing Ninja Hero with extreme doses of comedy)

Let's see what ideas you can come up with?

Edit: This was just something that came to me totally at random.

This has already been done -- the Japanese came up with Ranma 1/2 a couple of decades ago...

Matt "The-Obtuse-One" Frisbee

[Matt Frisbee]

Children of the Sunshine on my Shoulder
The Towering Disco Inferno
The Hills Have Eyes of Laura Mars
Silent Running Man
Superfly Me To The Moon
Dark Star Search
In the Heat of the Nightbreed
A Boy and His Dog Day Afternoon
Tuesday Afternoon Delight
Swiss Family Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Revolution Number Nine Days

Matt "They-were-funny-in-rehersal" Frisbee

[bigdamnhero]

This has already been done -- the Japanese came up with Ranma 1/2 a couple of decades ago...

I was thinking of Kung Fu Hustle.

[AdamLeisemann]

By James Brown and Dan Clavelle: The DaVinci Code of Bushido (So Dark the Con of the Con of Man! Jesus was a samurai shogun!)

[egaroadkill]

"The Big Matrix"
The Dude abides in a virtual reality created by da man to put him down! Many action packed seconds of bowling and combating nilist agents with marmots in bath tubs.
“I zee Mr. Lavouskie. Vou are a man leading two lives…
STAY OUTTA MALABU! (boink)

[shadowcat1313]

Love Potion Number Nine to Five
Seven Brides for Seven Samurai
Empire of the Son of Godzilla
Capricorn One flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Ice Pirates of the Carribean
Better off Dead Men Walking

[Black Rose]

Just to see what people will come up with, I'm going to make a new thread based on this.

Watch this space....

[AdamLeisemann]

Match Game of Death Becomes Her

[AdamLeisemann]

The First Lady and the Tramp

Is that the story of the Clintons?

[BobGreenwade]

Snow White and the Seven Samurai

[AdamLeisemann]

Snow White and the Seven Samurai

"Are you Pondering what I'm Pondering?"

"I think so, Brain, but who'd want to see Snow White and the Seven Samurai?"

^.^

Cast a Deadly Spellbound (where Spelling has nothing to do with vocabulary)

Roger Rabbit and Me (a documentary by Micheal Moore, simply making money off of unfortunate, jobless toons)

Animaniac Mansion (need I say more?)

EDIT: All Your Basic Instinct

[Major Tom]

My contribution to the growing horror:

Harry Potter and The Village

"I am not a number! I am a free wizard!"

[Curufea]

Harry Potter: Where am I?
Snape: In Hogwarts.
Harry Potter: What do you want?
Snape: We want education.
Harry Potter: Whose side are you on?
Snape: That would be telling. We want education... education... education.
Harry Potter: You won't get it.
Snape: By hook or by crook, we will.
Harry Potter: Who are you?
Snape: The new Dark Arts teacher.
Harry Potter: Who is Number 1?
Snape: You are Number 6.
Harry Potter: I am not a number, I am a free wizard.

Harry Potter: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be enrolled, suspended, expelled, examined, tested, marked or home schooled. My life is my own. I resign.

[Major Tom]

Harry Potter: Where am I?
Snape: In Hogwarts.
Harry Potter: What do you want?
Snape: We want education.
Harry Potter: Whose side are you on?
Snape: That would be telling. We want education... education... education.
Harry Potter: You won't get it.
Snape: By hook or by crook, we will.
Harry Potter: Who are you?
Snape: The new Dark Arts teacher.
Harry Potter: Who is Number 1?
Snape: You are Number 6.
Harry Potter: I am not a number, I am a free wizard.

Harry Potter: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be enrolled, suspended, expelled, examined, tested, marked or home schooled. My life is my own. I resign.

OK, now let's see you come up with something from the M. Night Shmalyan
version of Harry Potter and The Village.


Major Tom

[Michael Hopcroft]

For a combination of Fan-service Anime and American film: MOUSEhunt

The Last Samurai Champloo (Tom Cruise goes hip-hop in Japan)

The weird thing about this thread is that people keep coming up with these things all the time in the various fandoms and, weirdness of weirdnesses, they work.

Take, for example, a story that was quite popular on the sites called Azumanga Daioh in SPAAAAACE!. The premise was that the Star wars trilogy was retold with the cast of the schoolgirl comedy Azumanga Daioh in place of the main characters. Thus we had, for example, pig-tailed child prodigy Chiyo being trained in the Ways of the Jedi in place of Luke Skywalker. The really weird thing is that the writer actually thought through his whole universe, including things that George Lucas never bothered with.

For example, remember how Leia watched impassively as Alderaan was obliterated? When the scene was repeated, with Kaorin (who in the original series suffered misforutne after misfortune, to utterly absurd degrees) in Leia's place, she was devastated. Much of the rest of the story was built around her regaining her self-will after the dual shocks of that and the death of the Obi-wan substitute (in this case Sakaki, on whom the original Kaorin had a comically unnoticed girl-crush that utterly dominated her life).