Films that ought to be made

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anunnaki

I'm thinking from 5000 BC up until prophet Mo. That should cover Sumer, Elam, Akkad etc. Seeing what he did with Apocalypto, I think he could make something nice no matter what people, part of the ME or era he choses.

Niccolo and Donkey
anunnaki O'Zebedee Roland Thomas777

I'd like to see a rom-com made about a Lurish woman from Sweden who moves to Toronto and works as a cleaner in a businessman's condo. This businessman also happens to own and admin an internet forum. He does his business thing while she makes wisecracks as she cleans his place. Eventually they both get gender-reassignment surgery and fall in love with each other, then one day they are murdered by Breivik.
Bob Dylan Roof
Yes, this is a good idea. Gibson should reconstruct characters from the Amarna letters .

Schmeisser

How about a movie about the Prophet Muhammed starring Vin Diesel?

That's hilarious. I actually had a really weird dream awhile back that I was in a movie, not starring in it but living it out, about Clinton called "Clinton" by Oliver Stone. I remember that the Secret Service were a bunch of strung out meth-heads who were barely keeping themselves together. Not sure where that came from. I woke up thinking this was a real movie which I wanted to see.
The Illuminati

If Oliver Stone was in it he'd be either sucking Clinton's dick or tossing his salad.
And when I say sucking Clinton's dick, I mean Hilary's.

popfop
I actually thought "Nixon" was quite a good film, certainly better than "W." which was an extended SNL skit and "JFK", which while actually entertaining, only works if considered as part of the fantasy genre. I think Nixon has been undergoing a character reassessment even by liberals like Stone. Part of this is that no matter what one thinks about his politics it's hard to doubt that he was sincere in his convictions. In addition, he was the last American president to hold office before electoral politics became fully enveloped by media spectacle. As such, he can now be upheld as an honest statesman, despite his Machiavellian tendencies, because he had the interests of the nation at heart rather than personal gain. Stone, inasmuch as he views the machinations of the power elite through the pedestrian lens of pop-conspiratology, can therefore allow Nixon to be portrayed as a flawed but ultimately good man for his conscience, itself a Hollywood trope as old as the hills.

I actually find that these are somewhat commonplace, though I am primarily thinking of the Oscar winner "The Artist." This film about film revitalizes the silent genre and uses a mawkish romance as an allegory for the rise of the "talkie." Aside from being an extended session of effects wankery ("It looks just like an old silent film!"), the message is pure self congratulation: a film about the magic of cinema. If we consider that "the medium is the message" it's especially redundant. "Hugo" came out the same year, also won an Oscar (Best Cinematography) and has essentially the same plot with the minor change that a romance is replaced with childhood adventure.

As far as a meta cinema, I would like to see some films which subvert the narrative assumptions of mainstream filmmaking. To be more clear, I would like to see a film which sets up all the same tropes we've seen before (sympathetic protagonist, middle class backstory, minor intrigue, romance or danger) and then have the film end abruptly when the protagonist is hit by a car.
Team Zissou

The best film about film I ever saw was The Stunt Man.

Niccolo and Donkey
Drieu
Try to see Matinee by Joe Dante (the director of Gremlins ). It's different in tone from the two you listed, as it focuses more on B-movies, but it's still a wonderful celebration of movie-making and movie-going.
O'Zebedee
Yes! John Goodman is excellent in this. Also: Day For Night.