Someone should do a movie about an honest cop in a dishonest system

[Rabrrrrrr]

No one's ever tapped that particular plot line, the honest cop who realizes how dishonest the whole police force is, even the city itself, and who fights against it.

Id' also like to see a movie about a sports coach who, somehow, ends up falling, then while he's in the basement of fame, he gets stuck coaching a team made up of the worst losers ever, who've never played together, and basically have never even played the sport before, and manages, in one season, to put together a team that wins the championship in a final, nailbiting game against the team of professionals and well-financed and well-equipped team coached by the guy who unjustly caused the coach's demise.

No one's ever done that one, either.

[MrScorpio]

1. ...And Alien Invasions

Noboby ever does alien invasions anymore.

Bummer

[Moochy]

2. Very Confucian :)

I love that concept of the good burecrat doing good in a corrupt system.

[PittPoliSci]

3. It's called "Sin City"

and it was the best movie ever. Bruce Willis plays the only honest cop in a city full of corruption. I loved it, every second of it.

[WCGreen]

14. I don't think he was all that honest......

Just doing his job....

Probably the best comic book movie of all time

[PittPoliSci]

18. if not the best than at least...

the most true to the original comic.

[johnnie]

4. Serpico

That was one, wasn't it?

[Wapsie B]

29. That's what I was going to say.

[Midnight Rambler]

5. What about a movie about two people who can't stand each other...

But are forced together by circumstance and engage in a series of tension building hijinx, and slowly realize they are madly in love, despite the fact that one or both of them is married/engaged/in an otherwise committed relationship?

I don't believe I've ever seen a movie with that sort of plotline

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Don't be stupid. A movie like that would never make it.

Geez.

[tk2kewl]

6. Serpico

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070666/

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Sarcasm is, apparently, a very lost art

:sigh:

Two calls for Serpico and one for Sin City....

[johnnie]

13. Guess I missed it

I love sarcasm, I just missed it here...Sorry.

[no name no slogan]

9. don't forget the hooker with the heart of gold, too

that's virgin territory if there ever was any

[bertha katzenengel]

41. booooo

See, even though things are tough - you're resilient! You'll make it! And you'll see those babies soon!

[Dastard Stepchild]

10. I'd personally love to see a movie about a beloved family member

with an incurable illness teach their kin about how life and relationships and the sun and all the little blades of grass should be cherished each an every single day. Then, they should really die for good measure.

[WhollyHeretic]

11. I've had an idea about a movie with some heavily partying college kids

who are about to get kicked out of school and come up with a wacky and zany plan to fix all their problems. It might be a little too avant garde for the movie going public though.

[LeftyMom]

12. How about a movie with young lovers

whose families hate each other? That never gets done, either as a drama or a comedy.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Or the curmudgeonly old guy who has a young hopeful child move in

next door to him and through the course of the movie the old man learns to love, make amends with his esstranged son, and marry the widow across the street that he's loved since elementary school, and then, just the old man learns happiness, the child and family disappear and no one's really sure if they ever existed or not.

[u4ic]

16. I won't hold my breath for

boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy wins her back.

[KG]

17. and people wonder why don't go to the movies anymore

i've seen them all already, i know how they end....

[driver8]

19. How about a movie where there is some sort of disaster??

Earthquake, flood, fire, hijacking, volcano, ship sinking...I don't think any of these have been done, have they??

[pinniped]

20. Code of Silence with Chuck Norris was pretty close.

.

[Tallison]

21. Yeah, they have: Cop Land

W/Sylvester Stallone in the early/mid-90s. A role in which he's actually understated and gained a 40 pound gut for the part (he being the good but ineffective sheriff in a Jersey bedroom community in which a whole community of corrupt NYPD cops live). It was interesting and actually critically well-reviewed.

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Aye, and the sarcasm yet again is lost...

:hi: Tallison!

[Tallison]

26. Remind me to

drink my coffee next time time before posting at 7am, you funny guy! :hangover:

[Rabrrrrrr]

23. Or a movie about a loner cowboy with his own code of ethics who ends

up helping a community against his better wishes as they play on his deepfelt sense of fairness and justice, even though he tries to come off as a tough emotionless hombre.

[XemaSab]

24. Or a movie

where someone is unjustly accused of a crime and they have to go on the run from law enforcement and try to prove their own innocence before they get captured.

