I (Also) Wrote That Crap

[Caffiene]

I dont know if Id go see them in the cinema, but Im not opposed to the ideas of Beavers and Trekkie. Id definitely watch those.

Although the ending to trekkie as described sounds to me like it needs a little work. Its got the pop culture, but doesnt have any of the dark humour of the themed murders and such. I hate when a hilarious B-movie throws away the humour because the humour isnt "big" enough and they want to go for a big set-piece finale.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

Okay, am I the only one who thinks that "The Trekkie" actually sounds kind of awesome? I am? Okay.

 

[XMark]

One thing could make Beavers into something great: have it set in Canada!

 

[Sewa_Yunga]

Make.The Trekkie.Happen... Now!

I'm not really into killer animal movies, but The Trekkie sounds just awesome.

 

[Sylocat]

Count me among those who thinks that Bottlenose sounds actually pretty good.

Also, like many others in this thread, I'd watch Trekkie just for the nerd rage. Except, instead of singling out Star Trek or any one individual property, do a GalaxyQuest/Nebula-9 type thing and make up an "original" property for the main character, with the "real" fandoms getting cameos. You'd also have to throw in a Firefly nod, of course.

 

[EeviStev]

What DO you call Babylon 5 fans? The best I can come up with is 'Babbys', though I suspect the fans would reject that.

Okay, am I the only one who thinks that "The Trekkie" actually sounds kind of awesome? I am? Okay.

Every other post in this thread indicates otherwise.
you are not a unique snowflake, especially on the internet.

 

[Sinocenturion]

You know, Bottlenose actually reminds me of a science fiction short story I read a long time ago (more than ten years) in some "Best of" anthology. The story went that we actually figured out how to communicate with dolphins and we found out that they were pretty much rotten to the core and totally nasty creatures (like Bob said). But the thing was, because they could communicate now, they got rich because they knew where all the sunken treasure was in the oceans. So they basically built this business empire like some sort of oceanic mafia.

Can't remember who wrote it, but he was good enough to get into a "best of" collection...

 

[ripdajacker]

The Trekkie has a very funny premise. You should go with it!

 

[FEichinger]

To be perfectly honest ... I think I'd watch The Trekkie for its flat-out hilarity.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one that had this thought.

I'm glad I was the first out of a crapton of people here to say it out loud.

 

[RubyT]

The first two are really bad. Though not serious, I guess.

Trekkie sounds quite hilarious, actually, though I don't know if it would be funny for 70 minutes (I don't see you getting more out of it). Maybe it would work as a short film?

 

[Hitchmeister]

A lot of people are championing actually making The Trekkie, but I can't imagine Paramount and Disney not mobilizing more lawyers than you could have red-shirts and Jedis to shut this thing down. The only way to make it would be to file all the serial numbers of the fandoms until it just became lame and boring.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

It is strange, because it seems almost every year you hear about someone who got stranded at sea whose life was saved by a dolphin. So they are as likely to save your life as they are to batter and **** you in the rear!

If beavers got made, while I think it could be a good b-movie tongue in cheek horror-comedy as others have already said, I could never look at Angry Beavers the same again. Beavers might have the same issue as a movie Bob has talked about before, Night of the Lepus. Beavers are just too neat to be taken seriously as a monster. That's not scary, that's adorable! Were-beaver wouldn't be too farfetched. One of my friends had his D&D character turned into a were-squirrel.

Trekkie sounds like it would be hilarious.

 

[shogunblade]

When I read that Beavers could have been moved to rural Montana, that made me want to see it more. The Part of Montana I live in would be kind of cool to see the Queen Beaver (Queen Beav? I'll show myself out), and it sounds kind of awesome, admittedly.

Bottlenose, however, I'd just about died at the line about "They Really Are Like Us", so I really want to see that one, just because of the laughs that would ensue. Although, since you've mentioned Orca last Schlocktober, I could see that, with a good head on its shoulders, being relatively kind of cool all the same time. It's too bad we don't have a current day DeLaurentiis with us (I love Troma, but I think it would be a disservice to Bottlenose, in all seriousness). That being said, This would be a good laugh, all the same time.

and I didn't read Trekkie, so I can't comment at all on it.

A nice bunch of movies, though.

 

[Shinsei-J]

Yer, I'd unabashedly watch all of those.
I'd also buy Bobs dignity if I could afored it.
You really should pitch Trekkie to someone, or alter it into an NCIS episode at least.

 

[PhiMed]

My first thought when reading the "Trekkie" description was, "Come on, does he really need to put a link on bat'leth? Everybody knows what that is, right?"

Then I realized he probably did need to do that, and I felt sad.

 

[Tyro Seri]

two words:

MAKE TREKKIE!

 

[jmarquiso]

You should rewrite Trekkie as a spec script for Big Bang Theory. They might hire you to do Halloween episodes for different series.

 

[Basement Cat]

I CANNOT BELIEVE that I'm the first to mention the similarity between Bob's idea and the Trek/Star Wars geek face off in the 2009 movie Fanboys!


The beaver and dolphin ideas are serious B grade movie ideas that are fun to think of but--given how expensive it is to see movies in theaters these days--would almost certainly bomb in theaters and go to DVD or Blue Ray faster than you could say "money pit".

The Trekkie thing could appeal to geek-dom and fanboys of all types. You could include Harry Potter fans as well and even throw in a group of militant Fangrrls going toe-to-toe with misogynistic fanboys in the background brawl. Heck the Fangrrl thing could be the cause of the background brawl!

Now THAT could make it in the movie theaters!!!

 

[Iron Criterion]

The Trekkie would make a fantastic Grindhouse type of movie. Please do it.

It could be Dexter meets Fanboys, combined with Deathproof and Hobo With a Shotgun. Get the humour, pop culture references and social commentary down, and you'll have yourself one amazing movie.

 

[l3o2828]

Trekkie should be directed by either Quentin Tarantino or Whoever directed that movie, Shawn Of The Dead.

I would watch the SH*T out of trekkie, Bob.