Which promises to be the best film?

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The opening scene setting:

A) An eerie, previously unnoticed little curiosity shoppe in a dark alley, run by a strange, bumbling yet very perceptive old man.

B) A racquetball court: two white-clad forty-something men wryly discussing the mounting tedium of their lives.

C) A waterfront warehouse: a bearded terrorist opens a briefcase (we can't see the contents), smiles, and nods to a hot Asian dragon-lady.

― andy, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Annie Hall, so B.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

C for the hot Asian dragon lady alone. B sounds the worst.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

d) Woman in short shorts answers the doorbell. It's a greasy looking plumber with a moustache, who says "I'm here to check out your pipes." A wah-wah pedal is heard.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

e) A tiny and cute animated mouse falls out of its cage on the way back from the pet store. OH NO HE IS LOST IN THE BIG CITY

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

This is my new personality test. I'm convinced that mankind can be cleaved into three equal parts, and each of these possible openings will garner 33.3% of the vote.

A) Walter Mitty dreamers, socially retarded bookworms

B) Urban realists, bootlicking career climbers

C) Barely literate NFL fans, FedEx drivers

― andy, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

do you have...some kind of...agenda?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/balleatomique/musee/expo_hall/nintendo/nes/gremlins2back.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Annie Hall and Splash have the same beginning? John Candy rocks that movie. So does Eugene Levy.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Annie Hall doesn't begin that way, but it has that scene. I was mostly using it to show that these scenes are in many different movies and that andy's test IS NONSENSE.

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I am not "urban."

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hillbilly.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Super-F) A midafternoon skyline of some bustling metropolis. Diminished chord resounds - a silhouette eclipses even the tallest skyscrapers - office workers stare agape.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

B) A racquetball court: two white-clad forty-something men wryly discussing the mounting tedium of their lives.

See, but this could lead to a hilarious voodoo life-swap comedy a la Trading Places.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the sound of B.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah B could go anywhere. the other two are pretty predictable.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't A) Needful Things?

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd go for:

A racquetball court: a hot Asian dragon-lady. An eerie waterfront warehouse, a bearded curiosity and a very perceptive old man.

It'd be a great film.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, a curiously bearded Asian warehouse - the doors open, we do not see what's inside - but bet your life it's something illegal.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:54 (twenty-one years ago)

A = Pinocchio
B = The Game
C = My Dinner With Andre

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

INT. SPRAYPAINT-VANDALIZED MAUSOLEUM - 1995 -- EVENING

A grossly obese man wearing an astroturf vest slurps gravy through a bendy straw, surrounded by Yes albums and resting his feet on the CORPSE OF KURT COBAAIN whom he's using as a footstool.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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