This post is part of a series inspired by prompts from the book 642 Things to Write About by the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.  If you want to play along, write your own post (on your blog or other online forum) and post a link in the comments.  I’ll add “shout-outs” at the end of my post and on the Keep Swimmin’ Facebook page to anyone who shares a link.

The prompt: #409: Fix the plot of the worst movie you’ve ever seen

Well, I can’t even identify the worst movie I’ve ever seen.  I have some sort of selective memory where things I don’t have any need to remember seem to just sort of disappear – with the space they once occupied freed up for reminding my children to bathe and remembering to make dentist appointments. I remember watching things I like, but when I try to think of things I have seen that I did not like.  Blank.

As an overall genre I don’t enjoy horror.  But to fix a horror movie in my book, you’d need to turn it into a rom-com.  And I think that’s a little more than a plot tweak.  I’m no screenwriting expert, but I’m pretty sure that’s just a whole new movie.

The last movie I saw that I remember actively disliking and wishing I could leave was Rango.  Seriously, what WAS that?  But what I didn’t like about it was that it was a Western…about lizards…and there were like, cactuses that walked…or something.  And I was really confused and thinking, is this was a Western is all about?  Because apparently I don’t like them almost as much as I don’t like horror.

Or maybe Johnny Depp is just a truly awful lizard.

But again – I don’t know how you would fix it without taking out the lizards, and the cactii, and the…everything.

So, I guess my response to this prompt is, I can’t.

It is beyond my writing capabilities to fix the worst movie I have ever seen (even if I could remember what it was.)

Plot-fixing, like plastic surgery, is probably best left to the pros anyway.

How about YOU? What do you think was the WORST movie ever? And how would you fix it?