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The premise is simple and moronic.
The story itself has a fairly interesting premise for a horror flick: scheming husband marries a wealthy woman with a history of mental illness, then attempts to convince her that she's going insane with shrill noises, mysterious knocking and skulls that turn up at inopportune times.
The premise, while not quite ludicrous, WAS definitely ridiculous.
Additionally, the set-up and premise were excellent: four people whose past is virtually irrelevant to us are trying to get away from an overwhelming infectious fatal disease.
OK this movie had a terrible premise.
not a single original thought went into this movie (which makes the comment below about the originality of the premise entirely baffling to me). the film is nothing but a long line of cliches which are strung together and paraded around as a movie.
This hackneyed and unlovable machine, "Jinx", is a major player in the ridiculous premise of the movie, which seems part Short Circuit, part 2001 by the Airplane team.
This is a rip off of the old Frankenstein premise.
The film's premise is intriguing enough: It's about a Viking warlord who defies his God and Odin is so enraged that he curses the warlord's son, named Barek, to death and rebirth as a Berserker.
Now if you think the premise is funny, and the show contains many such types of situation, you will enjoy this show.
In spite of the great future-design touches, the clever Asimov premise, and Will Smith's dependable cool performance, this movie doesn't live up to expectations.
It starts off pretty good, with the premise being that snuff films are being aired over cable.
Although the film's premise has potential and there are some funny moments to be had, overall the flick doesn't work especially in the end where the girls are made to appear no better than the guys which runs contrary to the crux of the story.
Neat premise.
The premise, although routine, still wasn't bad, but once the plot was set, the film went nowhere.
People tried to make me believe that the premise of this rubbishy supernatural horror/thriller was inspired by the actual last words spoken by an authentic serial killer (whose name escapes me at the moment).
Other low-budget turkeys implemented the exact same basic premise, like "House 3", "Shocker" and "Ghost in the Machine".
I was given this movie as a gift, obviously under the same premise because my aunt knows I'm into action movies with a medieval myth theme.
That really hurts the film if we are to buy the premise that Janeane is supposed to be the better looking of the two.
What seemed as a good premise for a movie...unfortunately it fails to deliver on nearly every level.
It follows the typical premise of a laboratory experiment gone wrong and a giant crocodile with a rapid growth chemical in it escapes.
The premise was okay, but even in the beginning with crappy effects to blend in a giant with normal sized people (even the effects in Hercules was better) I knew this would be bad.
The premise is laughable at best.
The premise was real good but the overall execution was just terrible.
The premise was intriguing but the payoff did not offset the build up.
I woke up sick in bed this morning with a cold, decided to watch a movie to cheer me up some, scanned the digital channels... the premise looked interesting enough because I like viewing B-movie sci-fi, hippie culture and rebellious teen flicks.
The premise was OK, if unoriginal: a small group of aliens is living in the US and trying to slowly take over humanity.
The basic premise of "Miami Golem" most definitely deserves a spot in the top, say, fifty of most demented cinematic plots ever scripted down!
Let me give you a choice; you can either a) shred it and flush it down the toilet or b)make a film based on the premise of Whoopi Goldberg as a hard nut futuristic cop partnered with a rubber dinosaur who uses terms like "I didn't butt trumpet" and blows raspberries on the basis that this is funny.
This poor handling of an intriguing premise left me bewildered.
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