Dream
Mark ‘Marky Mark’ Wahlberg is a criminal, and Dwayne ‘The
Rock’ Johnson is a law enforcement officer. The dream starts just after they've had a battle of some sort and have now both retreated to their respective
bases to recover. Jeremy ‘Doesn’t have a Nickname” Piven is Wahlberg’s senior
accomplice, or crime mentor, or whatever. Anyway, he was captured and Wahlberg
is worried that further pursuit is coming for him. Then he remembers that it's
the day when the fire department washes there vehicles, so he doesn’t have to
worry (the firefighters enforce the law in a sort of Fahrenheit 451 sort of
way). Cut to the fire station were a raucous bikini carwash is in progress. It
would seem that the fireman take there wash day very seriously and invite all
the local attractive/exhibitionist women over to help (or maybe they were hookers, it’s not
really clear). There is plenty of water getting thrown around, but most of it
is getting on the women and not the fire engine. The chief and some other senior officers are
in a hot tub and their women are topless, or possibly even naked. You don’t see
anything explicit though since two of the women are low enough in the water
that it obscures their chests and the third is sitting in a guy’s lap and he is
cupping her breasts (still probably enough for a PG-13 though). While this is
going on an agent from internal affairs arrives with a troll enforcer (as in a
full on fantasy troll: massive ugly dude with a large club). When the chief
notices that internal affairs has arrived he starts to make a fuss, but the agent
coolly informs him that he doesn’t have to worry, implying that he has already
lost his job. The agent starts talking to one of the senior fire fighters about
Mark Wahlberg. Apparently Wahlberg and Piven are ID Forgers. The ID’s are meant
to allow them to pass at a younger age so that they can compete in the Hunger
Games (what their motive is I couldn’t tell you). All young people are required
to report to the fire station for volunteer duty, and a good way to check the
validity of an ID is to see if it shows up in the fire departments records.
Piven was caught this way, but two weeks ago Wahlberg had gotten into the records somehow.
The agent accuses the firemen of registering him without sufficiently checking
his ID, and orders the troll to attack. Suddenly the troll is at least two
stories tall and is attempting to smash the firemen with its club while they scramble to avoid
the blows. The firemen try to hide from the enormous troll and that is where the dream ends.
Analysis
As a movie idea, I see a lot of
problems with this idea. For one, there is a startling lack of focus. Where was
Johnson during all this? What was being done to Piven? What is a troll doing in
a dystopian future movie? I guess the car wash scene is showing that the
firefighters are incompetent, but I don’t see how that justifies the internal
affairs agent killing them. Is the agent our true antagonist in the movie, and
if so, are Wahlberg and Johnson eventually going to team up to take him down? I
just can’t tell where this is going.
Auguries
Bikini car washes seem like fun, but they will end in tragedy.
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