[Telly Savalas]

25. All good ideas...

but what I'd really like to see is for Hollywood to take an old TV show and turn it into a feature length film.

[Initech]

27. Ever see the movie Narc?

That's about an honest cop who finds out how dishonest his partner is.

[musiclawyer]

28. "Witness"

Harrison Ford as ggood cop

[progmom]

30. ha ha ha ha

they also need to do one about a hooker with a heart of gold! ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Already mentioned - post #9

:P

:spank:

[progmom]

33. listen...i love you...but...

i am not going to read every response in your damn thread.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. Why not?

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[progmom]

37. because i don't want to appear too desperate

;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

42. Oh, pishtosh

I just wanted to say pishtosh, and you were the best one to say it to.

Pishtosh, progmom, pishtosh.

Nice smile, by the way.

:7

[progmom]

49. my winky smiley?

[Rabrrrrrr]

50. Yep, your winky smily

makes me think of butts and lederhosen and a summer in the alps with Sven, the Wonder Logger, and, um....... never mind.

[kick-ass-bob]

31. But the Bad News Bears didn't win, and that's what

actually made that a good movie (the original - I have no idea about the new one)

on edit: wow. how many people did this fly over?

[Rabrrrrrr]

35. That's what I liked about the first Rocky movie, too

And The Thing, in which no one wins.

[Zuni]

36. or how about a movie where two complete opposites

a slob and compulsively clean man, or a black and a white, or a cop and a criminal have to work together to solve a crime or protect people?

[Rabrrrrrr]

46. Or the sports guy and the bookish intellectual, or the geek and the cool

guy, or the woman and the misogynist, or the city-boy and the country-boy, or the rich kid and the poor kid, or the gun nut and the peacenik, or the cowboy and the sheepherder, or the australian and the non-alcoholic, or the focaultian and the girardian, or the logical positivist and the material nihilist, or the dishwasher and the Matterhorn cable car driver, or . . .

[bertha katzenengel]

38. I appreciate your posts so much, Rabrrrrrrr.

I do. :hug:

That said, there is one film that's absolutely riveting - top rung, one of the best dramas ever made, IMO - that fits the first genre, and that's "Witness."

Why Ford didn't get Oscar for that, I'll never know. He is a far better actor than "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" typecasting.

:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

44. I haven't seen that one, but I really need to. I've heard wonderful things

about it. Is that the one with the Amish in it?

Ford IS a great actor, when Lucas and Spielberg aren't asking him to act poorly.

[bertha katzenengel]

45. Yep, where the Amish boy sees a murder.

OH. God, what a great film. Do see it.

Here's a tiny bit of dialog:

He: "...except whacking. I'm hell at whacking."

She: "Whacking's not of much use on a farm."

I'm about to turn into a pumpkin, y'all. 'night.

GO HACKETT!

[dr.zoidberg]

39. Their was a cop movie like that made.

It's called Serpico.

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. Wow, that's been mentioned a number of times already

and once with my "sarcasm is a lost art" response.

Welcome to DU anyway, dr.zoidberg. :hi:

[dr.zoidberg]

47. Apparently I can't read.

:)

[hickman1937]

40. You forgot the newly divorced mom who is setting up a company

but all she really wants is to be married again. She spends 2 hours telling everyone that she'll never marry again, but at 1:53 she realizes that all she wants is HIM. Usually the kids(Who she LIVES for) are out getting their asses kicked by gritty kids, or by entitled kids, but the new guy drives her to the place where she PROACTIVALLY deals with their bullys, and then the kids go to their rooms, saying "thank you mom, I love you." And Mom gets busy with the new daddy.

[Bouncy Ball]

48. I'd like to see a TV show about several people who get

shipwrecked and they get all these chances to be rescued but the true dumbass among them keeps screwing things up.

Now THAT would be great!

[LastKnight]

51. training day, and mighty ducks

ethan hawke... he is getting promoted from street patrol crap to a narc unit, its about his first day on the job with his new partner. realizing that the whole thing is corrupt and crooked...

although the second is a disney movie, its basically the same except the guy is a hockey player sentenced to community service and he takes a bunch of losers off of the street and turns em into champions in 1 season.

[NNadir]

52. I'd like to see a movie about an alien who scares people but has a heart

of gold and is really, really cute.