Post by mysterydriver on Mar 8, 2013 22:43:19 GMT -5
Last night, I had a dream that was essentially an action movie. I'm amazed at how it literally went from start to finish, therefore, I'm going to share it here.
In it we follow "Frank Oceanway, Degenerate Gambler" (I remember that being a written thing, not sure if that was the dream's title or not) and took place at an Atlantic City casino. In it, Oceanway has lost a gigantic poker pot and excused himself to the bathroom to splash water on his face, openly saying "Why do people do this. I'm still upset and now I'm wet." as he stares into the mirror.
Suddenly, gunshots. The casino has been invaded by a large group of...terrorists(?). Angry at the American way of throwing away money when it could help the world or some such nonsense. They are going to hold the Casino hostage for some overloaded reason that most intelligent viewers will recognize is a Die Hard-like diversion.
Thankfully, this washed up, burned out gambler has some military experience and manages to stealthily take out one of the villains to get a gun. His only disadvantage being that his drinking has impaired some of his abilities, meaning the fight alerts attention and he has to shoot his way out (also hard while semi-drunk). That is later dismissed by him quipping that "A few bullets flying your way sobers you up real quick."
So he makes his way down three levels of casino rooms (with different variety games on each level, allowing for variety in fighting and scenes). Hoping in an airshaft near the main level. He passes by and watches as the main villain shoves people into the casino vault. The hostages given masks and empty machine guns. Decoy set-ups.
From there, it turns out the bad guys have placed bombs around the bottom level of the casino, planning on imploding it after they escape, leaving behind the hostages so they can 'disappear' with stolen cash...because Die Hard ripoffs do that sort of thing.
So, Oceanway finds and 'stealths' the guy who was given a map of where to put the bombs and goes to get them. One is underneath the casino vault to ensure that the hostages fit their decoy role.
We get some fight scenes at bomb locations. Various casino related quips and one-liners.
Eventually, Oceanway has it out with the main bad guy, who appears holding the control for the bombs.
"I see you haven't added that one to your collection. I going to make your night end real bad."
"No worse than a river King."
The bad guy smiles and sets down the control. They fight it out near the supply room for holiday decorations (at one point, the hero was hiding in a box full of broken plastic Santas). He overcomes the fight, locking the villain in a Chuck Norris like chokehold. There was a "Cooler" related line that I can't recall precisely.
We then get the twist. The owner of the casino (met earlier at the poker game) is wanting it destroyed to cash in on the insurance (which I'm pretty sure my brain stole from an episode of Batman: The Animated Series). The man appears with a gun in his hand and demands the bag of bombs.
"You've ruined everything."
"All but that pretty smile. I can fix that."
Oceanway tosses the bag'o'bombs.
"You may have disarmed them, but I can still find some use."
"What are you talking about? I don't know how to disarm bombs."
As the big bad's face contorts with confusion, Oceanway dives behind a metal door, hitting the controller button, setting off like a dozen bombs on the big bad and blowing up a non-populated floor because EXPLOSIONS, DUDE!
In the end, Oceanway frees the hostages, is lauded as a hero, and totally slips some loose cash and chips into his pockets.
Then I woke up.
So...yeah...I like my dreams.
In it we follow "Frank Oceanway, Degenerate Gambler" (I remember that being a written thing, not sure if that was the dream's title or not) and took place at an Atlantic City casino. In it, Oceanway has lost a gigantic poker pot and excused himself to the bathroom to splash water on his face, openly saying "Why do people do this. I'm still upset and now I'm wet." as he stares into the mirror.
Suddenly, gunshots. The casino has been invaded by a large group of...terrorists(?). Angry at the American way of throwing away money when it could help the world or some such nonsense. They are going to hold the Casino hostage for some overloaded reason that most intelligent viewers will recognize is a Die Hard-like diversion.
Thankfully, this washed up, burned out gambler has some military experience and manages to stealthily take out one of the villains to get a gun. His only disadvantage being that his drinking has impaired some of his abilities, meaning the fight alerts attention and he has to shoot his way out (also hard while semi-drunk). That is later dismissed by him quipping that "A few bullets flying your way sobers you up real quick."
So he makes his way down three levels of casino rooms (with different variety games on each level, allowing for variety in fighting and scenes). Hoping in an airshaft near the main level. He passes by and watches as the main villain shoves people into the casino vault. The hostages given masks and empty machine guns. Decoy set-ups.
From there, it turns out the bad guys have placed bombs around the bottom level of the casino, planning on imploding it after they escape, leaving behind the hostages so they can 'disappear' with stolen cash...because Die Hard ripoffs do that sort of thing.
So, Oceanway finds and 'stealths' the guy who was given a map of where to put the bombs and goes to get them. One is underneath the casino vault to ensure that the hostages fit their decoy role.
We get some fight scenes at bomb locations. Various casino related quips and one-liners.
Eventually, Oceanway has it out with the main bad guy, who appears holding the control for the bombs.
"I see you haven't added that one to your collection. I going to make your night end real bad."
"No worse than a river King."
The bad guy smiles and sets down the control. They fight it out near the supply room for holiday decorations (at one point, the hero was hiding in a box full of broken plastic Santas). He overcomes the fight, locking the villain in a Chuck Norris like chokehold. There was a "Cooler" related line that I can't recall precisely.
We then get the twist. The owner of the casino (met earlier at the poker game) is wanting it destroyed to cash in on the insurance (which I'm pretty sure my brain stole from an episode of Batman: The Animated Series). The man appears with a gun in his hand and demands the bag of bombs.
"You've ruined everything."
"All but that pretty smile. I can fix that."
Oceanway tosses the bag'o'bombs.
"You may have disarmed them, but I can still find some use."
"What are you talking about? I don't know how to disarm bombs."
As the big bad's face contorts with confusion, Oceanway dives behind a metal door, hitting the controller button, setting off like a dozen bombs on the big bad and blowing up a non-populated floor because EXPLOSIONS, DUDE!
In the end, Oceanway frees the hostages, is lauded as a hero, and totally slips some loose cash and chips into his pockets.
Then I woke up.
So...yeah...I like my dreams.