I was looking at an HBO schedule, and I think Hollywood is running out of ideas. I think they need a new way to freshen up tired old plots. And the thought crossed me, as I read the names adjacent to one another, that individually they all stink, but some of them might make original movies when thematically paired with the next in the list.
Conspiracy Theory+ Vanity Fair
Tagline: All is fair in love, war and conspiracies.
Mel Gibson runs paranoid through stiff-upper lip Victorian society.
Vanity Fair+ Troy
Tagline: All is fair in love, war and ancient Greece.
Brad Pitt is a spirited social climber in ancient Greece, way too obsessed with his looks.
Troy+ Bad Boys
Tagline: Watcha gonna do in ancient Greece?
Two guys, one a henpecked family man, the other a dashing ladies man, combine forces and shoot it up among ancient Greeks.
Bad Boyz+ Inside I'm Dancing
Tagline: Watcha gonna do, except live life like you mean it.
Two guys, one a henpecked family man, the other a dashing ladies man, shake up a condescending Home for the Disabled.
A Match Made in Heaven+ Seed of Chucky
Tagline: Deliver us from evil matchmakers
Olympia Dukakis is an evil doll who tries to matchmake her son into marrying her nurse, so more Chucky movies can be made.
Men In Black+ Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Tagline: The last (swim)suit you'll ever wear
Sandra Bullock goes undercover to find out why aliens from Third World are winning so many beauty titles.
Miss Congeniality+ Twelve Monkeys
Tagline: The future is history. So is Sandra Bullock's career.
Sandra Bullock must stop the The Twelve Monkeys who are time-traveling terrorists from unleashing a deadly virus, which will put a stop to beauty pageants once for all.
Farenheit 9/11+Tales from the crypt
Mike Moore makes Tales from the White House of Horrors.
The Last Samurai+ An Officer and a Gentleman
Tagline: It will lift you up where you belong. (That's in Japan)
A wayward Tom Cruise goes to Japan, to become a man, with the help of a Geisha girl, and some ass-whupping Samurais.
Man-Thing+ Rambo
Tagline: When nature fights back, its fighting for it's life.
An unstable Swamp monster begins a one-man war with a small town
Rambo + Mean Girls
Tagline: This time he's really fighting for the right to sit in the cafeteria without getting bitchslapped
An unstable Vietnam vet must must use all his skills when starting a one-man war with a bunch of mean A-list high school prom queens.
Catwoman+ Romeo must die
An avenging cop falls for the Catwoman, a drug baron's daughter who is a cat-loving lesbian. Now he must die for it.
Coming to America + Batman
Batman is a masked Third World superhero trying to use his superpowers to sneak past immigration without a visa.
Batman+ Disturbing Behavior
Well, we've already got the Jack Nicholson as The Joker in Batman, who is disturbing enough. No need to make this movie.
The School of Rock+ Exorcist
Jack Blacka is a teach who tries to get Linda Blair to sing, but her voice sounds uncannily like a hoarse man, and now an exorcist must cure her in time for the school rock concert.
Enter the dragon+ Something's gotta give
Diane 'the dragon' Keaton and Jack 'I'm never giving up acting" Nicholson are maritalarts ..oops martial-arts experts.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason + Bourne Supremacy
Bridget and her diary must find out if the man she married is really a trained CIA operative with amnesia, or simply a husband who's come up with the ultimate excuse for forgetting their anniversary.
Barb Wire + The Spongebob Squarepants movie
Tagline: Dont call me babe! Dont call me Bob, either. Its Spongebob.
Kiddies will love this. Pamela Anderson as bikini-bottom clad mercenary in Bikini Bottom, hometown of SpongeBob, helping him track down ...whatever. With Pam in bikinis, no one will remember the plot.
Rambo III + A cinderella story
Rambo - the chickflick. What more can I say?