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Reverse The Plot - Young


This would have been way more terrifying if the plot was reversed to growing younger instead. At the first all the older folks with health issues would start feeling better and growing stronger. Then as the younger devolve into death returning to blobs of cells, the panic and terror set in as the oldest of the group have limited time to escape. But once out, the oldest can then live their lives again, start over as Young.

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As a Fantasy, it has already been done - "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button"

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^ the short story is so f**** good.

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Way better premise

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i think all of shamamalaladingdong's ideas have promise but there's always a much better idea hidden deep in every single one of his stories

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I agree... He never hits a homerun... even though he has come close a couple of times... but he has also struck out more than once...

I actually like the idea in Old when it is revealed what is going on... I was just annoyed with most of the characters on the beach...

I would also have preferred a darker ending where the siblings don't survive and they just welcome a new batch of test subjects at the end...

It was also stupid (and they even mention it in the movie) to mix people with mental illnesses together with people with other diseases... what good is it that some psycho kills some of your test subjects before you have seen what effect the medicine has...

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Although it wouldn't be much of a movie,
..If such a place existed, there'd be ill volunteers; entire families wouldn't need to be eradicated.

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I am not sure I understand what you are saying??? They could easily have ended the movie with a darker ending or what are you refering too?

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In real life, if there was a place, where people aged rapidly, and thereby drugs could be tested in a day, rather than in decades, many sick people would volunteer to be tested, for the good of mankind.

Thereby, families wouldn't have to be tricked into coming and dying.

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So people would just volunteer to test a drug and die???

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I mean in this hypothetical situation you would only need for them to be on the beach for a shorter period of time to test new drugs.

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I think what is meant is terminally ill people. A lot of terminally ill people volunteer themselves for trails and whatnot.

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You've got talent. You should write this yourself and show it to some producer.

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Stephen King's Golden Years, same idea. Only it's just one guy affected.

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Golden Years is a fantastic book.

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