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Part 6 is so incompetent that it looks like director Rachel Talalay intentionally wanted to turn Wes Craven's initial premise into one big bad and tasteless joke.
But that's as far as they take this premise.
This could have been a good premise.
The premise sucked me in, but it was clear about 30 seconds in that this was either David Lynch or something seriously terrible.
There's nothing inherently wrong with the premise that Tarzan doesn't speak.
There is just nothing clever or funny about the film except for the premise.
The whole notion that Streisand plays a boy/man only begins to scratch the surface of how ridiculous a premise this movie is.
This movie has a very hard-to-swallow premise, even by this genre's standards.
The plot for the movie revolves around not just cheating husbands but how women are viewed and treated in Dominican society as a whole, which makes for a good premise especially in The Dominican Republic.
Super clever title and interesting premise, but I don't think it delivered.
Even the basic premise of the movie makes no sense.
The premise is good, the cast is great (I was especially pumped to witness the return of David Naughton) and, God love 'em, you can tell everyone tried their best.
Even the inclusion of the usually good Oliver Hardy as a foil isn't any help because the basic premise (boy wants to marry girl but girl's father thinks the boy is a wuss) and the gags are so poor.
Don't let the premise fool you--this was one funny movie.
"Salem's Lot" had already been ruined in the late 1970s as a TV mini-series, directed by Tobe Hooper (he of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" fame) and was badly handled, turning the major villain of the book into a "Chiller Theatre" vampire with no real menace at all thus destroying the entire premise.
I thought the premise had a lot of potential and was ripe for an interesting movie.
It makes the film's premise then that the Number one maker of cars in the world would go to one of its' top competitors(aside from Germany)and put a plant there as unrealistic.
I would call this movie mediocre, at best, since a premise mainly involving obnoxious young people being slaughtered in a seedy porno theater, doubling as a hideout for the mafia, is appealing to me.
How Elvis Presley Enterprises could allow the rights of actual Elvis songs to be used in a film with a central premise that seems to be "The only good Elvis Presley Imitator is a dead one" is beyond me.
Fortunately, some of Sutherland's hippie friends make fun of this black-revolution premise, and the resulting dialogue isn't bad; a little later, the Jewish guy makes a crack about Sutherland making a movie about "masturbation and the black problem", when the latter starts talking about masturbation.
The premise of the movie sound good.
Just looking at the premise of the story.
The film has a great premise, but falls apart about 15 minutes into the story.
Too bad as the premise is promising (as it so often is in Duhllywood), but in the hands of this scriptwriter it segues off into la la land.
I caught this on Showtime tonight and was amazed by how a movie with such a interesting premise could wind up being so unbelievably awful.
Though the premise sounds like the movie could be a lot of fun, it is ruined by inept directing from first-time director Andy Fickman, a clichéd and predictable screenplay, and acting that is even bad by direct-to-video standards.
The plot, however isn't a bad premise - just poorly implemented.
Yet, in the earliest years of cinema, the premise of reanimated corpses was merely used in slow, nearly action-less psychological thrillers.
The New York Jewish comedy's 'funny' premise is that siblings Sam & Gray are mistaken for a couple and so decide to fix Sam up with a girlfriend, only to find that Gray is equally attracted to their target - Charlie.
It's a shame really, as the premise for the movie was good and with better production quality, direction and script it could have been a decent movie.
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