The story must be true, you can’t fake the story. You can exaggerate parts of it, but you can’t completely make shit up. You’re allowed to omit small awkward moments, but you can’t omit major events.
Mine is probably gonna be a two part movie. Part one is the history already behind me. It’s gonna tragic and dark AF, and probably cringe, but probably gonna get a lot of pity points because of how fucked up it is. Probably like 7.5/10 at least.
Idk if I’d like it, because it’d include my darkest moments.
Then for part 2… yea idk if that’ll ever come. Probably in 5 decades (or earlier if I die).
I feel like part 2 is gonna suck. I’m gonna have the craziest childhood ever, so much build up in backstory, then part 2 doesn’t end up justifying the movies, because I’m not gonna be able to achieve much in life, and its just gonna become another shitty slice of life. Probably 4/10 for part 2, at least that’s what I’m predicting.
Depends tho. If I get murdered while doing political activities or become a martyr, part 2 could turn into a 8/10 movie. Otherwise I’m just gonna die of illness or old age which is a very boring movie. GoT style botched ending lol.
B flick about a transmom that smokes weed and plays video games, has no friends, is sex-starved, and is waiting for death. 3% on Rotten Tomatoes.
If Daria got a movie and it did pretty well, surely you can.
1/5. Boring as fuck.
It’s the way I like it, but none of what I do makes for an exciting story.
Public access c-movie that airs once and the tape gets lost in a studio fire
A boy untreated for ADHD detected by 3rd grade teacher flounders and is entirely cringe for 90% of their childhood, transitions into the goth subculture in a tiny Ohio town, brainwashed by his parents who are dog whistle racist republicans who never vote, joins the military, incrementally improves their worldviews while still struggling with ADHD and associated psychological traumas that lead to being released from service just a few months after September 11th, joined by girlfriend soon to be wife the now man refuses to return home and sets down roots with his love and learns tough lessons about “bootstraps” ultimately breaking the brainwashing. A heart warming and tear jerking movie continues on as genetic issues the wife had become more evident and impactful as well as in both of their sons in addition to to mental health struggles the family makes things work despite everyone being in various states of unwellness. One man’s determination to keep hope alive and provide for his sick family. 6/10 unbelievable drama
2/5, completely unbelievable story telling. The script relies too much on random events to advance the story and create drama.
I’m not a fan of sad movies, especially pointlessly sad ones. Real arthouse shit. Kid grows up in a painfully middle class suburban environment, parents increasingly resent each other, mom gets cancer when kid is in high school, in college kid comes out, dad disowns her, mom dies, she graduates and fights for a good and simple life but the world keeps making it hard, random counterculture sex scenes… yeah critics love it, absolute Oscar bait, annoying people recommend it, nobody actually watches it
Boring Days - Directed by Wim Wenders. It could work.
Mine would definitely be a psychological horror/thriller
A cautionary tale about what happens when your parents worry too little and society thinks ADHD means exclusively hyperactive boy trouble makers. An important but exhausting and depressing movie that nobody watches.
I will like it a great deal. My life like many folk’s lives is a series of befores and afters.
My Teenager years before I got my drivers license and after.
My young adult hood of before and after going to undergrad.
Before and after the Army and so on.
All of it is good story with its ups ad downs.
I think people would find it pretty good actually. Story of perseverance in the face of adversely. Lots of twists, and massive payoff.
“The beginning was kind of interesting, but man he got turned down a lot. The middle to end was really boring though. Who films 1 1/2 hours of a single guy going to work then coming home and sitting at a computer?”
Straight to DVD
I’m afraid mine would be the kind of story you can skip large sections of and still not lose the plot
4/5 - coming of age film about a scrawny, scrappy poor kid. Opening shot is a fight against other kids in a trailer park to level up in status. Or maybe even earlier to my mom standing there pregnant, and then her mom punching her in the stomach upon finding out her teen daughter, though as much as she had tried to shut her away, had somehow gotten herself knocked up. And then following the resulting trail of blood. Regardless, it starts out by getting the shit kicked out of me a few times.
Sprinkle in the multiple times I almost died, slipping on wet cement that had just been coated with muriatic acid, that time a demented kid tightened a noose around my neck, the countless nights I’d wake gasping for air with my chest heaving because we had a cat urine and roach problem and couldn’t afford an inhaler. That one time two girls thought it would be funny to see how long they could hold me underwater, at a pool, of course unsupervised, and only stopping just so as things faded to black and all I heard was this saint of a kid saying to them “Stop! He’s dying!” Nary a parent in sight.
The sex, the drugs the drinking all at 13.
The divorce, the handoffs from family member to family member moving each year. Finally settling into a mountain town in rural Appalachia. Having a town general store purveyor of goods taking me under his wing. Learning a passion for the outdoors and skiing.
Going mudding in a Honda Accord with a bunch of other delinquents. Going streaking after we got stuck. Flash forward to a court house and nearly going to jail for vandalism and other stupid teenage mistakes.
Going back to the area I was raised and finding that everyone had 2 kids and a drinking problem…or worse.
Flash forward to the struggles of leaving my past behind. Failing out of university after 9/11. Constantly watching those two planes smash onto the twin towers in a dark dormitory until it was etched into mind.
And then more struggle to leave my past behind as I sought out a soulmate. Dropping out of the Peace Corps due to it.
Quitting my job and finding a love for cycling. Being given a dog who hated wheels, but even she eventually fell in love with cycling. The smartest, best damn dog in the world.
Nearly dying another handful of times. Motorcycle in the mountain roads of Tennessee, more motorcycle, sliding in the snow with a big rig behind, that time wrecking it the one dumbass time I went for a joyride after drinks. Being on the 3rd floor of a house as it collapsed on a rainy day in high winds and walking out mostly unscathed.
Discovering a love for travel. Still trying to escape my past, but working on it, like really really working on it. I try not to die anymore.
Could call it something like “The dirtbag’s field guide to survival, part one.”
