Most wanted: a quirky mindscrew dark science fiction comedy with a whimsical soundtrack. In other words cross Dark City with The Royal Tenenbaums.
Least wanted: blow-em-up action movie romcom filled with car chases and faux-philosophical monologues.
edited 11th Aug '11 9:43:25 AM by MrShine
The most wanted: something original with a little bit of everything.
The least wanted: another sequel to Final Destination or The Fast and the Furious.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Least wanted: Refuge in Vulgarity live action film with a huge love story and an all-star cast who have nothing to do, with ridiculous Camp. An adaptation that was bloodier than the original.
Most wanted: An action fantasy epic time travel story (animated or live action) directed by or in the style of Christopher Nolan. Starring at least one Doctor Who Doctor and/or companion and either robots or Powered Armor.
Weirdly enough, as I very, very rarely hate films, the first was a lot harder to pull off than the second. Half of it was more guessing than pet peeves.
edited 11th Aug '11 5:29:40 PM by OldManHoOh
Most Wanted: Well I guess since this isn't film in general,I'd say a Stanley Kubrick style fantasy [albeit like The Shining or 2001 rather than Lolita or A Clockwork Orange]
Least Wanted: Another superhero film trying to go off the Christopher Nolan approach (which was novel in 2005),or another frat pack comedy
Another least wanted: an overlong comedy that's dependent on gross-out jokes and jerkass characters. Notice that every comedy that makes money or is heavily promoted now is one of these?
And then when they're short (such as 30 Minutes or Less), they're doomed to fail because they are different.
Another most wanted: comedies with darker premises and actual humor in place of cheap gags. Running 90 minutes.
More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/Most wanted:
A 3D James Cameron adaptation of a historical romance children's novel about a boy who discovers he's a wizard Chosen One destined to destroy the Artifact of Doom that gives the evil pirate lord his power. Its destruction saves the environment for tribal cat people.
Least wanted:
An adaptation of a video game about pirate cowboys on post-apocalyptic Mars, as an Eddie Murphy vehicle in Uncanny Valley computer animation.
Most wanted: Historical war films! A big emphasis on historic authenticity, epic in scope, and less Hollywood cliche. And less Tiger tanks that look like a T-34 with a box strapped on top of it.
edited 14th Aug '11 4:44:03 PM by pagad
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.Least Wanted (by the general population, I'd wager): Three words: GHETTO STAR WARS.
Picture a gangsta rap version of Star Wars - instead of ships, spacefaring Escalades. Instead of light sabers, laser bling. Instead of blasters, laser Glocks and Mac-10s.
... actually this idea might be so bad and hilarious it's good.
edited 14th Aug '11 5:58:21 PM by MarkVonLewis
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Skip the movie and read the book.
Most wanted: Genre-Busting movies with original stories and intelligent plots to go with the action.
Least wanted: movies with This Loser Is You protagonists and cliched plots; prequel/sequel movies to franchises that weren't that great to begin with.
Ok, since there are a lot of aspects, I'm going to Make several crowners, for
1) "people involved" (this will include directors, producers, composers and actors. Writers too, if you want.)
2) Genre
3) Visual style (animated, CGI, black-and-white, shaky cam — stuff like that — what the movie will look like)
4) Characters (character types or archetypes used; "boy wizard", "the Chosen One", "horny highschoolers". Like that. Specific characters can also be put here, like "Doctor Who" or "John McClane".)
5) Plot elements: Just what it says on the tin: (Kidnapping, revenge, save the <whatever>, destroy the <whatever>, find the <whatever, come to grips with <whatever>...)
6) Other content (this will be the catch-all category for stuff that doesn't fit into one of the others neatly: "dialogue in Greek and subtitled in English and Spanish", stuff like that.
I'm going to put links to all of them on Sandbox.Most Wanted And Unwanted Movies.
If you think I've missed one that should be on a crowner (especially once the voting starts and they get all shuffled up,) please check by doing an Control-F4 ("find on this page") or by asking me if it's on my list before you add it.
Also, each individual element should be a single option ("A Tim Burton travelogue through a high fantasy world with lots of explosions" is 4 separate elements: 1) Tim Burton, 2) Travelogue, 3) High fantasy world and 4) Explosions.)
edited 26th Aug '11 5:14:09 PM by Madrugada
Love Story was a huge love story (you're probably too young to remember that, but anyway, it was all about the couple and how much they loved each other and the troubles that caused and blah blah blah.) It was all love story. There wasn't anything to it but love story.
A romance can have other elements as well, but it has a romance at its core.
And good catch that "Western" was missing!
edited 26th Aug '11 5:41:48 PM by Madrugada
I see, I see. I don't really care for either type of love story ^__^;
Oh, can I go ahead and add crime/gangster? And supernatural horror and slasher horror (or should those just be lumped together as general horror)?
edited 26th Aug '11 5:46:25 PM by Merlo
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am...
Crown Description:
Genre For other element categories, please go Here

For those who don't know, in 1997, two Russian conceptual music artists named Komar and Melamid, plus a composer named Dave Soldier did a poll regarding the elements people most liked and most disliked in music. Based on the results, they concocted the Most Unwanted Song; a 22-minute thing with bagpipes, tubas, accordions and an opera singer rapping about cowboys among other things; and the Most Wanted Song; an exceedingly sappy love ballad. (Google both of them and listen, by the way; they're hilarious.)
I was just thinking... if there's a most unwanted song and a most wanted song; there ought to be a most unwanted movie and a most wanted movie too. Somebody should do a poll of what elements people most like and most dislike in movies, and then make two movies based on the results. Since we're on the topic, how about everybody states here and now what elements they most like and what elements they most dislike in movies.