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Maybe you haven’t heard anything about this, but I’m told there’s a recent dearth of originality in Hollywood. Which is certainly true, of course, because back in the 50s, it wasn’t as if there were formulaic, star-driven puff pictures or kid-friendly adventure serials at the multiplex. Nope. Cause we’d remember that sort of thing along with all the classics, you know? This whole trend of retelling old stories in an updated form is, like, definitely new. And annoying, of course.

Anyway. Along one of the few ways to sort of hedge the difference between originality and repetition is to make a film that combines multiple genres. You know, a romantic comedy/western, or a high-school noir. Serenity, a western/sci-fi combo, succeeded in this wildly, and most of the Pixar movies have also worked based on the strength of their ability to combine one or more traditionally adult genres with the aww-that’s-sweet family film formula.

So I had an idea of my own, and I figured Alarm being the laziest and least efficient way of sharing it/testing it out, this would be the perfect place to put it. So here’s my thought: maybe someone needs to make a vampire baseball movie. You know, where a rowdy troop of lovable but apathetic, slugger-wielding bloodsuckers have to put aside their petty differences (and stop drinking the other team's blood) to learn to work together and rise to the occassion. I'm sure there's some sort of pun about bats (the creature and the baseball paraphernalia) that could be turned into a tagline. "The bats are up to bat" or whatever. Maybe their rivals could be a team full of snooty, jerk-jock, upper-class werewolves. I’d see that movie anyway.