Karel Segers

Samurai · 2,659 points

7,341 points to Overlord

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Samurai

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When a giant great white shark terrorizes a New England beach town, a local sheriff must team up with a marine biologist and a grizzled fisherman to hunt down and destroy the beast before it can claim any more lives.

December 22, 2022
When terrorists take over a high-rise office building and hold hostages, including his estranged wife, a wisecracking cop must use all his cunning and resourcefulness to take down the villains and save the day.

December 22, 2022
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When a struggling Chinese-American laundromat owner discovers she can “verse-jump” between parallel universes, she must defend her family, her business, and the multiverse itself from a vengeful woman with god-like powers who seeks to destroy everything.

December 22, 2022
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When a white supremacist cop is confronted by billboards calling out his chief’s neglect of a rape and murder case, he must silence the victim’s bitter mother and return peace to the town.

June 13, 2020
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When a meek chemistry teacher is diagnosed with lung cancer, he must earn $740,000 by cooking meth to provide for his family after his death.

June 4, 2020
When an ATC controller is contacted by the flight on which his troubled younger brother crashed 13 years ago, he must convince the pilot to get his brother on the radio to make amends, and find out why his body was never found.

February 27, 2020
When a sexually repressed teenage boy with a sex therapist mother is approached by his money savvy high school classmate, together they start a sex therapy business at school.

February 20, 2020
When two donors to a rising fascist leader commit suicide, a conspiracy theorist FBI agent must investigate if there is a connection; but when he discovers an elaborate CIA plot to stop the fascist, he must put his country before the law, and protect future targets by killing their leader.

April 28, 2019
When their creator suddenly passes away, two sentient cyborgs must go against their programming and try to find a family for their creator’s son.

April 10, 2019
When a military-trained biologist’s husband unexpectedly returns alive from a secret mission, she must go on a quest to a mysterious lighthouse to save his life – and the world.

March 23, 2018
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April 22, 2017

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on one of the twin police duo is not in his right mind but he is very smart also no one knows what macabre plans this one has in mind implicates him in wanting to commit a murder in fact there are investigations but he camouflages himself in his own work which leads him to not be discovered in the future from there they will be involved in other matters including the stalking of his brother’s daughter, his twin..

This reads like a stream-of-consciousness run-on sentence. I have read it twice and still don't have a clue what it is about. May I suggest you read the training materials on this site? This is not a story concept as…
on A family member is involved in an accident, but it is covered up. A few years later, the man who now runs an escort club is again involved in a mysterious incident.

May I suggest you read the training materials on this site? This is not a story concept as it merely lists two events. Read the sections labeled "Formula" and "Examples", then read some example loglines here on the site and…
on After the death of their father 4 children must face their abusive mother and expose her lies and abuse if they want to have a chance at a happy life.

On the surface, the logline follows a clear structure, which makes it fairly easy to read. You may find a way to avoid the repetition of abusive/abuse, and add a comma after 'father'. Because of the "and ... and", I…
on When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

I think getting the IRS off her back is certainly one of the more mundane goals in this film. In cinematic terms, I guess this means to defeat Jamie Lee Curtis.
on In the near future, a young genius escapes a moonbase where a madman secretly enslaves scientists in his plan to wipe out life on Earth but when no one believes him, he alone must find a way to destroy the base and free the other scientists.

It's a cool, dramatic premise. I don't get a feel for the character yet, though. "Young genius" is not enough to promise an engaging character for me. What personal challenges does the character face? Also, the survival of mankind is…
on While waiting for the results of some tests, Marc, a young man with cancer, meets Oscar. The two young men end up having an exciting romantic relationship. After discharge the boys decide to take a trip around the world. But your secrets will come out.

The logline is not presented in the format that is recommended on this site. Please have a look at the tutorials under "START HERE" and "Formula". Leaving our recommended format aside, this is still not an industry standard logline. You'll…
on A priest kidnaps an atheist writer and tortures him until he believes in God or one of them dies in the process.

Not sure if I'd want to watch this, but it reminds me of a scene in Severance, where one character is mentally tortured until she says something in a way that sounds like she believes it. This reads like a…
on A music teacher has a fatal accident, just as he was to achieve his dream of playing jazz professionally, and lands in the ‘Great Before’, from where he desperately tries to find his way back to his body.

I disagree about the comma comment. As long as they're used grammatically correctly, they SHOULD improve the sentence's readability. Here's another take on this logline: "When a jazz musician on the brink of a career breakthrough lands in the 'Great…
on A career driven wife unwittingly convinces her husband to join her in a tiny trailer cross country adventure, with the secret hopes of avoiding her disastrous financial missteps and saving their delicate marriage.

First of all, get rid of some adjectives: unwittingly, secret, disastrous, delicate... This is just too much. Some don't make sense, either. Next, it seems like the story's main action is 'convincing'. Or is the story what happens AFTER this?…
on When a stoner hospital worker is blamed for delivering a meal to the wrong patient—killing him; she must prove that it was not her mistake.

In this type of story, typically there is a secondary goal of bringing the real culprit to justice. Because it's a movie, an accident is not really interesting. There may have been a plot behind the killing of this particular…
on After his wealthy wife dies, a reclusive and callous high school teacher wants to honour her dream of becoming a concert pianist.

The story has a decent EVENT ('the death of his wife'), and we understand that this can motivate change in a character's life, as well as inspire them to act. The character is interesting, in that he is reclusive and…
on A group of filmmakers decide to make short films about robots, outer space and talking cats.

Clearly I don't need any bots to achieve that. ;) BTW - I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for all your reviews, Odie. You've been wonderful!
on When a determined Papuan girl falls for a graduate with a fatal illness she convinces him to flee his crazy fiancé and allow her Medicine man grandfather to heal him and have him accepted by her people.

It sounds more like a novel than a movie, Leon. The only action here by your Papuan girl hero is 'to convince' her lover. This is likely not sufficient to sustain a second act.
on In the near future, the next pandemic divides the world into two pods: the safe – Positives, and the dangerous – Negatives. The Positives can’t get infected from each other, but can from an infected Negative. The Positives enjoy all the glories of life, the Negatives none. Some Negatives pose and cross over to live as Positives. At the penalty of death. This is their story

Richie is right. This is a (great) description of a setting, a world. In the screen business, there is no concept or story without a central character, and a clear objective for this character.
on When his father and brother died in a tunnel collapse, a mischievous young boy must take over the work in mines to survive life.

The logline sounds odd, which probably means that English is not your native language. I'm in the same boat, but you need to do better than this. First of all: no past tense in a logline. So no "died"; instead:…
on After failing to deliver a kidnapped KGB defector to their Soviet handlers, a married couple of Russian sleeper agents must find a way to keep their captive secret from their Americanised kids, the suspicious FBI agent next door, and the American government that wants their asset back.

As dpg says, the logline does the job for the episode. But I think it's more than 'adequate'; it kicks ass! Where typically loglines are not an adequate tool to capture the appeal of a TV show, this one works…
on When a white supremacist cop is confronted by billboards calling out his chief’s neglect of a rape and murder case, he must silence the victim’s bitter mother and return peace to the town.

MPR: ...but when the chief suicides and leaves a note with a message of love, the cop must put his bigotry aside, reconcile with the mother, and conclude the investigation himself.
on When a white supremacist cop is confronted by billboards calling out his chief’s neglect of a rape and murder case, he must silence the victim’s bitter mother and return peace to the town.

MPR: ...but when the chief suicides and leaves a note with a message of love, the cop must put his bigotry aside, reconcile with the mother, and conclude the investigation himself.
on When an ongoing war in Heartland starts having drastic effects on those not involved, Lelia is forced to pursue a means to peace before her own people are brought to ruin.

Well done! Thanks, Chris. :) Despite the 140+ shows in my iTunes account, I must confess this is a show I don't know...
on After a childhood of abuse, a young woman decides to write a memoir to help her heal.

What Ninann22 says. In times when we have so much choice in terrific, drama-packed movies and television, who would want to watch a movie that is going to show me someone writing their memoir?